My cat's favorite toy is a velcro cord tie that came with some thing or another I got years ago. He's liked it since he was a kitten and it disappears for months at a time only to show up again periodically as he finds it.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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Gizmo looks just like minion!
My cat loves the simplest things too. Like a beer bottle cork or the plant ring on a glass of milk.
This is why I never bought ny cat any toys.
At least Brian has a girlfriend or the poor cat would be bored to death
Brian learned a valuable lesson, never buy cat toys
Gizmo is trolling Bryan. He will eventually use all of his new toys during the rest of his life. Give him time.
Just like babies, cats don’t need expensive toys.
PSA: Don't let your cats have hair ties! If you can, consider switching to something bulkier like scrunchies or claw clips.
Hair ties are one of the most common things vets have to remove from cats' stomachs.
I buy biodegradable and digestible hair ties for this exact reason. Mostly bamboo ones.
They suck as hair ties and last a fraction as long. But they won't fuck with my cat.
I keep on buying stuff because his favorite toys are receipts.
I think he might just enjoy getting money spent on him. Some people are like that
I knew a cat that kept eating hair ties, went to the vet because of it.
I was lucky and found my cat had just swallowed most of one after breaking it. Had to reach into her mouth and pull it out. D:
Keep a count of the ones you have, just in case. And keep them tucked away. My cat was an addict. (She's fine now but would still eat more in a heartbeat)
My cat did too. They endoscoped 30 hair ties out of her stomach. They're no longer allowed in our home. And I'm always checking if she finds something to play with. The only cat we've had that did it, and who bites, too. And yet she'll let her food sit around in the bowl until she feels like eating. It's a prey thing, I think.
We eventually stopped buying toys for our cats. One cat's favorite toy is dried leaves. The other can't get enough of twist ties twisted into a loop
Before i had toby, I bought Dom a giant fucking cat tree. Goes all the way to the ceiling and cost me a fortune. She has never used it, and she got more play time out of the box. Cats, amirite
My giant cat tree came in a cardboard box meant to be cut out into cat house. My cat enjoys the tree and the box equally
lucky you haha. My new cat toby doesn't use any of the toys I have either. Which is why i just bought some new toys off temu. Why? nfi.
My sisters cat goes fucking crazy for these cat toy springs. Anything else she gets bored of quickly but the springs? Never.
She'll put them in difficult to get to spots before trying to get them back, she'll fling them across the room, and she'll hide them wherever she can. Maybe the goblin will just hold it in her mouth while she walks. Once we found a spring in a box of rice. She just kinda dropped it in and we didn't notice until it came out
Omg there's a gap under my oven that's just big enough for the springs. I pulled the oven out from the wall and I found hoards of the plastic springs forgotten there.
give them cardboard boxes and a dollar store laser pointer.
Cat is happy, life is good, all is right with the world.
Scrunched up Post-it notes. Hours of fun.
The cat tree I have now is the first one ever to not just be ignored and it was dirt cheap from k-mart so I wouldn’t mind throwing it out.