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09 December 2007

Ok, this is the greatest cat toy ever. I picked one of these up yesterday to give our younger cat Bob something to play with...→[More:] He's very energetic and easily bored, and has also put on a good bit of weight since we brought him home. I've played with him with other feathers-on-a-stick type toys, and he likes those, but he goes berserk over this. BERSERK. It spins when you whip it through the air, and out of the corner of your eye, it really does look like a little bird zipping around the room.

Unbelievably, even our other cat Kayla freaks out and chases it around, and she has a long history of ignoring cat toys. The sight of this chunky little Persian cat pulling Matrix-style mid-air twists and flips has been cracking me the hell up all day.

So anyway, not be all Pepsi Blue about it, I just thought, I've GOT to share this with all the cat people I know.

NOTE: it says on the packaging that you need to hide it well when you're not using it, and you do. I stashed it on top of a bookcase, up near the ceiling, last night, and Bob saw me put it up there. I woke up at about 4 AM this morning to find that he'd climbed the bookcase and found it, and now couldn't back down, and was about to turn the damn shelf over trying to figure it out.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 16:39 | 10 comments

Oh yeah, I had one of these for my little cat. It was easy to make her do back flips. When she got older, she was mostly interested in lying on her back with her paws open in a gesture that said something like "Come here, little bird, and land in my mouth."

But then the big cat went and peed on the toy, so it went in the trash.

posted by mudpuppie 09 December | 16:43

I bought my cats a present today too.

When I had my old bathroom, Lucy used to come in when I was on the loo (tmi, sorry), jump into the bath and I'd have to turn the tap on to just the right amount of trickle so she could lap it.

Then I had a new bathroom installed, the old tub ripped out and a shower put in. So now she comes in and looks round, bewilderedly, meowing pitifully as if to say "where's my big yellow drinking fountain gone?"

So today I bought them one of these, which is running whisper quiet in the kitchen. They'll probably ignore it and drink out of the toilet from now on.

posted by essexjan 09 December | 16:51

That's a cool cat fountain, ej...

posted by BoringPostcards 09 December | 17:19

LOL at ej's story.

With the toy, be careful to put it into a drawer or closet when you aren't around to play with the cats. I learned this lesson the hard way to the tune of $600 to remove the little plastic nub that hold the feather onto the pole from my cat Moose. It was that or put him down :(

They are fun toys though, I agree - we still get them even if we are paranoid about hiding them afterwards!

posted by Sil 09 December | 17:59

LOL @ the bookcase maneuver!

posted by chewatadistance 09 December | 18:12

For all of the toys we've bought for our cats over the years, the one they still love the most is that incredibly simple cat dancer, which is just a piece of wire with three pieces of carboard rolled up at the end. Charlie Hodges and Chinaski go nuts for that thing and do all of the Matrix jumps that BoPo speaks of. The boy will sit for hours in front of the nightstand where we keep the cat dancer and just stare at the drawer, as if he's trying to will it open.

But the girl ruptured her ACL (jumped off the back of the couch and landed wrong on new wood floors) a few days ago and needs to take it easy for the next few months, so the cat dancer is going on hiatus.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 09 December | 22:30

Have you made a lolcat of that tongue pic, jan?

posted by By the Grace of God 10 December | 07:03

I have a really frisky cat (even still, at 9 years old) that manages to keep herself entertained for hours with the plastic ring from the milk container, or a stray ponytail holder. So I buy her things like those described above, thinking she will go apeshit, and she is *scared* of them. I have the feathers on a stick with a jingly bell thing, and I can't get it anywhere near her. It is, apparently, terrifying. I bought her this cat play tunnel one year for christmas, and she has never once ventured inside of it.

Ah well.

posted by misskaz 10 December | 11:40

Also had a cat go wild for the cat dancer. The feathers never lasted long enough. Greatest cat toy I never bought was a box with holes cut into it. a friend would droop a golf wiffle ball into it and her cat would go wild trying to get it.

posted by pointilist 10 December | 12:00

We have a regular feather dancer thingie that all the cats go nuts over, even staid Abigail. It has to be hidden when their not playing with it.

The mister stopped at PetsMart to pick up some food and came home with a bunch of toys for the beasties. He just can't resist, but at least they were on sale. He bought four fleece collars for the cats - they're "joker" style with bells at the end of the points on the collar. It should be interesting (tried to find at their site, but no luck).

posted by deborah 10 December | 15:30

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