SmartyKat Electronic Motion/Moving Toys for Cats & Kittens, Battery Powered, Mimics Motion of Real Prey, Fun & Interactive Play - Multiple Styles

This is one of my girls' favorite toys! They loved the first so much that I got a second one! They will sit and stare at the mat until I push the magic button and then roll around on it, under it, pounce on it or simply watch and stalk it. (Sure beats waving a toy around as they just watch.) The video sounds loud, but actually, the sound level isn't bad at all. My kitties love these toys, and they provide up to a half hour at a time of entertainment, which isn't bad for cats!

This cat toy is Excellent!! My cookoo Maine Coon kitten starts playing with it 6am! And on and off throughout the day...she LOVES it and so do I for her pent up energy! The movement and flashing light really get her attention and it's still not broken? She attacks it rolls around with it and it's still intact and working! I got it on sale WoW buy it!! See my video of her:)

At the start, this seemed like it could be a nice product! It spun around quickly, and my kitten was really interested in it, but my older cat was a little apprehensive. When it arrived, the cover for it was all folded up and creased, and I thought that it would be pretty much impossible for it to fold out like in the pictures. I ended up being right, the blue cover is more rigid than you think, and definitely does not behave like a sheet to block the toy that spins around the base (in my case, it has four lowered areas, and four raised ones, kind of forming a wave around the rim.) It's been in this condition ever since I got it, and hasn't loosened very much, if at all. Secondly, the base part of the toy seems to be very cheaply made. You can either set it to "normal" mode or "fast" mode by pressing the buttons at the top. In my experience, the normal mode is worthless, and neither of my cats were interested in it. My older cat was a little more interested when it was in fast mode, and my kitten was really interested in it, at least for the week or so that it worked! Whenever the toy is spinning around and it comes into contact with anything, it makes this awful grinding sound, and you hear the gears inside skipping against each other. This is SO LOUD. It also doesn't sound like it's good for the toy, at all. And when I say this happens when it touches anything, I mean anything. Even the slightest pressure will make this thing skip, and its happened several times when its just trying to move against that awful blue cover! Unfortunately for me and the toy, I think some animals will like this sound, as in the case of my kitten, she will pounce on the toy and then just sit there on top of it, letting the gears grind and skip until she loses interest. If it was more robust and made with non plastic gears, I think this might work better, as it could have a little bit more resistance to anything touching the spinning toy (which is kind of the whole point of this thing, isn't it???) After about a week of this thing grinding and skipping, I noticed that it had started to slow down quite a bit. The "fast" mode now resembled the "normal" mode, and the normal mode wouldn't turn at all. I thought this might be the batteries dying, so I swapped it out for a new pair. That didn't work either, so I tried two more pairs (all charged and tested). None of that worked, so I guess it just couldn't stand the pressure. Tried to look inside to see if anything had come loose or broken off, and WOW. It looks very cheap inside of this thing. Stretchy, worthless rubber belts, plastic gears, shoddy wiring. Probably would have broken by itself even if my kitten didn't like it! Overall, this thing is a piece of junk, which is sad because SmartyKat does have some other good products! I'd avoid this one, and get something else.

The feather attachement do not stay long in place, you need to screw it back all the time and I wish the round thing hiding the feather be a little heavier. The cat love it beside that

The “mouse” on this toy was way too easy for my cats to catch even at high speed and when they held it in place, which was almost always, the motor or housing or some internal part made a loud obnoxious rat-a-tat machine gun noise. The skirt is very lightweight, not weighted on the edges and easily folded over or bunched up during play which interfered with the mouse rotation and the mouse unattached too easily. Though the cats seemed to enjoy this toy, the cats’ owner found it annoying due to the noise, constant skirt adjusting, reattaching mouse and unnecessary blinking lights. It has found a place in a closet for now. Wish I had paid more attention to other reviews that echoed these problems.

I don't write reviews, not even for products I strongly dislike or end up returning, but I will write a review for this product because there were not nearly enough negative reviews to deter me from buying it and I wish there were. Firstly and most importantly, this is just a bad cat toy, and I've only given it an extra star because my cat is a bit of an idiot and is entertained by sitting and watching it spin and will sometimes bat at it - which on the most technical level means it's doing its job. It is very slow on both settings, and I honestly don't know how any cat would be entertained by playing with it, not to mention that the mechanics of the toy are very loud at all times. If it's moving it's making a very audible whirring noise that would definitely scare any skittish or even just cautious cat. But the sound it makes when it's just doing the entire thing it was made to do is nothing compared to the awful clicking sound it makes whenever the moving part gets stuck, and it gets stuck very, very often. I've seen a few people talk about this sound but I underestimated just how often and just how grating the sound would be. The toy gets stuck on everything, the carpet, itself, anything placed in front of it that can't be pushed away by its weak motors, and most importantly the cat when she tries to actually play with the toy, and every time it gets stuck on any of these things it makes a loud mechanical clicking sound until it frees itself (which isn't often), or I rush over to get the toy unstuck so that I don't have to deal with the sound anymore. The fact that it gets stuck is MAYBE excusable, it's a cheap toy, it likely has cheap internals and doesn't have the luxury of sensing when it's stuck on something, thats understandable. But the fact that it makes this awful sound when the cat PLAYS WITH THE TOY is just awful. If you buy this toy and it by some miracle does its job to interest your cat you will without a doubt hear this clicking sound, and it will be terrible, and you will want to turn off the toy. The toy also disassembled itself a few times, which was another thing that made me have to get up when the point of the toy is to entertain your cat when you're busy with something else. The stick part of the toy that goes under the covering is only attached to the base with some threading, so you screw it into the base like a screw and it sits in place. However the constant spinning against a textured floor managed to unscrew it from the base multiple times, so I had to come over and screw it back on and there was nothing else I could do to secure it further. I guess if you wanted to keep this toy you could maybe glue that bit in place? Or maybe you wouldn't have the problem at all and it's somehow just a fluke, but either way that was just an addition to how inconvenient this toy is. I know this was a long review, but if you somehow managed to read to here or just need a recap: DON'T BUY THIS TOY. I wish someone would have told me not to. It isn't worth the money and it's more of a hassle to try and use this than it is to postpone whatever you're doing to play with your cat.

Comprei faz uns 2 anos e até hoje funciona muito bom, meus gatos amam.

Katten älskar den. Men den låter väldigt mycket och kvaliteten är inte speciellt bra. Den håller så länge den håller helt enkelt. Men katten är underhållen i timmar och jamar bär jag stänger av. Tre AAA batterier krävs och önskar att den hade kunde laddats upp istället.

Le mie gatte adorano SmartyKat Loco! La base risulta solida e resistente quindi il gioco non si capovolge nemmeno durante i giochi più movimentati. A distanza di un mese e mezzo dall'acquisto la bacchetta e il ciondolo di piume risultano ancora intatti. Ne ho già ordinato un secondo di scorta.

Both cats love it. I’m not sure it will last very long, it doesn’t look very sturdy. My boy doesn’t usually like toys but he won’t leave this one alone. My girl chases him off if she thinks he’s getting too close. Fun to watch them interact and chase each other and the toy around.

My cat loves it. Hes been playing with it more than a month now and does not get bored of it