What non-commercial cat toys do your cats like?
Mama_Kat asked:
Mine like the clear plastic containers with the snap on lids that toys come in from the ‘gumball’ machines. I put a couple of pennies in them then seal the lid. They love to bat them around.
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Mine like the clear plastic containers with the snap on lids that toys come in from the ‘gumball’ machines. I put a couple of pennies in them then seal the lid. They love to bat them around.
They also LOVE the little fluffy crafts balls that you can get at Wal-Mart in the craft dept. (Mine like the shiny ones). They usually come a bunch in a bag (which is good because they lose them all the time!)
And a favorite of one of my cats is a crushed up cigarette pack or box (with the celephane left on). That is her “throw and fetch” toy.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Mine loves beer mats (coasters), ping-pong balls and chasing the flashlight beam.
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
They like paper bags and cardboard boxes to crawl into. Also, crinkled up paper made into a ball. Twist ties. The ring from a gallon milk jug - not the cap, but the ring that is at the bottom of it.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
there’s always the classic ball of yarn
also, i have a parakeet and it loves the toys i make for it like brocolli with a treat hidden in it maybe you could try that for cats but with another food.
April 4th, 2009 at 6:01 am
How about an old sock, I find dragging one, or dangling it while the cat tries to catch it.
April 4th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
He used to like that plastic seal you pull off to open milk or water
April 6th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Hair Elastics, the thick circle ones and also, the orange plastic egg from the kinder egg surprise.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Some of our cats love to play fetch, too. Favorites include those plastic rings from water bottles, a wadded-up piece of paper or in our kitten’s case, *anything* that can be thrown across the room & carried in his mouth.
They also love playing with paper bags, cardboard boxes & my hair.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
First off, you shouldn’t be smoking around your kitties, they deserve clean air and healthy lungs. They can get asthma, allergies, heart disease, emphazema and lung cancer too. Kitties don’t deserve that!
Okay, I’m off my soap box…
My littlest cat LOVES twist ties! You know from bread wrappers and stuff? If I make a little spring out of them she will play fetch with me for hours…yes, that’s right I said my cat plays fetch. It was all her idea. I throw the toy she brings it back and drops it in my hand. Over and over and over and over….just like a dog. She loves plastic spoons too. She’s learned to pat the spoon end to make the whole thiing flip up in the air then she carries it around and she loves hampster balsa wood chews. I just wish she’d learn to prop it up between her paws like a dog does, she’d have more fun with it. …yes, she’s a weird one.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:56 am
My cat loves to play with paper that I have taken and rolled up in a ball and I will throw them up in the air and the cat will jump up and bat at the paper and she will push them around the room. Or I will roll up my clean socks and I will do the same thing and she will push them to the other end of the room. I have a cat tent for my cat and she likes to play hide in go seek with me and she will hide in her tent. It has ears on it and whiskers and a tail on it and my cat will play with the whiskers on it and the tail.
My cat will get on the side of her tent and push it across the room or she will get behind it and she will do the same thing.
One other thing she likes is the paper bags that you get from the store and she will jump on it or run across the room and push the bag across the room from inside the bag.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Mine love something as simple as a small screwed up foil ball. In fact they love this more than any toy from a store. They will bat them around for hours. They love plastic bottle caps too.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:31 am
My cats love the plastic easter eggs that you can only find around easter.They go crazy in the house just trying to get a hold of it ,but they cant cuz its too slippery for their paws
April 16th, 2009 at 9:55 am
One of my cat’s goes crazy over the laundry baskets and any sort of open boxes we bring home…oh and plastic bags from the grocery store, she’ll catch them in the air and go sliding in them on the kitchen floor…all 3 of my cats love the laser pen we have too
April 16th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
My cat loves fuzzy pipe cleaners
April 16th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Mine love catnip fresh from the plant during the summer and dried during the winter. I crochet balls that I stuff with catnip wrapped in old nylons and then add a curly tail by making a chain and working 3 DC in each chain. Another good toy is a magazine insert (the subscription cards) folded like a paper hat until it stays in a little triangle shape.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:59 am
My cats love the tab rings off of mild cartons, and the plastic pulls from concentrated juice cans, and the little plastic tabs that come out of bottles like vegetable oils and also from the milk and juice cartons that have the spouts in the middle. But my cats all time favorite toy I got as a free gift when I ordered the Hurcules Hooks. I got one of those level laser lights. We have to play several games a day and at night before they let me go to bed. They know what the object looks like and that this is the thingy that makes the light and they will push it over to me or knock it off of the coffee table to make me or any guest that comes in the apartment play with them. They never tire of this game. My son thought it was cruel to them but then he realized that this was the same as them stalking a nice little wild fuzzy furry creepy crawley as we called them in the mountains. But their absolutely most favorite non commercial toys are the plastic grocery bags. They put their heads in them and then push the bag all over the floor with it sometimes one of the other cats will jump on them and attempt to steal the play pretty. They like all card board boxes and paper bags, back packs, and duffle bags and luggage. I spend most of my day laughing at their wonderful antics.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:17 am
My cats love paper bags, pop bottle caps, shoe strings.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
ping pong ball in a bathtub, the plastic things from snapple lids
April 20th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
i glued a couple of feathers to a length of yarn, and my cat wore that toy out.
a balled up cigarett pack or crumpled piece of paper will entertain her for a while, too.
those ponytail bands…she gets up on the sink when my wife is showering and steals them and plays with them for hours.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Hair bands, especially if they are still in my hair….
Miniature tennis balls, the fuzz is great in their claws.
Pencils
cotton balls
We made a tube out of 24-pack soda packaging
tissue paper
bags
the mop
the broom
the strings on my pajama bottoms (NOT MY FAVORITTE TOY) ouch
April 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am
My cat goes crazy over a lazer pointer, but that requires your attention. They make those shiny pompom balls and they’re called Mylar balls. My other cat likes chasing these little mice with catnip insides.
April 25th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
my cats are easy to entertain, they are crazy over soda can boxes.get a 12 pack and give them the empty box to crawl in…note even my little dog will play with this.