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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/andylefunk on 2026-01-15 20:18:20+00:00.
The TIFU actually happened on Christmas, but the effects continue today.
My cat loves toys, especially the ones on string you can fling around. When she was a kitten she loved this little mouse toy on a silver string (which made the string invisible to her).
For Christmas my bf and I bought her a wand toy like the mouse one, only this one is a bee. She's absolutely fucking obsessed with it. It doesn't even have catnip on it! She actually picks it over catnip. I think because the bee has yellow stripes she can see it very clearly.
She's so obsessed with it she will drag it up to us and whine until we play with her. It was adorable at first, but it's constant. We both work from home and she will interrupt us during meetings and whine off camera. We decided to hide it, and then it got WORSE. She will whine constantly. Con. Stant. Ly. Until we give it to her. She knows it's nearby, and she knows we will eventually cave. We've had her for two years and she has never, EVER acted like this. I think she is actually bonded to this fucking bee lmao.
So now during work hours we have to play videos of bees on the TV to distract her. Then when we're off work we are essentially factory workers at the bee flinging factory. There is no end in sight.
TL;DR: Got our cat a bee toy for Christmas and now we are mere facilitators of the cat x bee relationship.
Edit: for those asking here is the toy! This is what I found online, but we got the same toy for $10 bucks in a local shop.