Pets

especially crinkled up balls of aluminum foil. She never brought them all the way back to me. She would pick them up and walk around with them, usually in my direction, but she always dropped them just out of my reach. Maybe she wanted to give me some exercise.

Now she still runs after those balls and other toys when I toss them, but doesn't pick them up any more or push them around with her paw. She has narrowed her toys down to pipe cleaners, which she loves to catch between her paws, the laser light, bubbles from the child's bubble and wand toy, and a wand with feathers dangling from it. The feathers sort of resemble a bird in flight when I move the wand around. If I leave the wand on the floor, she moves the wand end of it as if trying to make the "bird" fly, or to make me notice that she wants to play.

Fetching and carrying balls and stuffed toys just doesn't appeal to her any more.