Here I am with one of my favorite toys — a pipe cleaner! This orange one is my favorite. Would you like me to show you some of the very best pipe cleaner playtime moves? Of course you would, so here goes!
The first and most important rule is to keep your eye on the prize! If you get distracted, the pipe cleaner may run off someplace where it can’t be found.
When you are going in to whap it, timing is everything!
It’s even more fun if you’re ambidextrous! Double the whapping!
Try not to go too crazy because then you’ll start making goofy faces, and your human will post them on the internet.
My favorite pipe cleaner game is Fetch. My human tosses it, and I chase it… then I bring it back for her to throw again! I will do this about 50 or 100 times in a row.
I hope you liked my moves! By the way, what’s a pipe? I’ve never seen one.
Lexi also would carry them around in her mouth and call out!
Sweet funny face!
Pipe cleaners are fabulous cat toys!
Pic 5! MOL!
That was a ton of fun! We have never seen a pipe ether…though there are some pictures of Pawppy’s Daddy having one in his hand or coming out of his face, OMC!
Petcretary used to take pipe cleaners, roll up the ends so they wouldn’t poke, and then she wound them around a pencil. Then they were like bouncy springs and the kitties before me and Angel Minko loved them! I Pipo like them made into a little ball, then I bat them or carry them around while I croon to them:)
My Lexi loved her pipe cleaner(s) when she was able to see. She played fetch and would eat the red colour off of them! We call them her red things.
We love pipe cleaners but they always disappear. These are excellent tips, we’ll definitely keep a better eye on them. Your human snapped some pawsome shots.
Whoa! I never quite “got” pipe cleaners. Perhaps the ones we got are too big. I DO have TW trained that when she throws something SHE has to fetch it.
Looks great fun.x
Okay, so now I think I need a pipe cleaner. Actually, I know I must have one! It looks like so much fun.
Sampo here – I LOVE red pipe cleaners. I do fetch them but not as many times as you do! That’s true enthusiasm.
Sounds like a lot of fun. But 100 fetches sounds exhausting!
That’s what my human says.
We need a pipe cleaner! We’ve never played with one of those before,
Gee, that looks like fun !!
Mum has some pretty pipe cleaners. WE need for her to get them out for us.
After all, we are sure she got them for us :/
Purrs Georgia,Julie and JJ
Summer, what’s a cleaner? We’ve never seen one of those either . . . ;p
the critters in the cottage xo
I love these pictures. Mine love playing with pipe cleaners too – but the metal middle makes me nervous. I’ve been meaning to ask the vet or anyone whose cat loves them too whether they are safe without supervision.
Our pipe cleaners used to be supervision-only toys, but then I “lost” them – but they keep reappearing!
That’s one toy I don’t have! And Mommy wishes I would learn how to play Fetch. She tosses toys and I chase after them, but I won’t bring them back 🙂 –Mudpie
Mudpie, maybe you should tell your human Fetch works both ways – sometimes kitties expect the human to be the one to fetch. Sparkle was like that – she played fetch with my human, but my human was the one who did the fetching.
I have 6 cats in total and we have never tried playing using a pipe cleaner. Maybe We can do it some other time. The moves and facial expression of Summer are priceless.
Pipe cleaners make a great toy. Eric loved to play fetch with rolled up foil.
A simple pipe cleaner can give many, many hours of fun
You have fierce moves. Way to go.
Great moves, Summer ! Your goofy face made us laugh ! Purrs
Love your face when you’re having fun!
I don’t have any pipe cleaner toys.
You’ve got the moves 🙂 KaTwo plays with them, but she won’t fetch.
Looks like a lot of fun.
Oh my, that THIRD picture looks exceptionally cute!!
How does a cat look when she wants food? Super super super cute!!
OMC! Nutmeg LUVS pipe cleaners! A friend of ours makes “worms” out of several together (the small ones – we’ve yet to try the really big, fuzzy craft ones) and she makes them in all kinds of different colors. We have SO much fun with them!
My sisfur, Livia (you may remember her, she was my Blue Aby sis), REALLY loved them, too. MK thinks of her often when Nutmeg’s digging one out from under a closet door where she’s pushed it!
Silly torties!
Purrz!
Selina
Nice action shots, Summer! You never have a goofy face.
Hmm…Jo Jo and Kozmo and Ninja LOVE pipe cleaners, but I ignore them. You look most fetching!
And 50-100 hundred times…Ninja is like that – he also LOVES wadded balls of tinfoil and plays fetch with them too!
Purrs
Marv
we’ve never had those here….looks like fun though
Those things are fun pretty Summer and the orange one sure is nice!
MOL, “you’ll start making goofy faces, and your human will post them on the internet”! You kill us, Summer!
I’ll have to buy pipe cleaners. I feel very second rate using qtips. 🙂
Love that goofy shot of you, Summer! We haven’t played with pipe cleaners in a long time. Will have to ask our human to get the package of them out and have some fun!
We like pipe cleaners too. They’re fun to whap and light weight so easy to knock around on the floor too.
well you know…mommy has never seen a great long one like that! If ever she does, I know she will get me one. She only has the like 5 inch long ones. Where did your human get that long one? It is a worthy foe, Summer. I can certainly see the allure of fighting it. You two are well matched.
the boyz have never played with a pipe cleaner. and i do miss the college days when i used to smoke a pipe.
Summer it is hard to focus when there is a pipe cleaner in the house BUT you did very well
hugs madi your bfff
I’ll have to get some pipe cleaners for my cat. You have some great moves Summer.
We’ve never done this. MOM! We need to do this too.
Vashti loves pipe cleaners too. She scatters them all over the house!