What moderncat doesn’t love a nice homemade toy that helps reduce the impact on the landfill? Well, as soon as your cat reads this, he’ll be asking you for one of these toys from Etsy seller Marvelous Melissa. She makes two different kinds of eco-friendly cats toys: Three Blind Mice and darn!socks, both of which are extremely popular with the eco-conscious feline crowd.
Three Blind Mice are made with felted scraps of old wool sweaters rolled into little mice with organic catnip inside. Perfect for carrying and batting around. Darn!Socks are made from holey old socks, bound for the trash, but instead reincarnated as adorable mice, just the right size for bunny kicking. These guys are filled with organic catnip, a bit of recycled crinkly plastic, a few pistachio shells (for a good crunch), and recycled wool sweater lint. It doesn’t get any more eco-friendly than that!
Enter to Win! Bonus Giveaway, Five Winners, Winner’s Choice!
Marvelous Melissa is offering five winners each their choice of either a set of Three Blind Mice or a darn!socks cat toy. Please leave a comment on this post to enter. The five winners will be chosen in a random drawing on November 17 and notified via email. One entry per person. This giveaway is open to readers everywhere. Now that’s marvelous!
November 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I can’t decide which sounds better! The Three Blind Mice would probably be a hit with my Three Active Cats…but the Darn!Socks sound, well, like they’d sound cool with the cruncy stuff in them. And big enough to bunny kick is always a kick.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Oh my kitty would love those! She always plays with my socks I have lying around!
November 18th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Hi my name is Tina. I won the sweepstakes, and they asked me to choose which toy I wanted. I asked my children in fur which one did they wanted.They all agreed on the three blind mice. thank you meow!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
looks like all the cats are having fun
November 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Holy Jeez, maybe I could keep socks for more than a week now!! great idea!
November 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Pretty dern cute!
July 30th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Great ideas, thanks!