Our kitten likes to suckle on fleecy things as he thinks it's his mommy. Sometimes he forgets that he doesn't have anything in his mouth yet continues to suckle. This is one of those times.
Cheap, crappy violin: $80.
Extra e string so concert master could pretend to play it in class: $3.
Looks of students' faces when director smashed violin against the wall as part of a great april foo...