Happy Saturday everyone. I am going to buy a few cat toys to keep my all black nightfury occupied and content. My kitteh is strictly a indoor parlor panther and needs enrichment.

What are some battery powered mobile toys and things besides a rattle ball and laser that will keep my miscreant busy and burning off her excess energy?

We've been getting along better lately but she needs some new toys.

Thanks!

The longest lasting toy that the Fuzz still enjoys is his Turbo Scratcher. Though the ball no longer lights up inside when it is rolled, he still uses it frequently to scratch his claws. In the past I did own one of those battery operated toys that an arm activates under a piece of vinyl that rotated around in circles with a small tail that can be seen around the edges as it rotates. After him pouncing on it several times the motor made such noise he lost interest and it was subsequently returned after a week for a refund. The turbo Scratcher still keeps him amused and he can often be heard playing with it late in the sleeping hours..btw, they do sell the cardboard replacements in the center cheaply. You can flip it over once the top is shredded first.

I haven't known a cat that didn't love real fur toy mice, they are hard to find now a days though

A small stick, string and a lump of fuzz on the end- cat paradise. Add a kids fishing rod and you can cat-fish all day long.

6 foot piece of cord with a big knot at the end, that used to have a feather in it

The turbo scratcher is an must have for a cat house. Ours gets a lot of upset.

Simple toy without batteries that also get a lot of use are shoestrings, milk jug rings and balled up aluminum foil.

Try them, they work.

My cat likes balled-up pieces of paper. Also, old shoelaces are fun.

A couple of ping pong balls keep my kitties entertained.
Not a good idea to leave them out overnight though. Well, not unless you enjoy hearing kitty soccer at 2 AM.

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The peel open plastic things on FedEx envelopes taped to stick/rod. Free toy they like more than all other expensive made in China stuff from petsmart. Still have not lost interest yet.

Of all the toys I've bought my cats a small ball of paper is still there favorite.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:


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You're doing it all wrong. Get your cat a few boxes and put them throughout the house.

Two other things that are their favorite.

Girlfriends hair ties and a shoe lace that has a couple knots and loops tied into it.

I am a confirmed cat owner, our family always had at least one cat when I was growing up, and my wife and I have had cats, usually multiples in the 50 plus years that we have been married.

I have made cat toys, bought cat toys, and am often given toys for the cats. The money I have spent on cat toys over the years would have made a substantial addition to the armory.

Although I study cat likes and dislikes; my batting average selecting toys that our cats will play with more than ten minutes hovers around .002.

Boxes and supermarket paper bags do generally work, although they are off bags right now, and the joint is covered with boxes.

I can say that our cats much prefer toys with humans attached to one end. The stick and string with feathers attached usually works if a cat’s human employs it vigorously.

My point is that cat attendants should not fear failure in toy selection, it is inevitable. Most cats will pretend to dislike toys just to put the attendant in his/her proper place.

Make a ball out of rubber bands that's small enough to fit comfortably in the cat's mouth and light enough to be batted around easily. Don't worry about the surface being even; it'll bounce or roll in unpredictable ways and the cat will dig it.

A length of string or ribbon you wave around so that the cat can chase, bat at, catch and chew on. Bonus points: the cat considers this quality time with the biped waving it around.

Anything that makes crunchy, crackly or wrinkly (if that's a word in this context) sounds.

The ever-popular kick toy is great for when cat needs to get some extra ya-yas out. They hug it and squeeze it and eviscerate it with their hind claws and feel all kinds of better.

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Originally posted by oldRoger:
I am a confirmed cat owner, our family always had at least one cat when I was growing up, and my wife and I have had cats, usually multiples in the 50 plus years that we have been married.

I have made cat toys, bought cat toys, and am often given toys for the cats. The money I have spent on cat toys over the years would have made a substantial addition to the armory.

Although I study cat likes and dislikes; my batting average selecting toys that our cats will play with more than ten minutes hovers around .002.

Boxes and supermarket paper bags do generally work, although they are off bags right now, and the joint is covered with boxes.

I can say that our cats much prefer toys with humans attached to one end. The stick and string with feathers attached usually works if a cat’s human employs it vigorously.

My point is that cat attendants should not fear failure in toy selection, it is inevitable. Most cats will pretend to dislike toys just to put the attendant in his/her proper place.

This is key. The cats like to play with their humans. They like different things for different cats. My cats, Black likes to jump and get things mid air, Gray likes to chase things and will spin in circles till he gets dizzy. The only thing in common is they like to stalk things around corners. One will watch while we play the others style of play, then take turns watching the other one. The key is find what engages them and rotate the keepers.

Mine also like Rubbermaid containers. Will both play and sleep in one. Every time we set one out they are intrigued.

Our cats love these crinkle balls.

They also love this giant mouse that has a pouch in the belly for catnip. The mouse is large enough to wrestle with (they love to "gut" it with their hind feet) and they can carry it around.

They also drag the kitty fishing pole around and will drop it our feet and meow until we play.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
A small stick, string and a lump of fuzz on the end- cat paradise. Add a kids fishing rod and you can cat-fish all day long.

This

We have a Siamese Cat.

We have tried several different toys.

Cheap battery powered mouse. Feathers on a stick and string. Those spring loaded feathers you can stick on the wall.

What she likes the most and has never got tired of them are those colored pipe cleaners. We bend them a little so the look like squiggly worms. We put them in the top holed compartment of her cat tower. She will go up there in the middle of the nights throw them out. She will carry them to her food bowl in the kitchen and drop them into her food and all around the bowl. When the Wife mops the kitchen floor they go back to the cat tower. In time they wind up back in and around her dry food bowl. We jokingly call them her babies as it appears she tries to return them to the food.






We throw a few at times in the bedroom on the carpet. She will bat them around at times until they disappear under the furniture or the closet door.

You can get a whole bag of them cheap.

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