How important are cat toys?

**rosethecopycat** · 10-14-2006, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Freedom

plastic strips from milk bottles,

Those are a No-No around here. They get ingested.

There are cookie-cutter type toys made out of harder plastic, which they like just as much as the milk rings. They want to carry something around.

**catmandu** · 10-14-2006, 09:55 AM

And the thing is you dont have to buy toys at a Pet Food Store.
Go to the Salvation Army and get a little stuffed toy for a quarter, or crumple up a piece of paper.
Wait until your Petsmart has a sale or Boxing Day when they have sales.
Cats need toys to keep thier minds active, and for exercise.

**Laura's Babies** · 10-14-2006, 10:08 AM

Giz LOVES her toys! She has a basket of them and she thinks they are all hers. I can pick them up at night before I go to bed, get up in the morning and they are scattered all over. Samantha loves toys too just not as much as Giz.... Amy will play with them a little bit and the same with Chester.

Giz is so full of mischief that I hate to think what she would get into if she didn't have all those toys. She gets borned easy and is always looking for something to get into.. My Motto with Giz is "If it can be gotten into, in, on or knocked down...... Giz WILL do it!"

**Bengalz** · 10-14-2006, 10:13 AM

My kitty loves her toys and loves to play. She flips her furry mice up in the air as high as she can and jumps to catch them

She also loves to chase ribbons - these are kept from her reach to be played with only with us. She is also protective of her toys - carries each and every one to bed with her at night

I agree toys are a source of entertainment and good exercise for cats. Eve did not know how to play with toys when she first arrived. That has since changed and now everytime we give her a new toy, she's like small child at Christmas. Her collection has grown substantially and you'd think we had a 2 year old in the house

Occasionally she'll play hide and seek in a big box - actually she loves to "go for a ride in it"

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 10-14-2006, 11:55 AM

A toy is anything that brings happiness and are important to everyone. Even adult humans like "toys" so why wouldn't curious cats?

**Danegirl2208** · 10-14-2006, 12:46 PM

for my cat, Raven, the best toys in life are free!

Milk caps, loose strings, old shoe boxes, you name it...i have bought her a few kitty toys from petsmart, but she rarely plays with them (except for those catnip mice!).

**moosmom** · 10-14-2006, 01:30 PM

My cats LOVE the Canadian catnip mice from Catmandu!! I find them all over the apartment. I try to circulate their toys (take some out, put others away for a while) so they don't get bored with them. My 12 year old cat Mollie Rose will come flying from the other end of the apartment whenever she hears me crumple up a piece of paper. She also loves balls of aluminum foil and paper bags as well.

**elleagwire** · 10-16-2006, 12:40 AM

it's amazing on how much I've learned so far from all of you. No doubt that i need to be careful with those toys too. i don't want any of the cats get choked up of some toy or something..thanks guys...

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