Gabriel is as cute as can be and has the longest whiskers that I’ve seen on a cat!  He is also a thief!  All three cats love the turbo scratcher toy that features a round track with a ball that they can bat around and a corregated cardboard center for scratching.  We have 3 turbo scratchers and not one of them still has the ball in it!

It didn’t take Gabriel long to figure out how to remove the ball from the track so that he can chase it around the house!  I have spent many hours searching under furniture and appliances with a flashlight to try and find the balls.  To date, I have located one!  The other two are still MIA!  I now keep the ball out of the track when I’m not supervising their playtime so that this one doesn’t disappear as well.  This is why we can’t have nice things, Gabriel!!!  If anyone has any suggestions for how to keep the ball from being easily removed from the track, please share.  It has to still be able to roll around, but needs to be just a smidge larger so it can’t come out of the track!