I'm sure that many of you who have cats have played the laser light game with them. Cats love chasing stuff, and laser lights make it so easy because I can sit and relax and just point the laser around the room.

However I had 2 problems with this.

The first problem was that every laser pointer I could find used weird batteries (watch batteries or hearing aide batteries) which didn't last very long and were expensive to replace. The laser pointers that took these types of betteries were also very small and sometimes hard for me to hold with my carpel tunnel and tendonitis.

So I had ben looking for a laser pointer that was larger and easier to hold, and that takes normal batteries -- and I found one! It's called the Critter Bug Laser cat toy. It's big and easy to hold (and it also doesn't get lost like the small ones do) and most importantly it takes normal batteries (two AAA batteries).

The second problem I had with cats and laser toys was that my cats would be paranoid for quite a while after the game was over -- looking and searching for the little red dot.

To solve that problem I started doing a countdown before i turned the laser on, and a different countdown before I turned it off.

To start the game I say "Ready, set, GO" and I turn the laser on when I say GO!.

To finish the game I say "3, 2, 1, bye bye" and the light disappears when I say bye bye.

All 3 of my cats now understand that the game is over and they don't act all paranoid by looking and searching for the little red laser dot after it is turned off.

So I thought I would share this with all of you, because so many cats love playing the game, and it's good exercise for them without making us tired and worn out
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