posted by on Jan 30
The same way you would want to keep our children safe with what we allow them to play with, you should check on what your cat or kitten are playing with for their safety and to insure that they stay healthy. If your kitten or cat starts chewing and swallowing the loose string or pieces of rubber bands that make that ball bounce or toy bird spring back up or away after your cat lets go of it, can cause some major surgery and if little tabby continue to eat that string a repeat of that surgery is plausible.
Having toys for your cat to play with will not only keeps your cat healthy by letting them have a way to exercise, especially if they are too dormant or temporarily inactive because of surgery or other health problems. Getting your cat active and exercising will speed up the progress of recovery from the health issues that your cat may be suffering.
They have an instinct for certain ways of stalking their prey and the pouncing onto it and not letting it escape and if it does, recapturing it again and again and again if necessary. Certain cat toys can help sharpen and develop their skills to let your kitten and cat grow not only physically but mentally healthy cats and that is what we all should thrive for.
Cat Trees are probably considered more as furniture than toys but our cats and even when they were kittens enjoyed climbing to the different level to keep that one open eye at all times covering their domain from invaders or if an un-expecting prey wondered within being captured they would have an advantage from their elevated position so that there was no escape from their grasp. Having a great comfortable place to sleeping carefree or mark their territory by scratching the post is ok. Better than the wife new leather couch on wooden end table.
There are several interactive cat toys some use batteries some do not by having a spring steel wire attached to the base of the toy or having the spring steel wire attached to a clamping device are two great ways to capture your cat and kittens attention and keep it. 
The battery powered toy changes direction to create unpredictable bouncing movements to keep them entertained longer. The Wire alone toy will still amuse both cats, kitten and their owner because of the way the spring steel reacts and bounces this way and that forcing your cat to change direction sometime in midflight. Both styles the wire bounces back to its original shape or position. Most model allow for the worn or damage toy to be replaced.
Curiosity never killed this cat. Cat toys with Catnap some are designed to have your cat interact by rubbing grabbing and even wrestling with hind paw kicking and even hugging and curling up with this toy most are filled with a lasting amount of catnip. The fluffy tail of this model will add extra excitement. 
The Catnap will dissipate eventually and your cat may not show much interest if this happen you can replace them for less than ten dollars at most pet stores or online.
Bonding or spending one on one time with your cat will go a long way for keeping you and your cat healthy. So having a toy to play with or dare is tease them with is a great way to get this interaction going between you and your cat or kitten. Something that looks alive and moves crazily, wildly in sudden direction change and full of surprises can guarantee a never a dull moment and hours of fun for the both of you.
Simple way to keep a healthy cat and a healthy kitten healthy.