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When we first adopted our cat Abby, we bought her this Cuddle Monkey toy. She played with it a while but lost interest. We nearly forgot about it until we adopted Simme, our orange boy.

As a kitten, Simme played with the monkey toy in much the same way. However, one day, he did something odd with the toy. He left it in a special place under the coffee table, hidden away. We decided to leave it there. It remained there for a couple of months, alone and out of sight. One day, though, Simme took the monkey toy out of its special place. He began carrying the monkey around as though it was his very own kitten companion. At that point, we figured we needed to rename the toy “Munchkie”.

Simme and Munchkie became inseparable. Through the next year, Simme took Munchkie traveling all over the home, including up the stairs (which he never did at first) to leave outside the bedroom door. Munchkie couldn’t be out of Simme’s sight, not even for a moment. Otherwise, he would meow loudly, demanding that we find him without delay.

Over time, Munchkie started to show signs of wear. We tried to repair Munchkie as much as we could, but Simme did not trust us to take care of Munchkie while he was out of sight.

Then, Lily arrived. She took an interest in Munchkie but he’s really Simme’s toy, so we got two more of them to play with. Simme, in general, rejected the new monkey toys, while Lily is avidly playing with these new arrivals.

To be continued…