Fun Ways To Mentally Stimulate Your Cat | Cat Care, Breeds and Resources Blog

Cats need to be mentally stimulated. 3 of the best ways you can stimulate your cat are:
1. Play with them.
2. Talking to them.
3. Touching them.

You can combine these 3 in together. You don’t have to go out and buy expensive toys — many of which you’ll find your cat could care less about. You can create your own fun and interesting games with things you find around your house such as: cardboard boxes, wadded up pieces of paper, a shoe string, small balls, paper bags, or a feather.

Several of our cats will shoehorn themselves into boxes becoming box-o-cats. Then there are our bag-o-cats, the ones that like paper bags better. Of course, there’s Bruce Kamikazi Lee, who goes nuts chasing down the light reflecting off my watch or anything else. He’s a big cat but can move with incredible speed when attacking the light monster.

For other ideas on how to stimulate your cat, I’ve added a funny video below where you can get ideas and / or just have a chuckle. There are many scenes where they get themselves in trouble by their curiousity, but you’ll get great ideas on how to stimulate your cat. They even have a cat playing pingpong!

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Talking and touching your cat is a good way to stimulate them as well. To make sure your cat gets the mental stimulation he needs, make sure to give your cat a minutes several times a day.

Purrs, Frankie

Kira here. I’m a box and bag girl myself. I love a good bag because I can catch my mates unaware when they walk by. As for the “light monster”, that’s just dumb. Everyone, except that dumb Lee, knows there’s no such thing. Like I’ve said before, he’s dumb as a brick. Wait, I hear the crinkle of a bag — I’m out of here. Kira

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