Cat Dancer Products Mouse in the House 20 IN

One of our cats plays with this toy regularly and stalks the mouse and swats at the mouse as it moves on the track. She tried pushing the red button tentatively but did not press hard enough to activate the toy. The toy is sturdy and strong but noisy. Our other cat doesn't like the noise and does not play with the toy. The toy is expensive, but a fun alternative to conventional cat toys.

I'm torn about the stars -- this toy is a hit with my kitty, but not durable. My energetic and smarty-pants kitty is hard to please when it comes to toys. I ordered this in mid October, and it immediately became his favorite toy. HE LOVES IT. He figured out how to turn it on himself in just three days. As others have mentioned, it is quite loud, which is a significant drawback when you live in a small apartment and can't escape the noise. Mine will also only go around for 2 cycles, which completes in about 10 - 15 seconds, which is also a drawback if you're looking for your kitty to be entertained for at least a few solid minutes while you try to make dinner. Alternately, however, sometimes it gets stuck and will be jammed in the on position and will go and go and go until I turn it off. I never know when that is going to happen. When he catches the toy, it is even louder-- you can hear the little motor protesting furiously, but it seemed to hold up ok-- more or less-- until last week. Now the toy is catching or getting stuck in random spots along the loop, not just at the restart spot in the back (accessible via a little pop off door). I unscrewed the entire back yesterday to try to fix, but the problem may be with the track underneath, so I'll need to get a different screwdriver to get to that section. The whole time my kitty was climbing into my lap, desperate to play with it, poor guy. I got roughly 2.5 months of use out of a rather expensive toy, but he loves it. I hope I can fix it, I can't spend $30+ dollars every few months on a toy that is going to keep breaking, no matter how much he loves it.

This is my second unit. The first one made lots of noise so I replaced the power supply with:  Belker 18W Universal AC DC Adapter for Household Electronics Routers Smart Phone Mp3 TV Boxes LCD Tablets CCTV Cameras, Output Volt 3V 4.5V 5V 6V 7.5V 9V 12V 1500mA Power Cord Supply Compatible 12W The first unit stopped working after a few months of age most likely due to the poor stock power supply. The damage was done before I started using the new power supply. At first it was difficult to program then it became louder and louder and eventually froze. If you get this toy do not use the factory power supply!The new unit with new third party power supply has been running much longer, programs with ease and is quiet. It has never squealed even when a cat held the mouse in place for a few seconds.The Cats try to take the mouse away and pull the power chord out. It stayed in place with some duct tape.Sometimes the Cats rip the mouse a little up from its plastic guide (base) so I replace the mouse. I consider this normal wear and tear.The only issue is when they attack the toy when the mouse is in the rest position. The unit will be flipped on its side/ back and the mouse will fall out of the wide slot meant to install it. It would be much better if the mouse stopped somewhere else and let you manually run the tow line to the mouse install point.

I was so excited about this product and upon receiving it, I have mixed feelings. First off, this is a really great price. I've been looking at this for a long time, but couldn't stomach the price Petco wanted for this.I have two cats and ordered this mostly for my younger one. He absolutely loves this and is obsessed with it. He's been very destructive with his other toys and so far, the mouse holds up very well (minus one ear that was an early casualty). He flips the unit several times, but has yet to figure out how to get the mouse off the track. As other reviewers mentioned, it is very noisy--not a big deal while I'm gone, but enough of a turn off for my older cat to not come close enough to even play with it. However, the noise didn't even phase my younger one so this wasn't too much of an issue for me.My reason for giving this only 1 star is because when we received this, it was broken. Similar to another review, the timer function does not work. I was once able to get the screen to at least start flashing, but I was not able to set it nor does the red button on the front work for the cat to activate it. It has been this way since we received it and after multiple attempts to try to fix this in my spare time this past month, I've given up on it. The only option to use this (which I have been doing to allow them to play with it for brief periods) is to turn it on manually. However, this doesn't really work very well unless I'm sitting right there to turn it back off when my cat is done with it which kind of defeats the purpose of using this as a way to keep my cats stimulated while I'm out of the house at work.I was not able to return this--although in all fairness, this is perhaps my fault for not following up on it before the 30 day window expired. I kept hoping that somehow I could fix it or just wasn't working it right and that I wouldn't have to do so. However, I was really disappointed to find out that I had missed the return window by literally one day.