Mine does that with bamboo needles. Especially the ones I'm using at the time.

My cat Trent only misbehaves around 2 kinds of yarn, alpaca & mohair. I ended up knitting him cat toys out of some of the destroyed skeins. When he starts stalking a new one I trick him into playing with a catnip filled mohair mouse!

Catty has great taste! Great picture recap on the crime event.

Catty has great taste! Great picture recap on the crime scene.

Pepe le Pew is brilliant!

So! Funny!

It does my heart good to see Catty playing like that. Even if that poor alpaca had to pay the price. ;-)

My dog, a basenji-- so he's 3/5 dog, 2/5 cat, LOVES the alpaca. He LOVES the angora. You're lucky== he's was bit more destructive than your cat. Mr. Pook has been 'trained' to smell at will, which he does for long periods of time-- but not to put it in his mouth (and subsequently strew it all around the kitchen/living/and dining rooms!!!

make her/him a cute little mouse from it :)

I don't have a cat, but my baby sure likes to play with yarn, especially the really nice stuff I don't want anyone to touch!

LOL! That Catty is something else. I love the crime scene photos, as well as the after-crime shot.

Aren't their quirky prefernces hilarious?

My cat ignores all my yarn except for Karabella soft tweed. When he gets his paws on a strand, he immediately chews it in half, and then runs and hides! I'm just left with spitty nubs. Ick!

My cat steals all yarn, although he definitely has a preference for alpaca. One time when I was washing an alpaca fleece he stole little clumps of it from right under my nose and deposited them on the ramp outside his litter box. So weird.

I dig Catty! :))

SF

Cleo is a pretty good kitty when it comes to yarn. She never bothers me when I'm knitting or crocheting, but every once in a while I come home to one ball of yarn, lightly covered with dust bunnies, found on the floor.

Tee hee! She's sooo cute. Let her have whatever she wants, jk. I've heard that wool (and I guess alpaca too) has lanolin in the fibers, and cats love lanolin (for nutritional reasons I believe). This could explain her love.

She's so cute!! Mine are nondiscriminatory...whatever I knit with, they want to chew on. And I don't use bamboo needles, which always end up with teeth marks!

Yes, my kitty Zoe shuns all other fibers for alpaca. Occasionally I will have rolled up a ball of it and hidden it among the other usual wool balls in my basket, but she will literally ferret it out and attack it. Her eyes dilate when you wave a hank of alpaca before her; she transforms into "alpaka attack kitty." I now leave just a tiny waste ball out for her destructive pleasure.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Guy does that with rabbit furr. I used(used) to have a pair of gloves with rabbit fur on the cuffs, he freaked out over them.

My current cats apparently only like chewing on the ends of ebony needles, and ruffling the feathers of rowan 4plysoft. My previous cat would have attacked anything remotely wooly, and would spend hours 'killing' then grooming my wool gloves...Your cat has great taste :)

Like Deb, my dog just adores alpaca to the point of obsession. No other fibre ignites the particular intensity of interest that alpaca does. I wonder if if this is someone's PhD research topic?

the first scarf i ever knit alternated between a lovely red alpaca and a creme acrylic. (oh how little i knew back then!) anyhow - it was stalked and stolen by my brother's cat repeatedly. either that acrylic was decievingly lovely, or there is something about the alpaca.

good luck next week. i'm having sympathy pains in your honor.

The only thing my Artemis loves more than Alpaca is Reynolds Odessey (she has stolen two balls, two very missed balls!) She eyes up skeins of alpaca like they were squirels...eyes fully dilated, ears back, tail twitching and ready to pounce.

The pictures of Catty and her victim are fab!

My current cats don't attack my knitting, thank goodness, but I was trying to knit at a friend's house and both of her little orange boys were going for the yarn and needles. Maybe I don't really need a kitten after all...

My boy eats yarn, but he'll take a stuffed toy very carefully off the shelf and carry it around for a while then he stands over it and yowls for a bit.
My girl attacks whenever she feels like she should get a snuggle.

Hmm, I keep all my yarn up out of feline reach and/or in sealed tubs, so I don't know. The sunflower pictures are amazing.

You know, I have 2 kittens, 12 weeks old now, and last night I discovered one of them happily sucking away on some alpaca fibre I had bought! Luckily, it was just some samples I'd taken out to measure the crimp, but he still managed to get into the envelope I'd put them in....drooly alpaca doesn't really spin too well.. ;-(

LOL! Mine hearts all of my yarn, but strangely seems to have a preference for anything with mohair in it!

I don't think I can ever get enough of Catty pics. She is just divine. Lovely sunflower pics too. You are such a neato do-it-all genius with a cute brood of boy and cats to boot!

my kitties are also obsessed specifically with alpaca and alpaca blends. it must smell good to them.

by the way, congrats on surviving the bar yesterday. i had a friend who took the ny bar also.

love the cat and flower pics my cat tiggy likes to sit in my knitting frame when I'm not looking!