MadCatLady
16-02-2010, 05:43 AM
Hello Guys!!:-D
Just thought I'd let all you catsey clan know about some money saving ideas I have started using with my Fab Feline Tribe!! :lol:
If you are anything like me you go to certain stores and spend a small fortune on the creatures and leaving yourself short.... :roll: You do it so they are entertained and don't end up costing you more money repairing & cleaning your furniture and coz we love them of course... :twisted:
So start saving the following:
Cardboard kitchen roll holders
Large flat box the type fruit is sold in @ the supermarket
Cardboard toilet roll holders
Tissue boxes (the type with a soft plastic bit around the pulling out hole are best but any work)
Corks
Buttons (the larger the better)
Christmas cracker plastic rings, hair decorations & the larger toys
Larger, chewable keyrings ( the sort you get sent free thru the post & don't want!
Ping pong or golf balls
Ribbon
Bottle tops (plastic, metal, milk whatever!)
Easiest one is the tissue box toy, simply get some of their fav treats, the ribbons, corks, balls and the buttons thread on string or ribbon and pack the tissue box full of stuff, making sure @ least one treat is near the top, stand the tissue box in the larger flat box and sit back & watch... Once they realise treats come out as well as toys they will be there for hours!!!
The kitchen/toilet roll holders take a bit more effort but not much, get the tubes and in some of them cut holes approx the size of a milk bottle top. Securely glue these tubes together in a vague pyramid shape making sure any holes are roughly a lined with each other. Thread buttons onto ribbon and weave this in & out of the tubes securing ends to top & bottom of pyramid, glue pyramid to flat fruit box for weight. Then place fav cat treats towards back of tubes & hide several of these sculptures in different places around the house. Puss will soon find them and spend ages reaching in & teasing the treats out only to keep losing them into different tubes thru the holes and getting them caught on the buttons attached to the ribbon... if you wanna be really mean, block off different tubes from one end so they have to run round the other side to retrieve the fallen treat!! :twisted:
It's so easy to make these things and funny to watch them struggle with the puzzles. Will post foto of Sullivan the Balds solution to one of them soon! :twisted:
Just thought I'd let all you catsey clan know about some money saving ideas I have started using with my Fab Feline Tribe!! :lol:
If you are anything like me you go to certain stores and spend a small fortune on the creatures and leaving yourself short.... :roll: You do it so they are entertained and don't end up costing you more money repairing & cleaning your furniture and coz we love them of course... :twisted:
So start saving the following:
Cardboard kitchen roll holders
Large flat box the type fruit is sold in @ the supermarket
Cardboard toilet roll holders
Tissue boxes (the type with a soft plastic bit around the pulling out hole are best but any work)
Corks
Buttons (the larger the better)
Christmas cracker plastic rings, hair decorations & the larger toys
Larger, chewable keyrings ( the sort you get sent free thru the post & don't want!
Ping pong or golf balls
Ribbon
Bottle tops (plastic, metal, milk whatever!)
Easiest one is the tissue box toy, simply get some of their fav treats, the ribbons, corks, balls and the buttons thread on string or ribbon and pack the tissue box full of stuff, making sure @ least one treat is near the top, stand the tissue box in the larger flat box and sit back & watch... Once they realise treats come out as well as toys they will be there for hours!!!
The kitchen/toilet roll holders take a bit more effort but not much, get the tubes and in some of them cut holes approx the size of a milk bottle top. Securely glue these tubes together in a vague pyramid shape making sure any holes are roughly a lined with each other. Thread buttons onto ribbon and weave this in & out of the tubes securing ends to top & bottom of pyramid, glue pyramid to flat fruit box for weight. Then place fav cat treats towards back of tubes & hide several of these sculptures in different places around the house. Puss will soon find them and spend ages reaching in & teasing the treats out only to keep losing them into different tubes thru the holes and getting them caught on the buttons attached to the ribbon... if you wanna be really mean, block off different tubes from one end so they have to run round the other side to retrieve the fallen treat!! :twisted:
It's so easy to make these things and funny to watch them struggle with the puzzles. Will post foto of Sullivan the Balds solution to one of them soon! :twisted: