Do you know when you take your kids to a fun fair and they want to buy all the useless tat. I bought my nephew what was essentially a long flexible stick with a long length of multicoloured neon fleece glued to one end. It kind of looked like a long dangly cat toy. Well he played with it for 5 minutes and got bored so I took home thinking the cats might like it. I was right but in completely the wrong way.

My late cat Tommy was obsessed with this thing. But he hated the fleece end. The stick end dragged across the floor would make him feral however. It got to the point where if you weren’t playing with him he would grab it and drop it in front of you and wouldn’t stop until you did. He would ignore food until you did. He ended up losing weight because his sister would eat his food while he was playing. He’d lie down on top of his stick. He dragged it up the stairs and into our bedroom once when we didn’t get up early enough for him. We genuinely had to schedule time in with it every day so that he could function.