Love and loyalty

[scarlettina]

Quite some time ago, I spent about 6 months with a man I was pretty fond of. It all ended rather badly, mainly because he was a dysfunctional coward. But the one good thing he did that stuck was give Sophie what I came to call the mouse-snake, a toy that was a mouse head with a rattle inside, and a long fur tail. She took the tail apart within a couple of months, but has preserved the head, loved the head, carried the head around with her ever since.

Tonight I came home to find the head in two pieces on the staircase: the rattle inside and the fur covering separate from each other. I picked them both up, saluted their faithful service and, while Sophie wasn't looking, put them in the kitchen garbage.

I just came out of the bathroom to find them both on the kitchen floor. She'd opened the cabinet, gotten into the garbage and pulled them out. That, my friends, is true love.

Now I'm trying to figure out if there's cat-safe glue somewhere that I can use to repair the thing. I was thinking about epoxying it all together, but I suspect it wouldn't be safe so--not doing that. I've also poked around the internet trying to find another one of these toys--to no avail. I'll figure something out. Sophie needs her mouse-snake.

Comments

[oldmangrumpus.livejournal.com]

Stitch it up?

[varina8.livejournal.com]

It's not one of these (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cat-Toy-20-Grey-Long-Furry-Rattle-Mice-Catnip-Brand-New-/290369940062) is it?

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Irene, it's somewhat like that, but I have yet to find exactly the same toy anywhere. It's more like these (http://www.catsnus.com/real-rabbit-fur-mouse-with-rattle/), but when I received it, it had a 6 or 7 inch-long tail that was about an inch wide and it wasn't a catnip toy at all.

[robertlfleck.livejournal.com]

Why worry if she seems happy with it the way it is?

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Agreed. She loved it as is enough to pull it out of the trash - I don't think you need to worry about fixing it!

Daisy was like that with those little fur mice. She'd quickly disembowel them, then play with the shell for days.

[katybeth]

Here are two more that are also not exactly what you described, but maybe will give you some keywords?
I did a Google image search for "cat toy rattle" and just scanned down the page of pictures.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cat-toy-20-Black-Rattle-Long-Fur-Mice-Catnip-Brand-new-/290358755174
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KONG-WILD-TAILS-CAT-TOY-Assorted-Colors-Rattles-Ball-Feather-Cat-Toy-/290867444081

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

When you are next in W. Seattle, ask at Next to Nature. They may be able to order it for you from a catalog. You might also check with Mud Bay or All The Best.

Did you know that you can make leather glue with Knox gelatin? The end result sounds a lot like gum arabic.