What inanimate objects bring your cat joy?

[violetbunny]

Our two cats seem to get joy from the oddest things (besides the usual tin of cat food being opened of course!)

BoyCat loves nothing better than to shred a roll of toilet paper. We've stopped hanging it on the actual holder in the bathroom now, otherwise he'll happily pull it from the roll, shredding it into a million tiny pieces as he goes. (He knows he's not allowed to as you can see by the guilty look on his face in the picture...)

GirlCat has a weird obsession with cotton buds. If she sees one, she'll meow at it until she can get hold of it and chew it. I've had to move where I keep them as she worked out how to open the drawer with her claws and get into the box.

What random things or objects do your cats get weirdly excited about?

One loves toe separators you use for painting nails!

I only hear another growl when she has a 15ml measuring spoon in her mouth.

And one has a special sock she carries around the house with her like a proud parent.

@Madcats are they tonkinese?

Daisy, 6, ginger and white fatty cat, Loves bottle caps, the type you get on sports drinks, and the plastic caps from my insulin needles.

Pickle, 10 months, nuts over most things. Cotton buds. Hair bands. bottle caps, (from the milk).

@elbels, their parents are GCCF regd. traditional Siamese. They are as mad as Tonks though.

For people buying pipe-cleaners, I recommend that you curl the metal edges round a bit. Then either curl them into a spiral or wind a few together like a spider.

Their absolute favourite toys, that prompt growling from the boy and jaw chattering from the girl, are those Go Cat Da Bird long wands with feather attachments you can replace.

Spring toys. These are actual cats toys but they're cheap as chips. When paw batted they roll like mad and then get chased and hunted. Sorry for the long link.

https://www.chewy.com/frisco-colorful-springs-cat-toy-10/dp/188522?utmsource=google-product&utmmmedium=cpc&utmcampaign=hg&utmmcontent=Frisco&utmterm=&utmmsource=google-product&utmmedium=cpc&utmmcampaign=hg&utmcontent=showcase-allproducts&utmmterm=&gclid=CjwKCAiA8qLvBRAbEiwAEZzPVowKKT2kPvArqCxLcmKm13abfKuR8YmWStq78MGfDvCjrGZCqh7RoCx3EQAvDD_BwE

The flipping Christmas tree!!

Plastic rings that come on bottles of squash - I slide them across the floor or throw them up in the air and she leaps at them and tries to pick them up in her mouth. Not always the most successful while I'm watching, but we do find them all over the house sometimes after we've been out...

A ball of tin foil. He is utterly obsessed with it - entertainment for hours!

Our cats (may they rest in peace) loved tinsel and lametta. Hours of fun chasing it up and down the stairs!

Madcats, they are just adorable ❤️

Liking the tin foil tip. Probably best removed when we aren't around, but they ran around with foil in ball and stick form!

My boy loves nail files, cotton buds which he parades around with them in his mouth like he's a weight lifter. His most favourite thing in the world is pant liner paper (the bit you pull off) he come
Running when he hears them and waits until I crush it into a ball and throw for him, this then leads to a 20 min game of fetch!

Boy cat 1 - Christmas baubles (he has his own) and plastic bags (cannot leave anything plastic down he will rip and shred it to pieces)

Girl cat - Kit Kat wrappers scrunched up

Boy cat 2 - is a 7 month old kitten so anything, bits of kale, pasta, tie round milk cartons, hair bobbles, feathers, he discovered the joy of tinsel this week

It’s when you pull out a piece of furniture to clean and you find all their contraband

plastic straws. utterly obsessed with them. stopped buying them a while back and none of my "surely this is similar enough" substitutes have anything like the same fascination. but this thread has reminded me that i've never tried paper straws. imma buy him a box for xmas :D

Cat no1.

My ex fleece sofa throw. Thankfully as he is minus his cojones it's not as bad as it could be

Cat no2.
Still a kitten but has a revolting soft toy that's been killed several times over. It bears no resemblance to what it used to look like. The kids call it the cats killy thing

Ikea bags. The big blue ones.

The flashing cursor on a computer monitor or the arrow.

One of my cats had an obsession with the printer. Every time I printed something he would come running from wherever he was in the house and jump up to the high shelf where it's kept and sit on top of it. He would watch in amazement as the paper came out the bottom and then would sit looking at it expectantly for another sheet. He's kind of got over it now though, it clearly doesn't hold the same thrill it used to.

My Dad used to empty the contents of the teapot out into the back garden (not sure why) and our cat would proudly bring the teabags back in for us.

Another sorely missed cat used to pinch bank notes from my husband's bedside table. She would trot around with them in her mouth and we'd have to wrestle them off her without ripping them.

Me!

Me when I'm asleep. It brings Ashycat unalloyed pleasure to jump up and down on me and meow in my ear when I'm asleep.

4.50am this morning. The procedure is that I wake up and give her cuddles, chin rubs, head rubs. Then I sit up, awake, but not ready to get up while the little cow curls up in a furry ball and goes back to sleep and has the nerve to give me a dirty look when I accidentally wake her up as I come back from the bathroom.

I'm deffo going to turn her into furry mittens one of these days. Not.

A manky blue fleece.
An intray box

Cardboard boxes to pub her gums along and scent gland it

I found my cat trying to open my advent calendar this morning. I don't think she understood where she was going wrong mind you sometimes the little cardboard doors are too tricky for me, even though I have opposable thumbs...

One of ours LOVES wrappers, lolly wrappers are her favourite! As soon as you’ve opened something and have the wrapper in your hand/next to you she’s after it and will run off with it like she’s on a stealthy mission growling if anyone comes close to her 😹(She also loves the Christmas tree and we regularly find her climbing through the inside of it and popping her head out 5/6 foot up!)

One of them realllllly loves to try and bat at the blinds and rip the wallpaper off one of the corners as you go around to the stairs 🙀 (I’ll be re-wallpapering once the kittens are out of their kitten stage, they’re currently 6 months old). Despite multiple scratch posts around the house this is her favourite thing! Next stop is a cardboard box fort for them!

And one just loves his food, that’s inanimate? And makes him very happy 😹

Mum is just pretty contented and tends to stick either to laps, under radiators or cosying up with the kittens! ❤️

They’re a beautiful crazy bunch!

Girl-cat loves cotton buds, preferably 'used'

I just hopefully offered my cat a nail file to play with (as it seems to be the toy of choice here). She batted it out of my hand onto the floor with a withering look and stalked off.

I'm sure I heard her say fuck off as she went out of the room

I'll let you all know how the pipe cleaners go. If she doesn't kill me in my sleep before then.

Nothing brings one of my cats more joy than eating the sofa.

One of my sofas has seen better days and where the fabric has pilled, she sits, pulls them off and eats them.

She also eats cardboard.