Comments on: Toy Rotation http://www.wayofcats.com/blog/toy-rotation/161 grow in understanding Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill the Splut http://www.wayofcats.com/blog/toy-rotation/161/comment-page-1#comment-187 Bill the Splut Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:44:02 +0000 http://www.wayofcats.com/blog/?p=161#comment-187 My cats fall into 2 groups: Kill Kill (the girl) likes to catch things, and Byron (the boy) likes to chase things. He loves the laser pointer, but when she was only 8 weeks old, she figured out that she couldn't catch the laser. She chased it, she padded at the dot, then walked over and sniffed at it in my hand. "That's not <i>real!</i>" she clearly thought, and ignored it for toy mice she could tackle and gut. She's 9 now but tonight she caught a moth. And ate it. She only likes to catch. Byron is a steadfast chaser, even at his fifth birthday. He'll swat at bugs, but he lets them get away to be chased again. A good FREE cat toy: bird feathers. Not the bleached ones at the craft store, the ones you find on the ground shed by wild birds. Killsy finds them only mildly interesting, but today I found a crow wing feather and Byron went nuts He plays and plays and carries it around in his mouth with a demented look on his face. It's all in the wild bird smell. I live in the suburbs, but with lots of trees and only 5 minutes from a tiny state park, so I find feathers every so often. Keep your eyes to the ground near trees, and you'll find some, too. (Note that this only works as long as they have that bird smell. Once it gets replaced by cat slobber, he gets bored) My cats fall into 2 groups: Kill Kill (the girl) likes to catch things, and Byron (the boy) likes to chase things. He loves the laser pointer, but when she was only 8 weeks old, she figured out that she couldn’t catch the laser. She chased it, she padded at the dot, then walked over and sniffed at it in my hand. “That’s not real!” she clearly thought, and ignored it for toy mice she could tackle and gut. She’s 9 now but tonight she caught a moth. And ate it. She only likes to catch.

Byron is a steadfast chaser, even at his fifth birthday. He’ll swat at bugs, but he lets them get away to be chased again.

A good FREE cat toy: bird feathers. Not the bleached ones at the craft store, the ones you find on the ground shed by wild birds. Killsy finds them only mildly interesting, but today I found a crow wing feather and Byron went nuts He plays and plays and carries it around in his mouth with a demented look on his face. It’s all in the wild bird smell.

I live in the suburbs, but with lots of trees and only 5 minutes from a tiny state park, so I find feathers every so often. Keep your eyes to the ground near trees, and you’ll find some, too. (Note that this only works as long as they have that bird smell. Once it gets replaced by cat slobber, he gets bored)

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