For all that Maddie is going on 13 years old, she is still quite an energetic cat. She enjoys a good play. The big problem is that she gets tired of the toys we have around. We think that once she beats the game, she wants a new one. A few toys have kept their lustre, though. Chief among them is her Nip-a-rang. Now, she often plays with it on her own, but she seems to have the most fun when one of us plays with her.

Hey! Hello? This toy isn't going to shake itself at me, y'know!!
If I've got important human stuff to do, I get this look.

You are *so* slow....
And then the meowing starts. And the twining about the ankles. Of course we know why cats walk 'round our ankles, don't we?

Oh good! Now that you're down here, you can PLAY WITH ME! And stop whining. It didn't hurt that much, you big baby.
And then we play.
This being spring, we've a few more animals hanging around the house. No guest cats yet, though there are a few in the wider neighborhood. The most notable new critters are these:

We have a family of Robins nesting on our back porch.

We try to give them their space. And keep Maddie indoors. Though I'm not sure she'd know what to do with baby birds if she got 'em. She's kind of a princess that way.
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