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Hoping that everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We're taking a nice break for the holidays, but we'll be back after the New Year with new posts reviewing all the toys that Kai and Pukini got for Christmas.

Ottoman Cat Toy Storage Cube!

It’s been years, but after so many toys for the boys, Kai and Pukini needed a multipurpose place to store all or most of their cat toys in. We have other places we usually store their toys, when our cat tree is in the living/dining room. But after Thanksgiving, every year the cat tree goes out to the garage to stay out there for several months. So besides their tunnel enrichments/toys, I store them in there as well and more. What I love is it is placed under our front window in the family room, inside so the cats can jump up on the ottoman and look out at the window outside. It is nice and made of faux leather, and it’s very sturdy, for our two big sized cats. They love looking outside, whether the window is open or closed.

What a nice place to sit for our cats, but it’s a great organizer, when you have so many toys, and we have all kinds of toys in this storage cube. It’s a pretty good sized box or cube inside and the dimensions online are:15"D x 15"W x 15”H. We needed this toy organizer, because I have toys that are wand like wired toys, and I keep them in gallon sized ziplock bags so they don’t get tangled up. Plus we have an assortment of toys we have bought over the years, and organized in this cube.

Finally, when the cats aren’t sitting up on the Ottoman Cat Toy Storage Cube, online it says, you can use it as a foot stool as well. When your looking for a multi purpose box, or cube to have for storage, take a look this product. Give it a try and see the results for yourself, and tell all of your cat friends. Be glad you did.

Here is the link.

Cardboard Cat Cave!

What cat(s) don’t like boxes, or Cat Caves? Our cats sure do! Since it’s the Christmas season, we have loads of cardboard boxes in our garage. So one day, my husband Dave took a huge cardboard box, and took a box cutter and cut out a circular hole. He brought the box in, to see what the cats would do with this enrichment idea. It’s our DIY cardboard cat cave, and let’s have some fun. The cats both explored and checked out the toys I threw in the box, and jumped in the box and playing hide and seek. I also tossed in cat treats and just watched both cats trying to retrieve them. This enrichment idea is so simple, and now it’s a free toy like enrichment to put on our blog. We even put the box on it’s side, or straight up, or upside down, or any which way for a variety, and so the cats don’t get bored.

We have no link to this DIY cardboard cat cave of fun, but we didn’t need too. Let the possibilities with your cats run wild. We would take a variety of wand toys, like the bees, lizards, birds, rats, mice, and try to attract their attention, to paw, and try to chase these toys. Also, I would take this longer wand like toys, that look like worms, and maneuver it back and forth to the inside of the box, back and forth. They enjoyed that a lot. The best to me and my husband Dave, were connecting these tunnel looking toys and as well as our Hocus Pocus 2 pup up tent to connect to the circular area of the box. Pukini loved it, and we Ioved it, when he wiggled his rear end and than proceeded to run right through the tunnel(s) to the box and out of it, and than turn right around and go back out again. It was just hilarious how excited they both enjoyed this free enrichment toy of fun. When you’re looking for a new enrichment idea, you can’t go wrong, because you can get any variety of boxes, and have fun exploring with your cat. Mix it up, and put in some new and old toys, and what’s fun is to see what they can do with their imagination to entertain themselves.

Watch the Birdie!

Hartz Just For Cats Chirping Bird Interactive Plush Catnip Cat Toy. Are you ready for another fun birdie toy review of another bird, from the same website? We are. Anyway, this light blue colored bird, had a cute but annoying loud chirp sound to it, but I wondered if the noise bothered our cats. I like to throw it up in the air, or toss it to the cats to play with, and I want them to hear that loud annoying bird sound when they play with the bird. When they do they ignore it. I gave it mixed reviews, like a two and half, out of five stars, or fifty-fifty they liked, or didn’t like it. According to online, the plush material of the bird, is filled with catnip, but I added some catnip on top of the bird to add more catnip scent to it.

When I tossed the bird in the air, or batted the bird to both cats, they were interested some times and sometimes they weren’t. What I liked was it gave them a bit of hunting, and exercising fun, like when they are in the wild. It makes them feel like they are predators after the kill. Kai didn’t get quite as excited at this toy, but Pukini did at times. I loved it when I tossed him the bird, and he rolled over one way, and the other way. It was funny, and I loved his reaction. Must be some exciting catnip we have, and Pukini acted like a kitten. I know Pukini loves feathers, because when we had the other bird, he destroyed the feathers of the other bird we used to have. With this bird, he would take the bird, and just grab it, and take his paws tightly in his grip, and bite at it.

Finally, give this bird toy a chance, because you don’t know about a toy unless you give it a try to find out. They ship randomly a variety of colors of the bird. We loved the light blue color of the bird, we received. Unfortunately, according to online it is currently unavailable and it said this: We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. Just keep checking, and you never know they might bring it back for you to buy down the line. Enjoy watching the birdie and have a fun time.

According to online Unfortunately, Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. This is what it said online, so keep checking, and see if or when it will be available again. Here is the link.