How to Find Cat Toys That Stimulate Your Cat

Everyone knows that cats are curious. That is one reason they are said to be blessed with nine lives. Their curiosities can get them into some pretty tough and dangerous situations. One way to keep your cat’s curiosity from getting the better of her is to have a wide range of cat toys available for her to play with. While it is true that cats spend the majority of their days sleeping, having the right cat toys available when she is awake can keep her from climbing up your chimney, tightrope walking across your curtain rods or hanging on your window screens. Read on to learn more.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. The cheapest thing that can be used for cat toys is bags. You have probably seen your cat peek into your grocery bags or clothes bags when you bring them home from the store. Use that to your advantage and make cat toys out of them. You can place cat toys that smell of catnip in different size bags. Loosely fold them up and place them around your home. Your cat will spend hours trying to get at the cat toys she smells.

2. One way you can use boxes to entertain your cat is to purchase cat toys that move or roll and put them inside a box. Cut holes in the box large enough for your cat to put her paws in, but not large enough to get the cat toy out. Watch your cat as her tail swishes as her brain goes to work on how to get at the cat toys.

3. Other unique things that make for interesting cat toys can include rolled up balls of newspapers, laser lights, soap bubbles and even a roll of toilet paper.

4. If you want to truly turn your cat’s instinct on you should purchase a child’s fishing rod. Attach feathers to the end of it and cast the feathers out into the cat’s line of vision. You can spend hours entertaining your cat this way.

5. Cat toys should stimulate your cat’s instincts--whether it is her sense of smell, her hearing, sight or hunting instinct. Purchasing or making the right kind of cat toys can also work to your advantage. Once your cat has played for a couple of hours she will be more than ready to couch out and take one of her long naps--instead of stalking you, your other pets or looking for some innocent cat mischief to occupy her time.