I have a male cat, he is so lazy. Please tell me, what should I do to make it a little active?

Question

I have a male cat, he is so lazy. Please tell me, what should I do to make it a little active?

Answer 1

I like Aly's answer. Play often with your cat.

Answer 2

get some toys, really fluffy ones or ones with feathers on them, and they should have bells. cats tend to get lazy as they get older so i wouldnt worry to much, thats why cats arent the greatest pets for kids because they can get boring as they get older.  

Answer 3

Play with him and try some catnip. One of my cats isn't interested in catnip but the other (lazier) one LOVES it and goes nuts on it.

Answer 4

My guys are strange, cat nip doesn't make them hyper.  They just eat it and roll around in it, then go off to sleep.

Lasers and toys on the end of a stick are fantastic.  They can get most cats moving around and playing.  As an added bonus they're pretty easy for the human.

Some cats will play fetch, only one of mine will.  He likes the spongy foam balls that look like soccer balls.  I can throw those across the room and he'll chase them and return them to me.

Answer 5

Actually, the answer is in the diet, If you are feeding crappy dry foods then you are going to get a fat lazy cat

Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health

Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.

Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or is it meal or other things? Learn what meal and other things mean here.

http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea...

Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms of food allergies probably from the grains. Constipation? Dry food, not enough moisture. Blockages? Again not enough moisture in the food and you are risking something serious. People on this board say feed fiber but this is a cat not a dog and cats are obligate carnivores unlike dogs an they don't eat cereal and don't need fiber.

The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food (Cats are not naturally big drinkers) but in

Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.

You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at all or grains  at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food as it uses a muscle meat as the first ingrediant. 9lives, friskies whiskas are lower grade canned but still better then dry and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.

Many foods are not mentioned here but if you read the labels you wiull know if it is qualaty. The price offers no guideline.

The optimum food to feed cats has no grains whatsoever, cats have no use for them and many have trouble processing them as well as the carbs. IBD is another disease that is rapidly becoming common amoung cats because of the inappropriate diets being fed.

Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? Why do people constantly repeat this old wives tale and put teeth over the organs like the kidneys?? (I have no clue)   http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...

Please read about cat nutrition.

http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics...

http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.ht...

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.ht...

Answer 6

get a toy  thats like a stick with something onthe end, they cant resist trying to kill it

Answer 7

lol! he's lazy because his tired, let him sleep

cats are nocturnal animals, they're active at night. let him rest in the morning

Answer 8

make a dog chase it.  

Answer 9

cat nip

Answer 10

Laser !!

20 minutes of laser wall chasing is like an hour on the treadmill and stair stepper to you and me !

And ooooooohh so fun to watch.. :-)