Suggestions?

[VTJess03]

Freedom, you're not the only one...Sasha will only play with the rattling ones too.

Favorite game...'make the dog bark'

Rules:
1. wait for meomy to sit down to eat
2. get on the table with the plants
3. wait for Belle (in sig) to notice and decide that I'm not supposed to be there, dig in flower pots to attract attention, if necessary
4. jump off the table as soon as meowmy stands up to chase me off
5. repeat steps 1-4 when meomy sits down again, until she puts me in my room and shuts the door.

Other games include 'chase the dog', 'attack the dog's tail', and 'pick me up as soon as you get home, especially if you're wearing nice clothes'.

Need we go on?

[AvaJoy]

Try a metal tape measure! Pull it out, wag it around (scratching your hardwood floors, for sure . . . . . . don't tell my husband) and then retract it . . . that is the new, novel toy according to my kitties.

Seems like the most ordinary, household items hold more interest than the store-bought ones.

I took a heavy-duty, made for workboots type of shoelace and attached a twisted, bent-up pipe cleaner to it. They liked it well enough, but I never would have thought that the cats now prefer the plain end with nothing attached, being dragged around for them to stalk and pouce upon!

[Catty1]

Back in the late 60's, my cat Beazle loved a marble being put in a shoe - preferably man's full lace-up shoe(leather or similar). Went NUTS trying to get it out of the toe of the shoe. Marble must be 'rolled' into shoe so it moves temptingly!

[columbine]

Smudge is fascinated by Acculon (plastic-coated beading wire) but of course only when it's whipping around because I'm making something with it!

[KittyCrazy]

Several years ago we discovered a new toy that our kitty loves!

It started out with my husband getting the coffee pot ready for the next morning. He'd dump the paper coffee filter in the sink and then rinse the used coffee grounds down the garbage disposal and lay the wet filter on the faucet to dry and then he'd toss it in the garbage in the morning. Well, one day the filters started disappearing! We had NO idea what was happening to them until we realized it HAD to be the cat stealing them! So, he moved it to a new spot inside of the cupboard and then next morning he wadded it into a ball and threw it for Molly and she went NUTS! So, for 3+ years now, this is her morning ritual! It doesn't work if we use a brand new coffee filter....it has to be a USED one! So, I don't know if it gives her a caffeine buzz or what but she just loves them!