We started a design exercise a few years ago for a Cat's Cradle accessory to use with Polecat - the idea was to come up with a platform that could be retro-fitted to the unit to give some perching & sleeping options.

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've had an unusually high amount of special orders over the last few weeks & wanted to show off one in particular that is currently making it's way to Crace in Australia. 

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 finished this month's Stock Item, which is a Tall Bobcat & one of the first ever Hicat® units to be fabricated in the new Tibet Wild Cat Wool finish.

We've recently finished a very special Hicat® for a customer in New York - the piece was a custom design to mount over an extendable projection screen unit.

It's taken us 8 years to get our products where we want them to be & the last set of product improvements included larger tilting feet, oversized inserts in the base & top end caps along with some changes in fabrication techniques that give us the best results in forming & finishing our Hicat® units.

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...

Our cats are an integral part of our R&D & two of the more exotic finishes that they've put through their paces were an imported grey dyed coir from India used on a Fatcat 4/Bobcat & Polecat finished in a Crucial Trading striped wool carpet. 

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

Workshop collections are rare but customers picking up their Hicat® in a London taxi are even rarer so here's Nicholas picking up his Tomcat 3 in his black cab.

Things have really moved on from when we started looking for an indoor climber for our cat in 2004...

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