"Come out to the couch... have a few laughs..."
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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My cat did that but had a giant dead rat hidden under the bed.
The writing on the rat’s chest said “now I have a machine gun.”
"Get a cat they said, have a few laughs."
Behind the couch, behind the TV, under the stairs... If there's a small, hard-to-get-to space, I guarantee the cat toys will end up there. Especially if they're ping-pong balls (which mine love to chase and bat around).
This is an example of survivorship bias, you only notice the cat toys because they got lost in hard-to-access places. The cat also can't get it out of there on its own, so if it gets stuck there just once, it stays there.
I tried to use pool noodles to block off spaces under the couch. The thin ones were too small. The big ones too big. Idk what the solution is.
I ended up using a door snake to block off the TV cabinet, but don't have a solution for the other spaces either!
My cat is like a champion soccer player the way he shoots it under there. It takes like 1-2 taps sometimes, what a legend.
Ours were all ended up under the refrigerator...
Those little fake mice ? Yeah those damn things fit under everything
I thought my fake mouses can have some privacy. 🧐
I use my phone to video under the couch / bed / bureau, so that I know where to look and how far back it is.
I got to experience something like this today!
High winds in the area have meant that our power has gone out a few times, only to come back a minute or two later. After one outage, our TV wouldn't turn on again. My initial thought was that the power strip got zapped from a surge, so I leaned behind the TV stand to check it.
Stitch, one of our cats, decided to help! He jumped on to the subwoofer I was leaning over, and was looking behind the TV with me.
(It turned out the remote somehow forgot the settings for our TV and sound bar. Everything is fine, fortunately.)