Cat Exercise Wheel

Product Description

Keep Mr. Whiskers looking slim and fabulous year round with the cat exercise wheel. Now instead of wasting his excess energy knocking stuff of the shelves ... [Read more]

Features

• Bad behavior based on boredom has proven to be reduced dramatically
• Keeps your cat fit and healthy by offering a unique opportunity for indoor exercise
• Diminishes aggressiveness
• Environmentally friendly! Made from Strong, but lightweight recycled plastic
• No maintenance! Spins smoothly on a tuned dual ball bearing axle. Holds up to 50lbs!

Top Reviews

Need repair.
by C. Harness (3 out of 5 stars)
July 4, 2015

My wheel fell apart. The wheel fell off the stand. I want to fix it but have no idea how or where to get the parts to reconnect. Help?
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Cats love it
by Eclectic Reader (4 out of 5 stars)
July 4, 2013

All my cats run on this thing every day. They seem to love it. (None of them is a bengal) I'm happy because they are using it.

Some notes about how I got them to use it:

The pointer was not a good way to get them to use it. Even now they will not run on it if I shine a pointer on it. They are wait and pounce hunters. So at best they will lie down on the cat wheel and watch the laser light waiting for the perfect pouncing moment. My arm usually tires out before the perfect pouncing moment arrives.)

The key to their using it is TREATS:

I have one older extreeemely food motivated cat. He was overweight when I adopted him and as siblings came into the house, he had no problems finishing off their food as well, if I looked away for a second. That did not help his weight. We tried pet therapy (but it was clear he hated walking on a treadmill in water), so I got this wheel.

He quickly learned he could get treats out of me by walking on this thing. I learned to break treats up into tiny pieces. While perhaps not as effective for weight loss as a no treat method, he's lost a little since I got this and is much more active. He was the quickest to learn that if he wanted a treat he better get on the thing and at least walk.

I have one adventurous kitten (now a cat). She was the quickest to learn how to run on it. To get her from knocking my slower (overweight) cat off I threw treats across the room which she races to get while he is running. She will run and run and run on it. Especially to convince me to give her a treat.

I have one extremely shy cat. It took her at least a month of eying it before she even put a paw on it. But curiosity and treat desire overcame her hesitation. She realized to get in on the treat action she would have to get on it - and she did. She now gallops like a champ to get her treats.

The not so good:
1. Slippery in between the treads: My oldest cat slipped a few times because in between the treads is slippery plastic.
2. Could be wider. 43 inches diameter isn't quite wide enough to prevent suboptimal spine positioning. Also there are wheels that allow two cats to run at the same time (perhaps my youngest could function as a treadmill motor for my oldest ;) )
3. Could be quieter. The thing makes a racket and my cats love to run on it when I'm trying to work. Because it's noisy I have to keep it in the living room - it can't be in my bedroom. I try to remember that it was I who trained them to run on this thing, but the noise can be quite irritating.
4. Messy: My oldest likes to use it as a scratcher leaving lots of little black foam pieces scattered around the thing.
5. Wild swinging action: It's a little hard for the cats to get used to the wild swinging back and forth (and in the beginning I held it to prevent such swinging allowing it only to move forward as they went forward. I gradually allowed a little swinging while they adjusted and until I thought it wouldn't scare them off anymore.) - However, now they are cat wheel champs so I guess that doesn't matter as much - still I think my oldest cat would have an easier time running (he's a little slow) if there wasn't so much backward swing that he needs to overcome.
6. A little wobbly. (Perhaps because I have it on carpet.)
7. Not the problem of the wheel but of the training method... sometimes I feel like instead of my training my cats to run on this thing, they have trained me to give treats as they run. Certainly it has become a way for them to communicate to me, "I want treats." Fortunately variable partial reinforcement can be very reinforcing.
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Best cat toy I ever bought. Let your cat run free on this. Exercise will change their life.
by Happy Vegan (5 out of 5 stars)
June 27, 2016

I'm writing this review because I saw some negative things online about this wheel and it is such an amazing product people should know the truth from a cat mom who has seen her kitties get years of enjoyment from it. I think the obvious hesitation is that it is expensive and large, so I get the skepticism, but if you were an indoor cat and never got to just run full speed think of how much you would love this. We have a sphynx and two devon rexs. Both high energy breeds. I did not buy my wheel on Amazon, I got it used from a lady whose cat wouldn't use it, so yes... some cat's wont, but if you have active cats and can afford it I HIGHLY recommend giving your cat the opportunity to try this. One of my devon rexs won't use it, but my other one does and so does my sphynx. So, 2 out of 3 cats LOVE it. Nothing I buy gets 2 out of 3 of them interested. They use it every day multiple times. I have never purchased a cat toy that got more use or attention than this. Ever. I think about all the exercise they wouldn't get if we didn't have this and I am SO grateful these exist because, as we all know, exercise extends life!

I have seen some other designs that are cheaper and look unsafe. This is absolutely safe and very industrial so it is durable. The wheel part isn't going to fall off the track like it seems like it might with other designs.
**VERY IMPORTANT: You want it to be large enough in diameter for your cat to run in a healthy posture. If a wheel is too small the cat's spine isn't ergonomic when they run, so if you are thinking of building one please keep that in mind for the sake of your pet.

As far as maintenance: we replaced the ball bearings in it one time after it started making a noise and all I had to do was call the company and they sent me new bearings for FREE! I wasn't even the original purchaser, I'm not sure if they knew that, but I don't even think they asked. We only had to replace the bearings in it once and since then no problems. We have had it for about three years. Yes it is not the prettiest piece of furniture we own. But your cats will appreciate you and exercise will let them live longer happier lives.
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May encourage catorexia
by Herschel McLeod (4 out of 5 stars)
February 1, 2013

For as much as she claims to despise the term, my cat, Bootsy, has always been a "foodie".
"I'm a gourmand!" she says, usually while tucking into her third cupcake from Magnolia, or a lamb gyro with tzatziki from Papa Cristo's--extra lamb, light on the tzatziki.

It got worse after I took little Bootsykittles to see "Julie & Julia".
"I want to start my own food blog," she said immediately as the credits started rolling, and insisted that I take her home to shop for digital cameras. Trying to be supportive, but secretly worrying that this was going to be the next fad effort she threw her entire self into (not to mention several thousand dollars of my money,) only to drop it like a hot potato when the next thing came along like she did before with scrapbooking, lucid dreaming and DIY spirit distilling, I jumped on Amazon and started looking for bargains.

Bootlerocket batted at the screen excitedly whenever she saw something with a particularly high megapixel count, macro lens, or digital rangefinder. I tried to talk some sense into her.
"Does the world really need another food blog?" I asked as she tried to wrestle the keyboard from my hands. "And anyway, we both know that I'm going to end up doing most of the work. You can't even type. You're a cat."

Of course, Bootsylicious went ballistic.

But after I'd taken a few minutes to bandage up my arm, not to mention a quick looky-loo at her Vicodin stash, I coaxed Bootserino out of her bedroom and we came to an agreement: we would buy a sensible camera to start, and if her food blog was still going strong in three months, we would buy her something more expensive.

Well, we never made it to three months, because within two she found herself forty pounds overweight and diagnosed with feline heart disease, feline type 2 diabetes, and feline sleep apnea.

And whatever money I may have saved on my camera compromise with Das Boot quickly went out the window to purchase her a new wardrobe, a little CPAP machine, and cat insulin.

And have you priced cat insulin lately?

And did you know that there was such a thing as a "cat muumuu"? I didn't.

Needless to say, Bootsy seriously needed to lose weight, but I managed to maintain my resolve when faced with her pleas for cat gastric bypass surgery and, oh dear God, "body sculpting." I think even she knew that she had overdone it this time and was in no position to bargain. So we set out to find an exercise plan that would work for her.

She quickly dismissed my personal trainer in West Hollywood, Lorenzo, as "Euro Trash". The Wii Fit board I bought her wasn't sensitive enough to register her chubby little paw prints. Cold Fusion Yoga was a disaster. She found herself "downward dogging" right into the trainer's bed, and when she found out she wasn't the only student he was schtupping, we had to have her Baker Acted.

And don't even get me started on the drugs. I had to put my foot down once again when her ephedrine contacts ran dry and she asked me if I might have any idea as to how a cat would go about obtaining methamphetamine. We tried Alli as a safer, legal substitute, but I just couldn't deal with the "accidents," let alone the cleaning bills for her muumuus.

But just as we thought we had exercised all of our options, I came across the Toy-Go-Round Cat Exercise Wheel on Amazon.

The Toy-Go-Round is a solid piece of machinery, capable of supporting Big Bootsy Style's weight (and then some.) Notorious B.O.O.T can run on it while she watches Cougar Town (we're back to that phase after we had to put a parental block on the Food Network,) and we've found that, like everything new in Bootsy's life, she has approached the Toy-Go-Round with the fervor of a zealot, for better or for worse.

Her BMI (body mass index, I'm told,) is now down to a too-svelt 14.0. I know this because she wakes me every morning by barging into my room and declaring today's number. No context, no "good morning," just the number. Today, it was "14.0!"

She has become addicted to water pills and Metamucil, and, I won't get into the gory details why, but I suspect she's been sneaking Alli behind my back.

She says she'd be willing to sacrifice a few points on her BMI if it meant getting her breast implants. I told her we'll think about it.
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It's great fun. Some walk
by Jacci (5 out of 5 stars)
June 6, 2015

We have used this same Cat Wheel for about 5 years and have never had any trouble at all. We have a cat rescue called Friends of Felines' Rescue Center and many, many cats have learned out to do this. It's great fun. Some walk, some trot and some run on it--it's great for them! They learn from each other how to do it. We have had zero problems with the wheel.
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Two suggestions...
by Pygar (3 out of 5 stars)
December 29, 2012

I would like to make the following suggestions about this product. Cats would be much more likely to use it if there were a place to mount a laser pointer where the cat could never *quite* get to the dot, say around the 2 o' clock position- especially if the dot could be made to bounce a *little* as the cat spun the wheel around. You might add a laser pointer that works off a regular AA battery, not those weird expensive coin cells with the life expectancy of a flashbulb at Disneyland. Also... no offense, but that's quite pricy for a cat toy.

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