Toy for a cat - do it yourself or buy?

All cats love to play, and their owners can spend long hours playing with them and watching their behavior. To give pets the opportunity to have fun, do not need to spend a lot of money. Moreover, the cat will be happy even for self-made toys, for the creation of which you can connect children. Any housewife will always have the necessary materials for manufacturing, and there's no need to spend much time on it! Shops offer a wide variety of feline fun, but do you know what your favorite prefers? Who is she by nature: birdwatchers, mousers or thinker? These house predators love to chase, attack, grab, carry, bite and ride.

How to make a toy yourself

Encourage the hunter's instinct in the animal. A toy for a cat should look like a bait. You can build it in many ways.

• A conventional sheet of compressed accordion paper is attached to the rope. Watching the rocking of this bow, the animal will think that the "victim" is alive.
• By tying any soft toy to the waist from the old dressing gown, your child will certainly carry a fluffy pet.
• Do the chick. Which cat does not want to chase a bird? To do this, glue the tennis ball and golf ball. They have different sizes, the smaller of them is similar to the head, the larger one - to the body. Place them in a rectangular bag of bright fabric, sew a hole and wrap around the neck with a tight cord, tightly tying its ends. For the tail, use the short pieces of ribbons or laces connected together, by attaching them to the bottom. Draw a non-toxic marker. Under them place a beak from a piece of a rigid braid, fixing it in the middle so that the tips stick out. A little lower you can attach a tie, and a toy for a cat is ready.
• Make the mouse - the most typical object of cat hunting! Two pompons from the old hats put in a cut out of a gray felt drop-shaped pocket. On the upper part, sew two eyes. Then pat the remaining hole by inserting a tail from the lace into it.
• Use improvised items. Lanterns and laser pointers are a great way to entertain an animal (and you). Turn off the light and aim the rays in different directions. Murka will chase lighted dots or streams of light for a long time if she is in the mood.

Consider the possibility of collision with other things during the pursuit, take care not to harm the pet. When using a laser pointer, be careful not to point the beam at the animal's eyes.

Be creative about household items. An excellent toy for a cat is a paper bag from a grocery store, an empty sewing coil for yarn, empty containers (carefully washed in advance), crumpled paper and so on - all this can be used for entertainment.

• It's time to eat. Put the dry food inside an open plastic bottle with a wide neck. Your pet, pushing and twisting it, will get food during the game.
• Throw a ping-pong ball, your furry friend will long chase it. Just be aware that this can be quite a noisy event, so if someone is dozing, try again later.
• Use boxes like shelters or houses. Cut out the windows and doors in them for easy access to the mustached friend. Hang inside the toys, fixing them on top - a gorgeous bat effect. If you use large boxes, then the cat can play inside and hide. When they believe that they are invisible, they can jump out at any time to an unsuspecting victim, so be careful!

• Soap bubbles are also a great way to have fun in the company of animals and children at the same time.
• "Mouse under the blanket" - old A proven method when the arm or leg moves under the blanket in a chaotic manner. Just be careful with flirting - the attacking huntress can scratch very hard!
• An interesting toy for a cat is a large mirror. It will provide several hours of free entertainment, because some furry copies like to watch or attack the double reflected there.
• Fasten between chairs Gum in the form of a swing and lightly push it. Curious creation will pay attention to this unusual moving object. Clinging to him with teeth or claws, necessarily shakes.

In addition, quite often the owners also use cleaning tools (mops, brooms, vacuum cleaners) as toys for cats. The photo below shows how a furry miracle rides on a small robotic vacuum cleaner.

Interactive lessons

A fairly wide range of interactive toys are represented by pet stores. Some of them are more simple and created on the basis of the above-described fun, only move automatically, and not with the help of a person. Others are made in the form of a complex, for example, a toy "Track for cats" with an exciting pursuit for rapidly spinning and loudly beating balls. The cat's gaze will follow through the holes behind the balls rolling inside. A fluffy pet will try to catch them again and again, and so on ad infinitum. If this is not enough, a small fur mouse is attached to the vertical spring, which moves from the touch of the paws trying to grab it. The spring has a protective coating to prevent injury. For a special excitement, you can put in solid pieces of food or catnip. The effect will surpass all expectations.