The Human Pages

Toys!!!

This is probably our 2nd most favorite topics. Right after food. We love having plenty of toys to keep us occupied. And you Humans will be happy to know, the more you spend on a toy the less likely we will be to play with it. Sure, we'll check out that ball thing with the rubber knobs that bounces all over, but we'll most likely soon tire of it. On the other hand, a plastic grocery sack will keep us occupied for minutes (to a weezil, a minute is a very long time). 

Our Human is picky when he gets us toys. He doesn't get any toy we can chew up and swallow the pieces. These pieces could get stuck in our tummies and give us a bad tummy ache. Then we need to be cut open to get it out (we shudder at even the thought). He makes sure the toys are safe and aren't going to hurts us.

Here are some of our favorite toys:

Weezil Tower of Doom-This was one smart thing our Human came up with that we reluctantly give him credit for. He noticed we loved to play in empty boxes that pop comes in. So he started cutting holes in them and taping them together. We now have a multi-level, multi-room playhouse. It's perfect for chasing each other through, makes a good hidey-hole, and is a great place to sleep. And it keeps getting bigger cuz our Human adds to it whenever he finishes a box of pop (which is quite often, since he's hopelessly addicted to Mountain Dew).

Drain Pipe of Doom-A 6' chunk of black, corrugated, plastic drain pipe. It makes a great tunnel for chasing and hiding from each other.

Fun-Doodle-It's just a hollow tube of foam with holes in the sides that our Human got in the toy section of a store. It also makes a great tunnel to play in, but with the holes in the sides we can attack whoever is going through it. We also like because it's nice and light so we can move it around to wherever we want. A word of warning though: This is not a good toy if you have weezils that like to chew on things. They could swallow a chunk of it and get one of those tummy aches that only surgery can fix.

Magic Duster-One of those rainbow-colored thingies that are supposed to remove dust be static electricity. It kind of looks like a huge, colorful, fluffed-out ferret tail. It's great to use as an attack dummy when one of our weezils buddies aren't around. It's also great fun when used in conjunction with the Fun-Doodle. Then we can chase it through the tube.

Weezil-Ball-A ball that rolls around by itself with a fuzzy thing attached to it that flops around. This is one of those more expensive things that we don't play with much. It's good for a couple good pounces but then we lose interest.

Bumble Ball-A ball that has rubber knobs all over it and bounces around by itself while playing "Wipeout". Another one of those expensive things. It's worth a look, but not much more. We would be much happier with it if it played a different tune. Something by Metallica or AC/DC, for we are head-banging weezils.

Squeaky Toys & Stuffed Animals-We like these. We can haul these things around from hidey hole to hidey hole. We like to attack the squeakers before we haul them off. Although some of the squeakers have a pitch that we really do not like. Usually we will let you know by biting your hand. This is one of the rare occasions us civilized Weezils will bite cuz we really don't like that sound. Just make sure the squeaky toys have a pitch that doesn't agitate us. Our Human also makes sure these toys don't have any eyes or noses or anything that can come off and be accidentally swallowed by us.

Boxful of plastic grocery bags-We can spend minutes and minutes digging through this. We love the wonderful crinkly sound they make.

Any Type of Tube-We love anything else that looks like a tunnel. It's in our nature. There's many things available. Big cardboard mailing tubes are fun. Some of us like playing in dryer hoses (not hooked to a dryer of course). We'll even play in the store-bought tubes from the pet store, even though they're really expensive. Our favoritest is the black, corrugated plastic drain pipe. We have over 30 feet of this stuff to play in. Our Human got it at a hardware store. He calls it "perf pipe". We just call it fun.

Anything else that looks fun at the time-Sometimes we're not picky. We'll play with whatever's around. A shoe, the TV remote, balls, or our Human's foot. When we play with stuff we have to put it away when we're done, so we usually put it nicely in one of our hidey holes. This annoys our Human greatly. We don't understand why. We're just putting the stuff away because it obviously didn't belong where we found it.