Bored cat, ideas please?

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Any ideas for a bored cat? He is what I would consider a fair weather cat, ie this time of year he is only going outside for the toilet and not much else. He is crying a little more than normal, and think he is generally bored. Any suggestions for good toys please? Thank you

Cat nip toys, mines love them!

Scrunched up tin foil

Mine love charging through a fabric tunnel to chase a toy. For about 2 minutes

PlayStation?!

A box!
And another box!

Have you a toy on a stick, and a laser pointer?
Has he something to scratch on - a nice tall tree?

A cat tree, obvs. But a medium sized oak would also suffice.

Kong kickeroo toy is my cats fave, stuffed rectangle with a fluffy tail, doesn't look exciting but she loves to kill it every single day (it has catnip in too)

Get another cat

Surely a bored cat is broken and needs returning to Woollies for a refund?

If the refund somehow isn't forthcoming, head over to reddit and search for r/maru. Fat, lazy cst loves a box.

Bored cats welcome for tea at my place.

My cat's favourite toy is one I made myself by threading a drinking straw on a long piece of string and tying a knot in the end. He will also career around after the reflection of the sun on, say, a watch face, so I might try him with a laser pen one of these days!

Thanks for the tips. Was thinking about the laser thing. He scratches on a box as doesn't like the garden much which leaves a lot of cardboard across the floor. What about scratching posts do they work?

A toilet roll will give hours of fun.

Mine love Velcro cable ties with the ends tied together.

Also sweet or crisp wrappers smooshed flat, folded over a few times into a long strip then knotted. I couldn’t understand why they were pawing our floor lamp. Lifted it up and their wrapper toys were there. 😂

Mine all love an undercover mouse toy that's rechargeable and goes off randomly on a timer.

One of mine plays with a pine cone- no idea where he got it from.

Sponge balls the size of table tennis balls, throw it up the stairs and he'll go chasing after it. Bonus is, it'll come roll back down to you

Oh, and plastic straws, nice and light to bag with a paw

Cat videos on YouTube...not videos of cats but videos for cats. My cat will watch for ages.....and then eventually flings himself at the TV.

Oh my cat watches Parker and lilly on Instagram, it’s other cats. I know how crazy I sound 😂

Bells drive mines crazy too lol they play fetch with them

Another cat

My cat loves all the cheapest stuff;

String (I tie it round my wrist when tidying the house)
Cardboard boxes
Paper piles
The cheapest cat toys from Sainsbury’s (flamingo)
Playing peekaboo (no I’m not crazy much like the ninja cat videos on YouTube)

Garden wire twisted into a spiral
Onion skin
Laser pens
Very occasional squirt of catnip on the scratcher
Cats bore of toys very quickly do you need to have a variety and rotate them.

There was a great suggestion on MN recently, a shoe box with a few treats in, closed up with a few paw sized holes cut into it.