What unusual toy does your cat seem to be his/her favorite?

[zen_bohemian]

Mine is into bread ties. I have them put away, and she ALWAYS seems to magically end up finding one I missed.
What non-traditional toys are your cat's favorites?

:) LOL, our 6 month old just saw dust in the air lit up by the sun for the first time, she is batting at the air (I guess that means I need to dust today and vacuum) :)

[HopeHoops]

1. Something long and rather thick in girth she found in the bathroom.

A toilet paper tube. Now WHAT were you thinking?

[Rob H.]

2. A harness

bought back when I came up with the misguided idea that it would make it easier to get a leash on her so I could take her outside. I got the collar buckled, but when it came time to fasten the strap across her chest for the first time, it was like being mauled by a tiny, angry lion. It's all buckled together now and I see her flinging it through the air when she's feeling playful, so it's not a total loss, I guess. :)

[NoGOPZone]

3. Mine's into bread ties too, along with super balls.

He's starting to figure out though that's he's never going to grab that mysterious light that sometimes shows up on the walls and floors.

[City of Mills]

4. Electrical cords

One of my boys gets excited when we have company, and runs into the spare room where he rubs on his favorite electrical cord plug, which goes to the unused sewing machine in the room. He'll rub on that plug for 5-10 minutes straight. He also enjoys biding shoelaces, and I have to warn visitors about that...he'll walk up to their shoes and then puncture their laces with his fangs.

[mcollins]

5. Lego Stormtrooper Helmets.

The kids have about a bazillion legos, and the cat will go into the room, get a Stormtrooper helmet and play with it all over the house. When we finally take it away, she will sneak off and get another one.

I once found seven of them behind the couch.

[Bertha Venation]

42. LOL -- Of all the Lego pieces she could choose...

:rofl:

[Rochester]

6. Milk jug rings

One of my three cats likes to play with the plastic ring that comes off the milk jug just under the cap. He rolls it around, chases it, carries it in his mouth, and he gets a new one every few days when I start a new milk jug.

[TZ]

8. I've never met a cat that doesn't go crazy for them

Mine disappear within a half an hour because they've gone nuts with them...

[GoCubsGo]

9. That's because you haven't met my cats

The lazy bums ignore them.

[IcyPeas]

7. aluminum foil squished into a ball.

[Archae]

31. That's Charlotte's favorite toy.

Two Klondike bar wrappers wadded into a ball.

[eShirl]

10. my hair ties (covered elastic bands)

If she finds them she nudges or scoops them off whatever onto the floor. Then she alternately plays floor hockey with them, and picks them up in her mouth to bring them to another floor hockey location.

[wickerwoman]

15. Mine too.

Then one day they discovered the magical source of the hair ties- the back of my head...

We don't speak of that day...

[Demoiselle]

11. Back in the days when I smoked (356 years ago) our Siamese cats

loved to chase the cellophane wrappers we scrunched into balls. And they brought them back to us to throw again, too.

[hippywife]

12. Paper towels.

The new kitteh can't seem to get enough of them. Sometimes there are as many as ten laying around the living room/kitchen floor. :)

[begin_within]

13. My cats have always loved a simple string dragged along the ground.

Cats love horizontal motion and chasing it.

[MorningGlow]

14. The refrigerator

Seriously. When our dearly departed alpha male was a young 'un, he used to play hockeyhockeyhockey with just about anything--usually milk jug rings, but anything that would skid along the kitchen tiles was fair game--and he would whap said item under the fridge ON PURPOSE, then just lie there on his side and look up at us: "Pwease get it out for meeeee?" We kept a cafe curtain rod that we found in a corner after the previous owners moved out right by the fridge specifically for retrieving kitteh toys. Kept the underside of the fridge dust free, too.

[REP]

16. Fabric shopping bag

Only one - the one from Marshall's. They all love that thing. No idea why.

[wickerwoman]

17. One of my cats looooves plastic bags.

He'll sit inside them licking the handles for hours. Sometimes I pick the bag up and he'll let me carry him around or swing him back and forth. He also loves it if I put the bag so the opening is on the side and then shake the back a little so he can attack it. And he loops his head through the handles on purpose and then runs around with the bag like a cape crying for me to take it off.

The same cat also loves being carried around in the laundry hamper or having fingers poked at him when he sits in it.

Here he is sitting in a bag of toilet paper rolls, ready to rumble:

[Sanity Claws]

25. I laughed

Your cat sounds like fun.

[Ruby the Liberal]

29. Mine obsesses with licking them too. I asked my vet about it.

He just laughed and said he has no clue as to what the attraction is, but that some cats are absolutely obsessed with them.

[wickerwoman]

37. Some weird texture thing or maybe the noise?

The same cat can't be left alone around Ramen noodle packets. He likes to stomp on them until all the noodles break.

:shrug:

Thank God he's cute.

[Ruby the Liberal]

38. Ok, THAT is hilarious.

::D

[Bertha Venation]

43. I wanna know your cat.

:)

[GoCubsGo]

50. My kitty loves to burrow like that

She digs in them like a dog before she climbs inside. But, she doesn't lick the plastic. Cats are so goofy!

[rurallib]

18. The male - a piece of chenille and also shoestrings.

the innocent little female takes my sox from upstairs and runs them downstairs at night. Also she doesn't seem to like plastic bread sacks with bread in them.

[applegrove]

19. I had tootsie pop lollipops for halloween. I heard Twilight playing with

something in the hallway and it turned out that she had managed to unwrap the thing and was playing paw hockey with it.

[triguy46]

20. Generations of our kittens have enjoyed a croquet ball on the garage floor.

[Gormy Cuss]

21. My watch.

It has a soft band (easy to pick up) and a second hand (constant motion,) both attributes that make it attractive to a kitty.

[realisticphish]

22. Cardboard paper towel tubes

Apparently, they are all agents of the devil

[foxfeet]

23. Gatorade lids.

He carries them around in his mouth, like a dog with a chew toy.

[WolverineDG]

24. one obsesses over Q tips

give her any opportunity & she will snatch a Q tip right out of your hands. She's so bad about it she will knock over trash cans to get to them. When I use one, I have to take it directly to the trash outside & boy is she pissed off when I do this, & I've learned to keep them on a high shelf that she cannot get to (although she's tried).

dg

[annonymous]

26. I once had a cat that loved to play with soda bottle caps

We would find them all over the house.

[Heddi]

27. Mumbles, my fat insane calico, loooooves anything red. She has gone through several Red rubber balls

one is so torn up...it is one of those squishy stress balls....half of it is gone because she plays soccer with it, and then carries it around in her mouth, drops it, lays/sits on it and attacks it with her claws.

She also likes grapes--she can play soccer with it, and lick the juice at the same time.

She had fun with some OB Tampons (for those of you who don't know, they're just the tampon, no applicator). I got a box free in the mail..not something i'll ever use, so I let her play with them. She just loved those tampons :shrug:

Oh! and drinking straws. She especially likes the large green ones from Starbux. She prefers ones with paper on them, but will take any she can get.

Like the other kitty above, she is in love with plastic bags and will lick them for hours.

Her adopted brother, Pickles, the white cat, loves razors, like lady gilette or whatever. We have to keep them up very high in the shower...he likes to not only bat them around, but chew on the razor blade part :shudder: We once moved the TV stand and there were no lie about 8 razors back there, and chewed up and with blood spots. It was extremely horrifying.

Mumbles--she is very smart :*


SHe liked the rubber fetus I stole from the pro-life booth at the fair. We have to keep that out of her reach, too. She likes to suck on the large head


Mumbles and Pickles, thinking up their next caper


More Pickles


LOOKIT ME I"M KUTE

[dmr]

39. Those two are adorable.

Just want to :hug: them!
:hi:

[Heddi]

49. Aw thanks. But don't let the KUTE!! faces decieve you

they are evil incarnate :) Okay...fuzzy evil incarnate :rofl:

[Ruby the Liberal]

28. Yanno that white dome that covers the bolts that hold the toilet to the floor?

Mine keeps 'liberating' one of them. I have found it in the basement, in my purse, under the couch, under the TV stand, etc...

No idea why/when/how it caught her attention, as I keep putting it back and she keeps 'freeing' it.

The other morning, I awoke just before 5am (which she didn't expect) and actually saw her running into my bedroom with it in her mouth (as opposed to her typical soccer-style of playing).

She cracks me up.

[Bertha Venation]

44. in your purse?

:rofl:

[Ruby the Liberal]

46. Yeah. I actually walked around with it for a week because I didn't know what it was

or where it came from. That was the first time.

She is a nut.

[Skittles]

30. the plastic top ring thing off a milk carton

hours of endless hilarity ensue

[Sweet Freedom]

32. bracelets and hairbands /nt

[nolabear]

33. My Bunny (cat) loves single serving cracker snack bags tied into a knot.

She can hear me crackle them when tying them and she runs up, her pupils huge, practically drooling, and "winds up" in anticipation of me tossing them. Nothing else quite does that for her, though she does love her tiney little catnip-filled mousie.

[cherish44]

34. Tampons

I've said this before but my kittens got into a box of tampons and had the best time of their lives...little white cotton mice!

[MrMickeysMom]

35. One loves rubber bands, the other his little fuzzy ball...

I have to catch the rubber bands, as they're a killer for any animal to chew.

[Lasher]

36. Marbles

On the tile or hardwood floor. Not on the carpet, it doesn't roll and bounce off walls very well there.

[Bossy Monkey]

40. Me n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. My fuzzy socks.

One of the cats opens the dresser drawer, takes the socks (and only the fuzzy ones, never the regular gym socks) downstairs and places them next to his food bowl.

I think he considers them to be some kind of prey animal.

[Bertha Venation]

45. Not an odd toy, but what he did with it

Harry would play with a little fur mouse for a while, then he'd carry it over to the food dish. He'd eat a bite of food, then chew on the mouse. Another bite of food, more chewing on the mouse. Repeat, repeat. :rofl:

[GoCubsGo]

51. Mine dropped one of those into my cereal bowl ones.

She hopped right up on the table, sat next to my bowl as I was eating breakfast, and dropped it right in. She also used to like to stuff them down the sofa cushions or into my pillow case. She doesn't do it so much anymore, but I think it's because I can no longer find her favorite mousies. Not any toy mouse will do, and if she likes them, she'll gut them. Thank goodness I haven't come across any with compressed sawdust cores lately. Nothing like climbing into bed, and realizing there's a pile of kitty spit-soaked sawdust under the covers.

[Lyric]

47. Straws and pencils.

I have puppy cats. They like to play fetch, lol.

[dgibby]

48. His #1 favorite: the cocker spaniel.

he grabs both of the dogs ears in his paws, then the dog slides him all over the floor as he tries to free himself. I love it,'cause I don't have to vaccum as often. His #2 favorite: my cursor. Can't count how many times I've had to rescue the monitor as he hurls himself across time/space continum to catch it.

[KT2000]

52. Ping pong balls

noisy and fast!

[Mrs. Venation]

53. Right This Moment

Toby is playing with a dead maple leaf that Bertha brought in a few days ago.

[DainBramaged]

54. My Lilly, LOVES AAA batteries

will knock one around for weeks until it goes under the fridge or couch. Knocks them down the stairs, goes down, picks it up, knocks it down again.

[sakabatou]

55. Soda bottle caps. The 20 oz. ones

[Skittles]

56. OMG don't get me started

EVERY bottle cap ends up under my couch - and when I have reason to move the couch there will be up to 20 of the damn things under there :o

[zanana1]

57. Ping Pong balls!

Through the years, I've found that cats always like to chase, jump for and fetch the things. It doesn't matter if the cat isn't really on the ball, because a ping pong ball in the face doesn't hurt at all!

[zen_bohemian]

58. LOL! These are all so funny! I am glad my cats are not the only ones who are easily entertained

with simple objects.

Our kitten also loves to play with pebbles. I have a plate that has 3 candles, held on the plate with pebbles. She knocks a pebble off of the plate, one at a time, it falls to the floor below in the entryway. she runs down the stairs, bats it around. when she loses it, she runs up stairs and repeats the whole process. We always end up with pebbles in our shoes, pebbles all over the house. The other 2 cats are older, and really don't play with toys anymore, but they seem to be entertained when they observe the baby playing.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

59. A huge rubber mallet.

Too heavy to lift, but the handle is like catnip to him. He grabs it, rolls it, and winds up sleeping under it.

[WillParkinson]

60. The dog...

Then they start whining when the puppy starts playing back.

[GreenPartyVoter]

61. My bras!

[Paper Roses]

62. Years ago, my kitty went into the attic where my husband kept his tools.

She came downstairs with the lambs wool buffer used on a drill to polish. It was her daily lug-around companion for years.

The kitty is long gone, I miss her but I still have that buffer. It is a little grungy and ragged but it reminds me of what a wonderful kitty she was.