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D-I-Y Cat Toys

Crazy Squares

These 'crazy squares' don't look like much to humans, but cats love them! Light weight and flickable, squares of corrugated card board can be batted, flicked, picked up in your teeth, shaken, tossed and chased. Scented with good quality nip, they'll provide hours of entertainment. And your humans won't curse when they step on them in the dark either.

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Step 1: Find a corrugated cardboard box

A small box, or a flap off a larger box will be fine.

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - starts with a corrugated box

Check to make sure the box is corrugated, made with the wriggles in the middle

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - check that the box is made out of corrugated

Step 2: Make sure your cats approve the box

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - make sure the cats approve it

If the box has smells the cats don't like, reject it and find another

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - if it has a scarey smell reject it

Step 3: Find a clean glass jar with a lid

A paper bag will work too, but you'll have to hide it somewhere your cats can't get it until it's ready

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - next find a clean glass jar with a lid

Step 4: Get (or grow) some good quality cat nip

If your cat doesn't respond to cat nip, try cat mint (Nepeta mussini) or Valerian root (Valerium officinalis)

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - then get some good quality dried cat nip - fresh nip partly dried is ok too

Put the nip into the jar

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - put the nip into the jar

Step 5: cut small shapes from the corrugated cardboard

About 2 inch squares seems like a good size to us, but experiment with larger or smaller shapes to see what your cat likes best.

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - cut small squares or circles or mouse shapes from the corrugated box - about 2 inches or 5 cm is good

Step 6: Put the corrugated shapes in the jar with the cat nip and put the lid on

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - put the corrugated shapes in the jar with the nip

Step 7: Wait a few weeks

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - wait a few weeks or a month

Step 8: Take out a square and ask your cats if it is ready

Put it on the floor, and see if they start sniffing it or playing with it - chances are they will take a few sniffs, walk around it once or twice, then ATTACK!!!

DIY Cat Toy - crazy squares - take out the nip scented corrugated shapes and watch your kitties have fun with them

Sure, it's not as cute as a designer cat nip cigar, but it's inexpensive, environmentally friendly, compostable, and gets more play-time than most of the store bought toys in our household... give it a try and let us know what you think?

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