Greatest cat toy ever

[TrogL]

The kids have the cats running from one end of the house to another chasing a laser beam.

It cost me $2.50 CAN ~ $1.85 US.

I remember when my father bought a similar powered laser for his science lab. Cost $10,000.

Oh well.

[Lou_C]

1. The Laser Beam and the wire toy that's been around for ages

The one with the bent wire that has a small piece of cardboard on the end of it.

[Lorien]

15. The "cat dancer"

yeah, my guys love that thing! They are also crazy about the "Panic Mouse 360"; though my Maine Coon breaks the string attachments fairly quickly.

[Lou_C]

34. What's the Panic Mouse 360?

My kitties could use some new toys.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Hahaha.......I thought only I knew about that useless amusement.

I discovered that a few years back. Funny, they never seem to wise up to the futility of it, either.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

31. You both will have to pay patent rights!!!

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY! INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!

http://www.legamedia.net/lochlex/2001/01-03/0103_lenger_gustav_cat-exercise.php

[Norton]

3. I have seven cats..

only two of them recognize the laser at all, but it's worth it! They go completely bonkers over it. The other five ignore it all together.
I suppose they're just above that type of frivolity. Cats... go figure!

[Lou_C]

4. My Cat slaps the laser pointer when he wants to play

Of course he is above average in the KIQ dept. LOL.

[ForrestGump]

5. Don't forget to run it up the walls

They love that. And behind doors, too.

[Lou_C]

6. When they put their paws over the light stop it

That makes them think that they captured it and they will check under their hands to find out if it is still there.

I play that trick on my cats all of the time.

[davsand]

7. Our favorite is really low tech.

We took an old tube sock and stuffed it full of other old socks and catnip with a pill bottle full of beans in the toe. Tie the end off in a knot and give it to the cat to wrestle with.

He loves it--and is on his second sock covering now because he chewed thru the old sock. He'll sneak up on it and jump over and just chew the hell out of it while he's kicking it with his hind feet.

Gawd, they are strange animals.


Laura

[Rick Myers]

9. That's their 'bird killin' instinct!

The back paw thing is so 'cellular' in it's memory!

[DemExpat]

30. I tied some old sport socks together and used it to lure my Siamese

cat to run around me (I would sit on the floor on my knees) until he was worn out.....he LOVED chasing this long, knotted sock for fun and exercise each day, being an indoor cat.

DemEx

[Rick Myers]

8. I get the irony of buying a REAL laser at a flea market

for 2 bucks!!! The darn thing even has a WARNING label!

But I STILL wanna know...

Where the HELL is my FLYING CAR???

:toast:

on edit: Even MORE fun... I got the Craftsman Laser Level... You can put it on a tripod and shoot the thing thru some haze or fog and it's the KEWLEST!!! It bends the beam into a long, flat 'sci-fi' lookin' effect! It's at least 90 degrees wide!

[TheWizardOfMudd]

10. A live field mouse

I've never seen their eyes get so intense when confronted with real, live prey.

Edit: Not that I have ever turned loose a field mouse for a cat to get. But when I was a kid, I would catch spiders and bugs and put them in a jar together. Nothing ever happened.

[Zomby Woof]

11. a wad of paper

I am serious. I can wad up a blank sheet from my printer and it is the greatest cat toy to ever grace the planet. He NEVER tires of it, and I thought the wine corks were his favorite until then.

He plays endless rounds of 'fetch' with either the paper or the cork, but especially the paper. Hours of fun.

[Lorien]

16. Little balls of tin foil

especially the sort that comes from fancy candy wrappers. They'll be busy for hours!

[ok222]

12. You know what

if it's free they love it lol my cat watches me bring home a gallon of milk sees me open it and wants the security tie to bat around and won't leave me alone till I throw that little ring hahaha

[Zomby Woof]

13. my parents have a cat

She collected those things by playing with them for long periods of time until they disappeared under the oven or the fridge. When they moved, they did some cleaning and found dozens upon dozens of the things. Amazing what fascinates them. :-) Don't know if she still gets new ones now.

I believe in your theory - the wads of paper our cat plays with might as well be free - they certainly aren't conventional.

[ok222]

14. they certainly aren't conventional

Not when you step on them at 4 Am going to the bathroom lol

[Zomby Woof]

35. Welcome to DU!

:toast: Here's to cats!

[zanana]

29. Ping Pong (table tennis) balls.

My cats LOVE these things. Of course, human involvement is essential. I roll them on the floor (or "flick" them or throw them) and it never fails to get the cats running. What's really funny is watching them trying to hang onto them once they've "caught" them. They're slippery and pop right up out of their paws. The cats especially love it when I roll them down a flight of stairs.

[ET Awful]

17. Yup, I bought one a while back at a pet store for $5.00

Quinn goes apeshit for it!

[DS1]

18. The wrapper / box the laser came in

[Hotler]

19. An empty cigarette package twisted up and hung

from a long string in a door way between two rooms. Tether ball for cats.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

20. Simba loves corks

and Monty loves plastic toy jacks and fake mice. The laser pointer is also a big hit (have to be very careful not to point it at their eyes). A drawstring I pulled out of the waist of some pajamas will amuse them for hours when dangled and dragged around the house.

[Zuni]

21. BEST CAT TOY EVER

The Turboscratcher---it is basically a cardboard scratcher with a ball attached---my cat doesn't play with store bought toys but she scratches the hell out of this.
My furniture may just make it...

[AspenRose]

22. Catnip scented bubbles

For some reason my current cat is scared of them, but other cats I've had like it.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

23. Forgot about those!

My late kitty Ferg didn't care about them, but Monty and Simba go wild!

[Zuni]

33. those are fun

my cat gets so funny as soon as some 'nip' is whipped out

[politicat]

24. Kitty fishing pole with a piece of marabou as bait.

My cat has an apparent grudge against pink marabou (well, so do I, but....) She will stalk, kick and try to destroy that thing for hours.

The other cat hates the pink marabou thing, too, but he prefers his laser pointer, as well.

Pcat

[terrya]

25. A cardboard box.

My cat loves jumping in and out of the box. She'll run around the house and jump into it. :-)

[MrChupon]

26. Ours like measuring tape

The soft kind used by tailors to measure your waist and whatnot. They will chase that around the apartment for hours.

[geniph]

27. Any plastic bag

Cappy runs over and begs for it immediately, then he'll sit there licking the plastic for hours. He's demented about plastic.

[Gothic Sponge]

28. My cats love paper bags.

[marzipanni]

32. I googled "weasel ball" because I saw one at KB Toys and thought

it would make a great cat toy. Well...might make a good cat toy... here's a funny little story from the internet-

New Toys
by David Yehudah, Bellflower, CA, USA

I just got the critters a new toy. It's a battery-powered ball, kind of heavy, with a piece of fur attached that's supposed to look like a weasel. It's called "Weazel ball!"

Mac, Sasha, Willoughby, and Sticks wre all stretched out by the pool when I turned this thing on and set it down near them. It started rolling around with a jerky movement,
snapping and popping the "weasel," looking for all the world like something frantically playing with a ball too big for it to handle.

The kids didn't know what to make of it. I thought they would start some kind of jumping and biting attack game, but they just kind of nosed it around and avoiding getting hit by
it. They were surprisingly calm, considering how that thing was jumping around, just begging to be played with.

Sasha sat up sleepily and looked at it for a moment, then lay back down and closed her eyes.

About that time the ball rolled up against her nose and swatted her across the face with the weasel, then began vigorously trying to roll over her head. Annoyed, she swatted back, and that thing just climbed all over her.

Now she was mad clear through; with a hissspit and a low growl she dared it to disturb her again, and it just swarmed her. She threw herself at the tormentor, wrapping all four paws around it and sinking claws and teeth into every available crevice. Ball, weasel, and cat rolled at high speed across the narrow patio and into the pool, Sasha wailing like a banshee just before they hit the water.

Talk about walking on water; Sasha barely got wet, but she is royally ticked and probably will be for a while. For some reason, though, she isn't interested in playing with the Weazel ball.

[Beaverhausen]

36. plastic covered wire twist ties

my Annie can't get enough of them.

[zanana]

37. Plastic milk bottle "ring".

To take the cap off a new bottle of milk; y'know that ring thing? Most cats are crazy about them.

[Bride of Cthulhu]

38. paper bags

and cardboard boxes are all time favorites for my fur kids.

[yardwork]

39. Ribbons and paper

Wrapping paper and the shiny ribbons used to decorate packages. My mom's cats used to go berzerk attacking those.