Master of the answering machine

This is Bunny:

beautiful_Bunny

Bunny has a special talent:  she’s learned how to deliberately push various buttons on the answering machine to make it play back messages, page the handset, or make other beeping sounds.  It’s adorable and annoying, but mostly adorable, because I love Bunny and anything she wants to do is okay by me.  However, there are times when her talent is less than desirable, for example, at 5am.  I’d like to find her some sort of toy that works on a similar principle (it makes noises in response to different actions by the cat), but I haven’t been able to find anything.  Before I resort to buying her something from Fisher-Price (perhaps this baby blanket is right up her alley), does anyone know of a cat/dog toy with parts to push and step on?  I know there are bells that dogs can use to indicate they want to go outside, but Bunny would probably like something more intricate.  If you have any suggestions, please post them in the comments so I can shop for my brilliant feline child.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 01/14 at 07:43 PM

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  1. They probably don’t make them because it would TEACH the little buggers to mess with the answering machine, the computer, the digital alarm clock….  :)

    Posted by Susan  on  01/17  at  01:42 PM

  2. BTW, what camera did you use for that shot of Bunny?

    Posted by Susan  on  01/17  at  01:43 PM

  3. Ooh… the alarm clock!  I’ll get her right on that :)

    I took the photo of Bunny (and the picture of Kevin in a recent entry) with a borrowed Nikon D90.  For Bunny, I put the ISO setting on 3200 so I could take the picture without a flash (it was indoors, at night), and was really pleased with the lack of “noise” in the image.  Real 3200 ISO film would have had a lot more graininess, I think. I’ve enjoyed having the chance to use the D90, and would recommend it or the D80 (in fact, the D80 would be fine… the main difference is that the D90 takes video, but it can’t autofocus during the video filming, so it’s not even as good as a cheaper digital camera for that purpose).  The learning curve on the camera is steep, and I may not have it long enough to figure out more than the basics, but I can definitely say that it takes great photos of blue-eyed cats.  It’s rare to get a picture of a blue-eyed cat that doesn’t have red eyes.

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  01/19  at  07:36 PM

  4. Hi Leigh-Ann!

    I Love your blog!  I had to tell you about my cat, Sassy (then age 15, now sadly passed).  My boyfriend (who loved Sassy) would call during the day and leave messages for Sassy on my answering machine—“Sassy…SassyCat..How are you Sassy?”  Sassy would run over to the machine and listen intently.  Then one day I was home when my boyfriend called and left one of his Sassy messages.  Later, I heard it repeating and Sassy had learned to push the Big Blue Button and repeat the messages whenever he was “lonely and ignored”!  Sassy was such a Good and Clever Boy!

    Tina Ann Byers
    Proud Rescue Yorkie Mommie of Tashia (5), Paras (19), Arnold (13 - Special Needs) and Baby Gabby (11 months)
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    Posted by Tina Ann Byers  on  01/30  at  01:12 PM
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