Furball Rodeo

The cats are loose, the door is open, and you have one finger.

Furball Rodeo is a herding game. Drag a laser dot and the cats hunt it: they notice it, crouch, wiggle, and pounce at where it was. Lead them into the cardboard box by pausing, not by dragging. Tap to clap your hands and the cats nearby startle and scatter. Get them into the box before five slip out the door. A cat only counts once it has settled down inside.

Every cat is different. Kittens pounce early and fly past. The fat cat takes its time and gives up after a miss. And cats remember: fail one too often and it wants out, and the same trick works less each time. Lift your finger and the hunters wait where the dot vanished.

The living room fights back as you go. Cats hide under the couch, climb the shelf, push the flower pot off, and slip out of the window. Help turns up on the floor: a bag of treats for the cats nearby, catnip that leaves them too floppy to care, a wind-up mouse to flick. Hold your finger still and a slow blink calms the panicking ones.

Sixteen levels, three stars each. Every cat you box goes into the cattery. Clear the room for Free herd, and come back for the daily herd: the same cats for everyone that day.

No accounts and no ads. Nothing in the game ever hurts a cat.

Ten percent of what the game earns goes to cat shelters: gelopard.com/shelters