The early enthusiasm lasts a short time.
Put some effort into it, kitties. Any effort!
This toy is toast.
This toy amused Andy for a short time and Dougy just didn’t get it!
Much like the food bag strip that’s amused the kitty boys for a long time now, Andy found a toy he really, really, really likes ~ a folded piece of copy paper!
I’m convinced that the perfect toy would be crinkly paper inside a cardboard box 🙂
LOL! I believe you could patent that and retire with a huge fortune!
I bought one of those tracks years ago. They seem to go in and out of fashion with the cats. When I got my boy Nova, he’d constantly go crazy for the track at night, making a total racket. Now that our cat family is four, three of them still show interest, it’s just super sporadic. The one who doesn’t stoop so low as to play with ‘cat’ toys steals things like receipts instead. Cats are odd beings!
You said it! I gave up predicting their behavior a long time ago when it comes to toys.
Our cat from long ago also liked crumbled paper the best! Or toilet paper…
So far, neither of my kitty boys has shown an interest in toilet paper. Whew!
I really enjoyed this video. These guys are a lot of fun. I’m glad you have some little buddies and you share them with us. ❤❤
Thanks! I enjoy sharing them with everyone!
Great videos of the boys, Doug, and I love the music you found to go with them! I should try growing a clump of grass for my cats in here. There will probably be little green upchucks, but they will have fun for a while. 🙂
Matching music to the action is one of those little fun things about doing videos!
That particular bit of grass was plain old yarn edge grass dug out during the edging process. It lasted a lot longer than the cat grass you can grow from seed. Ideally (as far as I’m concerned) one would have a small tub full of perpetual grass the kitties could eat or snooze in. If I were a rig=ch fellow, I’d have an atrium in my fabulous home with trees, kitty-friendly perennials, and grass growing year in and out! Of course, there would be self-cleaning litter boxes in this kitty paradise!
I love your videos! And yep, its sometimes the simplest things that we kitties find most stimulating for the duration. I loves myself some crumpled up craft paper. I never tire of it. Hugs!
Thanks! I don’t have the capability at the moment for making more of them, but there are over two hundred (?) on YouTube on my phainopepla 95 channel. I like to periodically post a few for everyone’s amusement. Also, I think people enjoy seeing the kitty boys in action!
Entertaining for their humans to watch them playing with these toys, even if it is only for a short while.
That;s the point of buying them, I think. (Of course, bored cats can get destructive. LOL!)
At this time of year, there are particular grass heads, with long stems. My cat is like your guys when they want a particular game with you, she mews for me to come and pick a stem and then she spends a few happy minutes chasing and killing it.
Yes, grass has great play value!
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Heck, the link wouldn’t take me to that youtube video. If it had cats, it would have been fun to watch!
Go to YouTube and type phainopepla 95 in the search box. That will take you to my account. Click on videos and scroll down till you find the video titled “Grass”. It’s worth your time! It’s one of my favorites of the kitty boys playing.
The music was great to go with the action!
That’s part of the fun of doing videos! Thanks!
Here’s the long answer:
https://phainopepla95.com/2011/12/05/call-me-crazy/
Andy’s named after St, Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. (I’m mostly Scottish in background and had grandparents who came from the Glasgow area on my mother;s side.) After naming Andy after St. Andrew, when I got Dougy, I decided I’d give him a name with a Scottish connection. Others suggested names like Angus (too bovine…!) and worse. Then it occurred my name is as Scottish as they get! It’s a family in joke that he isn’t a Douglas Jr. because his middle name is different than mine. A longer description of why that’s a joke is in the link.
That is too funny. Kitties like the simple things 🙂
I think I’ve pretty much come to the point where I know not to spend money on most toys. They do like the Neko Birbug and other wand toys by that manufacturer. I think it is because they mostly are large and fun to pounce. Other than that, you occasionally see a multi-colored narrow strip of fabric on the floor in photos. It used to be a wand toy till the fabric came off the wand. From that time on, the kitty boys turned it into a game where Andy drags it somewhere, drops it, sits down and yowls like a banshee to let Dougy know the game is on. Dougy comes running and they chase each other all over the apartment till the game is over. The gauntlet – the multi-colored fabric – never figures in the game once Andy’s yowled. I never know where I’ll find it because the gauntlet moves all over the apartment, letting me know the kitty boys keep each other entertained with their little game when I’m gone. Occasionally they play it when I’m home.
He’s so funny! The leap and hit and run away..lol..Ting is currently playing with a piece of shredded kitchen towel…
LOL! Way to go Ting! Yeah, it’s fun seeing what they find interesting for play.
typical
Ha! And how!
Just like with kids, give ’em the box the toy came in and let ’em rip.
Imagination!
Love those films. I didn’t know there were so many toys made for cats.
There must be thousands of them, and all of them interest a cat for a second before the toy ends up in the closet gathering dust!
see… life can be so easy… even without eggs-pensive stuff… we bought a kong toy for an arm and a leg… and after Phenny smacked our legs with it, the torture toy is now forgotten … but empty tp-rolls are still the hit here ;o)
Hey, my sister’s late kitty Sox had a toilet paper roll “toy” that he guarded with snarls and growls if anyone tried to take it from him! I didn’t know Phenny-dogs liked them, too! And to think we just toss them before offering them to our furry friends!
That’s just so typical cat, hahahaha! Mine love aluminium foil scrunched up into a ball best. The best cat toys are always the ones that aren’t real cat toys and cost us nothing! 🙂
So true, yet one still feels the lure of the expensive toy the cats will reject after a few perfunctory swats….! LOL!