This is Madoc's best trick, yet!

[Siwsan]

He stole a small square of aluminum foil from the kitchen counter and SOMEHOW figured out how to form it into a ball! He's been batting it around the room, non stop. Gryff and I are just sitting back and watching the show.

The boy never ceases to amaze me.

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1. Good.You know he's a democrat or he'd of made a hat from the tin foil!

[SheltieLover]

3. Wahahaha!

Good one!

[House of Roberts]

2. My little lady Gisela likes balled up grocery tickets.

If she hears me wad one up she can show up out of nowhere. There's probably a dozen or so under furniture around here. She carries them around in her mouth and she's so cute doing that.
She also likes shiny screws. We have to keep them put away or she'll leave them for us to step on barefoot.

[CaptainTruth]

4. I've had cats that go crazy for foil balls!

They never learned to make them themselves though. You have a smart kitty!

[perfessor]

5. Give him a square of paper

so he can make an origami bird.

[wendyb-NC]

6. That's cool

He's a prodigy, and an entertainer.

As kids, my siblings and I made aluminum foil balls for our kitties to play with. They loved them. They never learned to roll their own, though.

[LastDemocratInSC]

12. Hey, I've been rolling my own since 1969.

But they don't have filters (cough cough). If I can learn how any cat should be capable of the same.

[hippywife]

7. Too funny!

Too bad you weren't able to catch it on video.

[Texin]

8. Yeah, cats (and some dogs) are redic able to do that. (I've had some who made their own toys).

And, fyi, my name is Susan too, but in a slightly different language/dialect (but closely related).

[Jerry2144]

9. I used to be owned by a cat

who loved hard candies wrapped in cellophane. Sour balls, butterscotch, peppermint, you name it. She loved batting them around and the noise they made. She even had a game where she would tumble over the cross-bracing on a table/chair while batting the candy.

[mrsadm]

10. It's amazing what they will make into toys!

[Archae]

11. My black cat Raven loves playing fetch...

With balls of Peanut Butter cup wrappers.

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[niyad]

14. awwwwww

[Siwsan]

15. Madoc was in the mood to play fetch, at about 5 this morning

I thought, ok, I'll toss the newest tin foil ball for a few minutes. 30 minutes later I handed the ball to Gryff to hide.

[niyad]

13. How adorable and clever. Did you ever see the video of a cat "folding" a sheet

(think it was a fitted one)? Darned clever.

[wnylib]

16. Cats are amazing sometimes.

When Ember was a kitten, she used to grab her wand toy in her mouth by the wand end and tried to lift it up so she could bat the dangling toy end with her paw. Of course it didn't work, but it was amazing and hilarious to watch her try.

I think I know how Madoc got the foil wadded up. Just batting it around would make the ends bump into things and fold up. Continued batting would eventually cause it to take random twists and turns. Picking it up in his mouth would also help.

Ember loves to play with the large, colored pipe cleaners that you can get at craft supply stores. When she bats at them and carries them around, it does not take long for them to end up in the strangest balled up shapes. I straighten them out for her and she does it all over again.

One of Ember's favorite self-created games with pipe cleaners is to position one in front of an open door, like my bedroom door, then go to the other side of the door and grope blindly for the pipe cleaner by sliding her front paw and leg under the door until she feels the pipe cleaner. Then she drags it under the door to pick up in her mouth. If she can't locate the pipe cleaner when she fishes under the door for it, she goes back to the other side, repositions the pipe cleaner, and starts again. She will do this for long periods at a time.

I mentioned this imaginative planning to her vet, who was not surprised. The vet said that cats are capable of some quite imaginative planning, which makes them formidable predators.

Sometimes if the pipe cleaner is twisted enough, it will tug the door to a semi closed position as she pulls the pipe cleaner under it. So she started doing this game to intentionally watch the door close. Eventually, she decided that she liked the privacy in the bedroom with the door closed (but not latched shut). She started going into the bedroom, closing the door, and napping on my bed. But, that closes off one of the heating vents from the rest of the apartment. When it starts to feel chilly, I know to check on the bedroom door.