The Best Things Come Around Small Packages! (DIY Cat Toys)

Member Name: silverelephant

Product:	DIY Cat Toys
Date:	16/05/01 (80 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap, Cheerful, Free

Disadvantages: If a cat is inclined to eat things it shouldn't this isn't the toy for it

I was never a cat person until my lovely Sylvester came to join us at a barbeque two summers ago and we just couldn’t get rid of him. Having been brought up in a dog family, I knew that pets needed entertainment!! I couldn’t leave poor Sylvester with nothing to play with all day while I was at work. And so my quest began…

First I bought a rubber ball, which he lost in about two days. Then I tried a furry mouse that he just turned his nose up at as if to say “get me a real one and I might be interested”!

After that came various other combinations, furry balls, jingly balls, mice that move, mice that rattle, you name it I tried it. Thank goodness we live in a flat with limited space or that “cat penthouse suite” in the pet shop would have been mine!!

Nope, several pounds later and thanks to the postman, I have my perfect diy cat toy. Y’see our postman is a messy boy and he loves leaving his rubber bands lying all over our hallway. One day I lifted one as I came into the flat. Sylvester was sitting on the other side of the door patiently waiting on me, as I waved my hands saying “come on baby let me in the door”, the claws got sunk into my leg in an effort to reach this dangly thing in my hand!

I was getting annoyed now, as I still couldn’t get in the door for this pest circling my feet and looking up between me and my hand. So I did what any sane person would do, put my bags down, hung the rubber band off the door handle and reached for my baby, ha! Straight past me with claws out jumped up and “twang”. A toy was found.

Now the good thing with hanging a rubber band from the door handle is, after much playing about, hanging off it, biting it etc, it eventually falls to the floor. Even more fun! Sylvester loves this bit the most. You see he can trap it in his front paws, bat at it with his back paws and bite it with his teeth and just
when he thinks he’s got the better of it, “twang”, off it goes across the room, it’s ALIVE, it MOVES. Yippee. And off he goes again.

But it doesn’t stop there; you can loop them together and make snakey things with them, perfect for pulling along the floor. You can get quite a few and wrap them around until they make a little ball shape and after he’s chased it round the room and got his paws into it, there it goes again “twang” a bit escapes, two for the price of one.

Thanks to my kind postman, I now have a rubber band hanging off every door handle, and if one should break or get lost, no problem because there are plenty more where they came from.

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