Looking for something to keep them busy in the cold months.
Update: the toy arrived today. One cat is fascinated by it but won’t get down off her chair to get close to it, the other seems afraid of it.
On the plus side, it’s good for getting into tight spaces that the vacuum cleaner won’t reach to pull out dust bunnies. Just have to teach it to stop saying “EXTERMINAAAATE” in cat language.
I find it’s hard to beat laser pointers and paper bags, but I could see that working too!
Our two don’t seem to go much for laser pointers, for whatever reason.
Some cats are just like that. Mine will look at a laser dot and watch it for a while, but he really needs to actually catch something to be happy with it and will lose interest without winning.
I got some toys from Temu the other day and he loves them. They are balls that roll themselves and have a little frame with a tail. The movement is somewhat chaotic with pausing, shaking, and reversing. Because they are balls they tend to drift to the left or right so they don’t just go back and forth in the same line. He will watch them move until they stop then have a big pupil dilation reaction watching them paused and eventually hit them. If they move before he bops them then he keeps watching, but if he acts quickly enough he bops it and it looks like it reacts and runs away.
He also absolutely loves the cheap versions of Da Bird, a carbon rod with a toy on the end of a line. It looks like a bird when you swing it around the room and you can make it land on things and wiggle which really gets him engaged.
