What are your cat's three favorite toys?

Originally Posted by Jessy

Just out of interest, what is Da Bird? I don't think we have them in the U.K.? Correct me if I'm wrong!

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it's a cat toy, feathers on a wand that spin around!

you can order one here

Kumal loves the little springy toys, crumpled paper and a wand with a feather at the end of it. He used to love the plastic circle with the ball inside, but he hasn't touched it in a few days.

Newmans favor.... is a wade of wax paper... as soon as I tear off some...he comes a running... they also like ribbon...they both like to jump for it.

Laser pointer - if I even pick it up Guin comes running as the keyring on it makes a noise so he knows that he is in for a fun game!

Ping pong balls - he loves batting them down the stairs.

Drinking straws - I think there is a couple of packets of them now lurking under the fridge where he has batted them under there and I can't be arsed to get them out!

My girl loves anything on a string.. including the strings on my jacket, the fringe on my blankets and her pink piggy on a string. I watch her carefully with these things, but wow! can she get wound up .. she hisses as she chases 'em around the house (w/ me pulling.. !)

Laser pointer, laser pointer, laser pointer. I swear I understand when Kiki says "get that crazy red dot out, I'm gonna get it for sure this time!".

Kiki: nuts (with the shell) and those plasic colored spiral toys.
Indy: my hair and fabric wiggled along the floor.

I buy toys like crazy, but they mostly get ignored for everyday household items that make a lot of noise.

Nero seems to share that hair elastic fascination… He steals them from me and puts them in his food dish. I have gone through so many.

He also likes toilet paper rolls. He steals the role from the bathroom and rolls it down the stairs.

His other favorite toy is a giant bouncy ball… You can hear that hitting the walls at night. He doesn't seem to like other cat toys.

The thick string from my sweatshirt has recently (in the last few days) become one of Cosmo's favorites... luckily I don't need it! I pulled it out, cut off the plastic tips and tied a big knot on one end and he goes CRAZY for the silly thing!

laser pointer, turbo scratcher, and and those cheap little mice (the ones i was finding in the toilet!). i'm not sure if it counts but they also love their tree that i made them....they're forever playing together on it.

Sally loves to pounce what ever moves under the covers, stealing Morris' mousey, and string. Morris' all time favrite is the little fuzzy mice for fetch, turkey feathers, and Sally's tail.

I must add the laser pointer. I think she has figured out that mama is doing it, but she still chases it and tries to eat it.

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Just bumping this up again for any comments or suggestions that might help other people.

#1 is a $1 mouse from PetSmart - her first toy in her new home (042105)
#2 - tinkerball
#3 - a catnip furry mouse that hangs from the doorknob on an elastic string.

she has more toys...but tires from them quickly...unless it is interactive.
She lost interest in the cat dancer in less than a week.

My kitties love their white furry balls from PetCo.
They also go crazy over little furry toy mice...the white ones. White is easier to see on my dark carpet I think.
And for major exercise...their Cat Dancer.

Oh my gosh...I forgot Sadie's favorite toy, her laser pointer. She goes nuts when she chases it's light. Dexter does not pay any attention to it.

Mine love their panic mouse. It's this little motorized wand with a furry ball on the end. Though, Lucy loves to play with her tail more than anything else.

i'd say the things our cats like to play with the most are:

1. furry mice (the really cheap kind that come 12 to a package)
2. the laser pointer
3. cardboard boxes (they'll chew holes in them if the box isn't open yet)

My girls love small, furry mice and feather wands. Anything else they stick their noses up at.

feathers on a stick are the #1 in our house, followed closely by moving toes under bedsheets.

Elliot: Puffballs used in crafting, balls of rabbit fur (bought at the vets for 99 cents each), anything with catnip

Aerowyn: Elliot, 1 dollar stuffed baby sock on a bouncy string, fingers.... (when I got her she was tinier than most kittens, and fit in the palms of my hands.. all the toys were too big for her so I stimulated her like her siblings would by playing with her with my hands. She doesnt bite either She will put your finger in her mouth and close her mouth on it, but then open again, only nibbling, and then lick you.... she doesnt use claws in play either. )

my cats play with silly things.

Elliot does NOT play with anything that is not a natural color.. unless it is not furry.. if you have a furry toy (rabbit fur) it must be grey/brown, white, or black, or natural color, or he wont play with it.. for example.. I have a red and a grey bunny colored rabbit fur balls.. I threw the grey one, he went after it .. I threw the red.. he looked at me.. I threw the grey again and he went after it..

he is not biased on cloth mice though, or yarn ones.. he loves any kind of those