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 10th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Those are adorable toys. What a great and green idea for a business!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:08 am
i think these are so cool! way to freecycle!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:28 am
What delightful toys! Well done.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:46 am
These are so cute!!
November 11th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Those are great diy toys for cats
thanks for sharing
November 11th, 2009 at 1:27 am
So THAT’S why all my socks have holes in!
November 11th, 2009 at 2:23 am
My three Kitties can never have too many mice. They have stashed theirs all over the house. And now we have green mice! Enviromentalous!
November 11th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Awww these mice are so cute!!!
November 11th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Purrfect idea !!! Can’t wait to order these for my cat !!!
November 11th, 2009 at 3:52 am
How cute! Of course, it helps that cats always seems to have more fun with found items anyway, so these have a better chance of appealing to them!
November 11th, 2009 at 4:07 am
How Sweet. My kittens will love playing with these….
November 11th, 2009 at 4:18 am
what great ideas! I like the darn! mice… the size seems just right…my cats steal stuffed animals to torment:-)
thank you for your creativity!
November 11th, 2009 at 4:41 am
What a cute idea. Tati would love to play with some of these. That would keep her away from my knitting bag.
Anna
November 11th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Great idea!
November 11th, 2009 at 5:42 am
Love the values and creativity of these! So cute and clever for discerning felines… I have a sock-loving pair who steal through my laundry.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Those are the cutest mice! What a great idea.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:08 am
The three blind mice are a terrific idea!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:11 am
These are such a cute idea. I love it!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:12 am
I am constantly amazed by the creativity of these recycled cat toys. Awesome!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:18 am
My two 11 year old very playful kitties would love these adorable toys!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:03 am
My cat Sophie would love these toys. She is a rescue cat who was abused, and she is frightened most of the time. She will only play with small toys that she can bat around. Sophie has been with me for a year now and she is just starting to relax some and come out of her shell.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:33 am
My kittens love going in my drawers and dragging my shirts all over the house… maybe if they had something like this they would stop!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:33 am
My kitties would LOVE the Darn Socks! They love tackling and kicking stuff!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Wonderful toys. We would all love some new catnip toys.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:23 am
That Melissa IS marvelous!!!! and those darn mice are toooooo cute!! But I don’t think the “Booterman” (real name = Boots) would be tempted to play with them ….. he’s wayyyyyy to cool for those silly cat toys….but Petey!!! that little terror — he’d LOVE ‘em!!!
November 11th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Superb, eco friendly, fun idea!
November 11th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Adorable! If they have their own socks and sweaters, maybe they would leave mine alone…
November 11th, 2009 at 10:43 am
so cute! my new kitten needs a new toy (that is not a shoelace – attached to my shoe)!
November 11th, 2009 at 10:49 am
They are both SO awesome! I especially love the Darn!Socks.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:22 am
How very cute! And economical!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Love the sock toys! I’ve got a lot of foster kitties who would love to try them out!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Very cute..love the mice!!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Too cute! These would be great Xmas gifts for all the kitties in the family.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Both of my marmalade cats would love these toys. Consider this my attempt to win them for “the boys”!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
These are so darn cute! Plus my kitties, Kia and Tess, would love them!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
My kitties would love these! So cute and fun!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I love the darn!socks! They’re so cute!
November 11th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
We have a drawerful of old socks, but never know what to do with them? So creative!
November 11th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
those are so cute. The best part is that there is no plastic!
November 11th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Those eco-friendly cat toys are FANTASTIC. Thank you!
–Kimberly (and Hazel-the-Cat)
November 11th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
so cute, I have been trying to find ways to live greener but haven’t greened my cats toys yet. Great idea, thank you
November 11th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
My cat is a bunny-kicking machine. He’d love to add some toys to his collection!
November 11th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
The little mice lined up in the basket are so cute.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Sooo cute. My boys would love them
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November 11th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
These are really cute, and my cat loves the texture of knitted toys.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
So cute! Something to do with all of those lonely socks that lost their other half in the bermuda triangle that is the laundry cycle…
November 11th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Very lovely idea!
November 11th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Very cute! My cat would love these!
November 11th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
What a great ‘green ‘ idea !!
November 11th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
These are SO cute! Very green!