Just wondering if anyone noticed if their cat would be more of a mouse or a bird type of hunter - based on how they play with toys/string wands, like "DaBird".
We have several string-wand toys for the cats (bought at the shows). Some are short, some longer. They have either feather attachments, or a mouse or something like that.
I was playing with Charlie and Ling with a "mouse on a string" and Ling tends to stay close to the floor as if she is hunting mice. Even if the mouse is flying, she would rather chase it on the ground then to do jumping.
Charlie, on the other hand, likes to do the high leaps and catch whatever is on the end of the string.
So I said that Ling was more of a mouser and Charlie would be the one to leap at birds or flying things if he was outside. BTW Ling was a product of barn cats, so wonder if that has anything to do with wanting to stay lower on the ground and be fast to hunt mice (she never has, but her mom was an excellant mouser).
We have several string-wand toys for the cats (bought at the shows). Some are short, some longer. They have either feather attachments, or a mouse or something like that.
I was playing with Charlie and Ling with a "mouse on a string" and Ling tends to stay close to the floor as if she is hunting mice. Even if the mouse is flying, she would rather chase it on the ground then to do jumping.
Charlie, on the other hand, likes to do the high leaps and catch whatever is on the end of the string.
So I said that Ling was more of a mouser and Charlie would be the one to leap at birds or flying things if he was outside. BTW Ling was a product of barn cats, so wonder if that has anything to do with wanting to stay lower on the ground and be fast to hunt mice (she never has, but her mom was an excellant mouser).