Tripod Try #2

Your technique still sucks. Just waving it around really fast will get their attention at first, but as far as cat entertainment goes this on on the level of Jersey Shore or some Bravo shit like Real Housewives or Vanderpump Rules. Or even Below Decks. Extremely low brow and trashy. Only vapid r-slurs would be interested. One of the kittens walks off after about 15 seconds because they're bored with you half-assedly waving the toy really fast.

The one advantage that humans have over cats is that we have these huge brains that can imagine how it is to be somebody else. Imagine you're a cat. Would you consider this art? Wouldn't you feel demeaned? Incredibly patronized? These kids are old enough now that they need to be practicing their hunting skills: Tracking, keeping your patience until the right moment, pouncing, then... doing the torture thing that I still completely do not get.

Do you want these kids to end up as legendary cats who are remembered forever like Sasha or as trash cats who just whine and b-word about how they want you to open a can of wet food? Do you want them to end up like Black Cat? Taking a nap on a pile of leaves, just laying there with his peepee out for any enemy cat or bird to attack?

I miss him so much too.

(Unironically (we're pretending that was all ironic): You gotta think about this stuff because you don't want to have a relationship with them that's all about food. But don't go too far so the cat drags the shoelace into your bedroom and is sitting there when you wake up expecting to play. I never could find that balance.)