DIY St. Patrick's Day Cat Toy

DIY St. Patrick's Day Cat Toy

My cats love to play with anything that involves a string. They needed a new St. Patrick's Day toy, so I made them a shamrock toy. I already had all the needed supplies, so it was completely free and they love it. You can make one, too!

Needed materials:

Sturdy dowel 3-4 feet long

Small amount of felt

Small amount of string or yarn

Step 1: Draw up a template. I drew a simple shamrock. You could make whatever shape you want. If you want to use my template, you can find it here.

Step 2: Cut the shamrocks out of the felt. You may find it easier to pin the shamrocks to the felt prior to cutting them out. I cut out four shamrocks.

Step 3: Thread the string through the shamrocks.

Step 4: Tie a knot below each shamrock to keep them spaced out.

Step 5: Drill a hole through the dowel.

Step 6: Thread the string through the hole in the dowel and securely tie it.

Step 7: Play with your cat!

DIY Cat Halloween Bat Wand Toy

My cats love to play with anything that involves a string. They needed a new Halloween toy, so I made them a bat wand toy. I already had all the needed supplies, so it was completely free and they love it. You can make one, too!

Needed materials:

Sturdy dowel 3-4 feet long

Small amount of felt

Small amount of string or yarn

Step 1: Draw up a template. I drew a simple bat. You could make whatever shape you want. If you want to use my template, you can find it here.

Step 2: Pin the bat to the felt.

Step 3: Cut the bats out. I cut out six bats.

Step 4: Thread the string through the bats. 

Step 5: Tie a knot below each bat to keep them spaced out.

 Step 6: Drill a hole through the dowel.

Step 7: Thread the string through the hole in the dowel.

Step 8: Tie the string to the dowel.

Step 9: Play with your cat!

Meet Oliver

Why do I bother doing laundry? As soon as I carry a load upstairs to fold, he jumps into all the warm fluffiness! 

Oliver is one of the four animals I currently have. He is 11 years old and he has quite the attitude! He either loves you or he hates you. There is no in-between for him. He believes that nobody is more important than him and that he should get all the attention all the time.

Oliver does suffer from seasonal allergies. Unfortunately, when they act up he tells me that he doesn't feel well by peeing outside of the litter box. It definitely gets my attention and gets me to get him to the vet right away, but I wish he would tell me that he doesn't feel well in another way. Trying to look on the bright side, I have become a master at cleaning up cat pee! Not really a skill I ever wanted to perfect, but a skill none-the-less. As a side note, I highly recommend using either Dumb Cat or Kids and Pets to clean up cat pee. :-)