We’ve just been tipped off that as of 28 August 2025 the US de minimis exemption for imports under $800 is going to be abolished

We are hoping that the recent shipping issues reported in our last Shipping Woes x6 blog should now be a thing of the past

There were no takers for Amy’s Tomcat so we’ve had it shipped back to us & it will become our latest Loved To Bits re-incarnation

We did get a response from Cat Tree UK but it was a long way away from what we expected to get

How will you be celebrating International Cat Day on 08 August 2025

We are excited to say that we’ve filled a bit of the gap created by our last Hicat Video & More blog & have four new videos to share

In 2016 we were upset to see a photo of one of our cats Rudy sitting in his Tomcat being displayed on Cat Tree UK’s Facebook profile page

Our Hicat® video along with our individual training videos, some of which make up the brand video, are all now embedded on their own Hicat® videos page

This will be a month to forget as we are currently experiencing our worst ever run of delivery issues leaving customers on the end of some shambolic delivery service failure

There’s been a slight down turn to our smile since our last More Shipping Smiles blog as we did get hit with some additional ghost charges for the UPS delivery to Canada

Amy from Aylesbury has been in touch to offer up her Tomcat 3 for rehoming

As shown on Instagram we’ve been working on a bespoke replacement for our discontinued Fat Pad

We are sorry to report that customers will now pay a 10% import charge in addition to our UK pricing when making a purchase from the United States

It’s been nearly a year since our last CHAT blog update to the Thumbs Up testimonial page so time again to check in with the new bunch of happy customers & their smiley cats

If you keep missing out on Up For Grabs freebies you can use an RSS feed to our Blog page to get notified as soon as the CHAT rolls off the press

We are still experiencing some issues with international couriers the latest being overcharging by resellers & UPS

We compiled some eco-friendly notes in 2022 & are pleased to report that we are a little bit greener 3 years on

Our Australian partner Mirko who launched Hicat Australia in 2019 has been in touch to say that due to other business commitments he is sadly unable to fulfil any orders at the moment

We’ve made a few of these units now with the most recent being January’s Stock Item