SmartyKat Electronic Motion/Moving Toys for Cats & Kittens, Battery Powered, Mimics Motion of Real Prey, Fun & Interactive Play – Multiple Styles

Best Kitty Entertainment (next to me )
This is one of my girls’ favorite toys! They loved the first so much that I got a second one! They will sit and stare at the mat until I push the magic button and then roll around on it, under it, pounce on it or simply watch and stalk it. (Sure beats waving a toy around as they just watch.) The video sounds loud, but actually, the sound level isn’t bad at all. My kitties love these toys, and they provide up to a half hour at a time of entertainment, which isn’t bad for cats!

Junk! Stopped working after a week and very poorly made.
At the start, this seemed like it could be a nice product! It spun around quickly, and my kitten was really interested in it, but my older cat was a little apprehensive.When it arrived, the cover for it was all folded up and creased, and I thought that it would be pretty much impossible for it to fold out like in the pictures. I ended up being right, the blue cover is more rigid than you think, and definitely does not behave like a sheet to block the toy that spins around the base (in my case, it has four lowered areas, and four raised ones, kind of forming a wave around the rim.) It’s been in this condition ever since I got it, and hasn’t loosened very much, if at all.Secondly, the base part of the toy seems to be very cheaply made. You can either set it to “normal” mode or “fast” mode by pressing the buttons at the top. In my experience, the normal mode is worthless, and neither of my cats were interested in it. My older cat was a little more interested when it was in fast mode, and my kitten was really interested in it, at least for the week or so that it worked! Whenever the toy is spinning around and it comes into contact with anything, it makes this awful grinding sound, and you hear the gears inside skipping against each other. This is SO LOUD. It also doesn’t sound like it’s good for the toy, at all. And when I say this happens when it touches anything, I mean anything. Even the slightest pressure will make this thing skip, and its happened several times when its just trying to move against that awful blue cover!Unfortunately for me and the toy, I think some animals will like this sound, as in the case of my kitten, she will pounce on the toy and then just sit there on top of it, letting the gears grind and skip until she loses interest. If it was more robust and made with non plastic gears, I think this might work better, as it could have a little bit more resistance to anything touching the spinning toy (which is kind of the whole point of this thing, isn’t it???)After about a week of this thing grinding and skipping, I noticed that it had started to slow down quite a bit. The “fast” mode now resembled the “normal” mode, and the normal mode wouldn’t turn at all. I thought this might be the batteries dying, so I swapped it out for a new pair. That didn’t work either, so I tried two more pairs (all charged and tested). None of that worked, so I guess it just couldn’t stand the pressure. Tried to look inside to see if anything had come loose or broken off, and WOW. It looks very cheap inside of this thing. Stretchy, worthless rubber belts, plastic gears, shoddy wiring. Probably would have broken by itself even if my kitten didn’t like it!Overall, this thing is a piece of junk, which is sad because SmartyKat does have some other good products! I’d avoid this one, and get something else.

Unfortunately my cats love it
As the title says, my cats LOVED this toy. Unfortunately there are many flaws in the product that ultimately has lead to its demise:1) The quality of the mat – the wire was very flimsy and the feather would often get stuff on it, making a horrible clicking sound. The fabric also ripped in spots, especially near the wire, about 2 weeks into ownership2) The sound – as mentioned in other reviews, the wand makes a horrible clicking sound when it gets stuck (either on the fabric or on the cats) which was something I was able to look over since my cats loved it so much3) The wand – FREQUENTLY falls off, to the point where I’d have to reattach it almost every time my cats wanted to play. Again, not a huge deal, could probably be fixed with super glue if needed4) Longevity – I’ll preface this my saying that my cats love this toy. I probably turned it on no less than 5x a day for the first week. I first noticed the power on the “slow” setting going probably 3 weeks in. No problem, I thought, there are 2 settings. Well, tonight I go to turn it on (after giving it a few days off) annnnnd nothing. Tried the fast setting… nothing. You can (sort of) hear the motor trying to turn, I even tried without the wand on it thinking that maybe it was too heavy for it. Unfortunately its lifespan seems to have run out. Decent price but not if I have to replace it once a month. As much as my girls loved this toy, I am now on the hunt for a similar product with better design and (hopefully) a longer lifespan

Katten älskar den. Men den låter väldigt mycket och kvaliteten är inte speciellt bra. Den håller så länge den håller helt enkelt. Men katten är underhållen i timmar och jamar bär jag stänger av. Tre AAA batterier krävs och önskar att den hade kunde laddats upp istället.

Both cats love it. I’m not sure it will last very long, it doesn’t look very sturdy. My boy doesn’t usually like toys but he won’t leave this one alone. My girl chases him off if she thinks he’s getting too close. Fun to watch them interact and chase each other and the toy around.