My cat is very interested in this app initially but she seems to become bored because the mouse is too often visible, and she ends up just staring but not attacking. If possible, an option / slider setting to make the mouse hide for longer off-screen and take more time to reappear would be perfect for her. Ideally the mouse would be able to occasionally hide for even a few minutes at a time, since that’s the style of play my cat seems to enjoy with real toys. (Waiting and ambushing). This way I could leave the app on for long periods of time without her getting bored of it and finding it too predictable. Another idea could be a mode where the screen goes black after ~10 minutes but can be reactivated by a tap. That way my cat can turn it on when she wants it but it can be blank when she’s not interested (this way she doesn’t get bored of it seeing it running all the time and stops caring). She already knows to tap her physical toys when she wants to play so I’m sure she would learn that tapping the iPad will allow her to play if I leave it running on the floor for her. I know development takes time and labor but I would gladly pay even more for these extra features so that I can tailor the game to my cat’s personality. Thank you!

Have tried similar apps which bored our girls, but they give Mouse for Cats (‘MFC’) a 5 Paw Rating. Every time I turn on the ipad one of our girls expects to play MFC. Has been a great deterrent to our moody girl - when she starts bullying her sister we turn it on MFC and she’s mesmerized. Love that it plays for a long time, & doesn’t shut down, as our oldest is a voyeur who loves to sit and watch. Wish it didn’t reset to first level after a minute, as she rarely makes it to multi mini mice chase (which she loves) going at her own slow pace. She’d get there if had more time. Am shopping for a new ipad, so don’t have to negotiate with the cats to use mine lolUpdate: our oldest girl actually wakes me up in the morning, as she knows she gets to play MFC once she eats. Her winter aggression towards her sister, mostly from boredom, as greatly diminished too. Nice to see her so happy. Changing review from 4 to 5 stars :)

I just purchased the full version to get rid of the ads and for more features. That said…I have a few issues with this app. It IS the best one I have found for iPad and the one my cats like the best. Ok….asking your cat to stay engaged long enough to hit 100 times to get to the next level is asking too much from the furry ones in my opinion. Also…my biggest gripe is that I have found no way to go to the menu once the game has started other than by closing the app which is a two step process and then opening it again where it starts from ground zero….so there you go..your cat has to hit 100 times more to engage in another game. I would like to have more control over the app…say, change which mouse appears after a session where boredom is setting in…or change it to two or more mice mid-game, etc., or change the squeak, etc. I don’t like this inability to do these things once the game has started. If someone could explain how to access the menu at any time please let me know and if it’s impossible…please consider adding that feature to this app. At this point I would have paid $2.00 more for that feature.Update: I really don’t understand this app. My cats got bored with it so I decided to pretend to be a cat and hit the mouse or mice over 100 times to see what happens…and it takes me to the next numbered level but I see no difference in the motion if the mouse. I went through hundreds and hundreds of “hits” at one point when a singular mouse was spinning in circles….after 100, 200……many hundreds of hits on this one freakin’ mouse NOTHING CHANGED!?!In my opinion this app needs a lot more work…especially when being charged for the expanded version. Both of my cats are disinterested after less than one day’s use. Paws down from us cats.

I heard about these kind of apps from my friends and I wanted to try it! I was very skeptical because I thought my two cats would not be interested. I downloaded the app on my iPad and try to show it to my cats. At first they didn’t care, but I left my iPad alone sitting on the rug in the middle of the living room. They went crazy! One of them would watch the mouse roam around the screen and my other cat would go right in and try to bat and bite it. It is a very simple app. A colorful mouse roams around the iPad screen, after 100 hits from your cat a mini-game will play. Usually the mini-game is multiple small mice running across the screen or something similar. If the cat doesn’t hit the mice in the mini-game the app will go back to the normal mouse roaming around the screen. Anyways it is so funny to see how the cats interact with it. 100% recommend!