Cell phones and charms

Our Puff is a mighty hunter. At least he thinks he is. Of course his prey is always something inanimate. I am not sure how he would actually handle anything living. He'd probably be scared to death of something that actually moved towards him or moved at all. But when he thinks he does have prey, he is a stalker and hunter and seeks out that prey wherever it is.

Phone charms are quite popular in Asia. There are whole stores dedicated to selling cell phone accessories and often the little charms that you can attach to your phone are fuzzy. My daughter liked these quite a lot and so we purchased a supply of these fuzzy charms that were made to look like small mice. Puff decided that these phone charms were excellent prey.

Our daughter would put her cell phone into her purse and zip it shut. Puff learned from watching her that this prey would disappear into this bag and he would be determined to retrieve it. he learned how to work the zipper. We never actually could catch him undoing it but suddenly he would be racing into the living room with the cell phone fuzzy mouse charm in his mouth and the cell phone trailing out of his mouth. She would try all manner of ways to hide the cell phone and fuzzy mouse charm in her purse or on her dresser but he would always find it. In the mornings, she would have to hunt down her cell phone before leaving because he had invariably found it during the night and dragged it off somewhere. It because quite a battle between the two: her to find somewhere to hide the phone and him to find it and drag away that prey. It was a good thing we purchased many of the fuzzy cell phone charm mice because Puff destroyed this prey quite a few times.

Finally our daughter even put a message on her cell phone that said if she didn't answer it was because the cat had dragged away her cell phone and she hadn't found it yet. Of course the solution was not to put a fuzzy mouse charm on the cell phone and eventually that is what happened. Puff was not without his prey though. We gave him a couple of the mice for his very own. He was a most excellent hunter and destroyed the evil intruder in our homes. There were bits of fuzzy cell phone mice charms all over the house.