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My kittens have loved the CrackleChute since I adopted them at two months of age. They play with it everyday, diving in at each other, as well as “attacking” each other while one is inside and the other is outside. The chute is 33.5″ long, and the openings have a 9.5″ diameter. As you can see from the video, the crinkling is quite loud, and so it’s probably not something you’d like to keep anywhere you sleep. It also slides all over the floor, and I’ve learned to keep it away from walls after a couple of over-enthusiastic dive bombs led to bumped heads. The chute collapses down and ties up neatly with the attached strings, which also provide their own source of entertainment. I bought this for about $10 at Wal-Mart.
Update – July 2014: It’s been two years since I posted this review, and the chute still gets regular use. Like most toys, the novelty has worn off a bit, and they now play with it around 2 or 3 days a week. (That’s just what I witness – of course, they may play with it more.) They were six months when I took the video, and at 2 1/2 years old and about 11 pounds each now, they can still fit inside. They can’t stand up, but they can scoot through in a crouch.
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|$5 purchase of this toy @ Wal-Mart, priceless moments with my 3 cats!,
I thought he was nuts for buying the kitten such a flimsy and cheap-looking toy and wondered if the kitten would even play with it.
A year and a half later, I eat all of my words, along with a huge scooping of dirty cat litter!
Our kitten absolutely loved this tunnel! He’d crouch on one end of the tunnel, wiggle his orange little butt from side to side and proceed to run and “pounce” on imaginary things in/on the other side of the tunnel, would run through it just for fun, sleep in it, and we enjoyed sticking toys through the top opening & watching him chase after it.
Suffice to say, our “little kitten” blossomed into a 16-lb fat cat a year and a half later and STILL enjoys playing with this. In fact, it’s his favorite toy! We also ended up adopting two more kittens along the way who grew to be 10 lbs and 13 lbs each. They enjoy chasing each other through the tunnel, the two male cats love to perch at each entrance and give each other “stare downs” until one gets gutsy & playfully tries to run after the other through the tunnel, and my 16-lb enjoys “hiding” in it when we he’s in a playful mood running away from us.
1.5 years, it’s still holding up, although it’s wrinkled and material on one end of the tunnel is starting to come off its wire support. Overall, though, it’s held up great with all of the wear and tear it gets in my multiple cat household, gets used everyday on a constant basis (probably one of the few toys that gets a lot of usage), and it gives my cats great stimulation & exercise. Please note that I received this toy while my kittens were quite young, so they’ve been acclimated to the loud noise given off by the crinkly material & it’s tendency to roll over & move around a lot (especially when the fattest ones goes crashing through it). If you have shy, skittish, and/or older cats, it may take them a while for them – and your ears – to be adjusted to the noise.
Occasionally, my cats love to crash through this thing at 3 AM. Because of that, we make sure we put it away before we go to bed. Otherwise, it’s been out everyday since we first got it.
The 10-inch diameter holes of the tunnel barely fit my 16-lb; I wouldn’t recommend buying this for a cat any larger since his fat butt sometimes catches the end of a tunnel & ends up being dragged by him. My other 2 cats play just fine with it.
I’d pick this up for any active cats you may have, especially if you’re bringing home a new kitten or 2! The color scheme is ugly, but the cats don’t care. It’s compact enough, doesn’t take a lot of space, and price is reasonable even for what Amazon has (I’d buy it again at that price!).
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|“Dive-Bombing Required” for ANY cat!,
We have 5 MALE CATS (all neutered, but they don’t know that), indoor only, fat, happy, and PLAYFUL during that 2 hours or so they are not passed out on the nearest blanket. When these boys play… they PLAY. Divebombing each other, cornering, sneaking around corners doing that huddle-butt-pounce thing… so I knew getting a bigger tunnel would fit the bill, since they’d already put many fine hours into the small tunnel from PetSmart (that one was only about 10 inches long; this one is almost three FEET long!).
For anyone concerned about the SIZE of your cat? Do not be concerned. Our largest boycat is Hammie – he is 25 pounds, and round in every feature; dude is a blob with paws. He gets into this thing and while he does rub the sides a tad, he DIGS it! No problems getting in and out. The smaller cats (ranging in size from 12 pounds to 20 pounds, then there’s ‘Hammie’), ZERO problems, they race through this thing, dive bomb it, dive bomb each other… and the opening in the middle, at the top of the tunnel – somehow this tunnel rights itself, so that ‘peephole’ opening stays at the top! Even while dive-bombing is in process.
We were both sorta stunned to see our 16 year old cat, Zorro, ALSO get into this tunnel. While he does not and never did ever ‘play’ (he’s like Grumpy Cat on Valium, with a mean streak), he actually got in there, purred, and stayed there for awhile… he liked something!?!?!?!
It’s easy to set up – just untie the strings and stretch it out, voila. It’s NOT meant for a bedroom; keep it in a room where there’s noise, cuz it’s noisy. The crackle sound does what cats like best – makes them feel like they are doing a whole hella damage to something (like the cats in the paper bags, this is like one giant paper bag for them). The fact they can do the huddle-butt-pounce to each other (one cat inside, one in the peephole, one on the outside readying his attack) is SO MUCH FUN to watch, in a multiple cat household. Even a single-cat household, this would keep the lonely feller occupied for hours!
I sprinkled catnip inside of it, just for fun, and also put a couple of their catnip toys inside. But they didn’t need the nip; the tunnel is just dandy on it’s own.
A great deal for the price, well built (if this tunnel can stand up to 5 male cats, who have their claws and like to chew on things), it’ll stand up to at least an F1 hurricane.
A note: I saw some state the tie-strings were a problem for them (the cats chewed on them, etc.). If you don’t need the tie-strings – if you won’t be collapsing it for storage – cut them off. Really you can collapse the tunnel and put it into a shopping bag for storage, it’s that easy. I didn’t cut the strings off, I just tied them into pretty triple bows! =D
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