What is your cats favorite toy?

Each of mine are different in their likes about things to play with.

Frisky will play with anything he can find on the floor or knock off of the table, so he's pretty easy. I know that he will play with anything I buy for him.

Cuddles is a different story. There has only been one cat toy that she will actually play with, those fur covered mice, the ones scented with catnip. But, there is one thing around the house that she will play with. She plays with my daughters old pound purry kittens, she meows at them, tosses them and even plays fetch with them. Whenever we hear her start to meow, we know shes playing with one.

I'd be interested in hearing about your cats and their favorite toys.

Kathy

If I tear off a little piece of cardboard from a 12 pack soda carton Ripley will play with it all night. He throws it around the room, up in the air and even catches it. He also loves his raggedy little monkey. Believe it or not, Ripley also loves to play fetch. If you throw his monkey for him he catches it and brings it back.

He is such a blast to watch and keeps me entertained for hours.

Savanna

My guys are lucky to have official jobs as toy testers :)

They adore a catnip toy called a KirbyStick, Hot Cats catnip toy, rosie rat's, crinkle balls, catnip pillows, the kittybird. I haven't been testing honeysuckle toys on them and need to do so...basically they just love toys (oh yes, they love it when their 'dad' gets out the laser toy with the mouse image tip!)

Patriciak

A Laser? I know Ripley will chase a flashlight reflection on the wall for hours. He is such a blast!

Savanna

Okay...don't laugh but my cats love wadded up aluminum foil as balls.

They entertain theirselves for hours and heck it is cheap too!

:) - Kathy

With our cats cheap toys are often the best. :-)
My husband smokes a pipe - the cats absolutely adore pipe cleaners. They can be thrown and fetched for hours on end ;-)
Also bendable straws are great.
Light reflections - be it laser beams or reflections from a watch dial on the wall/floor - only seem to appeal to some cats.
Camilla

are based on such simple things as milk rings etc. I.e. The Rock 'N Roller, looks like a seams ripper in it's case...great for rolling and spinning - they took that design, put in holes and filled it with catnip. Very ingenius.

Crazy Spinners look like a milk ring with angles and spin delightfully....Kookie Kitty Kurli-Qs are simply coiled bits of plastic with good spring.

I love seeing what various toy designers come up with, and can't wait until they expand this section (cat toys) that is so lacking in Pets.

Ripley loves two of the the toys that Patriciak sent him and cardboard. Give that cat a piece of cardboard and he'll play for hours.

Savanna

My cats go crazy for 'The thing in the bag' it's very cute & pretty funny. The abc distributing web site sells it: http://www.abcdistributing.com/store/074OF1/61.cfm?q=cat%20toy&prevIndex=1&nextIndex=3&t=6&cart=

My cats love rabbit fur-covered mice. They have them at Petsmart for about $0.85 so I always stock up when I'm there (because they're always getting lost somehow).

My kitty Nemorino, however, is addicted to one kind of mouse in particular. It's 2" or 3" long and also covered in rabbit fur, but instead of having a plastic body, it's just a thick bendable wire inside. It's like a fur-covered heavy twist tie! And you can wrap it around something, and the cats go crazy to pull it off. But they're really hard to find. I get them at Petsmart for about $1, but they're hardly ever there. Every few months I might get lucky and find one in the store, but they don't keep them in stock and they don't even know what they're called! Anyone know? It's the ONLY thing that will satisfy Nemo when he's in his wild "pay attention to me or I'll destroy things" mood.

BTW, I love the bright colors of these furry toys, but Nemo insists on drowning his toys in his water dish and dragging them around the house, leaving Koolaid-colored water everywhere. They need to make cat toys with colors that won't bleed!

I've had my cat for a few weeks now, adopted from a co worker of mine. He is the sweetest thing. I bought him a furry mouse toy with cat nip and a stick with elastic string with a bell, ball and feathers at the end of it. after maybe a week, he destroyed it. He loved the toys, dragged it with him everywhere and now.. he has none! He managed to take off all the fur on the mouse (it was just the limbless body at the end...) and now the body is missing. He also broke the ball in half off the string and the bell that was inside was used as another toy. Since I had to throw that out, he now plays on my comforter. He pretends theres something and just digs and slides from one end to the other... it's kind of sad. If anyone has suggestions for an attention craving cat who gets super lonely, please let me know.