want to know why cats love boxes and cardboard
because cardboard is made out of trees and trees are the natural scratching posts
so here are some simple diy toilet paper roll cat toys that you can make
today seriously what you'll need is toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls string cat
scissors you can press pause pause and get your supplies and then meet me back here
so first we're going to make a series of wand toys with the string and toilet paper roll
because cats love wand toys they're interactive that means that you are required to play
cats love playing with us so first fold the toilet paper roll and then
cut a little triangle in it just to make a small hole see then
tie the string and you have a wand give me a polydactyl thumbs up if your cat loves toilet
paper roll toys now cats get bored easily they get finicky so an easy way to change this up
is to cut little strips and fray the edges and then you can fold it like this
cut the same hole and then tie the string on it and that's a different take on the wand toy
another version of a wand toy that you can make
fold it in half and we're gonna cut rings so just cut like this
now you have one ring one ring and you can tie this on a string or you can tie multiple rings
on the string for a little wand toy you can also just throw these rings around cats love to bat
around it really lightweight and small things throw it up in the air and watch them go crazy
another toy you can do with these rings is
cut up maybe four of them and then push them into each other like this here's two three
four see how you just kind of mush them together now you have a little ball a little ball toy
now jericho really likes to do food puzzles and mazes and i also make him hunt for treats around
the apartment so you can use toilet paper rolls to make you can use the rings you can make little
tunnels like different sizes you can make little diggers and you can also make treat release toys
so here's a little diy food maze with toilet paper roll toys you're gonna use a food mat
and then cut the toilet paper rolls into different sizes those are treat release toys
and these are little tunnel diggers you have a tunnel over there
and just different varieties food puzzle toys are great for mental stimulation because you'll see
in this video jericho has to sniff around he's going to use his paws and his nose to find the
yummy snacks and if you need help with treats and you like this food mat i'll leave a descript
link in the description below so he's going to look around to see which ones are easiest
first and then once your cat gets used to this variety you can change it up and make different
sized tunnels you can make the treat release toy holes a little smaller make it a little more
advanced for your cat because your cat will figure out the trick
fairly quickly but you see here he's nosing around at the little frayed toy he knows that something's
yummy in there and then it falls out and then he's rewarded with a treat so this is kind of like
replicating and simulating the hunting experience except it's a little easier and more controlled
so he likes to nose around sniff around the rings are pretty easy so he keeps going back to those
but you want to create different sizes and different levels for easy to difficult
and this one he uses his paw to get out the treat and even if he doesn't
move the treat out of the tunnel he still moved the tunnel out of the way
so he's still using his physical senses and having to kind of problem solve how to get these treats
and that's what hunting is all about obviously indoor cats don't hunt so we can recreate this
hunting indoors with treat release toys and puzzle toys and again i recommend using a food mat
just to keep the area sanitary you can also use a box and then you can also make those
little digger toys you could put those inside of a box if you don't have a food mat
but you're going to want to replace these toilet paper rolls frequently since you can't wash them
and there's food touching them so you don't want to use the same ones over and over again
so here he's trying to get the treat release toy very simple you close it off you fold the
edges and make a hole in the middle of it this is exactly how other treat release toys work
then you put the treat inside and the cat has to move it around
until the treat falls out of the hole i made the holes fairly larger today just because this is
one of the first times that i'm using this type of toy and jericho because it's stuck on his paw
but then the work pays off because he's rewarded with yummy treat any crunches and snacks on it
another fun toy that you can make with toilet paper rolls
is take the toilet paper roll and a sock put the toilet paper roll inside the sock
you can use one or two maybe just tie a knot here and use some organic catnip let's see hmm
roll the stock down until you reach the toilet paper roll then you can sprinkle the catnip inside
and then just tie the sock tie a little knot now you have a kicker toy catnip kicker toy
catnip kick kicker toy catnip ticker toy that's hard to say catnip kicker toy
if you're having trouble getting your cat to play i'll leave a link to my book in the description
below and i'll show you some more diy cat toys and all of my secrets that i use to get him to
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