- Da Bird Rod and Feather Cat Toy, Handmade in The USA (1 Bird)

I'll preface this review by saying that I just used this product for the first time and cannot accurately comment on its long-term durability. However, I'm very impressed by what I've seen so far. Da Bird is sturdy, it's flexible, and it makes my cats crazy. I have three indoor cats who are needy as heck. I buy them new toys and catnip all the time, but they often get bored with them. They really like fishing rod type toys, but the handles are often short and rigid, limiting mobility, and the strings get tangled around the rod. The toys that dangle from the end can be clunky and unnatural. A few years back, I got them a toy called the "kitty tickler" at an independent pet shop. It was a long springy rod with lots of feathers and streamers at the end. It had great reach and twitched convincingly. I liked it because it was easy to use, and the kitties were obsessed. Fast forward to the present, the kitty tickler has been thoroughly de-feathered and does not allow for replacement of the fun bits. Unfortunately, searching "kitty tickler" online turns up A LOT of toys that are not appropriate for cats, unless your cats like vibrating silicone. (I don't cat shame.) So, I decided to search for the next best thing. Enter Da Bird! It's springy! It's easy to manipulate! It looks like a real freakin' bird flapping through the skies of my kitchen! The cats are obsessed. My oldest cat Lily is very play resistant. When she was a kitten she would jump 5 feet in the air to catch moths in our crappy starter apartment; now her butt doesn't leave the ground. If she stands on her hind legs, we consider her excited. With Da Bird, I got multiple jumps out of her! She was, dare I say, gallivanting. She was excited! I was excited! The other two cats were excited! It's basically a small miracle. Also, Da Bird has a mechanism by which I can easily reattach a lure once the cats inevitably destroy this one. We'll see how long that takes. TLDR This toy is spectacular and seems really well made. Even my laziest lump of a cat is nuts for it. Highly recommend!

Our cats are about 3 years old and they're strictly indoor cats, so excercise and entertainment is really important. Unfortunately they're very picky about their toys and get bored easily with most them. But THIS toy - Da' Bird - is AMAZING. The cats absolutely love it and they'll chase it around for 10 - 15 minutes, then they start to get a little tired and lay down. This is a good thing! It means they're getting needed excercise, and on busy days when we don't have much time to spend with the cats we can just break out "Da' Bird" for 15 minutes or so and the kities are happy. PROS: - Cats LOVE it and never get bored with it. I would be amazed if anyone ever found a cat that didn't love this toy. - Gives indoor cats great excercise and fun! - Replaceable attachment feather kits are easy to buy here and stock up for when they start to get too chewed up - GREAT way to spend quality time with your cat "quickly", and it's time that will bring you closer to your furry friend(s) CONS: - One of our cats loves it SO much they he YOWLS at us EVERY NIGHT until we give him his 15 minutes of Da' Bird chasing time! (not really a "con", but I have to admit his persitent mewing can be annoying when the timing for play is not good). - While the replaceable / refill feather attachments are a convenience, I can see that this could get very expesive if you let your cat get too agressive with it. Some other reviewers havee mentioned their cats go through the attachments quickly. Our cats aren't quite as agressive I guess, because we only have to replace about once every 2 months. But in the end, no matter what toys you get for you cats you're going to spend ongoing money. So this isn't truly a "con" but I'm just trying to be objective for sake of this review. - The string seems like it could be a bit stronger. It's starting to fray at the attachment end. - I don't like the metal "fishing lurec clip" style of clips for the attachment - it makes me nervous that the cats might damage their teeth, so we're pretty careful by watching how they get ahold of it, and never yank on the string hard when a kitty has the lure in his mouth. But aside from this "picky" review, SUMMARY: AWESOME CAT TOY! OUR CATS LOVE IT AND NEVER LOSE INTEREST! MAKES US FEEL GOOD SPENDING TIME WITH THEM AND GETTING THEM HEALTHY EXCERCISE! HIGLY RECOMMEND!