AsFrost Upgraded Interactive Cat Toy for Indoor Cats, Auto/Manual Control DIY Cat Feather Mouse Toy Treadmill for Bored Kitten Puppy Play Chase Run Exercise Hunting Mental Stimulation-Sky Blue

We received the AsFrost interactive cat toy today and am highly impressed! —Per the instructions, we immediately charged the motor using the charging cord provided in the box, which we plugged into our own USB charger. —The charging cord is a nice quality braided cord. —Motor arrived mostly charged, so it only took approx. 15 min to fully charge and for the charging light to turn green. —Set up of the unit was easy. We set it up around our dining room table, which allows our cat (4 yrs old) to use the table chairs to hide/stalk the toy but yet has plenty of room to run around the table chasing down the toy. —The rope is soft and if our cat lays on it, both the toy/rope stop moving, so there’s no risk of him getting hurt/entangled in it. —The toy makes a mouse sound, which we initially kept on to entice our cat from another room, however, it can be turned off, if desired. We have since turned off the sound as once our cat was engaged in playing with the toy, he was then indifferent to the sound. —Our cat was a little apprehensive at first (always is with anything new) but after a few minutes, he became so excited/engaged with this toy and began chasing it around and talking to it. —I like that it has 3 different speeds. We started him off at the slow (walk) speed, which I would say is more like power walking and he took to this toy unlike any other interactive toy he’s played with. —The motor is quiet, so when they play with it at night, it does NOT disrupt our sleep. ;) —The toy runs for 15 min and then shuts off. Once it shut off, he still pounced/played with the feather toy, all the while chatting up a storm. He continued to paw at the feather toy in hopes to revive it and even walked up to the motor inquisitively trying to see how to turn it back on (yep, he’s a smart one). We intend on turning this on in the morning before we leave for work, midday (on the days we WFH) and at night before bedtime—to release his energy, exercise him and hopefully aid in a restful daytime nap/night’s sleep. Overall: excellent toy for indoor cats and is unique in its design (never saw anything like this before). Highly engaging/entertaining for our cat and even found it fun/entertaining to watch his excitement as he played with it. Our cat gives it four paws up!!

Best toy ever for those housecats who need exercise and who love to be active. Complete genius. I have been searching for a toy that will keep my Pumpkin engaged, and this is it. It arrived two days ago and she is currently playing with it now. She loves it. Yes, it is rather expensive, but I will definitely be keeping it. It was a good investment and I hope it lasts. Easy to put together and easy to use, but including instructions would have been nice. I had to just follow the picture on the box.

Great product! This is day 2 of my fluff boy playing with the setup. I only used three of the anchors to confine the toy to a small space. The instructions for setup were basically nonexistent, I ended up finding a YouTube video on it just to make sure I put it together right. I also was a bit hesitant of leaving my cat with it unattended at first because of the rope attachment. He likes to pull at rope and I didn't want the risk of it coming undone and him swallowing the rope. I just monitored his play the first day but I genuinely think it safe now, just check the string often. This also could've been a bit more affordable ~$35-45. Cons: Price, Insecure rope attachment, Setup instructions Pros: Cat Fun, Hands off, Self-timer

Under normal circumstances I would not consider myself a person who'd shop at this price point for my cat's entertainment.... However, this device turns out to be pure *gold*, and whoever designed it is some kind of genius. Even if it broke tomorrow, I'd still consider I'd gotten my money's worth. This really is a STEM kit for cats, if yours is of a persuasion like mine with above-the-median intelligence. She LOVED chasing this thing from the very first run of it, and was NOT satisfied with honoring the 15-minute limit on play time (Note: she's 18 months old). I was 'asked' to restart the clock 3 times in a row. By the fourth run, she was investigating each or the other pulley joint, trying to figure out how it worked. On Day 2, she realized she can press on the string to slow down the bait -- thereby discovering the law of friction -- and seemed to enjoy the feel of the string running under her claws. It took about 6 days of *constant* obsession with this toy for her to finally have a day of expressing nonchalance. So now I try to make it disappear for a couple days before bringing it back out. As of 1½ months later, she is still enthralled once I set it up again, will watch patiently/curiously as I configure a new convoluted route around the furniture, and then will play/pounce/tackle happily for 45 min or more (ie, if I cave and restart the time-clock again & again). For the human: Honestly it was just really, really cool to watch an animal (& fur friend) use her mental cognition to actively interrogate a puzzle and experiment with different tactics.... and get better at it. For the feline: with this self-taught friction trick, it may be the first & only time in her short life in which *she* gets to control the gameplay. No lie, I think I witnessed joy. I'd give it 11 stars if I could.

We've been through so many cat toys of various kinds. Some our cats liked more than others, typically preferring the cheapest simpler ones, like a string and the box it came in. Then we took a chance on this one. A little pricey, but saw a lot of great video reviews of it and it seemed rather unique, so we took a chance. We'll, we've been running this thing nearly daily for the past month or so and our cats LOVE it! We start setting it up and all 3 of them gather around watching, eager to start the running and hunting. Sometimes they will just sit and watch it go round and round, but soon enough they can't resist and will start running after it. We don't leave it set up all the time as it's a trip hazard for humans, especially at night. BUT, we humans love setting up different configurations of it. We got some more of the pulleys, so we get some rather elaborate patterns going, even having it run up and down the wall! We put different little critters on it for them to run after, the mouse being their favorite. Some critters will sometimes get stuck in the pulley, so you have to remedy that somehow, like not have the turn too sharp or using masking tape to help guide it through. But that's part of the fun for us, creating a pattern that is complex but functional (and one the cats like). Teaches physics and geometry! Get your kids involved in designing it. And did I mention our cats freakin' love it! Even our (formerly) chubby lazy cat gets into it. They like doing a night time run in the dark, too. Anyhow, take a chance with this one. You have 30 days to try it out with your cats. Don't give up after one day, because ours like some configurations more than others, or different speeds. If it goes too fast, they get frustrated and lose interest. Change it up and you'll soon find your cats sweetspot!