Product Description

At the end of a flexible rod and string is a replaceable feather cluster that makes a whirring noise when swung. Your cat will think a bird flew into the house! The Da Bird teaser is a vet-recommended interactive toy for cats and their humans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49584 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Kittybird

Features

• Don't foget to order a few extra Da Bird Refills! Your cat will love you for it!

Customer Reviews

Great toy -- with a caveat, hence 4 stars
I have to give this a mixed review.

My cat ABSOLUTELY LOVES THIS TOY!
She wasn't much of an active cat, but I wanted to interact and play with her more. And this toy makes her jump and run and spin and pounce and prance and dance and do the cat-equivalent of laughing and giggling (big wide eyes, slightly vibrating, hunkered down behind a pillow, watching its every move).

She knows where I store it, and when I come home from work, she sits infront of its hiding place.

HOWEVER --- it is not that durable.

She and I play with it twice a day and it last about two weeks.

When it breaks, the hardware that holds the feathered part shears off somewhere inside of the pole. After that, it really isn't usable any more, because if you try to attach the feathers back by simply tying the string to the feather part, the spinning magic is pretty much gone and the string gets tangled in an instant.

So, consider this a disposable toy with a two-week-or-so life span.
That is what I decided to do and now I buy three at a time.

'Cause I've not found a better toy.
My cat goes CRAZY over it.

Fantastic as advertisde
We've had our cats for about 4 years now and bought them every single toy that eBay or PetSmart offers. Mice, cat nip, feather toys, cat castles (have 3 of them) and giant fishing poles.

Their favorite toys are the interactive ones and they recently chewed through both their fishing-pole toys with features at the end so I started hunting around for a better one.

As a side note, I noticed the longer the pole the more fun they had and easier it is to play with.

After searching Amazon I ran across this toy and went to the main homepage for it. The company only sells about 10 toys that they claim they have personally tested and think they are the best. We figured what the hey and bought this toy.

It's wonderful.

First off the handle is a solid, thin piece of flexible metal about 3' long and no real handle to speak of. Then there is a really thing line connected to it, maybe 2' long and from there it connects to a special joint that hooks to the feather that is made specifically to allow the feather to rotate and spin around as you whip it around in the air (it's like a ball-and-socket joint).

What happens is the toy ends up looking like a bird flying through the room.

The first time we pulled this toy out of the tube it ships in and let our cats sniff it, they thought it was OK. As soon as we started to whip it around the room, their eye's dilated like dinner plates and they got really low to the ground. From that point on it was just a blur of activity and flipping cats. They loved it.

I really cannot recommend you try any other feather toy before getting this because of it's price. If you walk into PetSmart and buy a feather toy (or wand) it's about $15. Just buy this, if your cats have a heartbeat I imagine they will love it.

Your cat will FLY
My cat loves this toy. It moves like a bird flying, and she jumps 3 feet in the air trying to catch it. It's easy to use since it's light and it has a long pole. She gets so excited that she grabs it and instantly puts it in her mouth and chomps down for safekeeping when she can catch it (she does this before she hits the ground). The bird needed to be replaced once already, so beware if your cat is an avid hunter. It's durable, but cats can bite aggressively!