Top Holiday Gifts for Your Cat

The holiday season is a great time to go ahead and spoil your cats with some of the latest cool gifts for pets available. Whether you intend to buy your furry family member a simple treat or go all out crazy cat lady style, the giant pet supply shops have it all. Here are some great top picks for holiday gifts for your cats.

Gifts to Make Pet Ownership Easier

Say what? Yes, it's okay to buy Whiskers something intended to make life easier for yourself. Top picks would be: Automatic litter pans and water fountains.

The automatic litter pan is a gift from heaven for cat owners. The only thing that could top the automatic litter pan is a cat that is willing to use the toilet instead. The two best finds: LitterMaid Elite and Stylette Littersweep. The LitterMaid Elite now boosts an ionic air cleaner on top of its renowned and proven clump removing rake cleaner action. It is roomy for the chunky cat of the family and is great for multi-cat households. And at about $160, it's a great bargain. The Stylette Littersweep is a smaller round automatic litter pan. It is weight activated and has an over ride button. It's compact and sleek. Great for small cats, but not recommended for multi-cat households. It retails for about $80, so it's easy on the wallet.

Even the greatest cat can be a bit picky. For the cat that protests water that sits longer then two hours, there is the Petmate Fresh Flow cat fountain. For a around $40, your cat will enjoy fresh tasting filtered water on demand. It has a 50 ounce capacity and cats love to lick the water as it is flowing down into the reservoir. It will save the daunting pet owner from constantly refreshing the water bowl every other hour.

Gifts of Play for Cats

Sure, you could run out and get your cat yet another set of boring play balls and a run of the mill teaser. Or, you could get them some toys that are interactive and provide hours of fun. The top must have cat toys for the holiday season: Turbo Scratcher; Micro Mouse and Kitty Go Crazy.

The Turbo Scratcher by Blitz is a scratch pad and toy in one. The scratch pad saves your furniture and the ball in the track keeps kitty entertained for hours. It is perfect no matter how active your cat is. The hyper kitten will chase the ball in circles, while your more senior cats will sit on the scratch pad in the middle and bat at the ball every time it comes back around. The price is more then right at $12.

Getting too lazy to get on the floor and play with your furry friend? There are now ways to stay interactive with your pet and never have to leave the couch. The Micro Mouse is the perfect toy for the less then active pet parent. The Micro Mouse is remote controlled and can go forward and backwards. You control it and your cat goes crazy chasing it. Hours of fun for the both of you can be yours for about $15.

Kitty Go Crazy is an activity center full of fun for your pet. It is really three toys in one. It has an arm with changeable teasers that moves randomly. It also has a ball in track and a bunch of nicks and crannies for kitty to stick his paws in. Hours of self amusement await your cat for about $30.

Go a head and spoil your cats this holiday season with one of these great finds. You'll both be glad that you did. Whether your budget is big or small, the perfect cat gift is out there.