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Best birthday toys for a cat who doesn't like bells or catnip?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Domestic Shorthair | Male | neutered | 1 year and 10 months old

Aquiylan turns two in less than 2 months. What sort of thing would you recommend getting him to make the occasion joyful for him? He doesn't particularly like hard toys with bells and he's not really a catnip type cat but the soft sparkly toys that he likes we get him the dogs tear apart. The I want to celebrate it is because there were times we honestly thought he wouldn't get to 1. He was found behind a car lot and it's been obvious that his mom had abandoned him. So I brought him home.

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on August 1st, 2018

He looks beautiful. Most cats love crumpled paper balls! But you can try the fuzzy mice that are available from a pet store or get one of the angling toys (a stick with an attached string and a fetherball at the end). You can also make a feather toy for him by gathering a lot of feathers, tying them together and throwing it. Anotehr great toy is a ball into which you can put dry food. The ball has a few holes and as he plays with it the food falls out. once he figures out how it works, it is a great toy. (But my cats still like the small crumpled paper balls best.....)

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