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I bought a cat toy from my Facebook feed. It was stupid of me. I realize that now but the toy looked like the answer to the clawing of our furniture which was happening at a prodigious pace and leaving it tattered. I had to do something, anything, to try and stop the carnage.

Unfortunately since this purchase, cat toy ads have flooded my Facebook feed. It seems like every other post on my Facebook feed is a cat toy that will end furniture scratching.

I should have known that Mark Zuckerberg and his minions would see this and try to take advantage of my weakness for cats to buy even more cat toys.

I can live with this but what I find interesting is that, as marketing device, this seems a bit badly timed. I just bought a cat toy. Why would I be in the market to buy another cat toy so soon after this purchase. Wouldn’t it be wiser to wait for a month or two before flooding me with ads?

Added to my confusion is the company where I bought my cat toy sent me an email advising me that while my cats will love their new toy but that they would be even happier if I bought another toy which compliments the one I already bought. They even delayed sending me the toy so I could consider their offer. WTF.

I felt like cancelling my order and living with the tattered furniture.

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Bob and I have two cats and I sometimes feel like all I do is tell them no. Cisco wants out doors. No. Chloe wants to scratch the furniture. No. Cisco wants to eat the food off of my plate. No. Chloe wants to scavenge the kitchen counter for leftover. All they hear from me is no.

What worries me is that it makes absolutely no sense to them. For example, why can’t Cisco drag the chicken bones across the kitchen counter and then drop it on the floor so he can eat it. I was obviously done with the bones, why can’t he just pick the bones for whatever he can find. Why is he getting all hysterical about it?

Or why is it all right for Chloe to scratch the cat scratchers that Bob has so artfully arrayed around the house but not the couch and the chairs that are just a juicy targets. Why is one scratchable and the other not? And how, a poor cat, supposed to the difference.

They just run and hide when we raise our voices but I am sure they are thinking WTF. This is what animals do why are these two humans such pains in the asses.

I am surprised that they are both still civil with us. But they are.