Cats playing with strange objects

Snow likes my cell phone.. which now has bite marks on it.. i think she tries to figure out where the sound is coming from.. she also likes to tear up paper towels.. and those thin plastic things that are used to fasten the tags to clothes.. both Audrey and Snow loves those!

Trout loves to play with tampons and she pulls my bras out of the top drawer and flings them around the room. One time I witnessed her pulling one out all slowly..it was hilarious

In our house, EVERYTHING is capable of becoming a cat toy. Lt. Bear even tries to play with my cactus!

Ferris regularly hunts for hair ties (I use the wide black ones with no metal band in it.)

He also loves to play with plastic spoons.

Max prefers plastic knives and forks.

Another "toy" Max seems to enjoy is the strip that is removed from the top of a zip-close bag, for instance, from the top of the pouch of cat treats. He'll go bonkers chasing that around the house.

Max also likes to play with the caps from my roomie's shaving cream cans and toilet paper rolls (of course!) And he takes pens out of the mug I keep them in on my desk - I find them on the floor all the time.

Penny gets a thrill out of the packing peanuts made from cornstarch (which are the only kind I let her play with.)

Ginger, however, seems to prefer her very own tail to any kind of manmade item.

Here's Gus playing with a drip pan from a planter, and a sock...weirdo!

Maia plays with whatever is going to get my attention if I am not paying enough to her! Especially the last object I touch and place some where!

Oh god, we don't buy cat toys anymore for Ysa and Imriel... it'd be pointless, because the house is full of so many potential cat toys already! Chapstick tubes are a huge hit, as are pen caps, wine corks are fabulous, any and all pill bottles (very obnoxious when you wake up in the morning and have to spend 20 minutes wandering around the apartment searching for your morning meds... I've gotten one of those weekly pill things now)... my deodorant went missing a few weeks ago and we still haven't managed to turn that up. Oh, and batteries are a huge hit. Luckily they mostly don't chew on any of them, just bat them around.

Humorously they usually end up losing them under my closet door, which is about an inch off the ground, so I open it every so often to find 3 batteries, 2 tubes of chapstick and a pen cap waiting for me.

Oh and earrings and any other jewelry they can carry off... really the list just goes on and on.

Mittens hasnt tried to play with anything other than cat toys from what ive observed, except for stuffed animals, which she will carry around. she even has her own stuffed bear, which is her size, & meant as a happy birthday gift.

Monster will play with anything that isnt a cat toy, empty paper towel or toilet paper rolls, bags, boxes, stuffed animals(which he carries around), socks which are hunted down & carried around (we call him the sock monster, bc ive lost several pairs of socks bc of him), bfs boxers, his necklace. you kno those six pack soda cardboard boxes? yeah well if u take the last can out & dont throw it away, Monster will try to squeeze himself in there, so all you see is him pushing it around with his head in it tryin to get in lmao! he is rediculous.

My kitty likes to rip up paper with her mouth, stick her paws in random holes, run around inside plastic bags (not such a good toy), try and play with large books, and likes chewing on our cactus..

She also loves socks, eggs, and her favourite toy of all; her own tail.

Nothing is strange to a cat.

I remember years ago, one of my grandmother's cats was playing in my dirty laundry... he somehow got one of my bras hooked around him and went flying down the stairs. My grandmother just happened to open the door around that time for another cat and he bolted out him. So there I was chasing the cat around the yard with my bra wrapped around it, a couple of neighbors were out in their yard and two people were walking by.... There was no mistaking what he had on him either. I tackled him in the front yard and untangled him... in front of everyone.

That's not the only bra stealing cat I've encountered either. When I was 10 I stayed with a friend for a week and one morning when we were out collecting eggs we heard her mother yelling from inside the house (I'll not share what she was yelling! lol). One of their cats, an odd female cat, sprung out the window with the mother's light pink bra in her mouth. She ran across the yard and under a little camper trailer they had, adding it to her stash of socks, kid's toys, underwear, and another bra.

Cali likes the drain hair catchers. Especially the one in the bathtub. She is constantly waking me up by playing with it at night since it's metal and is really loud in a porcelain tub. She also likes, q tips (supervised of course) nail files, nail clippers. Basically anything that she can make noise with I guess. She is the noisiest cat I've ever met.

Originally Posted by bnwalker2

In our house, EVERYTHING is capable of becoming a cat toy. Lt. Bear even tries to play with my cactus!

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I wholeheartedly agree! Sheba always enjoyed unpotting cactus to play with.

Originally Posted by GingersMom

Ginger, however, seems to prefer her very own tail to any kind of manmade item.

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That's Aristotle. Loves to hang over the back of the kitchen chairs and try to catch his own tail.

milo loves his airpipe. it's just a 5 inch piece of spare pipe from the fish tank pump with a knot tied in it. he likes me to throw it up the stairs and then he will retrieve it. but since he was tiny he has loved the little plastic covers you get on plugs when you buy a new electrical item. chucks them all over the kitchen floor, including under the oven , and then meows pitifully for one of us to get it out for him.

shinobi will play with most things, my feet under the duvet being his particular favourite. he will wait, crouched on the bed as i get changed, and as soon as i get under the duvet he pounces!

tabitha loves plastic bags. when we bring the shopping home she will get in a bag and wait for the kittens to come and investigate. they fall for it every time and she'll bat their noses!

Mosi has a thing for make up brushes. If I leave one out anywhere he will find it and run off with it (the brush bit in his mouth). He's totally obsessed. He likes anything plastic too. Anything small and in a plastic bag tends to end up under the bed or in his cat tree.

This is a great thread! We have three semi-feral kittens and their current favourite toys are balled up pieces of aluminum foil and my underwear! The foil balls we obviously create for them - we have about thirty hidden all over the house now. Paddington likes to bat them to the stairs, throw them down and chase after them. Then he brings them back up to do it all over again.

My underwear is a new one...and a bit strange! I accidentally left a pair on the ground and they took it into their box and all three fought over who got to play with them (they didn't realise I was watching them do this...). Now, they seek them out and pull them out from wherever I have put them after wearing. I have lost some very nice underwear because of this!

They do like their cat toys as well, but they are so easy to keep entertained...

Abbey used to love a long, red rubber hose.

I taught Sunshine to play with my hand in a garden glove. Now he plays with it on his own. When he wants my hand in it, he picks it up in his mouth, jumps up on my lap, drops the glove in my lap and looks up at me. This was particularly sweet when he was a kitten and he picked up the glove and jumped up on my bed (at least 2 /12 feet high), walked it over and dropped it at my feet.

He also loves to play with the corners of doorways when he tries to get my attention.

Love my kitty.

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Dave loved hair bands.

The pinker and sparklier the better!

He was such a girl!