Cats Playing Football - Easy to Make DIY Toy

Cats can easily get bored and many cat toys can be costly. Donations from the public go on higher priority food and medical treatment so I enjoy keeping the rescue cats I foster stimulated and active by creating play activities that cost very little.

Most cats love boxes I've yet to work out why but I suspect it may be something to do with the facts that cats like to hide, pounce and ambush as part of their natural hunting behaviour. Any activity that mimics this is a winner with cats.

At work we took delivery of a large item and nobody minded that I took the box home. Meanwhile a bag of  table tennis ballscosting only pennies were on their way. Both Hildy and Enid interacted with this set up immediatley.  Curious at first but then chasing the balls around and jumping in and out of the box along with a few harmless cat fights along the way.

If you'd like to see them in action I did a short video of their cat capers which also demonstrates how easy this play activitity is to create. If you don't have a box this big one or two smaller boxes should do the trick.

 I'd love to hear if you tried this out - if you did comment below and let me know what happened.

Fostering cats making an adoption video for Enid

Part of fostering cats is to provide potential adopters with some photographs and description of the cats personality. All our foster cats are displayed at catchat.org.

We could however go one step further and provide a video of each cat. And since videography is a hobby of mine it seemed a perfect way of helping the cats I foster and practicing a hobby I love. As Enid is a lively and playful I thought I'd try and capture shots of her more comical side. Hildy the other foster cat, by the way, is very laid back and quite aloof although very well behaved. Quite a contrast to Enid.

I did wonder if fostering cats would be difficult at first but so far it's turning out to be a fun way of helping our fellow creatures in distress. I think the cats like being filmed as well.