Posting in case this helps someone else. This Leaps and Bounds cherry toy was the very first toy I bought for her as a kitten, and she must have imprinted on it, as six years later it is still the ONLY toy she will play with.

A photo taken from above of a tiny brown and white tabby kitten on a wood floor next to a pair of mesh cherry toys

They’re rather fragile, easy to crush if stepped on, and fall apart after a few months of regular play. Knowing how much she loved them I would grab spares whenever I could, but a few years ago they went out of stock and didn’t come back.

Every time I brought out a fresh cherry from the dwindling stash she would get SO excited, so I searched high and low, desperate to find more. If you read the reviews on Petco, there’s other people with cats who’ve fixated on these cherries, and I found similar threads on Reddit.

It’s been years, but I still search semi-regularly, and imagine my joy when I realized they were back in stock! Stupidly, it’s listed as part of a random assortment, so I decided to order 100 of them, hoping for a third to be cherries but happy to get any at all.

A hand holding a ziplock bag full of cherry toys with "32 pairs" written on it

32 pairs - 64 cherries! A lifetime supply of her favorite toy for my picky little baby <3

A brown and white tabby cat curled up on a fleece blanket next to a cherry toy

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    The mesh material seems to be similar to the Super Kitty Boinks we buy for our cat (but the SKBs are tube shaped). They’re quite flexible and useful as a basis for making other toys, so if your supply runs dry again, maybe that could be an option.