What unusual things do your cats like to play with?

[roobear]

I guess all cats have something unusual that they like to play with. Frank used to rip up books we have managed to get him off the books and now he will tear up newspaper which we don't mind so much. Max is crazy about elastic hair bands, he loves them, my mum once found a collection of 49 under the fridge where they had ended up and he couldn't get them out. My boyfriend's cat Fred likes to play with pens, never understood that one myself it might be because they roll.
Also Frank with never play with things in front of Max and if Max is palying eh watches disapprovingly but as soon as Max leaves the room he is interested. Any explanations for this?

P.S. Excuse my ignorance but what is this DH that everyone refers to?

[goldilocks]

DH usually stands for Dear Husband

My cypress can't get enough of Q-tip cotton swabs! She hangs out on our bathroom counter in the morning, begs for us to turn on the faucet for a drink, and then she grabs a cotton swab and bats it around till it falls on the ground. I have a big closet there, and it has mirrored doors on a sliding track. Recently the doors wouldn't shut properly and I found Cypress had slung about a dozen of the swabs into the tracks.

[Enuja]

I replaced the batteries in my flashlight this morning, turned it on to check, and Athena chased the light beam! It's a super-cheap, unfocused beam. I moved it around a bit then swapped the flashlight for the laser pointer. She did follow the laser pointer, as usual, and both of my cats chase reflections, but I was honestly very surprised to see her chase a diffuse bright spot that is more than twice the size of her head!

[KKH]

Ku Ku loves to play around with plastic cable ties - chews it, throws it in the air & catches it, also chases it around.

She does the same with bamboo skewer...dunno why. I worry about the sharp end, always snip out the sharper side before I throw one to her for playing, though.

[xLaydeexTaniax]

hehe, here's my weird & wacky list LOL:

- feather's
- leave's
- worm's
- stick's from tree's

believe it or not, they have plenty of toy's aswel!

[ashro]

Salem loves destroying the blinds when there are clearly so many other things he's SUPPOSED to chew on

[MMC32879]

Marley loves these toys I found at a cat show, I found more on ebay after that but haven't been able to find them since. They're foam toys in different shapes and they are infused with catnip. He likes the fish shape the best but he plays fetch with them, and carries them around in his mouth. He plays fetch with a lot of different toys as well but those are his favorite. Blue isn't really that playful but she really likes the laser pointer, they both love that.

[lauracatlover]

These are random things that, even though she has far too many good quality cat toys, Mitzi chooses to play with:

-Feathers
-Pens
-Pen Lids
-Shoe Laces
-Bouncy Balls
-Aerosol Tops
-Paperclips
-Anything small enough and what can be zoomed through the room at 90mph by her paw

BTW, we do watch her whilst she plays with these things, but she never tries to eat any of them, and we make sure we hide them whilst we aren't there.

[Zane's Pal]

My slippers (not, thankfully, when I'm wearing them.)

[faith's_mom]

Cats are fickel creatures...that's probably why Frank doesn't 'appear' interested in Max's antics; I'm sure it has to do with him not wanting to appear foolish in front of another cat...they're like that you know...Hahaha

My cats LOVE pop boxes...as soon as one is remotely empty around here, the cats are claiming it as their personal play toy; I've come home to pop cans rolled across the floor, because they destroyed the box with their antics...LOL! Not fun to trip on those full pop cans though!

I used to have toilet paper capers...you couldn't leave a roll of toilet paper within reach...but the cats I have now aren't like that; if it's on the floor it 'might' get a bit ruffled, but not all over the house like previously!

Packing peanuts quickly get stolen around here too, but I take them away when they start chewing them apart.

Plastic and paper bags are huge hits around here too; but they only get plastic ones when I am able to watch.

Pop caps are always a 'treat' too...I love the fact that cats will play with just about anything...it just makes them more enjoyable and entertaining

[purrrplej]

Simba loves to play with pens, too. It is indeed the fact that they roll. Somehow he finds that fascinating. Murray got his paws once on a hi-liter that I was using for schoolwork and knocked it somewhere and I couldn't find it anywhere - but it turned up when we recently moved.

Simba used to like paper and plastic bags, but he got caught in a plastic bag once - was running all over the house with his head in the bag, I heard it was quite a sight, too bad I missed it! But my mom was afraid he'd suffocate himself. Eventually he worked his way out of the bag. But he was too scared to go in bags after that, even paper ones, and it's just as well because my mom is afraid to give him bags after that incident. He still gets to play in boxes, though.

Murray likes to play with bottlecaps - he bats them around the apartment. When we moved, I found a ton of them in various spots in the house, with them having been knocked behind furniture. Murray also likes to play with the brush I use on him - it's a hand-held rubber brush shaped like a cat, and he likes to roll it around and toss it up in the air.

[siameseaewatts]

Jane has a fascination with hair accessories. She is obsessed with my headbands I use to keep my bangs back when I'm at home. I've had to buy more heavy duty ones, because the cheap ones that are plastic and just covered with fabric she de-ravels. They are all shredded when I get home! She throws them up in the air all day long. She can spot one across the room and BOLT for one. My favorite is hair ties, though. It's funny because she'll put it in her mouth and walk around with it... talk to us... look at us... just dangling in her mouth. She's quite talented in having it dangle while she talks.

She used to do pens, but once she discovered hair accessories, it was all over.