Cat Toy recommendations?

[serryjw]

Kootchstone has more energy than 3 cats. I need to wear him out, he is driving Igamoo crazy

[redwitch]

1. laser pointer

they love it and chase that little red dot until they collapse. Love their names!

[serryjw]

6. My first purchase

I have seen them and they look like fun. Igamoo was adopted with his name.
Kootchstone is for Dennis Kucinich and Paul Wellstone.

[starroute]

2. A toy mouse on an overhead elastic

We got one of these once. There's a curved metal piece with rubber tips that you can put around the top of your doorframe, and a length of elastic hanging from it with a toy mouse bouncing on the end. The cats loved it.

The only problem was that it wore out quickly. If you're prepared to stock up on cheap toy mice and some elastic and keep replacing them, though, it's as good a cat play item as I know.

[October]

3. Cat Dancer

Long wire...with rolled up papers on the end. Awesome. The only toy I've ever known cats to play with. Not kittens...CATS!

They're about $2.50.

[onecent]

4. roll up some different size balls of tin foil. Kitties love these. n/t

[Beowulf]

5. Kitty Tease Deluxe

The Galkie Company
P.O. Box 20
Harrogate,TN 37752

423-869-8138

It's a very simple toy, a short piece of fiberglass fishing pole with 50 LB test line and a scrap of denim on the end. You can make the denim behave like a mouse or a bird and the cats just go nuts, stalking, pouncing, jumping. And you'll have a good time as well.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Eeeks are our cats' favorite. They love the Cat Dancer, too.

Eeeks are the perfect stuffed toy: their backs are covered in realistic fake fur; they are stuffed with catnip; and they have a rattle in the center that, when squeezed or bitten, must feel like real rodent innards. They really take a beating, too.

[XanaDUer]

16. Lol! God my cat loves Eeks.

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[huskerlaw]

23. I am disturbed

to report that my cat has EVERY SINGLE toy mentioned so far. What a spoiled little brat.

He loves the red/blue pop-up box thing ($10-15 at Target), isn't so much a fan of cat dancer (though I've seen other cats go apeshit over it), and he's on his 3rd mouse-hanging-from-door. His absolute favorite toy though, is a wand with a string attached...at the end of which is 2 large feathers. I have to hide it and bring it out for special occasions only.

[newsguyatl]

8. some suggestions

the red nylon boxes are the biggest hit at my place, and they're just 9.99 for the set.

best 10 bucks i've spent in a while...

the feather with bells at the end of the stick is also a big hit, tho the only pic i have of these, you only seeing nikko going for it:


i also hear the electrical mouse is a bit hit, though i'm forgetting the name of it right now... i'm sure someone here will chime in... there are a few others in the pet forum who know cat toys like others know fine wine...

[SOteric]

9. Phurphoo on store-bought cat toys... an old bootlace and a paper bag

are the favourite toys of every cat.

[khashka]

10. Cat Dancer

Cats think they invented god so god could invent this for them.
They might be right.

Best cat toy ever.


Khash.

[Lindacooks]

13. Yes, that is the best cat toy - and so simple!

[sakabatou]

11. My cat loved twine, long pieces of grass and twigs

[girl gone mad]

12. If you have hard floors..

try little rubber bouncy balls. You can usually get them from vending machines at supermarkets for a quarter.

[caty]

14. I don't even want to

know how much money I have spent on cat toys. The ones they like the best are little puff balls. They are light, and when the little paws bat them, they travel far.

[havocmom]

15. Cardboard box with cat size door and windows cut in it, ane on on 'roof'

toss in a catnip ball and let nature take its course. Good when used with all the above recommended cat toys.

Come next spring, get a bunch of wind-up toy bunnies and hopping chickens, cats love to 'kill' those.

[XanaDUer]

17. There is a toy that is round with a ball

that goes around and around. It stays in the tube of the circle , though. Cats can spend hours with it, but I am not sure of the name of the product.

[SoCalDem]

18. little foam golf ball sized balls.. Sammy will play fetch for HOURS

We have to eventually hide the ball...then he reaches unde every couch to try and snag one he knocked under there.. Failing that, he wanders from room to room, wailing :(

[delen]

19. Cheap dallor store

round plastic laundry basket, my cats will run inside hamster wheel style, or on top circus style, just have to give them rolling room.

[eridani]

20. No surprise about that energy level

Seems he takes after his two namesakes! :headbang:

[serryjw]

25. True enough

He now has found the bathtub and really likes it. Igamoo is a lap cat happy to be in the sun,go figure? :shrug:

[dajoki]

21. our cat loves...

aluminum foil balls:shrug:

[no name no slogan]

22. Catnip bubbles.

I got them at PetSmart, but you can probably find them at any pet store. My cats go apesh!t for 'em! :thumbsup:

[Sugar Smack]

24. This is mine that I won at the State Fair:

[Terran]

26. A crumpled up cigarette pack

or anything with cellophane wrapping on it. All threee of my cats absolutely love chasing these when you throw them. They like the sound and I think they like to see the light reflecting off the cellophane, because it suggests motion to them (and of course cats like to pounce on anything moving...).