My mother has Alzheimer's and I just got her one of those robotic cats.

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67. Please let me know how she likes it!

I haven't heard any stories of people not appreciating them. I don't know how advanced your mother's Alzheimer's or dementia is, but if she doesn't think it's a cat, you could call it a pillow that looks like a cat. That is actually what my sister told my mother, but my mother didn't pay attention to that. Within a few minutes she was positioning it on her lap to make the cat more comfortable. And by the first evening, she told me she'd had the cat for days, that it was six months old, that it has the run of the house but doesn't run very much, which she appreciates, and that she wasn't sure if it was a boy or a girl. But my mother had already started to invent realities. She'll often tell me what she and Dad did that day, even though he died over a year ago.