Stocking Fillers for Feline Fanciers
Desperately seeking those trifling, but all-important, little” giftettes” to use as stocking fillers?These little items, usually bought in late night garages on Christmas Eve, can also be imaginative and creative. Chosen with care, the stocking filler can even be more appropriate and appreciated than the so called main present and reveal the depth of your empathy, insight and connection with a loved one.
Now, it’s a well know fact that Christmas gifts for pet lovers, especially cat people, are notoriously difficult to get right. Do you buy for the moggie or for the doting owner?People who regard their animals as human beings and describe themselves as the cat’s “mummy” or “daddy” are clearly mentally ill as well as not being up to speed with where babies come from. The ideal gift would be a straight-jacket obviously, but most of us will prefer something that panders to that anthropomorphic delusion without insulting the flea-ridden object of obsession. Stocking fillers for the special lady in your life (and let’s face it – cat lovers tend to be women) can demonstrate your empathy and support her belief that if she leaves her cat in a room with a spoon, a couple or paperclips and some string, before you know it Tiddles will have made a fully functioning helicopter. Wheras in relality Tiddles will likely just wee on the Bedroom furniture and claw the carpet up a bit.
Gifts for her who maintains “love me, love my cat” come no better than Dr Ivor Kitten’s (really!) “How Cunning Is Your Cat Test”. It will establish if the moggie is an intelligent creature of comfort or just a cunning homicidal maniac through a series of tests that measure curiosity, body image and intelligence. A free catnip mouse is included to give the mog a bit of encouragement. So if you’ve always suspected that, insanely jealous of your relationship with its “mummy, you’ll wake up one morning tied to the cat’s scratching post, putting Tiddles to the test can at least prepare you for that possibility.Or it can reassure you that there are no darker motives, and all it wants to do is scratch your eyes out if you touch that particular spot on its belly!
