Cats are predatory animals for which the movement and an opportunity to realize the hunting potential are constantly necessary. Missing, the cat can begin to show aggression to the person or to household items. In order that animals did not miss, a large number of special toys is created.
History of cat's toys contains the millennia. The simplest toy for entertainment of a cat which it is possible to make with own hands is the rustling piece of paper on a long thread or a tape. However with development of technology and production there was quite large number of original toys which can help to amuse the pet and to preserve a surrounding situation: furniture, wall-paper, portieres and curtains.
Claw sharpeners
Claw sharpeners are considered as the most known "useful" toys. Very often they look as complexes from platforms on several floors with a surface from felt or other material, convenient for sharpening of claws. Thanks to existence of claw sharpeners in the house, the cat or a cat will not spoil furniture and woven surfaces and also will be able to satisfy the passion for conquest of height, without climbing on cases and mezzanines. It becomes very frequent a claw sharpener with a big surface for rest by the favourite place for the pet's dream.
Soft toys
Hunting instincts of a cat can satisfy small soft toys in the form of mice, squirrels and other small rodents. As a rule, such entertainments possess the hand bell or the internal mechanism publishing peep, and the cat "follows" a sound. As filler of such toys often serves cat's mint which smell reduces aggression of animals, does them more tender and playful. Toys and small pillows with cat's mint the owners often take in transit cats, especially on long distances.
Puzzles
The developing toys for cats consist, as a rule, of puzzles after which solution the animal receives an award – delicacy. Such entertainments help a cat to spend time without owner, develop big cerebral hemispheres of an animal, help to improve logical thinking of the pet.
Interactive toys
Modern interactive toys for cats are created taking into account the latest technologies. Games of animals with a laser beam or other color effects concern the most popular of them. Such toys entertain not only a cat, but also her owners, however from the point of view of zoopsychologists, they can do harm to an animal. The fact is that playing with things, that is real-life objects (for example, soft toys), the pet satisfies instincts as sees real result of "hunting". Hunting behind a laser beam does not allow a cat to have satisfaction from the end result of entertainment as animals just do not understand the nature of abstract games.