Your Cats' Favorite "Non-Toy" Toy!

Plastic milk jug rings and cardboard boxes.

The boxes are so popular we still have our gas grill box in the kitchen (my 90 pound dog can easily fit in it).
The kitties LOVE it, and it gets used as a scratching post more frequently than the actual scratching posts.

Tigger (the oldest) has decided that straws are the finest of toys. Great howls and yowls of content while "hunting" the straw and than the display to all that he has caught and captured his prey.

Three-legged Charlie has decided that plastic forks are perfect.

My red patent leather Dansko clogs. she loves to put things in there and then dig into the clogs to retrieve them.

Whiskey used to love a straightened out metal hanger. He would wrap himself around it and rub his face on it. He doesn't do it as often now. He also likes the plastic shopping bags.

Definitely plastic milk jug rings!

Mine like the milk jug rings that are a complete circle. Rocky goes crazy for them, the others are amused. A few nights ago, I left my underwear drawer open. Suzy was going crazy "fishing for thongs". She didn't catch any. They also like to play with their own collars if they have fallen off.

twist ties esp. large ones like from electronics. milk jug rings and bottle caps too.

I forgot about packing tissue! Abby LOVES packing tissue slightly crumbled. I keep a few pieces in my dining room for her, and she bring her toys into there and attacks them on the tissue. She also loves to take flying leaps onto it. It's a bit startling to hear if you're not expecting it!

Milk jug rings are their favorite!

Anything that isn't tied down!!!

My two will attack anything thats on the ground! But Portias particular favourite at the moment is one of my hair scrunchies!

Our female Siamese, Sugar, attacks twisty-ties on the floor with a vengeance. Our Turkish Van, SnowCrash, loves to hide-in and attack the shower curtain.

Mine LOVE paper bags and boxes, particularly the empty cases from cases of bottled water and such things. Gracie also like the little decoration I have hanging from my bedroom doorknob, and they both chase dust bunnies. They also like pens, bottle caps...but those get taken away pretty quick.

Pens all our cats love pens and will pleay with them for hours. Eviecat also loves straws and has been known to steal them out of glassess when people are drinking!!

Oh my. Hair elastics. Sashka and Princess go NUTS over them....seriously. I'm really scared they'll get swallowed so they're all out of reach, but man they LOVE them!

Also, Sunday loves it when you make your hand into a spider and run it around the lounge. It's the only way she'll play - unless you tap her paws with a pen, then she goes NUTS and it's full-on play mode. Her head goes all wobbly, like she's got too many places to look at all at once!

I love that crazy-head thing....sooooo cute - all of ours do it if they get excited enough!

I didn't know how to describe these thingies (they are the seal thingies inside cartons of orange juice/milk)....but Lucky is obsessive about them and will play with them for hours. She will fetch them, hide them in my bed, and bury them in the comforter! I have people at work who supply me with them since they seem to vanish all the time!



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My cats love cardboard boxes & large paper bags!

I used to let them play with straws & milk jug rings, but not anymore since Jazzpurr swallowed a 3 foot long ribbon! Since then, I've heard horror stories of cats swallowing twist ties, hair pony-tail holders, straws, milk jug rings, legos, bows, etc. Anything small enough, they can & may swallow it! Just because they've never swallowed those things in the past, doesn't mean that they'll never do it in the future.

Please don't allow your cats to play with any of those things. I didn't give the ribbon to Jazzpurr, he fished it out of the trash, but I never would have dreamed that any one of my cats would or could swallow such a long ribbon. I didn't even realized that he swallowed a ribbon until he threw it up & continued to throw up continuously. After an emergency visit to the vet, he ended up having exploratory surgery because we thought that he was blocked with a piece of ribbon. It turned out that he wasn't blocked, the vomiting was the result of irritation from passing the ribbon.

I learned my lesson the hard way. Now I am very careful & conscious of what my cats are playing with & can get to!

This is Jazzpurr with the bad ribbon!

Cleo's favorite toy is probably the furniture, but her play things range from the strings of shoelaces and pajama pants to the remote control. I came home one day and found the TV remote halfway down the bedroom hallway upside down with the TV on in the living room.

Zenon enjoys my slippers, which are multicolored and very furry. Every day when I leave the house, I come home to one or both slippers either missing or even in the bathtub. These slippers, mind you, are so fluffy and heavy that they weigh nearly half her weight and are close to being bigger than her!

Oscar LOVES water bottle tops and crumpled paper! He goes CRAZY!

My cat loves to chew on anything that is leather. He has ruined about 5 pairs of leather shoes and about 3 leather bags. he'll just chew and chew on it. My other cat loves to chew on paper. Its very strange.
One of them also likes to chase around q-tips. he won't eat it, other than to carry it around sometimes but he likes to bat it around and chase it into the bathtub.

Plastic bags.... they love playing with them