My cat was abandoned as a sickly three week old litter runt by her feral mother so I needed to find toys little and light enough for her and I found Whisker City's Puffs fit the requirement. I'm happy to said after a year of weekly vet visits and a lot of TLC, my kitten is now a very healthy 15 lb. five year old.The old ones were getting nasty and flat and I have been wanting to replace the old original Puff Balls, but I now live in another state and haven't been able to find them again, so when I saw these I got them. Well she took these ones and added them to her stash (she refuses to share her Puff Balls and hides them from the other cats). I won't be able to tell if they withstand the wear and tear of daily play like her other ones, but these are a hit with her.
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This review applies ONLY to puffs on Amazon sold under the CHASE'M brand!I had purchased these puffs over a year ago. They were branded as Whisker City and sold through Petsmart.
My cat was indifferent to these for a few days, but considering I have box with 500 pounds of rejected toys that cost me well over $14,000,000.00, I did not worry about it so much. I picked up what I though were all the puffs I had tried to entice her with, I placed them into the abyss of the other worthless toys. I assumed they would never be seen again.
Flash forward a week. I went to bed one night and as I placed my hand under the pillow (part of my normal sleeping position for 52 years) I felt something soft and pulled it out to discover it was a puff. I tipped my head back to ask her how it got there. She is easy to find at night. Her torso is on the top part of my pillow and her butt is directly propped against the top of my skull. She refuses to use her tail as a barrier at this contact point. But lets not get sidetracked from this product review with a dicussion regarding her 12 year refusal to adopt basic manners, or talk about her life long refusal to exhibit any concern or consideration about MY hygiene preferences. Sure, she spends the entire 4 hours a day she is not sleeping incessantly licking every square inch of her body. When she finishes licking herself, she spends a couple of minutes on a seemed barbaric manicure where she looks like she is actually trying to pull her back nails directly out of the pads. It is frightening and disturbing to watch. Then, after what I know is FACT that she had never moved from the spot, so therefore it is impossible that she has become dirty, she will repeat the entire self-cleaning process just in case she missed a single, microscopic speck that might have been neglected on the first pass. So, I am well aware of her personal hygiene obsession, and have accepted the fact that she is simply too selfish, or inherently evil, to extend me the same consideration by simply placing her soft and furry tail as a barrier between the crown of my skull bone and her, well, lets just refer to it as the only location on her body where no hair grows other than her actual eyeball orbs! You would think that after rescuing her at 5 weeks old that she -uh. .. I got sidetracked, didn't I? Sigh
Back to the discovery of the under pillow puff, and her mocking silence when i asked where it came from, I informed her she was rude and then tossed it on the floor to retrieve in the morning to place in the toy dump to reunite this puff with the rest of its puff family. Of course, I slept late and did not notice anything on the floor in the morning and frankly had forgotten about the entire incident.
At bedtime the next day I laid down to sleep. I slid my hand under the pillow and was surprised to find the orphaned puff had returned. At this point there was only couple of scenarios I could devise. The first theory was that this was a puff that had been possessed by the devil and was now a living, evil entity that was placing itself under my pillow with nefarious plans to someday climb in my mouth to block my airway and suffocate me to death, then free his puff family from that box and wreak havoc on the planet. The other possibility was that madame rude-butt had placed it there.
I carefully considered both theories. Yes, the demonic possession thing was clearly plausible. However, was it possible that lady pucker-bumm had been playing with it? Despite the fact she has an entire house, she has always had a proclivity to carry certain toys on my bed to toss and chase. I have seen the chase part result in her inadvertently wedging fur mice under the pillows or bedding. Many times that will give her an excuse to take a nap. When she wakes up the lick ritual starts and she probably forgets it is there. So, in fear that the alien puff might choose that night to kill me, I decided it would be prudent to solve this mystery before any assault could take place.
I got out of bed and grabbed the bag containing the rest of the puff family and brought them to the room. Since her butt shelf was not in place for her to assume her perch, she was awake and impatient. I took another puff from the bag and tossed it at her face.
What ensued is best described as what would happen if cats smoked crack. She was insane. She tossed it in the air and chased it. She would fling it off the bed and jump down and bring it back. She would hug it and kick it with her back claws in that alien ritual all cat owners know. Finally, she tossed, chased, and slid into it thus trapping it under the pillow. She retrieved it from under the pillow and then spotted the original puff I had pulled out. I witnessed a true cat dilemma in her eyes that must be similar to someone realizing they had TWO bags of crack. So she abused them together and separate until the narcotic got the best of her. The puffs are packaged and infused with loose catnip that work their way into the deep fibers. She was exhausted and physically crashed at the foot of the bed. I went sleep as well. She must have woken soon after because I soon discovered my cat hat was back in place like a creepy living wig.
The next night I could only find one puff. I went to get another. As a joke I kept tossing them at her until there was six on the bed. She absolutely loved this and changed from puff to puff and actually started placing them in a cluster for ease of access. In the weeks that followed i would constantly be switching them in and out of the bag so they could marinate in the catnip. Puffs would constantly go missing. I would find some by lifting the couch and other furniture I knew she would lose them and not be able to reach. Before long I was down to only a few from the original dozen in the Pertsmart package. Last week I was down to a single puff. It was a pathetic puff at that. While it was 100% intact because they seem to be durable to the level I would classify as indestructible, it had the color tone of a civil war bandage or an old pillow after years of sweat soaking.
This was crisis time. Being a prime member I decided to check Amazon before paying $4 or $5 plus tax on a tiny bag of these puffs that she has NEVER tired of and I am sure never will. It is then that I discovered the wonderful world of puffs in bulk!
Couple of comments;
1. If you have never tried these with your cat buy a smaller pack of them to test. Ill bet you will be happy you did.
2. If your cat does not take to them, give it time! !
3. Most importantly, my highest recommendations here are based on this specific puff on this product page. It is sold in different quantities by same vendor. There are tons of puffs out there that range in size, density, material, and mass. I have found every other style of puff out there either is the wrong ergonomics or texture and she rejects them. There are some with the same physical properties that she likes but several brands are unsafe because they can be shredded quickly which presents a choking hazard. Once you try this product on this page you will know in the future if other puffs are acceptable, effectively entertaining, durable, and safe based on the fact you will have inspected and held these.
4. Lastly, I don't know how, but expect them to all eventually disappear. I don't care how much housekeeping you do, or if you think you know every single hiding place or gap they may have gone. They will simply vanish. Maybe there is a puff fairy that rescues them from the torture, maybe it is a mystery like the disappearing sock in the dryer. There are a couple of dozen puffs in my home that are forever gone.
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