I have two 14-week old kittens who love to play, I’m a teacher and got them in the summer holidays so I’d have lots of time for them but since going back to work I feel guilty that I don’t have much time to play with them. Obviously being the start of term work is particularly full on and I’m out of the house 11-12 hours most days. On top of that I teach EYFS and so spend a lot of my day playing slightly repetitive games with kids, some evenings I just don’t have the mental or physical energy to then play for a long time with the kittens.
They play together a lot but sometimes one will want to play when the other doesn’t and so I am just wondering what cat toys people would recommend for a cat to play with that doesn’t require input from a human or another cat? There are so many toys out there, lots of electronic ones like flapping birds and robot balls which but they’re all pretty expensive and so it’s hard to know which ones are actually worth the money.
To add they already have all the usual toys; loads of mice and balls, various wands, several tunnels, two cat trees, laser pointer etc. I’m more wanting advice on the electronic toys that claim to entertain the cats so I don’t have to! Obviously I will still play with them I understand an automatic toy is not the same as human interaction, but on days where my time or energy reserves are low I’d like to still be able to help them get enough play to burn off some energy without me! Thanks.