Abstract: The base of a birdcage includes a cartridge or enclosed perforated container having a plurality of balls sandwiched between a pair of screens on either side of the container for providing a decorative and camouflaging base surface for capturing bird excrement and which may be easily cleaned.

Abstract: A plush toy includes a head section, a hind section opposite the head section, and a mid section. The mid section has opposite first and second ends, where the first end is mounted to the head section and the second end is mounted to the hind section. The mid section incorporates an elongate helical-coiled backbone spring extending longitudinally the length of the mid section from the first end to the second end. A plush body is mounted around the backbone spring. The plush body includes a soft, flexible coiled member formed as a coil coiled around the background spring so as to not restrict bending or rotational deformation of the backbone spring. The bending or rotational deformation of the backbone spring lends to the apparently acrobatic ability of the plush toy to twist and bend its body.

Abstract: A toy actuator which includes a handle, wherein one end of the handle is hollow, and an elongate resilient member formed into a loop so that opposite ends of the member are adjacent one another and opposite a vertex of the loop. The opposite ends are mounted into the hollow end of the handle so as to dispose the handle substantially opposite the vertex. An adornment is mounted substantially to the vertex. The elongate resilient member may be a sufficiently rigid spring so that when the handle is held horizontal so as to cantilever the member from the handle, the member remains substantially horizontal also until deformed by a user oscillating or otherwise translating the handle vertically, side-to-side, forward-and-back, or circularly.