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A KatKabin is Your Castle

Newton: Hey, Pierre, whatcha doing?

Pierre: Trying to find a place to work on my 18 hours of daily beauty rest.

Newton: Do you want to chase a sparkle ball with me?

Pierre: No, thanks. And don’t smooch me. That’s embarrassing.

Newton: Why are you going in there?

Pierre: Because my KatKabin is my castle.

Newton: What do cats do in their castles?

Pierre: Sleep, of course. And dream of dinnertime.

Newton: But I don’t want to sleep.

Pierre: * sigh * You could claw on the carpeted outside of the KatKabin and leave me to nap. It’s meant for scratching. I asked for the indoor version, but there’s a KatKabin for outdoors that doesn’t have carpet on the outside.

Newton: Outdoor cats have castles, too?

Pierre: They have KatCabins. Theirs come in beautiful, bright colors, and the outdoor cats get a door on their KatKabin to help keep them warm and dry in bad weather. I’m kind of wishing I had that door right now, too. What does a mancat need to do to get a little privacy around here?

Pierre: Look, this isn’t working for me with the whole orange audience thing. Can you put down that camera for a few minutes and move my KatKabin into the living room so I can hang out in there while you have your computer on your lap in front of the TV instead of leaving lap room for me?

Pierre: That’s more like it. This is where our KatKabin lives, between our sofa and chair, keeping me cozy and sheltered from orange pests the way an outdoor KatKabin keeps cats sheltered from the elements. I’m king of my KatKabin!

If you want a KatKabin for your very own castle or for the feral cats in your life, you can get a 20% discount on one through http://www.katkabin.com/ with discount code REFTH7Z7, good through December 31, 2015.

FTC Disclosure: We received our KatKabin in exchange for our honest review. Receiving free product did not influence anything we say. All opinions expressed on this site are our own.

Fresh Air at Last

When you live in Florida, the magic date when you can finally open the door so the cats can sniff fresh air from the porch can come very late in the year. This year, it didn’t arrive until this past weekend.

Unfortunately, one of the neighborhood cats arrived, too. Ashton doesn’t look like she’s ready to give him some Gray Poupon, does she?

Ashton: Don’t worry, I got rid of that neighbor cat with my mighty floof suit.

Pierre’s Secret Stash

Pierre: * PURRING *

Hmmmm?

No, I don’t know anything about the drool-covered toy mouse under your pillows. Why do you ask?

PetSafe Cheese Cat Toy Review and Giveaway

Indoor cats need enrichment in their environment to keep their minds sharp and to keep them out of mischief. Since we humans can only wave a wand toy around for so many hours a day, toys that engage cats attention on their own are especially important. That’s why I was excited at the opportunity to review the PetSafe Cheese cat toy.

All right, I’ll admit, I was partly excited about it because it looks like a huge wedge of cheese, and I’m addicted to cheese. There’s now scientific evidence to show that cheese is addictive now, so I can say that. But let’s face it, your cats or mine aren’t likely to recognize that wedge shape as representing cheese. They probably don’t even recognize the little, yellow mice that pop out of the cheese at irregular intervals are supposed to represent mice.

What they do recognize, though, is the prey-like behavior of the little battery-driven mice. (You need 3 AAA batteries to make them go, unlike actual mice.) Just as a cat’s prey might peek out of a hole and then scurry right back inside, the mice from the cheese entice cats to try to catch them. Newton, caught surprise by the behavior of the cheese, was a little startled by them at first.

It didn’t take him long to start to wonder what was hiding inside the hole in that plastic cheese, and he had to take a closer look.

What was really surprising was the length of both Newton and Pierre’s attention spans for the cheese. Newton was interested for nearly half of its five minute runtime, which is a long time for what we jokingly call his attention deficit feline disorder (ADFD) to hold out.

Pierre, on the other hand, can watch for the entire ten minutes, which is is a very attention span for anything not containing food.

He spent the whole ten minutes inching closer until he was nose to nose with the mouse.

Finally, he was ready to catch his prey… only by then, the cheese had stopped.

Pierre: Make it go again!

One of the really neat features about the cheese is that it has a “play while you’re away” mode where the mice will come back on for another cycle in two hours, and again for another cycle after that. Since I suspect the cats sleep all day, it’s nice to know there’s something that will get their attention and have them active during the day, and there’s nothing about the cheese that makes me worry about leaving it for them to play with unattended. It has simple, solid construction, and even if they managed to knock it over, it wouldn’t hurt anything for the mice to continue poking their little, yellow heads out.

One really funny thing happened while testing the “play while you’re away” feature. All three cats were in the kitchen with me, begging shamelessly at the table while I was eating when suddenly all three went running out of the room. They don’t abandon the kitchen table before the food is gone, so this seemed strange. Then I realized I could hear a low, mechanized sound in the living room. The cheese’s timer had gone off and the mice were starting to peek out again. They were so irresistible, the cats had to rush to see them, even though it meant abandoning a chance at snacks from the table. If that isn’t a sign of approval, I don’t know what is!

PetSafe Cheese Cat Toy Giveaway

If your cats would like to try their very own PetSafe Cheese cat toy, PetSafe has sponsored a giveaway. For ways to enter, see the Rafflecopter widget below. This giveaway is open to readers in the United States only, and ends Tuesday, November 17th. Winners will be chosen by random drawing.

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FTC Disclosure: We received our PetSafe Cheese cat toy at no charge from PetSafe in exchange for our honest review. Receiving free product did not influence anything we say. All opinions expressed on this site are our own.