SmartyKat Hot Pursuit Electronic Concealed Motion Cat Toy, Battery Powered - Blue, One Size

Update 3/11/22: still working fine, and getting used daily by 2 cats. The feathers have completely been ripped off now, and wand is surprisingly still intact, despite my senior cat always trying to chew on it. Having trouble with replacements feathers though. All the ones I’ve tried are too heavy so the ball can’t stand up and swing around. For now I just hot glued some feathers and ribbon from an old toy, light enough for it to work. Kinda disappointed like others that replacement wands are not available. But I can see another seller listing 2 balls w/ wands & 2 replacement wands for about $30, so weird how I can’t just purchase individual wands :(PROS: This is hands down the best toy I have bought for my 9 month old kitten. She has been playing with it pretty much nonstop since we got it. She plays with it all over the house (carpet and tile), she seriously just purrrs nonstop playing with this thing! She bats at it and attacks it while it’s on and moving, she still plays with it when turned off but keeps waiting for it to move, then looks at me like WTF Mom, FIX IT haha!!! My senior cat enjoys it too, but he loses interest after a few minutes…I think he just enjoys being bigger and faster than the kitten at attacking it. We have only had it for 1 day so I can’t speak for longevity of toy, but my husband picked up the kitten while she still had the feather wand in her grip. It dropped on the tile floor pretty hard but still stayed together in one piece and haven’t noticed any difference in the motor function so I would say it’s pretty sturdy!CONS: I will say that when I bought this (even after reading some reviews, but not enough) I thought this was motion activated. I thought it was always on standby and would start moving when touched, then stop after a while. So I was kinda disappointed when I realized you have to press the button for 10 min of motion that auto shuts off. So a little inconvenient to keep pressing the button every few minutes for my very active kitten, but it’s worth it. Keeps her occupied, when she’s bored or wants attention she just meows nonstop and looks for ways to get in trouble so she gets attention haha.As other reviews stated, packaging was tough to crack or cut with scissors but no more than other plastic packages. I was able to open it with 1 arm (other arm in a sling), scissors and muscle and DID NOT cut myself! Opening the battery pack was also a little tricky but not difficult. Just get a small screwdriver, lefty loosy, screw becomes loose but does not pop out, then I took a flat head screwdriver to pop the battery pack open, insert batteries then with a little force pop it back in and screw it tight.All in all, it was reasonably priced, does exactly what I wanted, and my kitten is seriously LOVING this thing. 9/10 rating for me, only reason it’s not 10 is cause I have to keep getting up to turn it on cause kitten meows at me 😹

My cat is difficult to please. She only wants to play with things if she can't see them. If she can see my toes she won't attack, but if I put my toes under a blanket, she's paws out, claws out. All the one star reviews of this toy actually helped me out. Complaints of how you can't see the little mouse and how it hides underneath the little blanket let me know that this was the absolute perfect toy for my cat.I'm not sure what the average price of this thing is but I paid a little over $11 bucks. For two coffees and a muffin, I'm not expecting a lot. I want to entertain my cat and if I get three or four months out of it, I'm good. I don't need to pass it down to my grandchildren in a cedar chest. The box says satisfaction guaranteed. I don't know how long that's for but since it's open-ended I'm going to say forever. I'm very reasonable. If it breaks before my cat gets $12 worth of happiness from it I'm going to ask for a replacement.About the toy.Noise was expected. I'm not surprised that at this price point, Smart Kitty has not perfected the silent motorized cat toy. It's not bad. I meditated through it and watched TV through it and it didn't bother me a bit. After a while I didn't hear it because it shut itself off which is a handy feature. I did hear my cat complaining so I got up and turned it back after checking to see if the motor was warm. It was cool as a cucumber. Here's where I wished for a remote control. My cat weighs about 11 lb and she hasn't turned it over yet.My cat absolutely loves this thing. She doesn't play with it like her other toys. She sits and looks at it. She watches it and tracks it and she tries to figure it out. And then after a while she starts to move in on it and touch it lightly with her paws. It's really a slow build-up to very vigorous play. At first I thought she didn't like it because she didn't just go right after it, but it was really more like stalking and waiting and hunting. She took her time enjoying this toy and when it shut off, it interrupted her playtime but when I turned it back on she picked right up where she left off.When it shut off the last time, she curled up on the little blanket part and went to sleep.I do want to point out that product is described as a CONCEALED toy. One would assume that means that most of the time the mouse is supposed to stay hidden. That's why the wand is segmented instead of straight out. It hides and only occasionally flings itself out. If your cat wants an OBVIOUS toy then don't buy this concealed toy. Get the one with the wand that doesn't bend.Teaching her to turn it on herself is the next task on my list. I think this toy could be improved by making it rechargeable and adding a remote control.

The media could not be loaded. This is my cat’s favorite toy BY FAR!! If she’s not sleeping or eating, she’s sitting on this toy staring me down until I turn it on. Sometimes she “stalks” it from a distance, sometimes she lazily lays beside it batting at the tail as it passes, and sometimes she just goes bananas chasing it! She’s afraid of most electronic toys, but loved this one from the start. I alternate her toys every week so she doesn’t get bored, but I always leave this toy out and she plays with it for hours every single day.It has an auto shut off after 5 or 10 minutes. It uses 3 AA batteries, which I recharge about once a week. She’s played with this non-stop for over a year and it’s still in pretty good shape. It is a little noisy, but it’s worth it for how much stimulation and joy it brings my cat.(Not super relevant but cute: the first time I set up this toy and turned it on, she pounced on the tail, grabbed it with her mouth, dragged the entire contraption running through the house, and “hid” it behind her litter box for safe keeping 😂. At first I didn’t know whether that meant she loved it or hated it…turns out she LOVED it!)