[Aliantha]

My tom cat loves climbing in boxes and even bags or suitcases if they're left on the floor.

My husband brought a new backpack home the other day and he'd just taken the plastic off it and dropped it on the floor while he looked at some other stuff and then we looked back, Shadow was all curled up on it. He's a weirdo.

Every time we buy a carton of wine we leave the box out for the cats to sit in, even though they have a perfectly good 'cat house' which is a box on top of a scratching pole. They've kind of gone off the cat house lately, but I'm sure it'll come back into vogue when one of them decides they like it again.

If my dogs get bored they start ripping stuff up in the yard including the plants. Usually we just spend a lot of time with them. Between me and Dazza and the kids (not to mention the hordes from around the neighbourhood), there's usually someone in the yard talking to them.