Vet-Designed Cat Toys for the stalk, the chase and the catch

The ones with a bell ball inside felt or cardboard and nothing on a string: the Boulder, the High Roller Dice, the Puzzle Pal (box and ball; the two spring feathers come off once chewed) and the Expand & Flex Toy. Everything with a wire, a string, a spring or a battery is for play with you and then the drawer, because a cat alone with a string will chew it and a swallowed string is a surgical emergency.

With you in the room, yes, and that is the whole rule. Feathers pull out under a good catch, which is a catch working; a cat who eats them rather than shaking them loses the toy and gets a vet visit, because eating things that are not food has causes. String is the thing I operate on: never left out, never handed to a kitten unsupervised, and the wand goes in a drawer after every session, every time.

A laser on its own is a chase that never ends, and some cats start stalking shadows and reflections after it, so we do not sell one on its own. The Teddy Multi-Use Laser Toy has a feather wand in the same handle: the dot is the chase, the feather is the catch, and every session ends on the feather or a treat. Never at anyone's eyes, and a cat who fixates on light loses the laser and keeps the wand.

Ten minutes twice a day beats an hour on Sunday. Dawn and dusk are when she is built to hunt, so a short hunt before your breakfast and before hers in the evening, ending with a catch and a meal, is the routine that stops the sprint across your face at 3 am. Let her win: a hunt she never finishes is a hunt she gives up on.

A kitten starts on the wand set with you and the Boulder or the Dice on her own, never a string unsupervised. An older cat wants the game brought to her: the Emu Feather Toy Set's long rod lets her leap without you looming, the Expand & Flex lies flat, and a cat who has stopped playing altogether, or plays and then hides, is a vet visit before she is a new toy; that is often pain.

Any wand with a loop or a clip on the end of its string takes them, including wands from other brands and both of ours. They come five to a pack, and the wand set carries six in the box. If a pack or a toy arrives damaged or wrong, email hello@purrz.com within 7 days of delivery with a photo and your order number; faulty, damaged or incorrect items are covered and we pay the return shipping when the error is ours.