Thread: What does your cat play with for fun?

Our Dakota loves playing with "milk doodles" (the tab you remove from plastic milk containers - look like a broken plastic ring). He plays fetch with them and also entertains himself by batting them around. He particularly like them "fresh" (can smell the milk? I dunno). He also likes hair ties/bands that can be tossed or batted. He has a toybox full of toys (kid & kitty), and sometimes digs through them like a little kid, but not often. He sometimes chases an electronic hamster in a plastic ball that we got him last Christmas, but he easily gets bored if he can't interact with things. I have to agree that most kitty toys do not interest him for long. His brother, Blue loves to carry around plastic bags and airpacks that come in shipping boxes. He will carry them throughout the house, meowing the entire time (quite comical). They both love boxes too!

I have to caution use of toys on a string - as Dakota loved them as a kitten and would "hunt out" the toys. When he was about 6 months old, he found one of them in a drawer, got it out, and somehow got tangled up in it dangling by his hind leg because it got caught on a cabinet handle. Had we not been there to rescue him, this could have been disastrous, and this experience terrified him. We now lock these types of toys up, and only play with them (and Dakota) supervised.

I've never had cats that play fetch before either, but both of these guys do, and only one is an MC. I've heard that cats do this, but it is quite common w/MCs in general.

My experience is that he is much more curious than any other cat we've ever had, and can get into trouble easily - but so does his brother. I think they teach each other new tricks constantly. They open cabinet doors & drawers just to see what they can get into. They would open the doors going outside if they could, as we have caught them trying to maneuver the knobs several times (our exterior doors are all dead-bolted). They are very entertaining, but we watch them closely.