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Bergan Turbo Scratcher Cat Toy | 
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| Brand: Bergan
Category: Pet Products
Buy New: $10.62 (On sale from $28.25)
You Save: $17.63 (62%)
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 123
Color: Green
Media: Misc.
Size: 15'' diameter
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 15 x 15 x 3
MPN: 2222:3124601
Model: 70128
UPC: 044549701264
EAN: 0879213001285
ASIN: B000IYSAIW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Entertain your cat and protect your furniture from scratching | | • | Place ball in circular track for hours of fun | | • | Scratch pad is replaceable | | • | Catnip and ball included | | • | Measures 16 inches in diameter |
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Product Description
Cats find this toy simply irresistible! They love to bat the lightweight ball around the track and get a kick out of sharpening their claws on the cardboard scratchpad in the center at the same time! Perfect for the cat that finds his current toys simply boring!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best way I know to save furniture December 31, 2005
MattthewsMom (Lewisville, TX USA)
48 out of 48 found this review helpful
I've been using the TurboScratcher since it came out in the early 80s as a toy and scratching item for my cats. I have NEVER paid for than about $12-13 for it, and the inserts used to be available from WalMart for 3/$9. The catnip helps get the attention for the scratching part, and once the see how much fun it is to scratch, they rarely go back to carpet or furniture. I've had more than one cat that never ONCE went for furniture because I made sure he/she had her own turbo-scratcher from the moment they arrived in my house. I have one that is a light blue from back in the 80s when everything was light blue and mauve. If left in the sun a bit too long, they do tend to get a little brittle, but while they feel a little flimsy, they are perfect for the cats. For those without carpet -- use the rubber shelf or drawer liner cut in a square or circle a couple of inches bigger than the whole toy and it doesn't move at all. I have never had any problem on any surface until I recently moved into a house with handscraped hardwood floors that are uneven. This trick worked wonders there and I suspect it would have been more stable on the tile floor in our last house as well, but our cat like to sleep on it in the window in the sun just as much as playing or scratching it. I recommend one to any cat that I adopt out at rescue, and for my foster babies, I give one to the family that adopts them because that's what I teach them to scratch on and I don't want them developing bad habits of scratching furniture or carpet in their new home -- where they are often trying to cope with the unfamiliar. I've been told by my adoptive families that this was a really great thing to send esp since it was familiar and they were surprised at how much it was used. Before replacing the cardboard circle, make sure you turn it over and use both sides! if they seem a little bored and you are out of catnip, just pic up a little bag of it and it will totally get their attention again.
Great toy! December 20, 2004
Linda Garrett (Junction City, OR)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
I had seen this toy many times, but finally got one and my 4 cats all love it. I never would have thought that a simple toy like this would interest them. It has a very smooth and fast movement on the rolling ball and the scratcher is used by my cats too. You can get the replacement scratcher boards easily.
Cat Toy Wonder December 28, 2005
Michele D. Bartholomew
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Our neighbor gave us this toy for Christmas and our younger feline has been entertained almost non-stop ever since.
We have and have had several other felines, canines and equines, (previously also have had tarantulas, turtles, parakeets, zebra finches, pigeons, chickens, pheasants, rabbits, lizards, ant farms, etc., not to mention human younglings, also one particular precocious horned toad named Bob), and in our expeience, the only two real questions for a pet toy are: Does it truly entertain? AND does it hold up to the entertainment?
This toy is awesome on both counts. Our two cats play it like tetherball or racquetball, but mostly the younger one entertains himself, even dragging some of his more mobile toys onto it (hoping they will somehow learn from it?) Then, having tired himself out he drapes himself across it in sleep... Only to start this series of events all over again at 2:00 a.m. (Hint: At night put it where he/she can't reach it if you want an uninterrrupted night's sleep.)
He can't strip it of any feathers or fuzzies, or bat it semi-permanently under the fridge. He can't run out the batteries and doesn't tire of its full potential gamut, as it just gets more challenging to him the more he learns.
And it's just as entertaining for us to watch the play!
Plus it's a great deal. The best cat toy we've ever seen/ bought/ imagined/ been given so far in a combined some 70 years of experience with cat friendship. Buy it... if you're a cat person AT ALL (and who isn't?... don't answer that!) then you won't regret it! EVER! Mike & Michele
Endless entertainment! May 22, 2009
David Reid (Omaha, NE USA)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2E76THYQDZXUS It's taken our 9-week old male kitten quite a few days to learn how to fully enjoy his new Turbo Scratcher, but it is well worth it! In the beginning he found it very entertaining to watch and he would come running whenever we moved the ball around. We've had to help him learn how to move the ball on his own, gently grabbing his paws and pushing the ball for him; now he's finally started to use it on his own and plays with it until he's wiped out. He still hasn't figured out that he can scratch the middle part, but we figure he'll learn soon now that he's started to play with it and using his claws on the ball.
Plus, it's just darn entertaining for us to watch him play with it and scoot himself along the track!
My cat loves it! September 6, 2006
QueensGirl (New York, NY)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Sigh. Cats are so picky. You never know what they're going to like. If I had a nickel for every toy I have purchased that they never gave a second glance...
One trick I have learned is not to make a huge fuss over a new toy. They seem to like to discover things on their own, so when I bring a new toy home, I just set it on the floor and walk away. Don't even act like it's for them. I find that they respond better that way.
One of my cats loves this thing and the other won't even look at it. I rate it a 5 because the cat that does like it goes crazy for it, and I don't even use catnip. He loves scratching on it, swatting the little ball around and he even falls asleep on it sometimes. Too cute!
I have bare floors, but I don't have a problem with the toy sliding around, because my cat stands on the outside of the toy and it rests against his hind paws as he scratches with his front paws. He figured it out on his own and he doesn't have any trouble with it.
Also, make sure you turn the refill over and use the other side as well.
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