The Best Cat Toys for Your Furry Friend (2025)

Cats are beautiful, interesting, weird creatures. They're besides precise picky. Finding toys that they'll really play with is tough—especially with the sheer oversaturation of the favored marketplace today. Cats necessitate a circumstantial situation to play, scratch, and relax. Based connected years of investigating with our cats, these are our favourite WIRED-approved, tech-y feline toys and scratchers. Even if our cats rejected a peculiar product, we inactive examined wide construction, design, and worth to find whether it whitethorn beryllium utile for different kitties.

I'm a chopper feline ma specializing successful favored tech, and each of these feline toys are approved by some my and different staffers' (very spoiled) WIRED cats. Check retired our related guides similar The Best Automatic Cat Litter Boxes, The Best Automatic Cat Feeders, The Best Cat Water Fountains, and Our Favorite Fancy Cat Furniture. More of a canine person? We've got you covered! See our Best Accessories and Tech Essentials for Your Dog guide.

Updated April 2025: We've overhauled this usher for the existent twelvemonth and added the Omlet Freestyle Indoor Cat Tree, Mau Kona End Table Scratcher, Kong Kickeroo, Sofolor Interactive Cat Toy, Catstages Interactive Cat Treat Puzzle, Silvervine Chew Sticks, Da Bird, Feather Mice, Tkenpro 2K Pet Camera Treat Dispenser, and Enabot Rola PetPal Robot Pet Companion. We've updated prices throughout.

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Finding feline toys that your feline volition really emotion is precise hit-or-miss. We emotion interactive toys—everything connected this database are the toys that our cats really played with. All of the toys besides person an constituent to assistance prosecute their earthy instincts to hunt prey, similar a amusive kicker artifact oregon a puzzle artifact truthful your feline has to usage their pecan-sized encephalon to get rewarded with delicious, smelly treats.

Cats similar to leap and ascent immoderate they can, truthful a feline histrion should assistance support them occupied and disconnected your mantel oregon breakable glassware. Our favourite feline trees are made from materials that tin beryllium scratched up, and our favourite model perch lets cats responsibly interact with the extracurricular world. We besides person a usher to the fanciest feline furnishings we've tried if you truly privation the afloat scoop, but present are immoderate different notable favorites erstwhile it comes to feline furnishings and toys:

A lick mat is simply a large mode to adhd enrichment and stimulation—plus, it helps them beforehand dilatory eating (and little throwing up). I besides person this acceptable of 2 cute fish-shaped lick mats for each of my kitties, and it's a amusive mode to springiness them a dainty portion promoting dilatory feeding and stimulation. I enactment Churu purée with immoderate added h2o to assistance sneakily adhd much hydration to their snacks.

When you unrecorded successful a tiny apartment, everything you decorate with matters due to the fact that it's each connected display—nothing gets hidden erstwhile you lone person 1 to 3 rooms. Some of america privation our cat's furnishings to lucifer too. Mau's Cat Tree is 1 of erstwhile reviewer Madea Giordano's favorites. If you tin spend it, your cats volition convey you.

More than conscionable a feline tree, Freestyle lets you customize your ain indoor oregon outdoor feline jungle gym from a bid of bamboo platforms, beds, ramps, hammocks, and scratchers. The platforms are sturdy capable to enactment cats of immoderate size oregon enactment level, and the poles tin accommodate ceilings up to 14 feet. The strategy is not inexpensive oregon particularly casual to enactment together, but my cats Circe and Scylla walk each azygous time connected theirs, making it worthy the investment. —Kat Merck

Mau is known for its high-end and tasteful feline furnishings (including the Cento feline tree, above), and its caller Kona broadside array fits close into the lineup with a midcentury mod vibe and scratching pad discreetly tucked into the back. The solid-wood array is precise dense and good made, with options for an oak oregon walnut finish. It didn’t dissuade my cats from scratching the seat it’s adjacent to, but it does travel with a container of catnip to assistance with encouragement. This array is fashionable and often sold out, but you tin motion up connected Mau’s website to beryllium notified of the adjacent restock. —Kat Merck

Former WIRED reviewer Medea Giordano loved these model seats due to the fact that they are a large mode for cats to bask successful the prima and support a watchful oculus connected the vicinity portion safely indoors. They're casual to instal too, with sticky strips that connect to your model sill that tin clasp up to 40 pounds. You tin besides nail the basal into the model frame, and determination are adjacent heated seats for super-spoiled kitties. The covers are removable and tin beryllium machine-washed. Heads up, you'll request a model sill astatine slightest 2 inches heavy to decently enactment it.

If you can't fig retired which benignant of artifact your cats volition like, oregon you conscionable privation them to beryllium refreshed each truthful often, Meowbox is simply a large subscription. You tin take to get deliveries each 1 oregon 2 months, and they see some treats and incredibly cute toys with an arsenic cute theme. Plus, for each container sold, the institution gives nutrient to a shelter. You tin spot precisely wherever connected its website.

Former WIRED reviewer Medea Giordano's cats besides went nuts for this Ripple Rug. The bottommost portion stays successful spot portion the apical tin beryllium configured into antithetic shapes for playing (or hunting), and you tin reshape it arsenic often arsenic you wish. The worldly feels similar felt but is made from 24 post-consumer integrative bottles and tin withstand crisp claws.

All 3 of our cats emotion the Kong Kickeroo, and it has been 1 of the astir long-lived feline toys we person ever bought. Bodhi is our eldest feline and seldom plays with toys anymore, but adjacent helium can’t defy the Kickeroo. It’s the cleanable signifier to drawback and claw astatine with his backmost paws, and it has a tail, mixed textures, and crinkly worldly wrong with a interaction of catnip. We besides tried the smaller model, but it was rapidly chewed through, portion the larger 1 has lasted for years. —Simon Hill

My highly spoiled cats ne'er interact with a artifact for much than 5 minutes, but they play with this interactive feline artifact for hours connected end. It has 3 modes truthful cats ne'er get bored: normal, active, and interactive, and it shuts disconnected automatically aft a play of clip not being used. It has a elemental USB charger and a fastener that controls everything, positive it comes with a replacement wand successful lawsuit your cats are arsenic rough-and-tumble arsenic mine. Although this is simply a spot much than I similar to walk connected feline toys, it was the champion acquisition I've made this year.

One of my cats is an highly intelligent, high-energy feline who's besides very nutrient motivated, truthful it is simply a continual situation to find things to support him entertained—not to mention, I besides person to marque definite helium doesn't inhale his food. With this toy, you tin screen up the treats with the leaves oregon enactment them lone successful the cups for an other challenge—I emotion that this puzzle artifact is wholly customizable based connected your cat’s quality level. I person some the Melon Madness and Buggin’ Out models, and adjacent years later, my cats are inactive entertained by them. I telephone that a bully investment.

My overactive feline Basil is 1 of astir 40 percent of cats that don't respond to catnip, which is simply a bummer due to the fact that helium gets FOMO watching his sister spell wild. Luckily, both of my cats spell brainsick for these elemental sticks. It helps them prosecute with earthy kicking instincts and redirects assertive chewing from my iPhone cord.

I’ve had 7 cats implicit the past 20 years, and each azygous 1 of them has been obsessed with this interactive toy. And not conscionable immoderate wand toy, this 1 specifically and its archetypal feather attachment, which uses the aforesaid swivel mechanics arsenic a sportfishing lure to make question done the aerial that registers arsenic 100 percent authentic to cats. There are different attachments available, similar fur “mice,” but thing hits rather similar the archetypal feather cluster. Make definite you banal up connected refills, successful lawsuit your feline finds the wand successful the mediate of the nighttime and has its mode with it. (Speaking from experience.) —Kat Merck

Did you cognize determination are “bird” cats and “mouse” cats? Most cats really similar to hunt circumstantial types prey, and I’ve seen this play retired successful my ain house. Even though they’re litter mates, 1 of my indoor cats intelligibly prefers to leap astatine flying things (birds) and the different likes to fell and leap retired astatine things down debased (mice). They some bask these toys—they’re fuzzy similar mice but feathered similar birds, with immoderate catnip for added interest. I urge putting them distant erstwhile playtime is finished to support involvement fresh, and to region the doorbell if you don’t privation to perceive jingling successful the mediate of the night. —Kat Merck

This treat-dispensing favored cam has PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) capabilities and crystal wide unrecorded videofeed, and you tin instrumentality photos and grounds video from it. Through the app, you tin cookware the camera astir 360 degrees, perceive successful connected the goings-on portion you're away, and speech to your favored done the microphone. If conscionable being a information camera wasn't enough, you tin besides docket regular feedings done the app oregon flip them a kibble snack whenever you consciousness similar it. Do we need to harvester information cameras and dainty dispensers? Why not?

Is it a toy? Is it a information camera? Is it a dainty dispenser? There's nary request to decide! While my cats were much funny astir it than excited to play with this li'l robot, it did support their attention, which is simply a triumph successful my book. The app tin beryllium a spot glitchy, and the robot is by nary means smart, but it is simply a camera you tin determination astir your location portion you're away, and it'll roll, slam into objects, and sprout treats retired astatine your confused cats.

Other Essentials We Keep Going Back To:

• The Chom Chom Roller Pet Hair Remover ($25) is universally beloved among each pet-owning WIRED reviewers. This nifty gadget makes it casual to de-fur virtually immoderate surface. We usage them each azygous day. It's efficient, doesn't capable up excessively quickly, and emptying it takes conscionable seconds.
• Basepaws' Breed + Health Cat DNA Test ($160) trial tells you if your feline is clear, a carrier, astatine risk, oregon astatine precocious hazard of galore metabolic, cardiovascular, eye, blood, endocrine, renal, autoimmune, skin, musculoskeletal, and connective insubstantial disorders, arsenic good arsenic humor type, transfusion risk, and different traits. Any feline tin make a sickness oregon dental problems, but having a baseline tin alleviate anxieties and empower you to enactment with your vet to marque the champion beingness choices for your cat. —Louryn Strampe
• We emotion this basal but reliable stainless alloy Owala Pet Bowl ($30). Stainless alloy is overmuch much hygienic than plastic, which tin easy harbor harmful bacteria and origin problems similar feline acne.
• The Yeowww! Banana Catnip Toy ($9) has been the azygous astir loved artifact by each of erstwhile WIRED reviewer Medea Giordano's cats.