My cat eats my leather thimbles, and I have to hide them.

I used to pin my blocks to the ironing board to preview them. My cat loved to sleep there. If I left the blocks pinned to the board, she would steal them. I would find the blocks on the floor, and the pins scattered all over the place. I blame my DH for this. He would warm up the wide end of the ironing board for her while he ironed his shirts for work every morning! He spoiled her so!!!!!

When Gus was a puppy ( he is now a nine year old grumpy mini schnauzer) I was hand quilting a baby quilt and lost my needle. Thought nothing of it until 3 days later when the poor little guy started straining and shivering.

X rays revealed a slender metal line. He had eaten the thread (I was using two strands of six-strand) and the needle had followed into his mouth. Surgery and 900.00 later the little fellow came home.

He is a real garbage gobbler... last year he ate almost a full roll of paper towels because the first one on the roll smelled good. four cans of pumpkin later his bowels got unplugged!

I have a house full of clepto's too...there is absolutely no telling where I will find stuff. I've gotten to where I will just go ahead and buy 2 of everything because the one I'm currently useing will always somehow get "lost"

Have you checked the registers? Don't know what sort of heating system you have but it could have rolled through a register and into the ducts???

You need to keep a roll of that sticky tape stuff that fits on a handle and keep it near the front door. Thaty way you can just brush your butt off on your way out the door. However, you might just find one of your cats stuck to it sometimes. LOL
LOVE the horse pic you have on your profile. Is it your horse?

Quote=tweetee]My cats love to get into my sewing room, becasue they know they are not allowed in there!
One of my cats always steals my pincushion, pins included! but, he also steals reels of cotton, scraps of fabric, anything he can get his paws on really. My other cat just constantly sits on my sewing chair when she gets in there, so when I go sew, I end up with a furry butt!. Not a good look when you go down the shops afterward![/quote]

be happy it's the wash-off kind and not the permanent kind. have you followed the colored trail?

Have you tried using a yardstick to check in the corners under the fridge... and stove... and washing machine...
I can't figure how my 18-pound furry home companion can get thread spools off my ironing board without disturbing anything else, when she can barely get her furry butt up onto my lap? She is a rescue kitty, so I have no idea if she might be part Maine Coon...don't they get big as houses? My other two are under ten pounds!

My pug lily is just tall enough to reach a paw over the top of a 36 in high counter, so anything on the edge or on a top of lower height is fair game. She especially loves magazines, paper, pens, and pencils, also the plastic wrappers that come on magazines. Lily ate a needle and thread that fell off the table onto the floor about a year ago, and that was a major expense, so I am VERY CAREFUL now. She is so smart that when she loses something under the edges of the sofa, that all I have to say is show me, and she goes right to the spot!

Yes, I have to put my pin cushion in a cupboard when done sewing as Kat will pull all the pins out & put them on the floor!!