No thread eating kitties in our house, but Miss Kitty is my constant companion in the sewing room. We had a friend's cat stay with us for several months. I have a large stuffed kitty that holds tools, needles etc. and the tail is for pins. (It's my avatar if I ever learn how to add it!) I couldn't figure out why those pins were on my table each morning. You guessed it, she would come in and take a hold of the little colored heads, pull them out of the tail and leave them on the table. The pins had to disappear until she left us.