Thanks to all for your advice on which cat toy to get Mickey & Daisy on their
first birthday. I got them a laser pointer and they love it; although I'm
really can't be sure.  It does seem a bit like torture and perhaps a bit mean.
After all, I am having them run all over after a light, climbing up walls, and
pouncing on something they can never catch.  To make matters worse, I am
sitting there cracking up watching them.  They already know where I keep the
pointer and as soon as I go for it they perk up and start to look for the red
dot.  Am I cruel, or a loving pet owner?

I also got them a little springy thing with a clownie cat head at the top of a
long spring, which comes out of the center of the base, and a bell and some
other stuff coming out at angles.  It sits on a heavy plastic base and the
thing is described as being on a heavy base, so the cats swat at the clownie
thing and it bobbles back and forth, so they keep swatting at it, for hours of
enjoyment.

Of course, this is not true.  The base is not heavy enough to stay down, so
when they swat the clownie thing it doesn't go back and forth.  Or, if they
swat
it very hard the whole thing just tips over. It is now lying in a corner, like
a
grotesque mad dead puppet doll.  They leave it alone, entirely.  Fortunately it
was on sale at PetCo for $3.50.  I wonder why?