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c/cat by u/thrawn21 3w ago lemmy.world

Her favorite cherry toy was out of stock for years, now it's back and I bought a lifetime supply!

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Posting in case this helps someone else. This [Leaps and Bounds cherry toy](https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/leaps-and-bounds-mesh-fruit-cat-toy-assorted-styles) was the very first toy I bought for her as a kitten, and she must have imprinted on it, as six years later it is still the ONLY toy she will play with.

![A photo taken from above of a tiny brown and white tabby kitten on a wood floor next to a pair of mesh cherry toys](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7c1d1683-a696-4ab5-ab43-e0d59cb73ede.jpeg)

They're rather fragile, easy to crush if stepped on, and fall apart after a few months of regular play. Knowing how much she loved them I would grab spares whenever I could, but a few years ago they went out of stock and didn't come back.

Every time I brought out a fresh cherry from the dwindling stash she would get SO excited, so I searched high and low, desperate to find more. If you read the reviews on Petco, there's other people with cats who've fixated on these cherries, and I found similar threads on Reddit.

It's been years, but I still search semi-regularly, and imagine my joy when I realized they were back in stock! Stupidly, it's listed as part of a random assortment, so I decided to order 100 of them, hoping for a third to be cherries but happy to get any at all.

![A hand holding a ziplock bag full of cherry toys with "32 pairs" written on it](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d9e2896f-db45-4b5c-9936-1808608be841.jpeg)

32 pairs - 64 cherries! A lifetime supply of her favorite toy for my picky little baby <3

![A brown and white tabby cat curled up on a fleece blanket next to a cherry toy](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ba805554-0fe6-42bf-8996-ce0a99fbd8a4.jpeg)
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