So, I have a 2-year-old kitty named Toby, and a 1-year-old kitty named Loki. Here's the obligatory kitty pictures:
This is Toby. He sits on my girlfriend's shoulders... not sure why.
This is Loki. He likes to eat human food so his first reaction upon being put in a hotdog bun was that he could eat aforementioned hotdog bun. (It's kind of an old picture, he's about 3/4 of Toby's size now)
So the two kitties have played together tons until very recently. They usually wrestle and chase one another around our apartment 2-3 times per day. Back when Loki was tiny, Toby really seemed to enjoy getting to kick his ass and always win. Unfortunately, now Loki is close to Toby's size and has learned to fight against an unfairly larger opponent, so he's quite good.
Toby recently started making unhappy noises and often running away when Loki would start initiating play because he'd start losing and get upset about it. And within the last week or so, I really haven't seen them play at all.
I want them to keep playing because it's good exercise and I don't want fat kitties. I try to play with them but they prefer stalking games with me, which don't tire them out nearly as well.
What can I do to get Toby to stop being a baby and have my kitties go back to playing with one another?
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And yeah, as Loki gets older, they're going to naturally play less anyway.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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The playing together thing stopped for my cats too, they just don't do it much after a certain age. They'll still flop around on the floor once in a great while for a few minutes, but it's not like it used to be.
And I wouldn't say too much about cats getting older and stopping playing... I've got one that's six, and another that's nine, and they still wrestle around. It's not every day, mind you, but they still get their crazy on in the wee-hours of the morning, and sometimes that means wrestling.
What kind of food do your kitties eat? If you feed them better food (less filler-y crap x_X) they'll be more active as well, I've noticed.
This is accurate. Wifey and I have 6 cats in the house. The only ones who still "play" a lot are the two youngest, 2 1/2 years and 10 months old. The others have all graduated to full blown "where's the sunbeam at, yo?" sleepiness.
It's just a cat's life.