Marie and Jay invited us over for dinner. Charlie loves playing with their cat, Maisie, so I took a little break from tying stripe bass flies to tie a hookless cat toy for Charlie to take over.

Just different feathers, no flash, because I don’t want the cat to accidentally eat plastic if it gets too excited.

I call it “Maizy’s Deceiver.”

I tied it on a swivel clip, which will be able to clip to the end of a cat toy wand they already have.

Maizy, and the elusive other cat, Bob, seemed to enjoy playing with it.

I used multiple colors on this one, relying on dyed feathers. For the next one I plan on using all natural feathers that haven’t been bleached in any way. I wonder if the cats will enjoy the natural scent?