DART™ is an automatic rotating laser light that provides hours of fun for your feline friends. Place DART on the floor, turn it on and watch the chase begin! Variable speeds and timer settings offer 16 exciting play combinations.
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These are great.
The only problem with them is that they are also a bit too fragile; my cats have destroyed 2 of them now, and I won’t be buying more – they rest their weight on the top of it, prevent it from turning, which destroys the gears and motors.
The first lasted a month, the second, 2 months.
Yes, we tried it and HATED it. It makes a loud gear-like sound as it turns and the sound scared my two 4 year old very boisterous cats. They would avoid the room or give the thing a very wide berth. I thought it would be great – they love lasers and they would have adjusted to a reasonable amount of sound but I returned it immediately. If you do decide to try it, you might want to buy locally in case you have to return it – shipping it back to amazon can’t be that inexpensive.
It’s good about the variable speeds and combinations. We have a competitor’s toy that doesn’t have those, and everyone loses interest unless I physically take the toy and move it around.
This is garbage. Bought it, returned it the next day. My cats hated it. It’s noisy and so fast no cat could ever follow it. Don’t waste your money. Also fail hauspanther for the post.
If the cat wasn’t afraid of the racket this made, then they were more interested on chasing the thing rotating around. Good concept, not so great in reality.
Lasers create a great amount of frustration for cats. They’re chasing “prey” which they can never catch. The predator instinct is hard-wired, when there’s “chasing” involved, the cat is expecting to make a “catch.” You can check with most any cat behaviorist – they discourage the use of lasers. Unless some tangible object in the vicinity of the laser can be provided which satisfies the “catch/kill” instinct, please Hauspanther/Moderncat do not promote lasers as a source of “fun”. Lasers should be only be used to get them interested and moving. Jackson Galaxy has some nice, concise info about the “good” and “bad” and “ugly”of lasers.
http://jacksongalaxy.com/2011/11/28/laser-toys-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-part-3/
Beginning of 3 part article
http://jacksongalaxy.com/2011/11/18/laser-toys-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
we have this toy at our shelter and the cats just love it and will play and play – it does make a lot of noise but our cats don’t seem to mind it – funny to watch as many as fifteen cats attacking the dot
Leonardo has one of these and really I’m kind of ambivalent about it. He loves it, as in is ‘in love with it’. and sometimes cries until I take it down and set it up for him. I even know that certain cry now. At first he races around after the dot. Then he stalks it for awhile then he wants to sit with the thing rotating across his face. That’s when I turn it off because that just can’t be good I don’t think. One cool variation is to put something (in our case the cooler) in the path of the dot so that it appears to go under something; he loves that. In any case I have to limit his play to about 5 minutes with this device because he just sort of gives up and lays down.
I do worry that he’s getting a bit overstimulated by it though. He gets super nuts with his little heart bounding like crazy. I wouldn’t dream of going to one of the higher speeds the first speed has him completely crazy.
We got one of these, and all 8 of our cats hated it. Not only was it loud, but once they finally got past being scared of the sound, they wouldn’t even try to play with it. Took it back to the store and told them it was horrible. The lady said it wasn’t the first time she’d heard that, haha. As stated in another comment, they would play if we manually moved the laser but for $1 I can get a much less bulky hand held laser. 🙂
My cats had very little interest in this toy. Such a loud machine that got little attention. It’s better to have a simple hand-held laser toy than buying this costly machine.
This is the first laser product my nearly 19-year old cat showed any interest toward – completely ignores handheld lasers and the orignal BOLT laser. She seems to really enjoy chasing the little red dots. The slight rattling noise this makes seems to atract her as well as the youngsters, The younger cats enjoy playing with it also. Fun watching tham play together.
We have their prior model (still available) which looks like a skinny snowman.
The noise wasn’t any problem. And the cats loved the randomly moving beam of light.
However, the gear mechanism stopped working prematurely. Now we just have a huge, heavy, handheld laser toy that we paid a lot of money for.
Poor quality. Avoid.
I have the Bolt, but it only has one setting and the cats have figured out the pattern. My fat cat just sits next to it and watches the dot, waiting for it to come to her.
Maybe it’s time for an upgrade…
I have had 3 of these, and they just dont last long. Every single one I have had has quit working within 6 months time. Costs way too much to just not last.