This may be normal, but Homer has had a few toys he plays with, but not like they were meant to be played with. Out of the three major ones, only one was played with in a normal fashion.

The normal one was a cat track with a ball in it. My neighbor (Aunt Nancy) lent me her cats' toy first to see if Homer liked it, and he did. So I bought him one for himself. He played with it for a few weeks, then stopped. :(

One of my online friends, Lee, who is also a cat fancier, sent me a Christmas package for Homer and I for his first year. Wasn't that nice? :-)

Besides a box of chocolate covered Macadamia nuts for Mom (woohoo!), there was a catnip-filled burlap fish for Homer, PLUS a net pet stocking for cats, filled with 12 toys! My first thought was, "Oh, goody! I can get rid of the crumpled cigarette packs, bread twisties, and milk jug rings!" Noooooooooooooooope! LOL

Homer doesn't seem to react to catnip. He will to Valerian drops, and I had to hide that bottle because he chewed the dispenser bulb on the dropper! Canteloupe seems to get a catnip-type reaction out of him, too. He's weird, my little guy! Gotta love him! :-)

He ended up liking only a few of the toys, and only when I hung them somewhere, on the dangly elastic string that was supplied. Once the string was broken, he refused to play with the toy, even if I replaced the string. :-(

My first cat, Mittsy, had a toy with a rocker bottom and a catnip holder on a stick, like a lollipop. The idea is for the cat to bat at the holder, making it rock back and forth, thus entertaining the cat. Mittsy understood this, and played normally with his toy for hours on end. Homer? Noooooooooooooo, he's gotta be weird! LOL

Since quite a few years had passed between getting Mittsy's toy and Homer's, there was a difference. Instead of a catnip lollipop, Homer's had a feathered mousie on a gallows type of affair. But the rocker bottom was the same. So why the difference? Who knows?

And Homer taking his toy for a drag! Sorry it's not a bigger picture - this was just too cute! Not only did he take his toy dragging all the time, but when I put it in the toybox one day, he couldn't get it out of there and dragged the box as well! LOL

This toy and the next toy became very irritating when Homer took them for drags while I was sleeping, as the rattling against metal or wood table and chair legs, doorposts, etc. was like a shotgun blast!

Aunt Nancy bought Homer this toy for his first Christmas. It was a fishing pole type, with a stiff handle at one end, a hot pink springy plastic "string" and a purple feathered/furry something at the end of it. You're supposed to dangle it and the cat is supposed to swat at it, right? Not Homer! LOL

This turned out to be a wonderful toy for him! But, once again, it was better dragged than swatted at!