Cat Environment Enrichment: Games

Video Transcript

"Cats actually really like to play games, especially younger cats up to four or five years old, really like to have the exercise and the interaction of games. One of the easy games that you can do is find something that your kitty likes the feel of and likes to bat around and you can play fetch. So this little crinkly ball here will be a good thing for you to be able to throw and have your cat fetch. Other things they love to fetch are little balls of aluminum foil. Just take a sheet of aluminum foil and wad it up in your hands and then throw it along the floor, they love the sound it makes when they bat it around. You can also play hide and seek with your cats so when they're in the mood to run around they'll go and they'll hide in the condo here and you can come and find them and then run away and they'll follow you, especially if you offer them treats for doing that. And you can get them a good bit of exercise by playing hide and seek like that and they also really like to just sometimes play chase, so you'll find especially kittens will, as you're walking around, they'll pounce out from behind something and want to chase along with you. And as long as they're being gentle, that's a great game for them to play."