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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2004What are your cat's favorite toys?
I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, gets him to duck down into stealth/kill mode. Imp loves the Cat Dancer. Sometimes I'll just tie one end to a doorknob and I'll wake up to him playing with it. But you can't just dangle it in front of him. You need to dance it across the floor in front of him, then hide it behind something, like a book/kleenex box/corner, THEN he'll get wide-eyed and proceed to sneak up on it. Also it's fun when he's under the bed to dangle it outside of the covers. It will be sitting there and suddenly WHAM, a black paw darts out grab it. He's gotten my toes a few times that way too. Mischief LOVES black shoelaces. if she's on the bed and I pick on up, she hunkers down "ooooooooooooooooo, MINE!" But if I just toss it to her, she'll bite it, but then lose interest. It has to be moving, so she can KILL it. When my roommate and her family surprised me with a cat tree last Chrismas for the kitties, they tied black shoelaces all over the tree. So I'll be walking by and Missy will hunker down, expecting me to flick a shoelace at her, so she can try to catch it. hehehehehehehehe I also have a flashing ball. When it knocks against something hard enough, it will flash for ten seconds. Mischief loves to chase it when I toss it on the bed, but if it falls off the bed, she'll look at it, then back at me clearly say, "Ahem, it's out of reach" It's really funny in the middle of the night, when I wake up and see this flashing light getting knocked back and forth in the hallway. :) Take care, Kristi Let's see... Xoxo - the raffia-suffed tube sock I made for them last year. He *loves* it. Luna - plain paper ball Maya - the panic mouse Basho - beanie babies Issa - fur mice Rufous - water drops from the shower head Issa - everything  SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com Bruiser's favorite is this coil like piece of plastic. It has a rib down the middle that has three pieces that curl out from it in opposite directions so the two end ones curl in one direction and the center in another. It looks like an incomplete cylinder. He can bat and carry that thing around for hours. I have several but once he starts with one that is the chosen one. I find them in the oddest places like on the kitchen counters or in the bathroom. He delights in throwing them just far enough under things like doors so he has to reach under to get them back. Often he even carries them outside and I find them in the landscaping. Good thing they are cheap. > I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat > gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Kristi > He delights in throwing them just far enough under things like doors so he has to reach under to get them >back. Often he even carries them outside and I find them in the landscaping. Good thing they are cheap. Spicey does this with straws. Suz Macmoosette Thank Heavens There's Only One =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= I've learned to not sweat the petty things, and not pet the sweaty things. Sammy's old favorite was the caps off soda bottles. Unless I wanted to be playing fetch with her for a half hour, I had to sneak a bottle out of the fridge and wrap a towel around the cap to open it. She would wake up in another room and come running at sound of a bottle opening. Recently, though, she's switched to one of the wands with a old piece of a toy mouse tied on the end of a string. She has two perfectly good ones, but she insists on playing this particular old one. I have no idea why, the old one's elastic string is no longer elastic, has broken several times so is all knotted, and the original feathers are long gone. Little Bit doesn't play much, except for wrestling matches with Sammy. For some reason the best time for matches seems to be around three oclock in the morning, with lots of running around the apartment and bouncing around on the hoomin in bed. Her favorite toy, if you can call it that, would be the paper bagsor boxes. Rocky doesn't have a real favorite. If he's in the mood to play, any toy will do. Quite a change for him, since he grew up feral. This time last year he was just starting to venture into the apartment and playing was a foreign concept. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html > I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat > gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Kristi Stirling: a crumpled up pice of newspaper, especially if it's tied to a stick with a piece of elastic so someone can wave it around for me like a bouncy bait on a fishing line. Violetta: Stirling's tail. It's at least twice as long as mine and far too much responsibility for him to handle. Katie: Cockroaches, yummy cockroaches. Mmm! Arthur: a dining room chair. It has four legs like me and lets me jump on it and wrestle it as much as I like. Simon: I'm too old to play, I'd rather sit and watch telly with you. Helen Wheels > I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat > gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, > gets him to duck down into stealth/kill mode. (snip lovely cat toy stories) > Kristi The laser pointer!! Never saw a cat move faster than when chasing that dot. Where's the dot? Oh, there... let me hunker down, swish my tail... oh, it's jiggling... pounce. Dammit, it moved again. Okay, hunker down, swish my tail.... Repeat as needed ;-) Jill > The laser pointer!! Never saw a cat move faster than when chasing that dot. > Where's the dot? Oh, there... let me hunker down, swish my tail... oh, it's > jiggling... pounce. Dammit, it moved again. Okay, hunker down, swish my > tail.... We have a laser pointer too, got it as a present from work sometime. Forgot about it until these stories of cats and laser pointers popped up here in rpca. Dug it out from hiding and tried it with Laku. At first he looked at the dot and pawed at it. I moved the dot and he moved with it, but then he looked at me and at the dot again, saw the little silvery thingy in my hand and thought "oh, it's her doing this" and lost interest with the dot... Lucky thing the laser pointer was a gift and not something I'd bought... :) SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 Mischief likes to chase the red dot for a little while, but then loses interest in it. But if she's in a playful mood, she totally perks up when she hears me pick it up. But after a couple of pounces, she just flops on the ground. "oh, it's THAT thing" kristi Rocket's favorite toy is Egbert (to annoy) and Sekhar (to play back) Signature-Kim owned by Egbert, Niobe, Sekhar and Rocket take the cat out before you reply one cat just leads to another... http://photos.yahoo.com/sir_eg_of_bert > I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat > gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, > gets him to duck down into stealth/kill mode. A orange plastic bottle cap. That's a toy Laku can be heard playing with by himself in the middle of the night as well as with our assistance during daytime. Bottle-cap-hockey is what he does on his own and Chase-the-thrown-bottle-cap he plays with us. He doesn't fetch it back to us, just chases it and bats it around a bit, then waits for us to throw it again. Sticks of dried hide for d*gs. He wrestles them, or then we can poke with them under a carpet or bedcover and he'll attack the moving bump. He does have *real* kitty toys too, but isn't as interested in them. SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 >> I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat >> gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, >> gets him to duck down into stealth/kill mode. > > A orange plastic bottle cap. That's a toy Laku can be heard playing > with by himself in the middle of the night Persia likes to steal butterscotch candies out of the bowl on the table and bat them around. She doesn't try to eat them, she just plays with them. Tosses them in the air by the twisty ends and then chases them. It's pretty funny to watch her sneak one out of the bowl when she thinks I'm not watching :) Jill > Persia likes to steal butterscotch candies out of the bowl on the table and > bat them around. She doesn't try to eat them, she just plays with them. > Tosses them in the air by the twisty ends and then chases them. It's pretty > funny to watch her sneak one out of the bowl when she thinks I'm not > watching :) I have a little basket on the counter where I put the corks from wine bottles. Every now and then, Nikki will sneak up there and snag a cork, throw it on the floor and the hunt is on! SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki > I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat > gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, > gets him to duck down into stealth/kill mode. Muddy has a thing for feet :-) SignatureNik Simpson My cats favourite toys are a milk ring thingy with little tabs on it, laser pointer, feather wand and a 6 feet long piece of lawn trimmer string. They pull the string along the floor, and it wiggles like a snake. They have had it since last summer, and amazingly, haven't chewed bits off it. It is the heavier gauge string - .095mm, I believe. I'd have to say the big favorite is the sparkly toy. Always has been. Grant can hear it's faint whoosh a mile off. It's a little stick with a bunch of 2 inch tinsel glued in it. They sell them at the cat show. Only place I've ever seen them. My word, they ALL love that thing. It is a supervised only toy because one time, Grant grabbed it and jumped off the arm of teh couch with it in his mouth and the stick end hit the floor before he did. Jammed into the roof or soft palette of his mouth and major trauma ensued. He's lucky he didn't kill himself. Still, it's the most favorite toy of all. I also have a long piece of ting-ting (that decorative long spiky thing that came in lots of "arrangements" in vases for your home in the 80's?) but, he gets SO excited about it he pants, so we don't play with that much. I mean he simply CANNOT control himself. I need to get it out a little more often for small dose play and maybe he can learn to pace. It's nice because it is about four feet long and they really do like it, but I need him to not be so wild with it. I may post a photo of it because I'd love to know if anyone has ever seen the tinsel wand at a store. I have not. they have them with feathers and tinsel, but that is NOT the same thing and doesn't create the same interest. Judges use them at the show. They really are terrific toys. Karen Karen Chuplis <kchuplis@alltel.net> had some very interesting things to say about Re: What are your cat's favorite toys?: >I may post a photo of it because I'd love to know if anyone has ever seen >the tinsel wand at a store. I have not. they have them with feathers and >tinsel, but that is NOT the same thing and doesn't create the same interest. >Judges use them at the show. They really are terrific toys. I need to find something similar to this, *without* feathers [with a bird in residence, probably shouldn't encourage Felix to attack feathered objects :-)]. Signature"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL >I'm not talking just any toy, i'm talking about a toy that the cat >gets all bug-eyed. The kind of toy that makes your cat's eyes widen, >gets him to duck down into stealth/kill mode. ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >Take care, > >Kristi Hi All, The tom I had when I was young, The Puddy, loved most anything that was rolled across the floor, but his favorite was walnuts. The eccentric shape made them take funny turns as he batted them about. I would call to him, show him the walnut to catch his interest, and roll it. He would pounce on it and bat it around. Then, if he had to dig it out of a corner or from under some furniture in another room, he would come prancing back into the center of the living room with it in his mouth. How could you refuse him another toss of the walnut when he dropped it in the center of the room and looked around expectantly. Regards and Purrs, O J ojtb@pacbell.net |
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