What is the best Cat toy?

supersaver66

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Buy a Kinder egg, dispose of the chocolate (I don't think I need to describe how this is done ), jettison the useless bits of plastic that are supposed to be the point of the thing.

Keep the yellow plastic egg halves. Ping one down the hallway from your palm. Watch cat skittle her way down hall and batter the egg bit until she loses it under the furniture or collapses in a panting heap.

Remove from cat before bedtime. If you forget, you will awake to the sounds of cat bashing Kinder egg bit up and down the hallway at 3am.

lol I'm sure my kitties would love that! Looks like I'm buying myself a kinda egg tomorrow!

robert_harper_2000

lostinrates wrote: »

I used to do a lot of training with our cats, traditional reward based and clicker. Its a good discipline for me because it HAS to be animal lead, you can't really make a cat do anything! And shaping with a cat can be hard work. (I got a lot of flop rolls over my feet working on lying down). I have siamese, which I do think makes it easier. But it is still excellent fo any one interested in developing techniches of self control, patience and frustration avoidance in themselves as a trainer.:D:D

The single reason I'm glad I did is even from a long way over the fields they return when called: a relief if there is local shooting/hunt/ploughing or whatever.

I recmmend thrive freezedried meat treats. The fish and chicken are the ones my cats like best. They are the only treats one of y cats likes. They have to REALLY want the treat to make the training worth while.

I've been wanting to train my cat with clickers, what is the book called you mention?

spike7451

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Buy a Kinder egg, dispose of the chocolate (I don't think I need to describe how this is done ), jettison the useless bits of plastic that are supposed to be the point of the thing.

Keep the yellow plastic egg halves. Ping one down the hallway from your palm. Watch cat skittle her way down hall and batter the egg bit until she loses it under the furniture or collapses in a panting heap.

Remove from cat before bedtime. If you forget, you will awake to the sounds of cat bashing Kinder egg bit up and down the hallway at 3am.

When I got Daisy,the ASSISI gave me a few toy's for her,A glove with 5 mice on elastic string ect.
I have tennis balls & scratching post with dangly balls on the arms.Is she interested?
Not at all! She has 2 small rubber balls the size of ping pong balls she'll bat around the apartment like a mad thing for hours!!:D
lying in bed I can hear her claws on the wooden floor,the ball rebounding of the doors & Daisy crashing into same walls when she skids! :rotfl:
Next day,first thing I do?
Straighten the bleedin rucked up mats on the floor!

Expensive toys are a waste imho!

larmy16

My cat was scared of da bird. He just ran away and hid under the table. No amount of coaxing and persistance paid off. I gave it to someone with a year old female who leaps up in the air at it (just like the advert!!).

My cat is 8 years old and seriously lazy. I have posted on here about him many times. He is also overweight. I am taking him to the vets to let the nurse have a look and see what else I can do for him.

He probably sleeps 22 out of 24 hours a day. He has never chased a bird or mouse in his life I reckon. I might try the feather thingies Geri mentioned but I am getting pretty sick of all this money to no avail.

I also bought him some plastic balls with cat nip in them. He was scared of them too. :rolleyes:

Fire_Fox

robert_harper_2000 wrote: »

I've been wanting to train my cat with clickers, what is the book called you mention?

This book got four and a half stars on US Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cat-Training-Minutes-Miriam-Fields-Babineau/dp/0793805309/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I219EZEOXJ3IES&colid=3NQJU1JGBRW4I

Morganarla

Martha's favourite toy is a rolled up ball of foil. Will play with it for hours. She will also box with the hoover pipe and a toy hobby horse that me and DH acquired at a random party...

So those are my recommendation - foil and hobby horse!

mum26

Jasper (only 17 weeks so still a kitten) loves Cheese Chase

http://www.petsathome.com/shop/cheese-chase-3-in-1-cat-toy-by-petstages-15058


He will even lay down next to it when he is sleepy and bat the ball round the side, back and forth, for ages, like kitty swingball

I sometimes put little catnip mice in the top too.

shanni

Hi all,

I've been enjoying your chat re cat toys. One of the best toys I had was a cat dancer
http://www.madcats.co.uk/products.php?itemCategory=Cat+Dancers

Another cheapo homemade one is a long thin piece of this fuzzyfelt material attached to a plastic wand, my netty goes nuts for it. I'd send a pic but can't work out how to.

I must try the da bird that you've been talking about, haven't tried that one. All 4 of my cats love the laser mouse from Tesco (£3).

cheers
shanni