Caturday: The Truth About Cat Toys
You can spend a small fortune on cat enrichment. You can research the physics of pounce‑angles, the aerodynamics of feather wobble, the optimal LED wavelength for feline engagement. You can buy the high‑tech, USB‑charged, AI‑enhanced, laser‑guided, Bluetooth‑enabled, self‑correcting, auto‑rotating, vet‑approved enrichment orb. Your cats will thank you politely by never touching it. Because the real toy — the one that activates their inner athlete, their inner hunter, their inner chaos gremlin — is the empty toilet paper roll. That empty roll is a log‑rolling competition. It’s CrossFit for cats. It’s the Olympics, but fuzzier and with more property damage. ( Actually, scratch that. The full toilet paper roll is even better. I t’s a vertical treadmill.) Meanwhile, you — the human — are doing your own enrichment routine: Going for walks to calm your nerves after the cats redecorate the bathroom Rolling on the floor to retrieve the roll that has now migrated under the couch Performing int...