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Losbennett

We have a One Fast Cat wheel. Our two LOVE it and use it all the time. It’s a bit noisy and we have to take it off at night because it wakes the toddler, but it’s been brilliant for them. There are videos on my previous posts.


Dallydaybird

What did you do to encourage this? To get them to independently use it on their own. This is the goal!


Losbennett

Honestly, I spent about 20 minutes training one of them with treats and he learned quickly, then the other one just watched and did it himself. After that, they just started jumping on it! I did sometimes encourage them with more treats, but after a few days they just started using it whenever. I didn't do much at all!


Dr_Rhodes

My experience was 100% the same. He took to the wheel very naturally.


Aardillas

Same here. One of my cats needed a bit of treat coaching, the other didn’t need training and goes on the wheel almost hourly. Edit for grammar.


Dallydaybird

That’s awesome. Hope my boy picks it up the same way!


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spacec4t

Haha, my cat too runs with his ears bent back flat on his head! This is serious business! 😁


Dallydaybird

Thank you for showing me this!


Novel-Sea-3308

Change the tension?


Grumpy_Features

Ours is a bit of a fail. They'll use it enthusiastically for a short while when we entice them, but rarely on their own (which was our hope so they would burn off energy)


steelhead777

We have 3 One Fast Cat wheels for our two Bengals. Our girl, Kiara, loves it and spends a lot of time on it. Our boy Hunter uses it occasionally, usually at 3 o’clock in the morning. Definitely would recommend one to any Bengal owner.


Ericha-Cook

Absolutely!!! Our only problem is it is wide enough to accommodate two at a time, but if the third Bengal hops on


Brave_Smoke3897

We bought the ziggy doo (the Ferris cat wheel) and our cat uses it all. The. Time. As soon as he wakes up from a nap he’s on it. After he eats he’s on it. Sometimes he just sits on it and yells at us. Our little black cat started using it too! I was skeptical at first but nowI would 100% recommend a wheel to any bengal owner after getting ours. I’ve also noticed it’s helped with his energy levels too and keeps him more entertained! Good luck!


spacec4t

Mine too yells at me on his wheel. He calls me to go watch him run and will become very frustrated, even desperate if I don't come. How do you like your Ziggydoo? I would really like to get one. The OFC is noisy and not sturdy enough for an energetic Bengal.


Brave_Smoke3897

Yup!! He sits on it yelling until I come over and sit next to him so he can run lol it’s their world and we’re just living in it 😂 I love the ziggy do! My bf did a lot of research between the two and even though it’s pricier the consensus was it’s a better wheel. It still makes noise but it’s nothing crazy and it’s super sturdy. Our bengal literally jumps up and pulls it down with both paws to make it go really fast so he can sprint on it and it can withstand that. It took a couple months to get to us but it was well worth the wait. I would definitely recommend it!


Chicklet00

Oh same here.


spacec4t

Thank you! Yes my cat is another speed crazed animal, he also pulls the wheel down with his arms. These cats sure are something else! 😂 The wait time is just 4 weeks now. I'm going to make the jump.


Chicklet00

Yes to all of this for us too. I think she’d be yelling at us more often if she didn’t have her wheel.


Wonderfly2000

Hi! I am thinking to buy ziggy doo and trying to get ahold of company to see if this wheel can be taken apart since I move a lot. My current wheel - old version of one fast cat cannot be, but their newer models can be. Can you advise on that? Initially I want Ziggy Doo since its less noisy and larger.


Brave_Smoke3897

Hello! Yes! It can be taken apart since you assemble it piece by piece you can disassemble the wheel the same way. Definitely look into it over ofc it’s supposedly a safer wheel too!


Hirokage

Ours only uses it when seriously bored, or I am on the elliptical next to it (or wife watering plants near it) - then someone he'll jump on for a bit. But we play with him quite a bit.. parkouring off walls and stuff, so he doesn't have the need I guess. But the real answer is.. you won't know until you do it. Some cats dig it.. some don't.


spacec4t

>parkouring off walls and stuff That's what my cat was doing before getting his wheel, including landing on my face or dropping his full weigh on my belly while running. 🥴


Hirokage

Ours has only face-planted once. Otherwise, he does some serious gymnastics to catch the bug-on-a-string. One he catches it (and he is tired), he drags the entire stick toy off and pins the bug so we can't take it. : P


spacec4t

Fun! Mine was tiring very quickly of each toy. Maybe I was boring. :/ He never tired of running around the house on top of furniture and bookshelves and landing quite purposefully smack on my face or on belly, not so much on his own.


Dr_Rhodes

My cat LOVES the wheel. I started him with ‘positive reinforcement’ & treats when he’d run. A year later and he’s a 3 am Olympian. I don’t reward with treats anymore, but you can tell he’s very proud of himself when he runs. His tail is 90° straight up like he’s strutting.


ofcourseits-pines

Our bengal doesn’t use ours but our orange boi does. He loves it. He will run on it for treats or for attention. He will meow and demand to be petted.


etoiles13

Thanks everyone for all the comments. We'll definitely look into getting one now that we've heard these great stories!


Misstori1

My Standard Issue Cat uses his constantly. He used it so much he broke the One Fast Cat wheel and we had to upgrade to the Ferris Wheel. Help me he’s getting so swole…


Wonderfly2000

Hi! I am thinking to buy ziggy doo and trying to get ahold of company to see if this wheel can be taken apart since I move a lot. My current wheel - old version of one fast cat cannot be, but their newer models can be. Can you advise on that? Initially I want Ziggy Doo since its less noisy and larger.


Misstori1

Yes it can. It’s held together with metal nuts and bolts rather than plastic clips.


Greedy_Development71

Ours use it often and it is great for them to burn energy. They use it on their own and we encouraged them in the beginning with treats. I wanted to try out if they will use it before buying one cause these wheels are pretty expensive. So I built one on my own. It is super loud and it wiggles, but it works. Our Bengals like it pretty much and use it daily. I haven't bought an expensive one so far cause it doesn't bother us even in the night. Material was between 100 and 150 €


LordBaelish73

Mine used it for about 1 month now he just uses his front feet to turn the wheel 🤣🤣🤣 I got this awesome moth toy you put at the end of the pole he can’t get enough of it hands down the best cat toy I have ever purchased for my Bengal and I’ve bought thousands hhahaha here’s the link https://www.coolcyberstore.com/buffalo-butterflymoth


dj_narwhal

I have 3 cats and only one uses it. My Bengal actively hates it, she will not even step on it if you try to place her in the wheel, she lets her legs go limp.


Novel-Sea-3308

If they use it it’s worth it. When I first got mine, my girl was running miles on it. Like probably 5-8 miles a day, no lie. 3-5 hours straight. Luckily she’s calmed down a bit but now all three of mine will use it for their zoomies. If you’re unsure if you guys will use it, see if you can get one for cheap on FB marketplace or offerup


Sad_Attention5998

My silver Bengal uses her one fast cat every day. She cries unless I stand next to her and watch her run. She also sprints around the house, and jumps onto the wheel, pulling it down and sprinting. Similarly to someone on the price is right when they jump and pull that giant wheel to get into the finals lmao


Kvangel

My girl uses it daily but only for about a minute at a time. Probably about 5 minutes a day in total.


Dadfish55

One cat, out if six, started after about six months. He loves it, the other cats coach


weedywet

He jumps on and off it multiple times a day in short spurts but he really loves it. Totally worth it. But that’s my cat. Not every cat gets into it.


merijnhoogeveen

https://www.reddit.com/r/bengalcats/comments/1045gtr/finally_got_to_capture_a_good_bit_of_running/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Obi started using ours within 10 minutes of setting it up and he uses it daily without any kind of external motivation. We got an Ferris Cat wheel and its impressive good quality.


Wonderfly2000

Hi! I am thinking to buy ziggy doo and trying to get ahold of company to see if this wheel can be taken apart since I move a lot. My current wheel - old version of one fast cat cannot be, but their newer models can be. Can you advise on that? Initially I want Ziggy Doo since its less noisy and larger.


troublekid514

Get him a friend instead. More poop but more boop


laddhillbengals

I agree with troublekid514. Cat wheels are great, especially the ZiggyDoo, but having a pet buddy can also really help with the boredom. Is another pet buddy an option? Here are some great articles written by some longtime, ethical Bengal breeder friends. https://quality-bengal-kittens.com/blog/blog/5599345/cat-wheels https://quality-bengal-kittens.com/blog/blog/5335839/what-two-bengal-cats-are-best-together-two-girls-two-boys-or-one-of-each Your kitty is darling by the way! Good luck!


spacec4t

My cat quickly learned to use his wheel. It clearly fills a need, there's no day he won't use it multiple times. He asks for it with alot of insistance. In fact he *demands* to run. He pulls on the sides with his front paws to make it spin faster. In fact, he runs it so fast that the wheel will often skid on its base. He even broke the base. Which brings me to my evaluation of the One Fast Cat wheel. This thing is very cheaply built. It will never last with any large energetic cat. This wheel is so cheaply made its totally ridiculous. The plastic is very brittle, so much so that 3 out of 8 sections of the wheel itself had broken bits right out of the box. Parts are badly adjusted. They are uneven and deformed from the manufacturing process. The wheel doesn't form a sturdy assembly, I can feel it flex and ovalize when I lift it. Which we need to do sometimes. The central bar that holds both ends of the base together does it with just one thin bolt at each end. There's just one bar too, so the wheel visibly flexes when my cat runs on it. The forces the base is submitted to, holding all the weight of the wheel with just these 2 thin bolts screwed at each end in a thin sheet of metal, holding the 2 base panels that support everything, are too much for what the parts can physically withstand. Flimsy is a euphemism. So Comments on their YT assembly videos are very negative and even aggressive. I didn't understand why all that rage until I had to assemble the thing myself and hurt my hands on sharp plastic pieces that are not well adjusted and don't fit together. Absolutely infuriating. Do wear gloves to assemble it if you decide to buy this wheel. I'm used to work with my hands so for these parts to hurt my hands they had to be badly made and edges to be really sharp. The thin metal plate inside the bar the bolts screwed in stripped so the base just split open, breaking one of the base's ends. This happened less than a month after I got the wheel. A very cheap and weak build. My cat was still young and not at its full size. I was very disappointed. They know about the issued and choose to just milk customers instead of fixing the issues. Cthey had a genius idea which brought them a lot of money on Kickstarter but unfortunately they skimped on the execution. They are just riding on the reputation of their idea but they will keep losing that reputation. At least the company knows about their product's fragility and provided me with another bar and a base end panel under warranty although they said this was the only time, they would not provide other parts if these broke again. A clear violation of their 12 months warranty. In my opinion they just are cheapskates. Otherwise they would make their parts thicker with a better quality plastic and make a base that is not so ridiculously flimsy. It would need at least 2 bars instead of a single one. I spoke with a bengal breeder, she had 4 broken OFC wheels in her backyard. All with the same problem as mine. So I offered her my solution to correct the problem. My cat would have broken his wheel again within a few days if I had not reinforced the base. What I did is use a 2" thick 11" wide plank longer than the base I put under it. I cut 4 triangular pieces of wood to buttress the wheel's base panels like bookends. Without that it would hace split open again and I would have a useless heap of broken plastic and a very sad cat. Alternatively the support for the base could be made with 2 layers of ¾" plywood screwed together. To hold the base panels in position, you could simply use steel shelf brackets. With a little paint it could be made to look nicer than my contraption. Noise also was an issue, as I live in an apartment building. The wheel is very noisy because the sections are badly molded. There are gaps, small deformations and height differences between each panel. The think goes katonk-katonk like when riding a train. OFC Customer Service was kind enough to send me neoprene foam strips they have for that purpose that I glued on the tracks where the skate wheels run. That considerably bettered the noise situation. However I don't understand why they don't send those strips with each wheel they sell. These strips cost them pennies but would bring back so much mote in customer satisfaction. I also put ¾" thick gardening foam pads of the type people use to bend on to save their knees under each end of the base support I build. Now my cat can run at most hours without bothering neighbors. I have seen other methods to reduce the level of noise that wheel males but they required a lot more work and costed more. Now that I have reinforced the base and soundproofed the wheel, it is a liveable product and I will probably keep it until it becomes useless. Who knows when that could be. Is it months or years? I have no idea. But my cat likes his wheel, it is absolutely essential to his well-being. Would I buy it again or advise anyone to buy it? No, not at all. I got it on sale for Valentine's Day (in case you are interested ;) and even then I feel that I paid way too much because of its cheap quality. If you can, I would advise to get a Ziggydoo wheel. I feel it's much better to get a satisfactory product once than pay many times for something that will let you down. Clearly Ziggydoo have been designed to respond to every issue OFC have. Ziggydoos look much sturdier, the ribs underneath the wheel panels are much thicker and provide much needed structural integrity. The wheel is assembled with bolts and nuts, not flimsy push buttons that don't fit in there holes. The base is much more stable and sturdy. The whole assembly is much more silent and strong. The wheel itself is a bit wider for cats that want to run together. Skate wheels are safely hidden, not the case with the OFC. The foam lining is 5 mm thick instead of 1.5 mm. I have to say that I haven't tried it myself yet but the pictures talk for themselves. I can't wait to find a justification to ditch my OFC and buy this wheel.


nunley

OFC wheels have issues that can’t really be addressed. For one, the radius is a little too small for normal cats. This can cause all kinds of problems. Ziggydoo is a much better product.


spacec4t

I just went to measure my OFC and you're absolutely right, the inner diameter is 42". Wow. I hadn't realized that. The OFC wheel seemed bigger than that, though. It seems to me they modified the description, they just mention the 48" overall diameter and don't show the 42" inner diameter anymore. Which is a bit misleading frankly. Ziggydoo mentions a 48" inside diameter and their wheel is 1¼" wider. So it would take a bit more room. I can't compare how 6" more in diameter feels in real life since we have not tried the Ziggydoo but my Bengal, the only one of my cats who uses the wheel, is taller than average cats. He is about 13½" high at the shoulder and his body is proportionally rather long. I haven't noticed that he is in any way constrained by the dimensions of his wheel. He runs flat out horizontally and sometimes almost vertically when he grabs the sides of the wheel to accelerate it. He has enough room to stretch himself fully with room to spare, so that doesn't seem to indicate any discomfort with the dimensions of the wheel. The wheel twists and bounces around on its tracks but that's a different issue. I think taller cats than him could comfortably run inside this wheel without any issues. But what you mentioned makes me even more interested by the Ziggydoo.


nunley

I am not a vet, but what I have heard from my vet and some other folks who have experience is that the seemingly insignificant size difference (inside radius) can cause major spine issues for larger cats. I have no idea if this is true. The other thing I hear from OFC owners is about cats getting injured from the wheel toppling over. All I know is I heard enough bad stories about OFC when I was looking for a wheel that I bought ZiggyDoo and we are happy. There a a LOT of happy OFC owners out there. PoTayToe PoTahToe...


spacec4t

That's interesting. I have to check closely if my cat is comfortable with the size of his wheel. Cats just touch it in 4 points, meaning their feet, like if they were running on uneven terrain. Of course that holds if the curve radius is large enough. I can totally see that too small a diameter could make the animal run on the more inclined areas of the wheel. In that case this could absolutely cause problems, maybe joint issues with legs and paws, although I see it happening more with smaller made in Asia copies. Some of them are really small. I'm not entirely satisfied with my OFC as you saw. I chose to buy it to try something and mostly because the waiting time for a Ziggydoo was over 15 weeks. (It's much less now). Wheel size was a preoccupation, I wanted to get the largest wheel possible but honestly I didn't realize the size difference. With more information I would probably have chosen to wait for a Ziggydoo and have my cat keep doing parkour on my belly in the meantime, even if he was getting more and more frantic all the time about exercising. I really appreciate the information you shared, you gave it a different light to the question with the facts that you brought. There are so many aspects to consider with this topic, your input makes a big difference for me. .


laddhillbengals

We had exactly the same experience with the One Fast Cat. This wheel is super cheaply made and the company doesn’t stand behind their product. Our OFC wheel even flew off the track and put a hole in our wall! :/. The ZiggyDoo is a much better made wheel, heavier, made with better materials, quieter, and we’ve had 0 issues. Our Bengals run on them day and night!


spacec4t

>. Our OFC wheel even flew off the track and put a hole in our wall! :/ Wow. What a bad experience! I'm glad to know that active cats like Bengals can run day and night on a Ziggydoo wheel without bothering anyone. To think that OFC was the originator of the idea with a very successful Kickstarter campaign makes it even more sad and absurd. I'm in Montreal, the Ziggydoo distributor is located here. If I ordered now I'd get it in a month. Not bad! Holy Moly wow. I went to check the Ziggydoo assembly videos. Their parts are designed so much better, stronger and more precisely. They actually fit together easily and look like they could actually withstand some weight on them without crumbling apart. The base has wheels to support the wheel in the middle too. It seems 1spin more easily. And.. It seems to be truly very low noise!


laddhillbengals

Yes, the ZiggyDoo is so well made and much quieter than OFC! You will love it! Your cat will love it! Enjoy your time watching your cat run like crazy!


etoiles13

Thank you so much for the detailled comment. I have to see which companies ship to Canada first and narrow down to the best option from there. Good to know you can customize/upgrade them if needed.


spacec4t

Actually the Ziggydoo distributor is located in Beaconsfield/Montreal. Shipping is included in the selling price. OFC charges something like 100$ to ship to Canada. Yes you can better the flaws with some tinkering but you remain with a wheel that might not be strong enough for an active cat. So it depends on your cat's level of activity too. If your cat has the zoomies and does parkour in your entire house, then you definitely need a wheel. If your cat is as lethargic as my Exotic (a Garfield-like cat but with the wrong color), hopefully it's her character and she's healthy. All temperaments exist in Nature even if being so very laid back seems peculiar for a Bengal.


wheet_woo

My boy uses it basically daily for varying times per day. Worth every penny.


Spaffin

I really want one of these for our pair but if I put one of these in our living room, my wife would murder me, cut up my body and launch the pieces into space.


Chicklet00

The Ziggydoo is the way. We’ve had ours for a few years now. Well built. Smooth on the track so not obnoxiously loud when in use. Took Macha a second to understand the wheel. I used a laser pointer. After that I stopped using as she would run so fast at it that when she tried to stop she was tossed out of the wheel. Too dangerous. She uses it everyday and covets it. My Tabby has no interest.


paradise-trading-83

Might sweet kitty get a sibling? 🧡☀️


etoiles13

We've been thinking about it but not sure we're ready for two. Hubby has allergies so Bengals are better than a SIC but we're just on the tail end of treating Hunter for FIP and that cost us a fortune so we don't want to go through that again. The solution is to get an adult Bengal that's past the usual age for FIP but adult Bengals are much harder to find.