What is your cat's favorite toy?

What toy is your cat's favorite?
Photos please?

How do they play with it?
Do they always have the same favorite toy or they get bored with it and change their mind all the time?

Like people, My cats have different preferences. My first cat Tiro loved round things that would roll, like milk bottle rings. He would bring them to me to throw. My second cat Tayla loved things whizzed through the air for her to leap at. Max loved anything with a person on the other end of it. Magic loves having another cat to romp with. Lilly is my champion mouser, but if the mouse holds still she loses interest in it. She doesn't recognise them as prey, to her they're just mobile toys. She also loves playing hockey with a ping-pong ball in the empty bath tub. It rolls, skitters, and bounces, and doesn't go out of bounds. So she got the idea to take her mice in the bath tub to play with; they can't get away. I must admit, it does make it easier to clean up the dead bodies!

It is rare to hear house cat still catch mice. I thought they have gone too lazy to do anything about the mice. Your cat drown mice in the bathtub, that is the first time I heard of it.

One of my cats actually killed a mouse about a year ago. I didn't even know we had a mouse. He is the predator of the house though. He finds any escaped crickets

our tonkinese has a favorite toy type, strips of vinyl flooring. He is actually the type that likes any small floppy things, like the milk bottle rings Karen was talking about above. But he loves thin strips of vinyl flooring. He actually comes and waits if he sees one of us cutting it. And he puts everything in the water bowl. Or my shoes. Sometimes both, in the water bowl, then out, then in my shoes, wet. He is a very odd cat.

Vinyl flooring! That's a first! He sounds like quite a character. When I find a dead mouse I theorise it died of a heart attack from being played with by a cat. I don't think they know how to kill them! One time, I think Lilly accidently caught one in a vein with a fang, because the next morning I found blood all over the bath tub, along with a good size dead mouse. At least her habit of taking her "toys" in the bath tub made clean-up easier.

My cats favorite toy is a bottle cap, but he always loses it by pushing it underneath my bedroom door and I find it by stepping on it. I have to start wondering if he's just pulling pranks on me.

(04-29-2012 02:15 AM)lhins Wrote:  My cats favorite toy is a bottle cap, but he always loses it by pushing it underneath my bedroom door and I find it by stepping on it. I have to start wondering if he's just pulling pranks on me.

I think they know where they are putting them sometimes. That boy puts things in my shoes. And not one pair, any of them. If I buy a new pair, the next day, there is something in them. And noone else's shoes in the house. He has a purpose. I have absolutely no idea what it is, but he has a purpose.

Karen I would think your right about the mouse, I have no idea how how killed it, he was playing with it and I thought it was one of the fake stuffed catnip little mouse toys we have, until we stopped and looked closer. (READ: until my wife screamed )

It sounds like the cats are intentionally playing with you by putting toys at certain places such as in your shoes or under the bedroom floor.
You should be glad the cats actually want to play with you.

Cats traditionally are known for killing mice and rats. Many people used to keep cats for that purpose alone. The cats used to play the mice as toys before ate them. it is no longer common these days. It is just that too many cats today are too spoiled to bother with rats or mice.

Some cats (usually female, but not always) will bring you "prey" they have caught. Instinctively, mother cat will bring her kittens prey; first dead to introduce them to solid food, and later live to teach them to hunt. Indoor cats don't know how to hunt, or that small animals are food, but sometimes the instinct kicks in anyway. The "prey" they hunt is toys, so that's what they bring you. Either they're proud of their hunting prowes, or they think you need food. I have a friend who has a cat that brings in live birds from the back yard and leaves them for her to find. By then shock has worn off and the bird is flying around the house and she has to catch it to get it back outside. So when your cat leaves toys in his food dish, He's bringing "prey" back to his "den", and when he leaves toys in your shoes, he's leaving you "food" where he knows you will find it. My cats love those real fur mice and will do the whole toss-it-in-the-air-and-kill-it routine with them. Because I live in a 100+ year old house that mice get into, I buy the cats the brightly colored ones so I can tell at a glance just WHAT they're playing with!

Rubbish seems to be their favorite toy; screwed up paper or foil, bottle caps, plastic bags and anything that rolls around really.

Mine still catch birds and mice regularly too, they seem to make good toys.