KITTY CITY Pouncing Paws - Motorized Cat Toy

We bought this on clearance, so not even sure it's worth it to write a review, but here goes:

We bought this to cheer up our older cat who was seeming a little mopey after we got a kitten. First off, I left the little wand (with the flippy string end) down on the floor so she could get used to it. She chewed and batted it around, so after about an hour, I decided to turn it on. The fabric cover was so loud, it freaked us both out a bit. After I took off the cover, we immediately both liked it better; the motor still made noise, but it was quite tolerable. But the wand was really fast, so she had no real hope of catching it. She was interested enough, and laid there watching it for a while, but made no real effort to play with it.

Now, the kitten is another story. He was completely freaked out at first, too, so I'd leave it on the floor turned off. Invariably, he began attacking the wand and pouncing on the machine, so I'd turn it on. He'd run away first, then creep back up, mesmerized. Turn it off, he'd pounce. After a while, he crept close enough to let the wand smack him in the butt. Rather than running away, he just laid there! Whack. Whack. Change direction. Whack on the nose. He did this for quite a while, then started wrestling the wand when it came close enough.

Now, unfortunately, we treat it like television for a toddler: whenever we really NEED him to entertain himself safely and not go climbing into god-knows-what, we turn it on for a few minutes. Dinner gets served, the big cat is left in peace, and the little guy sits there, staring, Whack! Whack! Whack! POUNCE. Does that make us bad parents?

I would give this 0 stars if it were possible to do here --it's hard to believe all the positive reviews here about cats playing for hours and hours (perhaps they were written by company owners). I don't usually review products, but feel I should alert other potential buyers to the problems I encountered with this toy. This is the SECOND Pouncing Paws I've tried, I had to return the first one and now I'm returning the second one for the same reasons. (today's date is 5/15/12).

1) The wand with the 'mouse lure' barely inserts into the motorized base. Even after I tape it to the base, within 10 minutes of my cat playing with it (and not that ferociously) the wand falls out of the base. I keep taping it back, but after a few times of this, my cat loses interest and so do I...this was to be a toy he could use independently of me.

2) The sound of the motor is VERY loud, especially on a hard floor surface, which the toy works better on than carpet. So the pet carer has to get used to that...and the noise scares away my older cat.

3) This toy runs very, very fast around the base....there is no speed control, as I've read there is on other similar products by other companies. So my older cat is afraid to go near it for this reason as well, and even my daring kitten seems somewhat intimidated.

4) As many others have mentioned, this product drains batteries fast, and it's difficult to open the battery compartment. Even when turned completely off, it seems to drain the good batteries I had left in it, because they were dead the next day when I turned it on again. And the tiny little screw you have to open with a tiny screwdriver (which you have to buy yourself) is very difficult to screw off and on, to get to the battery compartment.

So for all these above reasons, I do not recommend this product to anyone. As stated before, I'm very surprised at the positive reports. I do wonder how this company can continue to manufacture these products with all these problems, since I assume many others are returning them.

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I have a 3 year old cat who recently started chewing on electrical cords. I tried to get him to stop but he kept on chewing. I looked online and a bunch of sites said it was a sign of boredom, so I went to my local Target and looked at the options for cat toys. I picked this thing up because at $25 it was relatively cheap and I'm at school a lot of the time so I figured if it worked he could play with it while I'm at school.

When I got home and took it out of the box I wasn't very impressed, and in fact thought about returning it to the store immediately. My cat started sniffing it though immediately and I figured I'd put it together first and see if he liked it before returning it. All you have to do is put batteries in it, although you need a specialty screwdriver to put the batteries in since they used those tiny screws for the battery lid.

All the product is a stick with string at the end that attaches to little circular thing with a button on it and a cheap plastic cover so the cat can't see the stick, just the string. I turned it on and it seems to go pretty fast and I think it initially scared my cat, but now he's intrigued. For the past 45 minutes he has been actively playing with this thing, which is a record for him. Usually he gives up at 15 minutes when he gets a new toy.

The toy is kind of loud. Definitely wouldn't recommend turning it on and going to sleep. Better to turn it on and leave the house. Seriously.

All in all, I'm happy with it. While it is cheap and loud, it keeps the cat entertained and I can do my schoolwork and all that. And, he stopped chewing on the electrical cords! While I don't know if it's because I bought him this and sprayed all the cords with bitter apple spray, (or a combination of both) at least I don't have to worry about him getting electrocuted anymore. For $25, that's not too bad of a deal.

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The Kitty Pouncing Paws arrived quickly and undamaged. It requires three (3) "C cell" batteries. The circular motion is irratic which holds my cat's attention. My cat plays with it every day and night. This is his favorite toy. The batteries last a while, but it would be nice if it had an accomodation for an AC power supply. I will probably go to Radio Shack and purchase what is necessary to modify this toy so that it could run on AC from the wall; however, I will maintain the battery function. The batteries are nice since this toy can be operated anywhere. This is by far, my cat's favorite toy. Friends of mine are getting this toy for their cats.

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We got this toy for our three cats and found it to be a cheap plastic turntable type of toy with an untra-cheap crinkly cloth cover. An arm rotates under the cover. It takes $6.49 worth of batteries at a time. After maybe 2 hours of use, 3 hours tops, it slowed down to nothing. We thought it needed new batteries so replaced them. $13 in batteries! Nope! It's just cheap and poor quality and barely turns even with the new batteries. We got it on sale so can't return it to the store. The cats loved it and were not happy when it slowed to nothing and kept stopping for minutes at a time. Tonight it made a few turns and just sat there humming.