Ridiculously Random Non-Cat-Toy Things That Cats Love Way More Than Their Fancy Schmancy Toys: ICanHasCheezburger Edition

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jan 29, 2024 9:00 AM EST

If there is one thing that you learn as a cat owner over time, it's that… spending money on expensive things for your cats is the most useless thing that you can do. Yes, you're going to be all excited at first, buying your cats all kinds of fancy cat trees and gadgets and toys… Oh, you're going to spend a lot of money on cat toys, only for your cat to decide that the best toy is, in fact, a random hair tie that they found under your couch.

It seems that, for our cats, anything is a preferable toy to actual cat toys. Seriously. We have seen cats that are obsessed with almonds, playing with them all day, to cats being obsessed with snap peas, carrying them around everywhere, all the way to cats who simply love… laptops, because they're not only fun and colorful, they're also warm, which is a bonus. And still, even with everything that we have seen, some of the things that you guys told us managed to surprise us.

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via Leora Henry

This is a new one. We have heard of cats playing with hair ties, with straws, with random pieces of plastic, but silicone ear skins… Of course your cat will latch onto this most random thing. Why wouldn't it? It's only logical. It's cat-logic.
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via Fisher The Maine Coon

Now, Q-tips, that's a classic. Leave a Q-tip lying around anywhere near a cat and prepare for chaos. One way or another, you will find that Q-tip in a place where it doesn't belong. Either in your cat's mouth or hidden in some nook in the house that you didn't even know existed.
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via Kathryn Beverley
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via Sara Ebare
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via Julia Ann Olson
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via Sue Hindes
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via Tina Kennedy
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via Kate Merritt
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via Stacia Gabriela
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via Michelle L Bacskay
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via Kristin Cleveland
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via Kelly Saikkonen
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via Laurie Understock
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via Jennifer Wilson
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via Sarah Gardner
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via Michelle Goldstein
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via Dianne Strain
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via Flynn Hayes
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via Joe August
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via Paula Nottle
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via Charlotte Messer Causey