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    let’s dance!

    Jun 25, 2019 3 minutes
    By Alina Larson, Contributing Editor

    One of the most popular cat toys is made of steel wire and rolled cardboard and can be purchased for less than three dollars. Simple but genius, right? We got the scoop from Jim Boelke, who invented the Cat Dancer in college and turned it into a million-dollar business.

    What inspired you to invent a cat toy?

    I was putting myself through college in the mid 1970s and had three part-time jobs, one of which was taking welfare recipients to different city departments in

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