Saturday, September 30, 2023

Let’s ROLL!!

Sphero Mini (Blue) App-Enabled Programmable Robot Ball that is for kids, and family, but we bought it for our cats, to play with. We bought this cute mini ball cat toy about five years ago, to try it out with out cats. As it turns out, we forgot about it as it was buried in the Ottoman toy storage with our other cat toys. Before we played Sphero, we had to charge it, and when we did, it blinked blue as it was charging, and then changed solid green to let us know it was finished charging. So here we go, hey Pukini and Kai, let’s go, WEEEE! Let’s ROLL, and lets play with this lit up ping pong/cue ball like toy and have some fun. We can’t wait, and we had a ball. We were so ready, and our cats were so excited and it was tricky at times to maneuver this joystick with six different modes, but my husband Dave got used to it. As soon as Dave maneuvered it to move, on his Apple iPhone, the cats looked at the toy, and watched it spin and light up. They chased it back and forth on the carpet, in our hallway, and living room floor, and our tiled floors. The app made different noises on the Iphone, and Sphero made this like whirling sound like noise when it was moving.

We have this Hocus Pocus 2 pop up tent, and this lime green mini tunnel was inserted on one end of the entrance to the tunnel toy on the floor. When Sphero was going back and forth, on our carpet floor, Pukini was hiding inside his pup up tent, and when it went by, Pukini tried to bat at it. When the cats were waiting for the toy to go by, Pukini would be in the mini tunnel, and run out of the Hocus Pocus 2 pop up tent to chase the toy. As it went by beaming and taunting our cats, both Kai and Pukini looked at one another to say, “What’s this thing?” Watch out, it moves pretty fast, but so funny to watch. The cats followed Sphero mini toy robot ball everywhere it went, and they were mesmerized by this toy as it went under our living room table. They kept chasing this little blue beam like shaped ball, until they were lying on their sides asleep and worn out.

It is a toy mostly for kids and their family, but who says your feline family member can’t have a go at it as well. Sphero comes in a variety of colors, and it was pricey for fifty dollars. But it offered a lot for the cats to play with, and had some games, and STEM activities for the kids and families to play with. Finally, when your ready for more rounds of WEEEE, and ROLLING FUN, let’s GOOO get the cats ready to PLAY!

Here is the link.

Monday, September 11, 2023

It’s A Blast!

NERF Disruptor Elite Blaster - 6-Dart Rotating Drum, Slam Fire, Includes 6 Official Elite Darts - for Kids, Teens, Adults (Amazon Exclusive). What a blast it is for myself and for our cats, Kai and Pukini. We ordered this right away from Amazon, and it sounds like kids, and humans use this toy, but we wanted to try out this toy on our cats, and Kai loved it the most. What a blast it was get it, ha ha! You never know with each toy, what results from your cat(s) you will get. After having the six foam darts come with the blaster, we decided to get more dart refills for more blasting fun.

This is our second launching toy, and we love toys that can be launched. Besides the disrupter elite blaster toy, it comes with these six nice and soft nerf like toy darts, and it can hold onto this rotating drum like holder, with these 6 holes that the darts can be filled into. I wanted to fire all of these darts at once, but when fired off, I didn’t want to have the cats chase them, and when launched at once, lose every single dart. So I took one foam dart each, in the rotating drum area, and purposely either launched to the wall of the living room, the hallways, tile floors, or anywhere else.

First thing is first, to get the blaster ready, according to online pull the slide back, and release. To check the indicator, it’s orange, it is primed and ready to fire. Watch out, these darts can fly, and they can go pretty fast and according to online, the darts can go up to ninety feet. For example, I would pick our living room wall, and the dart get’s fired and goes on the floor, or bounces right back on say the chair. I try to aim it lower, at the wall, so than it bounces on the floor and Kai than chases it. It goes so fast and bounces off the wall, and you never know where the dart is going to land. We’ve had this toy for years, and it’s lasted and is a good value for your fourteen dollars.

The reaction we received from our cats, once the dart was fired, was to have the cat(s) chase it wherever it landed, minus the chair and bat, and chase and try to grab and bite at it. Kai’s fave, is to chase it and put it under the chair, or under the fake slab of foie grass. I loved that when fired the dart goes BOING all over the walls, and love the sound.

Enjoy this blast of a toy, with your family, but with your cat(s) as well! Have fun! Here is the link.

P.S. Where the red arrow is in the photo, is where the dart toy is in flight.