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Hodge - 27 Mar 2005 13:41 GMT
Since there's been so much talk of obese/diabetic cats here, just
curious -- how many of you have scheduled/unscheduled playtime using
interactive toys with your cat(s) every day?

Humans are supposed to get aerobic exercise three times a week. Cats?

Hodge is still young (4ish) and exercises himself by going into tizzies
and running madly back and forth for no apparent reason. As gets older,
I expect this will tail off and that it'd be a good idea to encourage
exercise within his limits.
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Monique Y. Mudama - 27 Mar 2005 18:17 GMT
> Since there's been so much talk of obese/diabetic cats here, just curious --
> how many of you have scheduled/unscheduled playtime using interactive toys
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> this will tail off and that it'd be a good idea to encourage exercise within
> his limits.

I don't manage it every day, but every few days I play with Oscar.  It's
actually been really tough because, until recently, she had no interactive
toys she liked.  The only thing to which she *sometimes* responded was chasing
after her stuffed toy dolphin, but she never retrieved it, so it's kind of a
pain to play that game long enough to do any good for her.

We tried all sorts of wand-type toys, but the only one she'll pay much
attention to is the cat dancer.  She loves this thing.  So now, every few days
I'll drag out the cat dancer and she'll play with it.  To be honest, she still
doesn't run much for it, but I can get her to do a few flips and such before
she settles down to just bat it while I move it around near her.  She only
seems willing to chase it if I drag it around a corner so that she can't see
it.

I've found that I can wedge one end of the cat dancer into the fold of our
closet door, and Oscar will entertain herself by playing with it on her own
sometimes.

Oh, now that she has a tall cat tree, she sometimes wants me to throw a ball
while she's standing on the middle platform.  She takes a flying leap and runs
after it, but again I have to retrieve the ball myself.

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jmc - 27 Mar 2005 19:02 GMT
Suddenly, without warning, Monique Y. Mudama exclaimed (3/27/2005 6:17 PM):

>>Since there's been so much talk of obese/diabetic cats here, just curious --
>>how many of you have scheduled/unscheduled playtime using interactive toys
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> curious -- how many of you have scheduled/unscheduled playtime using
> interactive toys with your cat(s) every day?

I do try to play with Meep at least a couple days a week, and she gets
interaction (lap time) every night.  I've tried to find toys that she'll
play with on her own, but I've never found anything.  She just plain
requires that I be at the other end of any toy she has.  I wave wands,
toss wool mice (she plays batter, I'll try to get a video this summer),
roll balls, and even have to scratch at the catspa to get her to use it.

I thought about buying her a panic mouse, but figure she'd only play
with it if it sat on my lap :)

One of her favorite toys is a stick with a feather boa - the stick's
gotten rather short as she's tugged on it hard enough to break.  Here's
another video I took last night (it's bigger, almost 10MB):

http://www.jodi.ws/multimedia/fuzzy.mpg

Control of the wand looks less than coordinated 'cause I'm running a
camcorder in my right hand, and the wand in the left...

jmc
Hodge - 27 Mar 2005 19:13 GMT
> One of her favorite toys is a stick with a feather boa - the stick's
> gotten rather short as she's tugged on it hard enough to break.  Here's
> another video I took last night (it's bigger, almost 10MB):
>
> http://www.jodi.ws/multimedia/fuzzy.mpg

Hodge has a boa, too, and would never play with it this politely! LOL.

(I love how cats lick something, which seems to remind them to turn
around and lick themselves. :)
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Monique Y. Mudama - 27 Mar 2005 19:22 GMT
Um, just to be clear, you included me in the attribution, but nothing you
quoted is mine.

> Suddenly, without warning, Monique Y. Mudama exclaimed (3/27/2005 6:17 PM):
>>
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>
> jmc

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jmc - 27 Mar 2005 20:01 GMT
Suddenly, without warning, Monique Y. Mudama exclaimed (3/27/2005 7:22 PM):
> Um, just to be clear, you included me in the attribution, but nothing you
> quoted is mine.

oops, sorry.
Trish Dunphy - 27 Mar 2005 21:28 GMT
> We tried all sorts of wand-type toys, but the only one she'll pay much
> attention to is the cat dancer.  She loves this thing.  So now, every few days
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>
> pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

Oooohh I have one of those, my cats go crazy for it.  It's a perfect
exerciser ad they grab it in their teeth and run around with it, each
chasing the other.  It's a perfect toy, IMO

Trish
Mary - 27 Mar 2005 21:45 GMT
> Since there's been so much talk of obese/diabetic cats here, just
> curious -- how many of you have scheduled/unscheduled playtime using
> interactive toys with your cat(s) every day?

I play with my girls whenever I can. Since I work a desk job
at home I need to get up and move around every now and then,
and 2 out of 3 times I go find a cat with the laser or feather on a
stick and play for a while. (Sometimes I just love on them, but
I do try to play as they need it.) Then every night we have laser
time and toy time in bed. Cheeks gets a lot of excercise
kicking the figurative snot out of her Fatcat catnip crinkle
factor toys! Arnie Schwarzenegger has been taking a beating
lately, but there are times when I mostly see Hillary Clinton's
little purple pumps sticking up while Cheeky wallops her. :)
I think Cheeks is an independent. (If she were a libertarian
I would know as I would find little tiny weapons caches
all over the house.)

> Humans are supposed to get aerobic exercise three times a week. Cats?
>
> Hodge is still young (4ish) and exercises himself by going into tizzies
> and running madly back and forth for no apparent reason. As gets older,
> I expect this will tail off and that it'd be a good idea to encourage
> exercise within his limits.
 
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