Commercial Cat's Toy with Three Alternatives

Commercial Cat's Toy with alternatives. Before 2002, c.e.

Artifact Description

Commercial Cat’s Toy With Three Alternatives,

• 1. Small, Red and White, Rodent-form Cat Toy (Partially Disintegrated), length with tail: 11 cm – 7.5 cm. Dyed animal skin (probably rabbit) with polymer core. ct.782;1.co

• 2. Walnut, 10 cm cir. Collected 2002. ct.782.3.bi

• 3. Clove Of Garlic. Dehydrated. 4 cm. – 2.5 cm. Collected before 2001. ct.782.4.dy

• 4. Pull Top for Half Gallon Container of Orange Juice. Label description: "Tropicana, Not From Concentrate, vitamin C and E added.” All played with by cats and occasionally chewed on by dogs, in the Hartford Woolen Company Warehouse Art Studio Building. Collected 2002. ct.782.4.co

These artifacts represent a continuum in the cost of cat playthings. No matter the cost of commercially available toys, a bit of string, or the cap from a beer bottle, still has the same allure to a domesticated feline.

Cat toys are sometimes chewed on by dogs, to the toys unavoidable annihilation.

Historical Overview

Cats were living in a feral condition in the old Lena’a Lunch Building, White River Jct. in 1992 when the Main Street Museum made its home there. Several of them are now been at least partially domesticated and are living with artists in a renovated mill in Hartford Village, Vermont.