Your cat's favorite toys

Kitty isn`t impressed with all the shop bought cat toys he has.
His favourite thing is my long riding whip, probably because the end is like a mouses tail. If I get a big sheet of paper like gift wrap and waggle it around under it he goes crazy. Also if I poke the end out from a peice if carpet but its an off cut so I don`t mind him clawing that to bits.
Also the plastis rings off the top of drinks bottles. Hair bands. Screwed up paper balls.
Catnip doesn`t really do much for him either.

DaBird!!! They love the regular bird attachment, but they go CRAZY with the fur fun attachment. Oh my gosh! Even my 11 yo went ga-ga over it and she doesn't EVER play with that thing! Big plastic bags (with the handles cut), ping pong balls, pipe cleaners, straws, little pieces of wadded up paper, almost anything with fur on it, large pieces of newsprint paper. I need to find some kind of remote controlled roach because they love to stalk and kill the real ones during the warmer months!

Stephanie

anything on a fishing pole, the cat dancer, laser pointer, foil balls, crinkly balls, furry mice, plastic balls with bell, pom poms, blowing bubbles, turbo ball, remote controlled mouse.

Mine have 3 toys that are their regular favorites: the Catnip Banana, the Catnip Buddy (I make them), and a "strawberry". Of course they like wands and lazers, but I'm talking about the ones that they play with on their own.

My friend's grandmother used to make and sell these weird strawberry things out of cloth to sell at craft fairs. She gave hundreds of them to my friend when she found out her cats love them. Friend shared about a few dozen with me. They are about the size of a large strawberry, made from cloth and stuffed with who knows what. For some weird reason, cats go nuts over these things, even my senior cats (over 10 years old). One day I'll dissect one and make more - they keep disappearing for some odd reason.

knots made of brown paper twine. they have an endless fascination for her. I just have to say knottie knot and she comes running.

I have also poked holes in clear plastic pill containers, added some kibble and closed the "adult-er - childprooof " cap. she goes nuts.

hair scrunchies

Every cat's favorite, the milk jug rings.
Tomas loves the large furry mice, the 3-4 inch long ones. The plastic eyes and nose could come out easily so I pull them out with a pair of nail clippers. The smaller mice are dangerous, I had to pull one out of a cat's throat years ago.

A furry ball thing with eight 'legs' on it, sort of looks like a weird octopus.
Mini tennis balls made for small dogs and normal tennis ball.
The plastic practice golf balls with the holes in them, heavier than a ping pong ball and a bit larger.
Leftover arms, legs, and bodies from messed up sewing projects.
Homemade yarn pompoms. If well made they can even be tossed in the washing machine, as I found out when Sho used to leave them in the dirty laundry hamper. I haven't made any new ones since Tomas shredded the others.
And a small stuffed snake toy that both cats love carrying around.

I won't buy anything that could break or choke them.

Crinkle balls, LASER LIGHT, caps off of water bottles, cat nip toys with feathers, all types of small balls with bells in the middle, small cloth toys that are oddly shaped and have stuff dangling, loves toys that are interactive too (like the fishing pole)

I have a fishing rod style toy that you can clip things onto (feathers, fluffy pom poms etc) and I keep one with nothing attached to it except a piece of string I've tied to the end. I get a treat or piece of fresh meat and wrap it in a piece of paper (I always have some old receipts in my bag so just pull one of those out and tear off a piece the right size) then tie it to the string. Jaffa will race up and down the room after his "prey" for ages

Milk jug rings, pull strip off vitamin pills for Juno. Sweetie has a toy mouse she loves, but had a plastic tie strip with holes in it that she could get her claws into and toss it and play with it. But now its lost. We have looked all over, under things, under rugs, etc. We're in the second week and she is actually grieving. She prowls the house looking. I've tried to give her other tie strips, doesn't work, she wants hers. I feel sorry for her but can't help her. I don't even know where this tie strip came from.

I've bought laser pointers at the dollar store. They are the small key chain type and come with batteries. It costs more to buy new batteries then it does to buy a whole new pointer there.

I think the interest in toys is relative to how much they see them. I have baskets of toys that I rotate.

Da Bird is a big one for my cats. They like the string with no bird best, lol. I have one girl who has a string with a beaded chain on one end as her fav. She drags it around looking for anyone to play with her. Then I have a girl who goes wild for the plastic wand end of a toy. She won't play with the toy end but drag the handle around and she can't resist.

Those cheap strings of beads (Mardi Gras) the smallest ones that are molded to the string. Cut it and drag that across the floor and everyone goes wild. I have a boy who chews them so I keep them away from him.

Then there are the little 1" spike rubber balls. I roll those across the house and off they go after them. I get them from the party store in the grab bag gift section.

A marble works well too as long as you know they won't put it in their mouth. Mine love to bat it across the floor.

I was using the mylar crinkle balls with my kittens and noticed as they grew up they felt compelled to chew plastic. So I got rid of them and I'm going to see if future kittens develop the same interest in plastic.

We got Milli a little fluffly toy thingie from the pet store, she loves it.
now all her other toys lay untouched.
Oh and a ball with a bell inside, but that keeps going under the bed. For now it can stay there.

my cats are total opposites when it comes to toys. Dexter will only play with small balls made of fur, or now I got him playing with balls made of yarn. It's funny because he doesn't want anyone to know he's playing, if you look at him he'll stop, then start again if he thinks your not watching him. Too funny, I laugh so much!!

Jack is a mouse FREAK, he has so many and loses them all under the stove. Then he meows and meows until I get them out of there. He will only play with the mice that have the rattle to them though. He also loves twist ties, goes crazy for them. They both like the laser pointer, and they play with each other all the time. It sounds like a heard of elephants the was they run back and forth all the time.

they have fun, and usually it's when I'm in bed so they can wake me up! LOL

~michelle~

my cat likes to play with a small toy cat with a bell on it, it has a hint of catnip on it and she goes crazy for that, she also have two teddies, a hamster and a little teddy bear she likes to roll around the room, she also likes to play with my wiistrap from my nintendo wii, that's her favorite