Only cat toys that have ever worked are laser pointer and long springy steal wire with a feathers in the end.

Trash and the $3 steel wire with some curled up paper on the end.

Robot mouse

The cardboard box my new laptop came in

5070 GPU, but my wife’s starting to suspect it wasn’t primarily for the cat

Of course it isn’t. Everyone knows that cats only want a 5090.

Im missing the joke, is the computer called CAT or something or does the cat like to lay on the computer for warmth?

Realistically for the warmth but I think it’s a joke about the fact that it’s a toy for the guy but not for the cat

Is there a c/LostLemmings?

Alright there, moneybags

I bought some of those as seen on TV foam door runners in fabric tubes made to help seal a room.

When Ash was just six weeks old she came charging through the living room with one, it had to be ten times her size. She was so damned proud of her kill.

To this day it’s the only thing she consistently plays with, other than q-tips.

Cardboard box scratching pads

Same. Cardboard box or round scratching pads are still getting used every day for months. Every other toy, a day or so max.

Yeah can confirm they love that shit

My cats all love these crinkle snakes. I’ve gifted them to friends who have cats, too, and they’ve been a hit.

If you commit data center resources to producing you a picture of something you could easily find on the internet instead, I will downvote you. Can people not see how that’s a problem? Why does this stupid fake cat tree picture need to fucking exist? All you’re doing is helping justify the data centers, and wasting resources by creating dumb shit like this.

They didn’t necessarily generate it. More likely, they just did an image search for cat tree and picked one.

Slop is slop dude

Thats exactly what happened

If you actually took 5 seconds to inspect the text, you would see its a linked image from some random website that had that image come up when i searched for cat trees.

How about a little slack, huh

Ball of twine.

Take the tinfoil wrap off of a Hershey’s kiss up in a small ball, then take several more of those tinfoil wraps and keep wrapping until you get a ball approximately a quarter to a half inch across. Then toss it on the floor near the cat.

In the same vein, that plastic strip that you peel off some gallon milk or water jugs to open them is somehow optimized for cat fun.

Never tried that one. Although I think my cat would have tried to eat it

Feather on a flexible stick.

Anything that’s not supposed to be a cat toy lol

The most consistent ones for me are cat trees, cardboard box scratching pad, an elastic ball that they both love to chase around (one of the two cats also fetches and brings it back like a dog), cat tunnels, and an elastic carrot thing with catnip in it that they love to attack

Also hiding some of the old toys they don’t care about and then bringing them back once they have kinda forgotten about their existence can spark up their excitement sometimes

That image makes me uncomfortable and fills me with a mild rage… therefore, I suspect it is AI.

It definitely has that vibe, that was my first instinct too. But zooming in, I think it’s legit, if way over done.

It is absolutely AI, there are components on it that do not make sense.

A little mouse and a bit of twine, little Marquel loved to play with it while I was busy on the computer. Also delete your ai image

Boxes, cat tree and laser pointer.

All the other toys just end up unused.

A springy piece of wire with the ends wrapped around bits of cardboard has reigned supreme in my household for years. And the smaller tennis balls for little dogs are also a hit.

A twist tie. Like the one that comes on loads of bread.

Those mf are hard to find, I keep those for me and cords

Haha they are a dying breed. Just get some from the grocery store when you buy produce. Normally there are green twist ties for the bags.

The best one is definitely the box my computer case came in. It’s super sturdy, and the cats tear it up all the time and hide in it.