I've bought my cat hundreds of dollars worth of toys.

[Blue-Jay]

So what does he like to play with?

A fucking wadded-up piece of notebook paper. Oh! And rubber bands.

I'm convinced that they're plotting the downfall of humanity.

[Wickerman]

1. Try lids to water bottles or soda bottles

those work, too and are more costly than waded up paper. Add a little variety to the cat's life.

:grin:

[aquart]

2. Was it the cat's idea to buy the toys? Or yours?

They don't have to plot nothin'.

[XanaDUer]

3. Make sure he does not swallow the rubber bands, tho

that is a vet trip, for sure.

[Blue-Jay]

4. He doesn't eat the rubber bands.

He just brings them back to me, so I can flip them again. For HOURS.

[XanaDUer]

5. A cat ingesting a rubber band just gave me a weird mental image...

when cleaing the litter box.

And the hairballs.

[ironflange]

9. I've seen it done

One of our kitties once was seen with 1/2" of rubber band poking out of her ass. That soon passed.

[Blue-Jay]

10. That's nothing!

When I was a kid, my beagle ate a ball of twine. It was certainly a sight watching him run around the yard with a big dogturd trailing him at a three foot distance. Poor little guy.

[oxymoron]

12. LOL!

When I was growing up we had a terrier that loved to eat crayons. You couldn't hide them well enough. He would always find them and ingest the entire box. His lovely rainbow colored turds were the absolute talk of the neighborhood. He was the Jackson Pollock of bowel movements.

[Burma Jones]

6. It's the same way with human children

But the pResident told me to go out and buy stuff made in China, so I did.

[PVnRT]

7. You didn't already know?

I thought it was obvious.

[marigold20]

8. My six month old kitten prefers a feather duster.

When she runs past with that crazed "I caught the best thing today!" look, while dragging the handle of the duster behind her, it's just priceless.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

11. One of my cats' favorite toys was Q-Tips

When you said that part about throwing rubber bands over and over for HOURS, you reminded me. One cat loved to fetch Q-Tips and I only wish I'd taken a pic of him trotting back with the swab between his teeth like a little white bone.

Once he was through he'd start licking the cotton off the tips and then I'd have to take them away because I didn't think it was good for him. I found those damn swabs everywhere.

[DS1]

13. Just don't take it out to dinner with a limo, or expensive meal

Nope, you can't do that in these here parts, ya hear!

[Archae]

14. Heck, I have the world's greatest cat toy.

A laser pointer.

Lucky goes bananas chasing it.