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You should try to find a laser penlight somewhere! They cost about $5, but I've never seen a cat get tired of them. They're the toy that never gets old :).
My littlest one LOVES acorns. She brings them in off the back deck and bats them around the house all day. We must have a dozen of them around here!
My cat loves balls made from scrunched up aluminum foil. She comes running any time she hears me wrap up leftovers, cause she thinks she's getting a new foil ball!
My cat LOVES:
Plastic drinking straws (her fave game is she sits under the table and I shoot them off the top of the table - she chases and tackles them)
Feathers
Q-tips
Tops to plastic water bottles / milk jugs
Penne pasta (uncooked)
My cat loves:
Boxes
Anything plastic & crinkly (especially at 3am when you are trying to sleep)
Beer bottle tops
The plastic ring below the top of a Gatorade bottle
Paper bags
Beer cases (he'll even let you pick him up and carry him around IN a beer case)
Laser Pointer
Dripping water faucets
My cat is really fascinated by the many hairbands that scatter the floor...moreso than her regular toys sometimes...she also finds little bits of trash to be really entertaining sometimes.
Another good toy for other cats is the "curl" from the top of plastic milk bottles. (You know when the lid is plastic, and you have to peel around the edge to open it?) I worked in a pet supplies store in high school, and they actually sold toys that were essentially those little "curls." So, if they can sell it, they must be on to something. :-)
Oh my cats looooove shoelaces. The laser pen was a hit too. They can't catch it but they try so hard!!
My cats love the laser pointer, cardboard boxes and ball bands from skeins of yarn. The ball band is the label- ring of paper around a skein of yarn. They like to stick their heads in them and tear them up.
My kitty loves cooked spaghetti noodles. She crys untill I give her one anytime I am making pasta.
She also loves q-tips and little mini hair clips.
my cat loved wooden golf tees when he was a kitten. he'd have a blast pushing them under rugs then fighting to get them back out.
he - and his brother - always get a kick out of mardi-gras beads. but you have to play with them and put it up later. i've found longer strands with bigger beads as well.
they also like this yarn 'scarf' i bought off a neighborhood kid (she made it). pretty much anything long that i can drag across the floor and yank away!
they always love the laser. Might as well invest in a nicer one you can replace the batteries in (office supply store).
be careful with the plastic items. one of mine thoroughly enjoys eating plastic (bags and bubble wrap especially). it can get stuck in numerous places throughout their digestic tracts. on a related note, the other cat thoroughly enjoys eating/destroying paper, especially when he's ticked at me.
My female cat goes crazy for nerf darts. The male couldn't care less about it. We have a nerf gun, and she will just cry and cry until you shoot them for her.
Mine also love straws (they figured out how to open the kitchen drawer to get to them, so I had to move them).
I can't leave hair ties around because the female eats them (and then pukes them up).
Have you seen the ninja cat video on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71Dtj2W7pw
Our cats will do this, and it is crazy entertaining. I laugh for hours playing this game with them.
@buttontoes:ninja-cat=hilarious.
also reminded me, one of mine loves playing hide and go seek. i'll tag him and run off and hide. he'll come find me, sneak up, make eye contact...then i yell, tag him again, repeat. lol ima loser...
In addition to a lot of the stuff that's already been mentioned, my cat has spent many an hour batting around wine bottle corks. And this one is really bizarre - one of my old roommates was a bicycle mechanic, and we discovered that my cat went absolutely crazy when we would drag a derailleur cable along the ground. Seriously - she would chase it for hours and hours and hours, until we finally got tired of playing with her. I've never found anything she liked more.
My fiance wears those foam/rubber/gel inserts in his shoes. In order to make them fit, I have to cut a cresent shaped part off the front of them. My kitty LOVES that leftover piece. She carries it around like it's her baby. She even talks to it.
My little Fuzzy LOVES the tabs from milk tops! He'll bat that around all day long. Aria also likes to play in paper bags (the only thing I can get her to do anymore!) Demeter used to destroy mechanical pencils all the time. I couldn't tell if she liked playing with them or had an extreme hatred for them!
And Aria used to chase the light from a flashlight or the reflection from a cd/mirror if you don't want to pick up a laser pointer.
Those are some great ideas! I need to give my cats some new toys. :)
My cats’ favorite toys are those hi-bounce balls from those $.25/.50 machines in grocery stores. And those plastic domes that cover the toys from the $.25/.50 machines. They glide fabulously over tile and carpet. Typically when I see some kids staring at the toys in those machines, I’ll buy the toy to give to them and keep the plastic shell.
I also get boxes from Costco and let them play in those for a day or two until I take out the recycling (bonus points if the box is just slightly smaller than the cat).
one of my cats goes stupid for Qtips.
It's not a household item but a really cheap toy that my girls love are these plastic coil springs that they go ape shit for
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My kitties are getting a little retless with the toys they have so I guess it's time to hide what they have and change it out for a while since cats will get bored like that. I was searching online for cheap (like next to free) cat toy ideas and found a few but wanted to see if you ladies had any other ideas.
Here's what what I've found so far for anyone else who's interested:
Paper bags
Boxes (bonus points if they can barely fit in it or if there are dividers for them to play with)
sock with grocery bag stuffed in it, sewn shut (makes a nice noise)
old pill bottle or film canister with paper clips or buttons
bubble wrap
toilet paper tub cut in rings
I was also thinking they might enjoy a bunch of cheap drinking straws to play with.
Things my cats love that I'm putting away a bit but might be helpfult o someone else:
Pipe cleaners
Hair ties
Cotton balls
socks with catnip
shoe laces
quaters
Can anyone think of anything else??