SmartyKat Electronic Motion/Moving Toys for Cats & Kittens, Battery Powered, Mimics Motion of Real Prey, Fun & Interactive Play - Multiple Styles

I am a human (not some stupid chat bot), a cat mom, and I am not compensated in any way. I'm also not someone that always posts reviews which is why I feel like this one is significant. I have to say that this is the fourth Hot Pursuit I have purchased in 10 years because my cats tend to wear it out. It is a very engaging and inexpensive toy that helps your cats have an enriched environment. Cats need stuff to do, otherwise they become distructive and present with play aggression...... this is a tool to help keep them busy in moments you cannot participate in active play. Is it the quietest toy, as other people have complained? No, but I guarantee it's less noisy than your cat destroying your sofa. And for less than $15, something that keeps your cat happy is worth every penny. You cannot expect to own a cat and it be seen and not heard. If that's how you feel, you should have a fish. This particular purchase, I received one that was faulty and I contacted the company about product support. I received a call within 16 hours to help me troubleshoot the issue. Unfortunately, I was unable to fix it so a replacement was sent. The fact that a real human being called me from Washington State to help troubleshoot this item was incredible customer service, especially for product that is this affordable. My cats have always enjoyed this toy and because we tend to be unexpected fosters for the cat distribution system, this toy ends up getting a lot of play. It is always one of the most popular! Hats off to this company and the Hot Pursuit for making my cats happy! When you purchase this item, have realistic expectations. It takes batteries but you get a lot of use of this before having to replace them. I'm reading a lot of reviews for people that act like they spent $100 on something. This is an inexpensive toy to help keep your cat occupied when you cannot actively play with your fur baby. This is not a substitute for your participation in their active play. Active participation is best by their Guardian and this is what you use when you need to wash dishes. Kudos to Smarty Cat! Outstanding toy! Worth it.

My cat loves this toy, and I never thought that my cat would be the type to love a toy. One problem that I consistently had was that the toy would come off from the base, and I would have to screw it back on. I put thread lock on it, and it has not come off since. I would recommend either using threadlock or duct tape to secure it, which will prevent the issue of it coming loose. The only complaint I have about it is that I wish it were rechargeable instead of batteries. But nevertheless, my cat loves it!

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.

At the start, this seemed like it could be a nice product! It spun around quickly, and my kitten was really interested in it, but my older cat was a little apprehensive. When it arrived, the cover for it was all folded up and creased, and I thought that it would be pretty much impossible for it to fold out like in the pictures. I ended up being right, the blue cover is more rigid than you think, and definitely does not behave like a sheet to block the toy that spins around the base (in my case, it has four lowered areas, and four raised ones, kind of forming a wave around the rim.) It's been in this condition ever since I got it, and hasn't loosened very much, if at all. Secondly, the base part of the toy seems to be very cheaply made. You can either set it to "normal" mode or "fast" mode by pressing the buttons at the top. In my experience, the normal mode is worthless, and neither of my cats were interested in it. My older cat was a little more interested when it was in fast mode, and my kitten was really interested in it, at least for the week or so that it worked! Whenever the toy is spinning around and it comes into contact with anything, it makes this awful grinding sound, and you hear the gears inside skipping against each other. This is SO LOUD. It also doesn't sound like it's good for the toy, at all. And when I say this happens when it touches anything, I mean anything. Even the slightest pressure will make this thing skip, and its happened several times when its just trying to move against that awful blue cover! Unfortunately for me and the toy, I think some animals will like this sound, as in the case of my kitten, she will pounce on the toy and then just sit there on top of it, letting the gears grind and skip until she loses interest. If it was more robust and made with non plastic gears, I think this might work better, as it could have a little bit more resistance to anything touching the spinning toy (which is kind of the whole point of this thing, isn't it???) After about a week of this thing grinding and skipping, I noticed that it had started to slow down quite a bit. The "fast" mode now resembled the "normal" mode, and the normal mode wouldn't turn at all. I thought this might be the batteries dying, so I swapped it out for a new pair. That didn't work either, so I tried two more pairs (all charged and tested). None of that worked, so I guess it just couldn't stand the pressure. Tried to look inside to see if anything had come loose or broken off, and WOW. It looks very cheap inside of this thing. Stretchy, worthless rubber belts, plastic gears, shoddy wiring. Probably would have broken by itself even if my kitten didn't like it! Overall, this thing is a piece of junk, which is sad because SmartyKat does have some other good products! I'd avoid this one, and get something else.

I have two cats with quite a bit of an age difference between them. One is young and active, the other is older and on the lazy side. My older cat really likes to tear things up, so buying toys is not that fun since she can be destructive, and they don't last long. My young man is a gentle cat. They both really enjoy this cat toy, however, it is not the most durable toy out there. My destroyer kitty had this toy flipped over and undone in a matter of minutes. It's lightweight and has lights that flash in a circle around the top. Cats don't care about the lights (at least mine don't). It has two speeds, a slower speed that's perfect for my baby boy, and a slightly faster speed. The arm has a mouse on the end that spins around the toy. This comes off periodically and I have to put it back on. It is easy to assembly. I had it put together in less than five minutes without looking at the instructions. It takes three AA batteries. The bottom is where the batteries are installed. You need a screwdriver to put the batteries in. The on/off button is at the top of the toy. You press it once for the slow speed, press it twice to get the toy to spin faster and once again to turn it off. Pretty simple to operate. It's basically self-explanatory. It's a fun toy for the kitties. They seem to get bored with it after a while though. Short attention spans. It does make an undesirable noise when the cats catch the toy, and it can't spin. At first this scared them until they became used to it. My older cat now likes to catch it just so it will make that noise. I don't care for this noise, it's a little loud for me. This toy works fine for my kitties. It gets them interested in something for a short time.

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!)

I don't write reviews, not even for products I strongly dislike or end up returning, but I will write a review for this product because there were not nearly enough negative reviews to deter me from buying it and I wish there were. Firstly and most importantly, this is just a bad cat toy, and I've only given it an extra star because my cat is a bit of an idiot and is entertained by sitting and watching it spin and will sometimes bat at it - which on the most technical level means it's doing its job. It is very slow on both settings, and I honestly don't know how any cat would be entertained by playing with it, not to mention that the mechanics of the toy are very loud at all times. If it's moving it's making a very audible whirring noise that would definitely scare any skittish or even just cautious cat. But the sound it makes when it's just doing the entire thing it was made to do is nothing compared to the awful clicking sound it makes whenever the moving part gets stuck, and it gets stuck very, very often. I've seen a few people talk about this sound but I underestimated just how often and just how grating the sound would be. The toy gets stuck on everything, the carpet, itself, anything placed in front of it that can't be pushed away by its weak motors, and most importantly the cat when she tries to actually play with the toy, and every time it gets stuck on any of these things it makes a loud mechanical clicking sound until it frees itself (which isn't often), or I rush over to get the toy unstuck so that I don't have to deal with the sound anymore. The fact that it gets stuck is MAYBE excusable, it's a cheap toy, it likely has cheap internals and doesn't have the luxury of sensing when it's stuck on something, thats understandable. But the fact that it makes this awful sound when the cat PLAYS WITH THE TOY is just awful. If you buy this toy and it by some miracle does its job to interest your cat you will without a doubt hear this clicking sound, and it will be terrible, and you will want to turn off the toy. The toy also disassembled itself a few times, which was another thing that made me have to get up when the point of the toy is to entertain your cat when you're busy with something else. The stick part of the toy that goes under the covering is only attached to the base with some threading, so you screw it into the base like a screw and it sits in place. However the constant spinning against a textured floor managed to unscrew it from the base multiple times, so I had to come over and screw it back on and there was nothing else I could do to secure it further. I guess if you wanted to keep this toy you could maybe glue that bit in place? Or maybe you wouldn't have the problem at all and it's somehow just a fluke, but either way that was just an addition to how inconvenient this toy is. I know this was a long review, but if you somehow managed to read to here or just need a recap: DON'T BUY THIS TOY. I wish someone would have told me not to. It isn't worth the money and it's more of a hassle to try and use this than it is to postpone whatever you're doing to play with your cat.

This is a great toy for indoor cats! Every aspect is well-designed, for an incredible price! Just press twice (for fast) to turn on and after 15 minutes it will shut itself off. While on, random motion will keep your cat engaged and using all of their natural instincts for fun and health. Our 12 year old energetic cat loves it and 'asks for it to be turned on. Note: the sound is fine, the lights are fun and any intelligent cat can handle the cover moving around :) This is the best toy we've ever found for indoor cats - Highly Recommend!

Katten älskar den. Men den låter väldigt mycket och kvaliteten är inte speciellt bra. Den håller så länge den håller helt enkelt. Men katten är underhållen i timmar och jamar bär jag stänger av. Tre AAA batterier krävs och önskar att den hade kunde laddats upp istället.

Both cats love it. I’m not sure it will last very long, it doesn’t look very sturdy. My boy doesn’t usually like toys but he won’t leave this one alone. My girl chases him off if she thinks he’s getting too close. Fun to watch them interact and chase each other and the toy around.

My cat loves this. It does get a little tangled in itself and the pointy stick falls off. Bit annoying it uses three batteries. My battery charger doesn’t like the math. But it keeps my cat Sunny entertained for sure.

My cat loves it. Hes been playing with it more than a month now and does not get bored of it

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