Customer Reviews

Hartz Chirp n Chase Cat Toy

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Our cat, like many other beloved pets, is spoiled with toys and treats galore. I've never seen him enjoy a toy better than the Chirp 'n Chase. The realistic bird chirps drive him crazy. After catching the bird at the end of its launch (I say launch because the bird is propelled by the fling of a rubber band that only vaguely resembles actual flight) he continues to flip the bird in the air and carries it around in his mouth. All the while the little bird continues to chirp, driving him even crazier. The chirping is triggered by motion, i.e. when it's flung through the air. The rubber band used to propel the bird is thick, not flimsy, and strong. The bird's feathers are a nice touch. Our cat loves to lick them. This product is worth purchasing, especially if you own a cat who primarily resides in the house, as our cat does, and rarely goes out.

My kitten took to this bird like she was on crack! The chirping sound is really loud and scared her at first, but then she couldn't stop playing with it and carried it around in her mouth. She was so obsessed with it, she growled at my other cat and wouldn't let him play with it.

The only con is the chirping. If your cat loves it as much as mine does, you'll have to hide it at night if you want any sleep.

This is the cutest cat toy. Last night I awoke to hear a bird chirping on and off... when I got up to see what it was, it was my Kit Kat happily playing with this toy! He LOVES it! The noise is a little on the loud side, but if it makes my kitties happy... what do I care?!

I highly recommend this toy!

Length:: 1:14 Mins

From the moment I released this bird from it's cardboard bonds, my kitty went crazy for it. He plays with it CONSTANTLY. He hunts it, he hides it in my bed, he carries it around, he flips and tumbles over it- the list goes on. The chirp is LOUD but not annoying, but I do have to put it away at night before I go to sleep or the volume of the chirping will wake me up. Also, the fuzzy little black wing feathers will be all over your rug in 2 days but the tail feathers and body will hold up just fine, so after an initial small mess you're golden. I am going to order a few more of these JUST IN CASE however. Mowgli plays with it so hard that I can't imagine even a sturdy toy can last forever.

I picked one of these up from Walmart for my kitten and it is one of her two favorite toys. She will play with it for a good half hour before taking a rest and is great for getting rid of that extra energy she gets. Highly recommended!

I bought this for my cat because of the chirping noise to see how she would like it. She loves it and carries it around all over. She even figured out how to toss it up and bat it down so that when it hits, it chirps. The only bad thing is that she likes to play with it around 4-5am and wants me to throw it so she can play fetch.

We bought two of these birds for our kitty cats. I think Hartz could have done better though.

The look is great - like a mini-pheasant, which immediately grabbed both cats' attention.
The chirp is very loud. I SAID, THE CHIRP IS VERY LOUD! At least ours were! Yikes - sort of like a bird with a megaphone! It got on my nerves, but didn't seem to bother the cats that I could tell. (They might have been wishing for ear plugs, but who knows.) Annoyance factor for me was slightly less than the battery-operated chimp with the clapping cymbals (but I can take the batteries out of the chimp).

Now the downside - the interest lasts about as long as it is making noise.
It makes noise upon impact with something, and it takes a fairly hard impact to get it chirping. Slapping against your hand is the best way, or slapping it on a hard surface. However, unless your cats are different than the two we have, the cats will not be able to turn on the chirping themselves. You know how cats like to grab and toss things like this type of toy into the air? You'd think the mechanism would have been made sensitive enough to turn on when it hit the floor. Not so - the cats are not strong enough to turn this bird's sound on. It will take YOUR interaction.

Now, I love to play with the cats and don't have a problem with it. However, I thought this would be a cute toy to keep them busy while I was on the computer. Instead, it was either brought back to me to slap/throw it again (yes, one of our cats acts like a dog and retrieves toys), or was left on the floor as soon as it stopped chirping. They did carry them around the first day or two, but that novelty wore off uber fast. Right now, I think one is laying dormant under our china closet, and I don't know where Bird 2 is. The cats don't really care either. They lost interest right away.

If Hartz revamps these and makes the chirp-triggering mechanism more sensitive, then this toy would be a winner. You can't deny it looks great. But, the cats got as bored as I did, because the noise is part of the appeal. It goes silent, then it is no longer a prize to be obtained. So, I think you can do better than this toy for your favorite kitty.

Really fun toy-- you can shoot it across the room for the cats to chase. Really fun for that cats that are little hunters like mine!!

My cat is really picky about toys. He has a whole bowl of them, but only plays with a handful. He got the chirp and chase and I figured he'd like it because of the feathers. However, he's very tough on things with feathers and then loses interest. With this toy, long after the feathers were gone, kitty was still playing with it.

It's fun for humans and cats, I love the slingshot action. The chirping is realistic as well.

Overall I would recommend this toy to any cat, even the pickiest.

I'm writing this review in lieu of my husband, who is afraid of being "that whiney customer" who just happened to get the dud.

We received the toy in the mail two days ago. I got it working fairly quickly. The instructions were a little confusing until I understood that the rubber under its neck pulled out to form a slingshot (as in the picture on the cover), and the "tab" was really just the bird's tail. The chirping is very loud, and my 8-mo-old cat never did get used to it. She will only play with it when it's not chirping. I think the soldering is a bit flakey because initially the bird would only chirp when it hit the ground with a bang (as opposed to while "flying" or moving about the floor). Later on it began chirping in flight. However, after only a day it stopped chirping altogether. This seems to be fine with my cat. She carries it around and enjoys batting it across the floor. It still has feathers (although all but the last tail feather have come off) and a bell, so it's still plenty of fun for a cat. For $5, it doesn't really matter to me if it stops chirping.

i have had no problem with the rubber band used to slingshot the bird, but I don't see why you couldn't just toss the toy. I do that half the time anyway.

In summary, the toy wasn't the most well made, and every cat seems to react differently to the chirping. For $5 it is a pretty good toy and our cat really enjoys it. However, I'm not sure how much more I would pay. We got free shipping on the item, so we only paid base price.