Mushroom and Her Cat Purse

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Mushroom is my 4 year old tabby tortoiseshell mix. The picture is from the incident we call "Shroom and the String" in which she swallowed an entire ball of yarn, requiring emergency surgery, 5 days in the kitty hospital and a couple thousand bucks out of my pocket.

She's my little darling but I have to admit she is really weird. She loves to be held and snuggled and doesn't care at all what position she's being held in (including completely upside down.) She loves when I put her inside bags of all sorts and swing her around in them.

This has been going on since she was a kitten. She loves car rides and putting her toy mouse into her water bowl, swishing it around and proceeding to carry it around and play with it. I guess this makes it more lifelike.

She has a designated sound for when she jumps up and jumps down and for just about every other occasion a cat has.

Recently I pulled a knitted purse that has two large pom-poms on it out of the closet. It was left somewhere around the house and I started noticing that when I came home it had frequently been moved to a new area.

Then I started hearing her cry loudly at night like I had never heard. She is a very vocal cat and talks back when I talk to her but never like this.

Finally I started realizing that the purse would move around the same time that she made the weird crying noise. Just the other day I heard the noise coming towards my room so I sat still with a ridiculous feeling of excitement at catching her and waited.

She came around the corner dragging the purse with the strap in her mouth and the bag on the floor between her legs so she had to do this hilarious waddle.

When she caught me watching her she dropped it and walked towards me while pretending it never happened although we both knew it was a ruse.

She obviously has developed some kind of obsession with her new accessory that is embarrassing to her. I think the purse is hideous, but one woman's trash is another cat's treasure.