more, please...

For instance, one of our cats, Fawkes, is obsessed with a couple of things. Mainly, twisty ties, or anything that remotely resembles twisty ties. If there is one sitting on one of our t.v. trays and he can see it, he will sneak up and snatch it while we're not looking. Same goes if he happens to catch a glimpse of me putting one on a counter. When we're not looking, he'll jump on the counter and steal it.

They inevitably end up under one of two places: the scale (we keep it in the kitchen), or the stove.

And here is the reason why he technically isn't allowed into my office, especially when I'm not in my office... When I create a sculpture, I use wires for the armatures, usually thin wires for the wing armatures. It's happened a couple of times.. When I'm working on a sculpture, and for some reason get called away from my desk and forget to pull the door to my office closed all the way, by the time I return, he'll be in my chair, front paws on the desk, inching toward the twisty-tie looking object getting ready to grab it with his teeth and take off. Sometimes I catch him before he has a chance to get it in his teeth. Sometimes I don't, but he drops it as he flees. Only once have I had to actually chase him down and wrest it from his mouth.

But he knows. He knows I use something that looks like his favorite toy, so whenever he has the chance he'll sneak a look on my desk to see if he can find anything to make off with.

Heck, he seems to be obsessed with small things in general.. last night, I sat down for a few minutes of knitting... I needed to reset the dryer, but since I could do that one-handed, I just took my knitting with me. By the time I returned to the couch, the needle tip protectors I use, which I had left on a t.v. tray, were gone. I looked at Fawkes, who just blinked at me, in that higher-than-thou cat way. We found the tips under the couch. The little buggers had moved them off the t.v. tray and played with them, then their new "toys" were batted underneath the couch where they couldn't be reached anymore. I say "they", because while I'm pretty sure it was Fawkes who nabbed the tips off the tray, I have no doubt that Hobbes joined in on the playing until their toys disappeared under the couch.

Oh, and we still can't find little Lego Hermione. She disappeared shortly after we got our Hogwart's Express Lego set put together.
That's all, folks...