rorqual | Best Toy Ever

Butters' favorite toy is a little hollow ball with a bead inside it to make a rattling noise, and two small holes, just big enough to put a raisin in. So, I put two raisins in the ball, and put it on the floor for him. He'll push it around for a bit with his nose; a treat falls out, and he eats it. Then he pushes it around a bit more, and the other raisin falls out, and he eats it (well, usually; tonight, he lost it, and had to stop pushing the ball for a bit and go and find it, which was amusing).

Then, the best part: he doesn't know that there are no more raisins, so he spends like the next twenty minutes pushing the ball around, hoping a raisin will fall out. It makes a really annoying noise, because he gets up great speed, shoving the darn thing around the floor with his tiny black nose. I could put two raisins in each time from now until the end of the world, and he will never, ever, learn to count to two and stop pushing when the ball is empty.

I suspect it may be a bit mean of me to enjoy his fruitless (literally) search so much, but he's just so optimistic! That's what I love about Butters. He's Butters, and he's just happy to be here! We could all be a bit more like Butters.