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Between me and the cat, I was clearly the more excited party when the Trixie Activity Fun Board arrived that fateful snowy day in January 2019. At first the cat, per his custom, was more interested in the cardboard box that the board came in. But once his precious food was placed throughout the activity board, his attention suddenly shifted. And with that came the rage. Oh, the rage. He gave me a look of utter disbelief -- "Are you serious? Is this for real? You're making me WORK for my food now? I lick my nasty fur for 14 hours a day just to keep it soft for your mangy hands, and yet now you have the nerve -- the gall -- to make me, a proper, sophisticated creature of unparalleled intellect, expend precious energy to procure the food that is rightfully mine!? No thank you. No thank you indeed." Seconds later, this unruly beast could be found playfully reaching into the tunnel in search of tender morsels of glorious sustenance. He went for the tongue module next, as it appealed to his well-honed slothdom. Having decimated the food stockpiles in those first two modules, he ventured to the wave module next, but quickly deigned himself too dignified to reach his arm any further than the first 4 inches of it, leaving the rest of the food further in to linger, abandoned, like a fallen scoop of ice cream from an overburdened cone. Don't get me started on the peg module. He must have watched The Labyrinthe during one of his past lives, because he seemed to instinctively know that venturing too far in spells certain death. He lazily swatted at the few lone food scraps that hovered outside the pegs, but categorically refused to venture further in. The fishbowl module, as of yet, has failed to inspire him. Either that, or he's legitimately too dumb to understand how translucent glass works. Judging by his abortive attempts at chasing birds on the other side of our transparent glass windows, I'm perhaps unsurprised that he lacks the fortitude to endeavor toward the sustenance inside these little translucent plastic bowls. Overall, this may be the best item I've ever procured for an animal. And, don't get me wrong, I'm the guy who spent over a month searching for the perfect pine cone to cover in peanut butter and hang outside the window for this entitled little furry monster's amusement. I take cat gifting *very* seriously. After nearly a month, both this feline and his newly-arrived lady companion now find themselves enjoying the newfound fruits of their labor, painstakingly looted from the Trixie Activity Fun Board like Indiana Jones' mystical stones from conquerors' thrones in the Temple of Doom. As time goes on, and we proceed on our inexorable march toward the inevitable heat death of the universe, the cats' initial grumblings about work-life balance and taxation-without-representation have begun abating, and we look forward to a future of intrepid exploration and bounteous cat gifs.