Memory loss is something I’ve always worried about. It’s one of the first signs of dottiness. Now I’m worried.
I’m a great pet owner. Mostly. They get free food and healthcare and not the cheap stuff either. They are nurtured and catered to. In return they give unconditional love. Works for me but all is in jeopardy now. It’s all because of my senior or blonde (hopefully not dotty) moment.
As a pet owner my house normally has toys around. Catnip thingies and wands with feathers. Fluffy beds and throws with enough cat hair to make a comforter. That’s how we roll.
There are cat food dishes (mostly empty) and water dishes too. It’s a home with pets so it’s natural.
When we get visitors, I scurry around collecting all this stuff so it looks like a home out of House Beautiful (ok, that’s a stretch) instead of Cat Fancy.
We had guests on Sunday. They have a dog so they get it but I still gathered stuff up. The toys all have a place to go but new cat Gracie has a favorite toy. It’s a wand with a feather at the end. We play with that thing a lot.
I use it for physical therapy. An early nutritional deficient left her with thin legs. I’m trying to pump up the strength in her back legs. The rear legs on cats are powerful. They can jump many times their size with those muscles but not Gracie.
That’s all background. Back to my story. I put the wand out of the way and I don’t remember where. I have been through every closet, drawer and crevice in this house and I’ve come up empty.
Gracie is distraught. It was her favorite. We have another one but it’s not the same. (It never is. Just like a child with their favorite teddy.)
I know it’s someplace silly and it’s probably laughing at me while I’m searching. Nonetheless, I have a heartbroken cat and an aging memory.
Story of MY life! No doubt it is hysterically laughing at you. Hope it shows up soon.
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It did!
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Ack, poor Gracie! Sophie drags around toys too, but she doesn’t have a favorite. So if I misplace one, she’s okay.
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She did play for a bit with another feather we have but she doesn’t love it as much. I think it’s too big for her mouth!
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Enjoyed reading that one. 🙂 And I hope you find the toy soon.
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We did find the toy.
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Oh my! I do relate all too well, but I’ve never had to explain my memory loss to one of the pets! That’s a relief. I sure do hope one of the other cats didn’t hide it from you. It’s always a possibility.
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I did look under things. Not that I would hide anything there but someone would drag it there.
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If you misplaced your glasses I’d say, check the top of your head….but this…hmm. Did you ask Morgan, that little prankster? I’ll just bet she’s behind this.
Gracie, by the way, is my favorite shade of gray.
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She’s a shade lighter than Morgan but she goes with anything. A nice pop of fuchsia looks good next to her.
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I’ll bet. That’s funny.
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Thank you so much!
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Don’t you just hate that! Please let us know when you find and where your super secret hiding place was..:)
Next time you’ll have to leave yourself a note. But you can’t hide the note..:)
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Will do!
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Oh, the frantic pet grab and hide. Well familiar with that.
RC had a special mousie – one of her first upon here move to this house – and it vanished. I drove myself crazy as she was loudly distraught. A couple of years later I found a soggy lump while planting flowers and realized it was Mousie. Somehow Molly had scarfed it up, managed to sneak it outside and bury it. Molly insists she was just securing it during a staff cleaning frenzy – and forgot about it …we told her the aging memory thing doesn’t work for dogs.
(Did you check under the bathroom sink or by spare toilet paper spot – our sticky/feather things usually end up in one of those places as they fit there.)
Fingers crossed.
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I have found it but I will reveal the idiocy of this writer on Friday. It was a *bangs head on wall* moment.
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When my kids come for an extended stay (a week or so), I clear space for them, tucking things in closets and drawers. It’s always a challenge to remember where I put it all.
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I’ve done that too. It doesn’t matter if the guests are there for hours or days, I can’t find a damn thing afterward. I’m going to start jotting down where I put things.
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I do this all the time and have since I was a child. You were probably carrying it around intending to put it with other toys and then got distracted with another chore than needed your hands and put it down somewhere odd. This is why I find my reading glasses in the frig and my keys on the balcony ledge.
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I do that too. Today I found the yardstick on top of a bureau. I stopped in there to pet the cat and forgot what I was doing.
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Good Post!
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Thanks!
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ARRRGGG, I hate when that happens. I’m usually the one who finds lost items in our house, but sometimes my superpower fails. Just think, when you do find it, you’ll have an instant post idea… we’ll all be waiting to hear!
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I had a great memory when I was young. I can still remember the birthdates of my childhood friends. My husband’s, not so much. I must have lost some brain cells along the way and they were all the memory ones.
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That’s frustrating when that happens.
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Yes and I yell at myself when I do it but it will happen again.
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This is very timely. We are getting two Ragamuffin kitties in July, and already cat toys are being purchased — prior to our move even! I warned my wife that statistically speaking at least a few of these are bound to be lost. She stayed silent. – Marty
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Two in July ! Woo hoo! Looking forward to seeing pictures and hearing all about them! Trust me, they are cheaper than kids! 🙂
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I hope you find the cat toy quicker than I found my missing cookbooks. That took over two years. How long can a cat remember things? Instead of a beeline to the toy, you need a feline.
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Perhaps when she’s ready she will bring it to me. She does carry it around sometimes.
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The lost ones always show up, right after you’ve replaced it.
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Replacements are never as loved as the original.
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Maybe Gracie found where you hid it and she put it some place and forgot where it is… 😀
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She would hide it but I don’t think she’d forget where it was. She is waiting for the staff to get it for her. Dang cat!
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I’m sure it will show up once you give up searching.
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I keep hoping. It’s been at least 6 hours since my last search and so far no luck. I’ve been looking since Monday (yesterday) morning.
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I feel your pain. Cats are like a toddler with their special toys. Weird suggestion. Ask for help before you go to bed. I do that sometimes and wake up dreaming about the answer or solution. In that half awake state–it’s like a light bulb goes off. Doesn’t work every time and sometimes takes days, but works for me more often than not. Good luck!
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Thanks for the tip. I’ll try anything. Those itty bitty legs need to get moving.
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hope you find it back… I have such moments too…and I often worry for this moments ….
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Yes, yes….it’s like is this the beginning? Will I forgot how to brush my teeth next?
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I put coconut oil on my hair today, forgot it and walked around with the pup… I never beforewalked in public with a towel around my head … think it just started LOL
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I love you! You make me feel normal especially with the DIY projects!
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I have a pretty basket that sits on my fireplace hearth. I corral all the cat toys in it. If I really want House Beautiful, I could pick up the whole basket and put it in the closet. Otherwise. just putting all the toys away in there is good enough for must guests. Lumos is so cute, He actually will peer into the basket and get out his favorites.
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Most of the time I don’t bother but let the lie around. The feather thing has a 2′ wand so it doesn’t fit with the rest and therein lies the problem.
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Oh no!!! She wants the one with her scent all over it. Either that or she hid it herself just to make your crazy.
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I’m going with the latter. I’m not that creative in hiding things that I can’t find them.
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Do you have an umbrella stand? Maybe you could make a contest out of this and whoever guesses the correct hiding place wins a prize picture of Gracie with her beloved toy back again!
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No umbrella stand and it’s not in the magazine rack.
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Hey, I was going to suggest the fridge too! If not, how about the dishwasher? Honestly, when I lose something it always ends up in the strangest place!
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It’s either in a strange place or looking like a shadow in a corner. I’ve asked Gracie to find it but she’s a cat. She expects the staff to do things like that.
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Nothing makes me as crazy as when I can’t find something. At least you’re quietly heartbroken instead of raging through the house, tossing couch cushions left and right. 🙂
Hope it turns up soon.
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I did the rage thing yesterday. The incident happened on Sunday. Usually within a day I remember or have a visual of where I put it but I’m not pulling anything out of that decrepit old memory. I’ll do another walk through today. Physical therapy is at a stand still.
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It’s probably somewhere you’ve looked already! Once you get to searching for something you don’t see what’s in front of you, if you’re anything like my bipeds. 😀
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Yes I am just like them. I often have my husband check with fresh eyes.
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Maybe it got in-between a few catalogs or magazines. In a pile somewhere waiting for you to find it.
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It’s long so it would stick out. I suspect that because it’s long and skinny and black, it looks like a shadow and is hiding in full sight.
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Probably so. And won’t you feel silly when you find it? 😉
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I will be annoyed (an relieved at the same time). Thinking of booking a room at the local memory loss center.
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LOL!
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Poor kitty. I was going to suggest as someone did above to look on the fridge. Pray to St. Anthony- Tony, Tony turn around something is lost and can’t be found. Have you heard that one?
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Yes I have. He needs to move in here. We could use him on a daily basis. I can’t reach the top of the fridge so I’m more of a closet person. I have a vague memory of putting it in our coat closet but it’s not there. Perhaps someone broke in and stole the cat feather (only the cat feather!).
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Did you perchance put it under a cushion on the porch?
We all have CRAFT moments. Mine happened often from one end of the boat to the other!
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No, the porch was part of where we spent time so that was cleared.
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Toy box, spare bedroom, under stairs cupboard? Garage? Wardrobe? Laundry room? Have you found any of the other toys put away before your visitors arrived? Maybe Gracie’s boa has fallen down behind something else.
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Nope, none of those. Yes I have all the rest because they are small, I put in a basket. The feather with a 2 foot stick is too big for that. Today I’m going under all the furniture just in case she found it an slid it somewhere.
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She may have found it herself and hid it so that you didn’t take it away again! Maggie did that with a ‘baby’ which we found tucked up under OUR pillows!
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Or Morgan hid it to make us all crazy.
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haha. LOL.
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I hate when that happens. I think from now on I’ll try to write down where I move those super important things…if I remember 🙂 Out on the porch?
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Not the porch. The guests were on the porch so I gathered the cat stuff from there too.
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Ask St. Anthony for help.
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I’m asking him to move in!
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On top of the fridge or bookshelf? Between the cushions on the couch? In the junk drawer?
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Checked the cushions and bookshelves and it won’t fit in our junk drawer. Top of the fridge I can’t reach so it’s not likely but all good guesses.
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No no, check IN the refrigerator.
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With the lunch meat?
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😂
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Check the dog. Is he to be trusted?
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No dog here. Just a husband and he doesn’t do cat toys.
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Ah! My mistake – I read the post as if the dog came with the family for the visit. I always want to blame the dog, so I suppose I jumped the gun on that assumption!
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No, they didn’t bring the dog. Not sure how my cats would react to a dog. Probably 2 would hide and the other two would come to see if she smelled like catnip.
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