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Laser pointers are wonderful cat toys.

Especially when I feel like being lazy and Preia is persisting in her usual habit of not returning the spongy balls I throw for her.

Preia knows full well where the little red light comes from, but likes to suspend disbelief anyway.

Snark, whose picture adorns this comment, likes to eat the dot. I hold the pointer so I can quickly cover the beam with my finger. When she catches the dot, I block the beam such that she thinks she has it. She tenses, and digs her front claws in excitedly. Then she carefully lifts one paw, so I put the dot back. Most times, she'll dart her head to the floor and make a quick "chomp" at the floor level, so I obligingly block the dot as she chomps. It's really very funny to watch her working her mouth as if trying to figure out why she couldn't taste the dot. Then it magically reincarnates elsewhere, sometimes on her tail! Uh-oh! The hunt is on again!!!

Boo is no fun with the dot. She calmly and methodically walks over to it, stands by it, and angles her head to follow the beam. She knows where it comes from. Oh well.

My brother and sister-in-law use a pointer to play with their dogs. The german shepherd learned to chase it from her k.c.c spaniel. We had fun with The Dot one night while we were visiting last fall, until it was time to come inside and comb all the leaves and twigs out of the spaniel's ears and leg feathers. Wups. That was much less fun.