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Muse

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Purred: Wed Dec 15, '10 11:07am PST 
The kitties in my household are indoors and have toys to play with, mice balls etc.. but they seem to be bored with the playthings they have. They are older cats, so what would be the best toys to keep them happy and stimulated. So they are not flinging the minature ornaments from my coffee table artifical tree?
thanks kitty
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Coopurr

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Purred: Wed Dec 15, '10 12:23pm PST 
We have a whole thread of toy ideas! I hope you find this helpful!!!

Purrs,
Coop

http://www.catster.com/forums/Cat_Movi es_Books_and_Entertainment/thread/641807
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Jefferson

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Purred: Wed Dec 15, '10 1:00pm PST 
I am fostering 5 kittens right now who are looking at their many toys like "been there, done that." Last night I took a medium-sized box and cut a few 4 inch by 6 inch holes in it (a mock door on both sides and one on top, just big enough for kittens to get in and out of). It's sort of like a kitty fort. I sat it open side down on the foster room floor, put a few noisy balls and a catnip toy inside, and their eyes got big as they ran to it like it was something wonderful. They just need a fresh perspective sometimes. Something else that became an accidental toy that they still enjoy right now is a 6 foot, rolled up carpet that I never put into use. It was brand new before one of the adult foster cats began to use it as a scratching post since it's leaning against a corner. When I rescued these kittens, they soon began to climb it after they were old enough. Next, they played King of the Hill, trying to stay on the top of it and knock the others off. Sometimes I'll go into the room and a kitten will be sleeping on the top. Now they race up and back down and even climb down into the center of it. Fantastic fun for them. Two nights ago when I was vacuuming in their room, I put their toy items back in different locations. When I released them into the room, they walked around looking at everything like it was brand new. Cats are so silly and easy to fool. They had lots of noisy fun that night--poor neighbors downstairs. Just get creative.kitty

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KARMA KITTY

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Purred: Fri Dec 17, '10 1:54pm PST 
We cats have plenty of toys and scratchy boards and you name it.
Punkin and Charlie are the oldest and they tend to rest a lot more.
the thing that can stir them up a while, are the Yeowwwwy Bananas.
When it seems one of us is extremely bored or sad....Mommy finds that we get happy with one on one playing time with her. Toys alone are not enough. We love seeing a human at the end of one of our feather sticks.
It takes a special owner to try to put themselves in our paws....but our Mommy doessmile She'll drop whatever she's doing to play with us if she feels we need it. Without some special time with our owner....most cats will become bored and sad looking. Or may even go through depression.
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Padfoot

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Purred: Sat Dec 18, '10 11:12pm PST 
Well I used to have a Da Bird which I did as a structured play time daily for Padfoot. I don't feel it is so necessary since I got Hermione as the two wrestle together and totally entertain (and sometimes annoy) each other. So I'd have to say maybe another cat. But if you can't do that some sort of structured interactive toy like the da bird or cat dancer and you.

--des
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Coopurr

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Purred: Sun Dec 19, '10 11:18am PST 
And...there's always the laser light. That thing works like a charm to keep them entertained! big grin
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Billy CEO- Cat

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Purred: Sun Dec 19, '10 3:50pm PST 
I seem to get bored alot in my house but the two toys that keep me entertained the most are on my website http://www.kittyutopia.com/?p=887 catnip bubbles and Kitty Flicks. I seem to play with them the most and my laser light
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Stormy

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Purred: Sun Jan 2, '11 6:43pm PST 
cloud 9 I made a mock toy of the stimulo, aikiou interactive feeder. We used toilet paper roll cardboard and taped them right side up to another cardboard(flat).
Link to the Aikiou feeder: http://www.aikiou.com/Stimulo_EN.html

Free to make your own and the kitties love it.
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Riley

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Purred: Wed Jan 12, '11 8:44am PST 
My kitty's favorite toys are his crinkle balls, and a cat wand. We bought him over 40 balls and they are all missing around the house somewhere. When I had my kitten Daisy she used to love the mice with the shakers inside of it.

Defiantly try a cat wand, almost all kitty's love them.
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Fluff

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Purred: Wed Jan 12, '11 10:37am PST 
It's Fluff. I have enjoyed my person's earring rack, and also the toilet. Plus we found that part of the carpet is unfastened, and enjoy pulling that up, and hiding the things we find underneath.

Needless to say, our person does not recommend this. We do all like having anything in an empty box, although Queenie and I are too big to get into many boxes. Stella loves it the best, and also those stiff plastic bags that they give at Barnes and Noble. They make the greatest noise. We did start cutting the handles, though, after Stella got caught once. She has been playing with plastic bags since she was a tiny kitten, and we thought she understood.

Stella enjoys playing fetch, although the rest of us think it is very uncatlike of her. She thought of the game herself, so not sure how to train a cat to fetch, but something to start young.

If you have the space and money, any of those cat tree things provide lots of exercise and fun, and if they are next to a window, endless enjoyment watching the outdoors.

We've heard that those treat toys, boxes with holes in them where you hide treats or dry food for the cat to figure out how to get them out, are a lot of fun and develop the old brain power.

A real mouse is very entertaining, but hard on the house.

If you have shown any interest in the TV, those mouse and bird videos are entrancing, but we shouldn't probably train our kitties to be couch potatoes.

Purrs! wave
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