What is your kitty's exercise routine?

ileen

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Luciano loves two of the wand toys I bought, the mouse & the feather/bird. He doesn't like the fish as much. I play with the mouse the most, because it's more durable. The bird has already lost two feathers that I threw out before he swallowed them. He's really good at catching them even when they're zooming around in the air. My boyfriend came up with holding onto the wand & flicking the mouse up into the loft, which causes L to run up the ladder, grab the mouse & exit the loft at the other end, jumping across about 2-3 feet, jumping down about 4 feet & then jumping down from waist high furniture. Lately sometimes he stops up in the loft & dangles the mouse on wire about a foot from the loft edge & grabs at it with his paw. I've yet to get video of this but it's adorable.



Another game with the mouse is when I put it through the hole on top of a wooden step stool & he tried to grab it through the slot from above, or lays on the floor beneath it and tried to get it. He gets the zoomies in the morning and runs around on his own as well. Before I got the wand toys, his favorites were tinfoil balls, and he'd bat those around for a long time, or until they disappeared under the furniture. Then it was time for me to start laying on the floor with a flashlight & lifting up furniture to rescue it. Once the wand toys were in the picture, the foil balls were old news and he hasn't played with them since.



Here's a short video of him jumping at the feather toy & a slightly longer one of him climbing into the loft via ladder & exiting via jumping.






 

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Gracie was running around the flat from about 4 am this morning for what seemed like hours ! She seemed to he intentially making so much noise , jumping in and out the laundry bag playing with coat hangers and loud toys ! She kept attacking and biting our feet too ! Funny enough shes been sleeping all day ! Sleeping now ! We are on the other hand knackered !!!
 

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Splenda entertains herself pretty well by jumping everywhere and getting as high as she can, as well as sprinting around the house. Our play time is usually chasing each other around (I get some exercise too!) We used toys when she was younger, but she's grown bored of them and would rather just play with those by herself. 

Best exercise she gets everyday is spending about an hour or sometimes more in the backyard. I just porch sit while she runs around stalking birds. She can run very fast, I won't be surprised if she gets one someday! 
 

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Penny has a squeaky mouse which she loves to play with.  I begin by throwing it into a tunnel, she retrieves and then catches it, rolls, pounces and fetches the mouse and each time she moves it, it squeaks and then she finally will bring her prey into the kitchen and then some times on the bed... all the while carefully shielding it from us.  I can imagine she caught many mice in "real time" when she was roaming the streets prior to us finding her.  

She also loves da bird toy but I find she is too fast for me when dragging it along the floor (she favors doing that rather than jumping) but I find what is easier for me is the toy with wand and a big puff of feather-like mass.  It doesn't have a line attached so it is easier to control.  When Penny has caught "da bird" she does not want to relinquish it and it presents some terrible gentle pulling to get it from her.  She runs away with it while I am made to follow along holding the wand.  It looks like she is walking me then !!!!  It really is quite funny to see.   

 

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I have a small wooden step stool with an oval slot in the middle. By accident, I discovered a fun game to play with Luciano. I put his beloved mouse on wire through the slot so it dangles under the stool's flat top. He either jumps on the top & tries to fish it out of the slot with his paw, or lays underneath it and tries to get at it that way. Lots of fun to watch for me and hopefully for him to do.
 

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When I bend over to clean or pick up something I'm used as a spring board the cats are always active.  I had no idea how

useful a cat tree stand was until Santa introduced a tall 5 tiered one last year- truly an exercise gym all day long they

play on it, now they're all Buff 
  (they actually dive from the top to scaring the c r * p out of me landing on other

pieces of furniture just to do it ) Lots of wand toys etc  but the laser pointer workout is still their fave.
 
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ileen

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In the past few days, Luciano has been jumping from the ladder to the couch more often than exiting the loft via the method shown in my post from last week above. I still need to improve my camerawork, but here are two short videos of him in action.


 
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