As you can gather from all my posts on wand toys, these are used more than daily in our home! Last night our two furries waited with avid interest while husband-man made a new toy for them. And then we had two hurricanes bolting around and over the furniture in frantic chase of this thing that was attached to the DaBird wand. We played for over an hour, and had to remake the toy twice! The 'toy' was simply (but imaginatively) a scrunched up ball of paper, placed inside an inflated plastic sandwich bag - the bag got decimated twice. So we also tried a tiny toy mouse inside the second bag...winner!
What makes it such a good toy? The plastic and paper rustle. The allure of something hiding in the bag. The yielding inflation. The pesky toughness of the plastic that won't allow them to instantly get at the lurking thing inside. The flick and speed of the whole thing attached to the DaBird wand. And husband man's re-arrangement of our furniture into a circuit so that they zoomed around the room with minimal floor contact. Just to give you an idea of what that looked like, this is an early version of our circuit (it has grown!) - Kato is actually chasing a stick of lemongrass (he goes bananas over the smell and pulls them out of our shopping bags the minute we get home): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3UVR50WEBM
The inspiration for this new toy came from watching some old movies of Kato as a kitten. We had made this toy before...but it was 'new' because of the wand element (and the 2 years break in between). So yes, this is a 2-in-1 toy - it can be a stand alone toy (but it works better if you admire your cat while they rabbit around with it, plus we always watch over plastic bags for safety), and it can be a wand toy. Here's Kato after our first stand alone version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNjYX2Ect0
What makes it such a good toy? The plastic and paper rustle. The allure of something hiding in the bag. The yielding inflation. The pesky toughness of the plastic that won't allow them to instantly get at the lurking thing inside. The flick and speed of the whole thing attached to the DaBird wand. And husband man's re-arrangement of our furniture into a circuit so that they zoomed around the room with minimal floor contact. Just to give you an idea of what that looked like, this is an early version of our circuit (it has grown!) - Kato is actually chasing a stick of lemongrass (he goes bananas over the smell and pulls them out of our shopping bags the minute we get home): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3UVR50WEBM
The inspiration for this new toy came from watching some old movies of Kato as a kitten. We had made this toy before...but it was 'new' because of the wand element (and the 2 years break in between). So yes, this is a 2-in-1 toy - it can be a stand alone toy (but it works better if you admire your cat while they rabbit around with it, plus we always watch over plastic bags for safety), and it can be a wand toy. Here's Kato after our first stand alone version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNjYX2Ect0