My cat's new best friend/toy

[Katymac]

& he keeps bringing to me so I can play with it too!

Firstcat was a seal point - a very very bright one from an old fashioned line - and he used to 'fetch'.

Relentlessly.

He tries to put in in my mouth....

I think he needs more toys but he doesn't like stuffed mice or ribbons to chase

We made him up a thing out of the old fashioned 'French Knitting'. (Was that what it was called?) A cylindrical body and a tail. A very favourite toy.

You have to be careful to let them have toys which are safe to chew. (Which they tend to do.) For example, pipe cleaner toys can be most attractive to them but very quickly degrade to small rusty wire shapes - which I for one wouldn't put near my mouth.

A useful stratagem is to sometimes put the toy in an obscure place - behind the sofa for example - so that they can find it themselves. Objets trouves seem to have an especial charm to them.

I had a cat who loved playing with the plastic thing that holds drinks cans together. It became a bit much when he would proudly run into the house with one he had found discarded in someone's garden (rough area ).

BorpCat1 is a fan of the Enigmatic Box of Untold Mystery and Unending Delight: a cardboard box with small holes cut in the top and sides and a couple of balls (too big to come out of the holes), some catnip and some treats inside. It took 5 minutes to make and has brought her hours of pleasure.

How big a box, Borp? (It never ceases to amaze me what cats will try to squeeze into/sleep in.)

It's a box from a 12 pack of coke, so 1 coke can high, 4 coke cans wide and 3 coke cans deep. It's got all 6 sides so she can't get in, just stick her paw through the holes to fish the treats out.

So rather like an expanded treat ball? That sounds great fun for her - and a good replication of hunting small things. Not everything has to cost ££££.

One of mines favourite toy is the plastic covers that go on our thermometer probes at work. (I am a nurse) I usually come home with my pockets full of them. She watched where I put them and would knock over the bin to get them out. I was absolutely gobsmacked the first time. As she's not over endowed with brains. We are getting new themometers soon so she won't be able to play with them.

Feathers, of any kind. I pick them up whenever I see one, hours of pleasure although he loses interest and wants a new one once the initial eau de bird wears off.