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Cat toys?
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Cat needs your attention, not electric toy. Use wasted clothes: socks on a string, sock balls, shirt tube with suspended enerance to crawl through. Build a cat tree (premade ones are junk, just nail together a tripod and randomly placed shelves on it, how hard could that be? Wrap some cord around it somewhere).
Cat toys are made to be demolished quikly, making them from something that is not waste is kind of stupid. The only things to buy are lazer and catnip, and catnip could be grown at home (lazer could be grown too but crystal fab is not a simple project).
I would advise against using clothing as toys. It blurs the line between what they can destroy and what they can’t. Toys are meant to be abused by the cat, and will be utterly decimated if the cat has any say in it.
Nah, just store them wrapped around catnip and make explicitly different from clothes. Only one of my cats was destroying clothes, that was when she was just adopted from cold Luoisiana street. The rest was done by very obedient and extremely ashamed dogs.