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FEEKO Interactive Cat Toy -- DEMO + REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Anyone who owns a cat knows that they're more partial to empty boxes, paper bags and crumpled up foil than the toys you buy at the store. But not always. Sometimes smart tech can help out! Tech expert and cat owner Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Feeko Interactive Cat Toy to see if it's better than an empty box. Well, he and his three cats would be more accurate! So is the Feeko Interactive Cat Toy a win? Watch and see its strengths and weaknesses... Then check it at https://amzn.to/3i3x5YJ
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A cat toy your cats will actually play with
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Let's check this out. ♪♪♪ Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This is the Fico Interactive Cat Toy, and it is like a number of different toys on the market
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Basically, a little rechargeable ball that bounces and moves around and hopefully engages your cat's interest
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Now, this one's particularly interesting because you can actually put some catnip inside
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and you actually have the ability to hook on these two little things
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that are like little leashes, which really are the huge win. It's this feather that my cats get so excited about
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The bell, eh, catches their attention. But you basically open it up
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and then there's a micro USB plug, and so you recharge it
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and it's pretty nice. So it's a 1 1⁄2 hour full charge from completely dead
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and it gives you 4 hours of activity. But here's the thing
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When you turn it on, it's totally self-contained, and after 45 minutes, it turns itself off
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And I guess their design is that at a certain point, your cat's going to lose interest regardless
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So that means that you have 5 or 6 play times on a single charge, and that's really cool
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So to turn it on, you just push the button, and as you can see, now we've engaged the servo
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so it's starting to work, and there's a laser light, sort of
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It's just sort of a red LED, but if I push and hold
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we can actually change the colors, so now you get different colors
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If that's something that your cat enjoys, this could be really good at night. I'm going to turn it off
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and then we're going to actually reassemble it, and I am entirely convinced
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that I will not be able to get through this without at least one of my cats coming to visit
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which is why I have all this open space in front of me. It's a little tricky getting it to screw on correctly
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or maybe that's just me, but I know it goes on, and it will go on correctly
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There we go. Let's see. That looks good. So turn it on, and now you can see
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it sort of does its own thing. Now, obviously, I have a table surface
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so this is fairly precarious, but I have a lot of footage of my cats playing with this
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and my dog was just like, uh, what is that thing? So let's cut to some actual live action footage
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So pretty fun, actually, and you can see at least one of my cats has come up onto the table
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to see what's going on, and we'll see if we can get it to come towards him
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without it falling off the table, which has already happened twice now
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but this is a pretty engaging toy. The cats find it super interesting
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and we're going to lose it again, so I'll be back in just a second
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There's not much else to really say about this. It is interesting
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My cats do find it to be fun. It is remarkably inexpensive
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It is self-contained, and it comes with really everything you need to entertain your cat
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Obviously you can take this on the road with you. I don't know why you would
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because your cats probably don't like traveling very much. I should mention that there is a little bit of rubber
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on the edges of the light ring, and that helps it get grip
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but on the downside, what I don't like about it is, as you saw in the sample footage
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it doesn't do really well on carpet, and it does particularly poorly on a sculpted carpet
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So if you have a deep, plush carpet, or you have a carpet that has a lot of different
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sort of levels or layers, this thing's not going to accomplish much
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However, you can see, it is a bit of a cat magnet
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Now I have two cats that are curious about this. So I'm going to just sort of hold on to it
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so it doesn't fall off again. So the positive is that it's fun
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it's cheap, it's pretty tough. It's fallen off the counter a couple of times
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and nothing's cracked or broken. It is rechargeable. I really like that I don't have to put batteries in it
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The downside is it's really for hardwood floors, or tile, or linoleum
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If you have carpet, it might work. It probably isn't going to work as well
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but it still might be enough to have your cat be interested
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as you can see with my cat. And as you can also see
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it's the feather much more than it is the ball that is getting the cat's interest
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So we'll see what happens here. Alright, so, being fairly cooperative for a cat
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One of the nice things is the company offers a lifetime replacement
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So if you do have any issues or anything breaks, then they will actually replace it
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for free. So really, I mean, it's an inexpensive cat toy, given that cats seem to enjoy packaging more than the toys
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This actually catches their attention. So I feel like it's a win
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So that's really all I've got to say. If you've got a cat, this is really fun
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So let me just talk about the price. But before I get there, I'm going to ask
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can you subscribe to my channel? I really appreciate when you do that
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and the more subscribers I have, the more leverage I have to get cool things
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and check them out so you don't have to. Like this toy, right
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So great, thank you. So this is the Fico Interactive Cat Toy
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It comes in this pink, and white, and it's $16.99 at Amazon.com
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I've got a link in the description. But $16.99 for something that can entertain your cats
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even when you're not home. That's a pretty sweet deal. And when you're done, you can either wait for it to time out
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or you can push the button, and it's gone to sleep. It's as easy as that
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So, with that, I'm going to let my cat continue to play with it
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And that means I'll catch you in my next video. Bye
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