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 11th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
very cute! Melissa is now on my etsy favorites.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Those are so cute! I love the Three Blind Mice. :]
November 11th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
So cute! I think I will have to start making mice out of my socks!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Sunny would love these; he is handicapped so he needs lightweight toys to bat around. These would be perfect!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Any new toys are always well recieved (especially catnip ones), and to make them green is even better!!!!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
ahh, how cute! i tried to make some myself, actually, and they just turned out strange looking, heh
November 11th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
These look wonderful. I am sure my cats would love to carry them around.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
How cute! I know three cats, Brando, Jed, and Tom, who would love these!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I have made cat toys from recycled clothes and towels before but, somehow, they never looked that nice.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Cute, adorable, economical, eco-friendly . . . and kitties love it, too
November 11th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Oooh, I’ve been looking for new cat-toys!
November 11th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
What a great idea for cat toys – not only it’s eco-friendly, but so cute!!!
November 12th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Our human stuffs cat nip in her old socks for us to play with – we do appreciate her efforts in being green , but we would appreciate something more stylish at the same time – like Marvelous Melissas toys!!!!
November 12th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Very cute! Morris would love these! Good luck to everyone and take care!
November 12th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Great concepts recycling the old clothes – and they’re cute!
November 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Bunny kicking toys are the best!! Rufus and Ruby would love these.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Love them!
November 12th, 2009 at 9:47 am
My cat Suri would adore these little mice!
November 12th, 2009 at 10:19 am
How wonderful!! Kitty with the most toys wins!!
November 12th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
My Niko would love these little mousies! What a great way to use mismatched socks!
November 12th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
cute!
November 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Nice looking!
November 12th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Bonding with my kitty AND helping the environment, it couldn’t get any better!
November 12th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Pretty creative and cute!
November 12th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I love cats their people to me. I really love the recycled cat toys. I have five.Meow!
November 12th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
If I were one of my “many” kitties I would tightly hug one of these lovable guys!!
November 12th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Great idea. I’m always looking for greener cat toys, & bunny kicking is a frequent feline activity around here!
November 12th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Oh my goodness, these are so cute! Moxie would love them, she is always trying to play with socks.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:25 am
cute cute cute cute cute!
November 13th, 2009 at 4:47 am
that is such a great idea using old recycled materials, and pistacio nuts – would have never of thought to find something like that in a cat toy.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:58 am
SO cute! What a great idea. My “Hollywood” is fantastic at bunny-kickin.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:28 am
sweet!!
November 13th, 2009 at 11:40 am
These are adorable. I’m going to put these on my holiday gift list, but I’d like to win some too.
November 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
How green is this! Very nice and kind to the environment. My kitties say “A plus” to marvelous Melissa!
November 13th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Wow, so incredibly cute! My cat would go crazy over these!
November 13th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I think my girls would love a darn!socks cat toy!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
My kitty would be in heaven with those mice!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Neat, I like to sew my own cat toys, too. My cats seem to like home made toys better, I think because they usually have more catnip than store bought ones. I’ve used socks before but not sweaters. O_O
November 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Too cute…great recycling idea!
November 13th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Our cats Mignonne and Goatee would LOVVVEEE these cute toys!
November 14th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
These are some of the cutest cat toys I have EVER seen! Gives me all sorts of ideas! Thanks AGAIN for bringing such great ideas for all of us to enjoy! I hope I win… I hope I win… I hope I win…
November 14th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
AWWWWW!!!!! What a way to recycle. I love them. I think my kitties would love them too because they love to lay on my sweaters.
November 14th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Those are awesome!
November 15th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
What wonderful win win products for our felines and the environment!
November 15th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
My kitties think the Three Blind Mice sound like the best thing since the Cigars stuffed with pure catnip! Please make this a Meowy Catmus by making us the winner!
November 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Great idea and so cute.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
So cute! Great re-use!
November 16th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Being a knitter these goodies sound like a great way for my four to have their very own yarn products! (who knows they may leave my yarn alone…. who am I kidding!!)
November 16th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
My kitties are asking for new toys and these look like a winner, since even if we don’t win, we can make our own. Given the economy and loss of one of our incomes, this is a great help…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
My kitties would love these!