This month's stock item is a Catapilla™ finished in Bleached Coir with Coloured Twist Pile internals - it's made up of a Purple Body+ unit & Green, Orange & Pink Body units.

Just a very quick but big THANK YOU to everyone who's emailed notes of support or Tweeted sweet things about us following the news of our temporary workshop closure...

We are very sorry to say that the Wallis Road building that has been our home since 2008 was sold recently & we have been told unexpectedly that we need to vacate by the end of the month.

Some of you will remember our special grey Concrete Coir finish that we imported a few years ago - this finish went down really well with our customers & we've been on the look out for a replacement ever since.

We've just received a wonderful note from Donatella at the L’Associazione Telefono Difesa Animali to say thank you for the Tomcat 4 that we donated last month...the charity's Facebook page says it all.

We have two Tomcat 4 units that have been sitting in the workshop for what seems to be forever, one of which is the unit that we used in our photo shoot for our home page website images.

We've just made the draw for the prototype Catapilla unit that was up for grabs & the first nomination out of the hat was RSPCA Southall...congratulations to them!

We've been contacted by a customer who is moving home & sadly having to give up their Tomcat 3 - they've kindly offered to donate their unit to a charity or rehoming centre as their first choice but other deserving homes will be considered.

For the first & last time we will be participating in the Hackney WickED DIY Open Studios event, which is part of the London Festival for Architecture & is being held on 29th-31st July. Our doors will be open on the Friday & Saturday & it's probably going to be the last Open Studios event given that the area is about to go through redevelopment displacing a large number of workshops & artists, including us.

Our new Catapilla™ website is now live & the online shop is open.

Our Facebook page is no more but we have just put to together a new cover page to introduce our Hicat®, Scraaaatch™ & Catapilla™ products along with links to our Instagram, Pinterest & Google+ accounts plus newsletter sign-up - all in one place. 

We're sorry to say that we will be closing our Facebook account shortly because of some inexplicable policy enforcement rules.

Just to keep everyone up to date with the nominations for the Catapilla unit we have up for grabs the nominations so far are:

We've finished testing our new Catapilla product so our prototype unit is now up for grabs...

We've got eight years of blogging to catch up with so here's another piece of Hicat® history.

Following on from our first blog showing our cat Leroy scaling the first ever Polecat here's Rocky climbing the latest one...