A question for all you cat people

All you need is a laser pointer and your cats will be entertained for hours on end chasing the image on the wall. Most chain pet stores have them with a mouse design for the image.

One of the best things you can get is a cardboard scratch box like http://www.amazon.com/Omega-Paw-SB-Scratch-Box/dp/B0009RTECY/ref=pd_bxgy_k_img_b. Some of them come with catnip in them.

Drs. Foster and Smith has a CAT-alog :D with cat stuff.
 
No such thing as dog-proof cat food! I wish there was. Pick it up and put it up - problem solved the only way it can be.

Fancy, pricey toys are made for human eye appeal and not for cats. Most self-respecting cats won't play with them.

I made our own cat post/tree out of an old carpet, wood, and some jute. Rubbed some catnip on it and 4 years later I need to replace the carpet that has been shredded!

Her favorite toy is me. Her idea of play is throwing her self down in front of me and when I pat real hard she goes nuts, runs 2 or 3 paces and throws herself down again. Chasing her own shadow, plastic or paper sacks, pieces of dry cat food, spiders, a clump of dog hair that has been shed, or even attacking the dog. Pet store toys are completely ignored. Go figure!
 
My cats favorite toys are my daughters hair barrettes and dum dum lollipops my cat Gravy just loves to play with the dum dums. Jason (DooSPX) even covered one in painters tape and he just loves it. The only way my cats use the cat tree is that I put it outside on the enclosed patio next to the open window. They don't like to get on it unless they can see outside.

I don't have a dog but my parents do and they have the cats food up on the counter in the half bath that rarely gets used. I just feed my cats a little in the morning and a little at night so there is rarely any food in the bowls. Especially if Gravy (he is on a diet) has anything to say about that.

Giblet and Gravy just love laser pointers too and only Giblet likes catnip. Not all cats respond well to catnip.
 
I've yet to find a cat that doesn't like catnip and I've had at least 25 during my life. The last four cats I've had would get completed wacked out stoned on it. I couldn't give it to them all the time.
 
10-30% of the cat population does not respond to catnip at all, at any age. This is due to genetics -- reactions to catnip are hereditary. Some cats are genetically "programmed" to respond to catnip, some aren't.
I found this on the net, guess gravy is in the 10-30% because he could care less about catnip lol.
 
my cat doesn't care for catnip either. i got her a little cat scratch thing with catnip stuff in it, and she still won't touch it.
her favorite toy is a turquoise rubber band lol. she will ambush it, roll around with it till it stops trying to escape, then trot around with it in her mouth, making sure we see what she caught lol
she also loves this little stuffed lion we got from walmart. it doesn't have catnip in it, but she will carry it around in her mouth all day.
i second the thing about every cat being different.
 
My mom's cat, Dora, hates raw catnip, she literally scrunches up her nose at it, and runs away. My other cat, Domino loves it though.

Dora has a favorite mouse, that she plays with any time it's out. It's kinda crazy, she'll do anything to get it. Its a little grey mouse covered in catnip (she likes toys in catnip, just not it straight out) that we got from petsmart.

Domino likes a monkey and chicken. She NEVER plays with them, but she brings them into my room when she wants me. I don't know why, really. I just find them in my room all the time, or sitting at the front of my room's door.

We probably have about 40 small cat toys, which, they dont touch, except the ones mentioned above. We bought a scratchy-pad that has catnip inside of it, that they scratch a LOT. Made out of cardboard and lasts a while. When Domino gets mad at me, she goes and takes her anger out on the scratchy pad.

Other than that, they love laser pointers (but get bored easily with it), string, foil balls (make sure they cant eat it), and leaves.
 
Some brands go stale easily. I've found that certain brands my cats would scrunch the nose and run off thing. I tried different brands, can't remember which ones, and found some that they went nuts over. I would sprinkle some in a about a 12" circle on the carpet then sit on the sofa and wait. They'd initially come into the room slowly sniffing the air investigating. Once they found where it was, they would go nuts rolling around in it like pigs in mud.
 
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