hmm tip: never buy cat-toys, they don't work, well not for long anyway, they always want something new to play with, a paper bag, your shoelaces, your nose, your hair, a phur toy, your mousecord, the pointer on your screen, a skeleton overlord (on your screen offcourse), and mostly simply your hand... just get them on their back and fight with one hand a bit, beeing put on her/his back he/she understand you want to fight, once they are trying to grab your fingers turn them around again, or try to. Beeing on their back cats have the advantage of their 4 claws. the funny thing is, when dogs lay on their back they symbolise their defeat, they recognize the other as the more powerfull. When cats play with dogs it becomes teh funneh, the cat lays on his back the dog thinks he won and just then he gets slapped by the cat ^^.
Anyway a cat won't be interested in those 'cat toys' balls with a bell in it and such never interested any of my cats for more than 2 days, and besides, it's easely broken. just give them something new to play often, something by the hand wich gets into movement easely.
But don't worry, my cats don't play much if no-one is around they use that time to sleep/wash and when someone comes along they first want food and play afterwards.
anyway: thats my experience.
