15 Best Cat Toys in 2023 to Keep Your Kitty Active and Engaged

This 3-in-1 cat toy comes with a fluttering butterfly, an "ambush" feather, and two balls on a track. Cats can hunt, catch, and play with this toy's irregular movements giving kitty a bit of a fun challenge. You just have to turn on the base, and let it do its thing. It requires little effort from you!

Sometimes the simplest toys are the best ones. Cats are known to love playing with yarn. These woolen yarn balls — lightweight and vividly colored — will engage cats with solo play.

This pack comes with six. You can also interact with your kitty by grabbing the yarn strand that sticks out of three of these six balls, and pulling it for your cat to catch. The other three are perfect for tossing.

Instead of "moving," we should probably say "zooming." This cat toy, which is roughly the size of a mouse, moves from point A to point B quickly like a matchbox car. Armed with an LED light, cats will also find it visually stimulating.

Cats can hunt this fast toy like their prey. Its wheels allow it to change direction and zip around your house. It's also durable enough to endure a side-swipe or pounce from your agile cat.

Your cat will either treat these adorable plushes as prey or babies. Filled with soft cotton and catnip, your cat will probably carry these play kitties around, wrestle them, or take care of them.

Don't love the colors here? There are other color combinations available.

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Tease your cat for hours using a cat wand with a feather on the end. As you wave it around, the feather acts as cat's pretend prey. Get them to jump, run, and pounce. The object of the game is to catch the feather, so you may have to replace them or reattach if your cat grabs and successfully removes it — luckily, this pack comes with two wands, two extra strings, and nine feather refills.

Your cat will love hugging and wrestling this stuffed banana that has catnip inside. It has the feel of a beanbag. Watch your feline hug and kick it for hours. They won't be able to put it down. Yeowww! also makes these feline-favorite catnip toys in other popular shapes, including a rainbow catnip toy, catnip stuffed balls, and catnip sardines.

Since kittens don't start reacting to catnip until they're older than 6 months), it's best to give this cat toy to adult cats.

A fake mouse hides under this tarp and spins around with the control of a button. Cats can run and pounce on it as it tracks its every move.

Select from four different speeds (slow, medium, fast and random). You can also set the timer in case you don't want to be an active participant in play. Recharge the ion battery, which can last up to 10 hours at a time.

Kittens are still learning to groom, scratch, and play. This interactive tower will give the little ones plenty of options that will also aid in their development. And since you don't know what your new cat will gravitate towards, this is the best way to test the waters and see what stimulates them most.

It comes with a scratching post, several wooden balls in tracks, a springy tower, and dangling balls.

When it comes to the best stimulating cat toys for indoor cats, the flopping fish is all the rage. Motion-sensored and rechargeable, this one flops around like an actual fish out of water. Cats can pounce and wrestle it as they wish as it continues to move. Plush on the outside, this toy also comes with SilverVine and catnip to entice cats to play with it if the flopping alone isn't enough.

In case you're not familiar, SilverVine (also known as Actinidia polygama) is an alternative to catnip that produces euphoria in cats that lasts up to 30 minutes.

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Flash and move this USB-chargeable laser pointer to get your cat to chase it. It has three different functions for a variety of interactive play. It'll appear as a red light, but you can also switch it to different shapes to pique your cat's interest.

In the wild, some cats will hunt for real birds. This cardinal toy, which makes a quiet chirping sound, is almost like the real thing.

Cats can paw at it, wrestle it, pounce on it, and carry it around. You can also toss it for it to make the chirping sound. This realistic bird toy, which is also filled with 100% natural catnip, will awaken your cat's natural hunting instinct.

This four-pack of crinkle toys might look like Christmas gift wrap scraps, but cats will love the sound they make when they play.

If you've ever caught your cat playing with wrappers or plastic, this is the toy for you!

You'll see your cats paw at this for hours. They'll love watching the balls spin around. They may even find it fun to get the balls off track entirely.

If your household has multiple cats, even better. They'll love interacting with this together and pushing the balls back and forth to each other like ping pong.

Cats love to play hide and seek. They'll run through these three tunnels, which pop up with ease, while you pretend to chase them. They can also peek out the center hole to see if their captor is near.

If you have a household of multiple cats, this toy will excite even more.

This cat toy puts the pretend prey right in the cat's paws. From there, they'll toss, carry, and hide the little mice which rattle with movement. The catnip inside will also entice cats who may lose interest from time to time.

Don't worry about losing them since this pack comes with several. And since you cat will be hiding these little guys all over the house, you'll be relieved by their vibrant colors so you know they're not the real deal.