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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / August 2004Another Rejected Toy
I made the monthly trek to Petsmart today. Among my purchases for the month was a new turbo scratcher. They lost the ball out of the old one and I can't find it anywhere, and it needed cardboard refills anyway. So I go to buy a whole new one. All they had was this "new" kind. It's just like the old turbo scratcher, except the ball lights up when it's moved. I thought it was cool. It totally creeped them out and they won't play with it. I have to figure out some way to make it stop flashing. Maybe if i soak it in water or something? I don't think you can open it up. Does anybody else have one of these? Sherry >I made the monthly trek to Petsmart today. Among my purchases for the month was >a new turbo scratcher. They lost the ball out of the old one and I can't find [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Sherry can't you return it? i got one of these toys - a kitty swat exerciser. it's a cloth ball with a bell on a spring attached to a carpeted base. she loves playing with it when i swat it for her and she runs around and keeps hitting it, or hides and hunts it. once it stops moving, she loses interest and leaves, or waits for me to hit it again. great. she prefers trying to pull down the blinds! -L << can't you return it? i got one of these toys - a kitty swat exerciser. it's a cloth ball with a bell on a spring attached to a carpeted base. >> I think that's more of a kitten toy. I have one and mine liked it when they were kittens but no one has showed any interest in it once they grew up. Candace (take the litter out before replying by e-mail) See my cats: http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." (Loren Eisely) ><< can't you return it? i got one of these toys - a kitty swat >exerciser. it's a cloth ball with a bell on a spring attached to a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Candace >(take the litter out before replying by e-mail) oh, she's a kitten. she just doesn't want to paly with it if it's not moving. -L >See my cats: >http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace > >"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other >than human." (Loren Eisely) >From: sriddles@aol.comkitty (Sherry ) >All they had was this "new" kind. It's just like the old turbo >scratcher, except the ball lights up when it's moved. I thought it was cool. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >don't >think you can open it up. Does anybody else have one of these? I've got the old kind. But the ball has never come out of it. I'm surprised that your cats got it out of the track. As far as the new one, is there some way to remove the battery from inside the ball, if that's what in fact does light it up? Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecatjournal.com/articles/claws.htm << All they had was this "new" kind. It's just like the old turbo scratcher, except the ball lights up when it's moved. >> Hmmmm, progress. They always have to "improve" everything. Can you find a regular ball that is the same size as the one in the scratcher? You probably already thought of that. I'm surprised, too, that your cats got it out of the track. They must be hard core players. Candace (take the litter out before replying by e-mail) See my cats: http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." (Loren Eisely) >Hmmmm, progress. They always have to "improve" everything. Can you find a >regular ball that is the same size as the one in the scratcher? You probably [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Candace I tried a regular ball. It pops out too easy. I finally pried the new one apart, then superglued it back together. You're right about "progress". Sometimes I don't know why they don't just *leave something alone*!! While I'm on a vent, the only Tidy Cat clay litter they had was in the "new" 40-lb. bags. With six pounds free. I weigh 100 pounds. I can't man-handle that new 46-pound size bag. Grrrr. Sherry >>Hmmmm, progress. They always have to "improve" everything. Can you find a >>regular ball that is the same size as the one in the scratcher? You probably [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Sherry ouch! Shaina likes to spend a lot of time on the window sill playing and looking at stuff. she also likes to nap there. it's two windows side by side. so i decided to get her a window perch from Petsmart. i ordered it online with the other stuff. it was said to attach to ANY window sill. well, not to mine, it didn't attach! i have an airconditioner/heater right under there and the stupid thing doesnt' fit over it, so now i have to return it. i also got this nice fuzzy bed for her because she no longer wanted to sleep in the old one that i just made up for her out of cloth on a huge pillow when i just brought her home. well, the new bed she didn't care for and it was lying in the leather chair by the window. instead of lying ON the bed, Shaina would push it to the side and lie between the bed and the back of the chair and still lie on the window OR the air conditioner. i thought i'd make it more comfy for her and i put a canvas pad in the corner between windows, attached it with duct tape and put the bed there. she examined it thoroughly and stepped into it. then stepped out and jumped over it to get to the other side of the window sill. ahm, ok. then i see her lying on the air conditioner in a pose i'd fine rather uncomfortable. now she is sleeping in my drawer with checkbook, sunglasses and other uncomfortable stuff. oh well. -L In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", MadHatter <orlies@hotmail.com> artfully composed this message within <news:6ntth09j2k4t9d7drmteb1l0avf5ao4t3t@4ax.com> on 15 Aug 2004: > Shaina likes to spend a lot of time on the window sill playing > and looking at stuff. she also likes to nap there. it's two [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the stupid thing doesnt' fit over it, so now i have to return > it. This goes somewhat to "change" and how some manufacturers changed things, but I had bought one of those perches for a window and it fit well, and the cats were fighting over it so I ordered another one online from the same store (Petco). The description and picture were the same as the one I already had so I figured it would the same as what I got before, but they had changed the design a little bit and this one didn't work on the same window. They should just leave these things alone! lol  SignatureCheryl >This goes somewhat to "change" and how some manufacturers changed >things, but I had bought one of those perches for a window and it [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >bit and this one didn't work on the same window. They should just >leave these things alone! lol Oh no! That's frustrating. My cats used to love their window perches. This house has 12-inch windowsills and the kind of perch we used to use won't work. Twelve inches is wide enough to sit or lay on, but not really sprawl out like they used to do in the old house with a perch. Sherry > I made the monthly trek to Petsmart today. Among my purchases for the month was > a new turbo scratcher. They lost the ball out of the old one and I can't find [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Sherry They might like it in the dark. My cats have a ball like that and they love to play with it at night. -L. |
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