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 12:25 pm
How adorable! My kitties would be so happy to play with the Holey Socks!!
November 10th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Very cute way of going green!
November 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Awww this toys are so cute, my cats will love it!!!
November 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
What a great idea! Would love these for my boys. They would enjoy them, I’m sure.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
So cute! My cat would love these.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
So cute!
November 10th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I love it that the cats can be recyclers too!
November 10th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Cats, by default, love anything destined for the landfill. Empty paper towel rolls, balled up receipts, empty boxes, etc. These should work great!
November 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
these look excellent for bunny kicks.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
How clever! And the addition of pistachio shells! My cat would love them.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Thanks! I’ve got to get the Darn Sock for my kitty.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
These look pawsome!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
they look cute
November 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
a. these are adorable.
b. what a great way to recycle – even the wool sweater lint!
kudos to Marvelous Melissa!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
THese look so nice and it’s good for the environment too! I made some homemade cat toys too but they don’t look as appealing.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Love it, want it, send it to me.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
i love those mice!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Marvelous idea Melissa! Earthy toys are the best!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
We prefer sock toys with the feet still in them!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I hope I win!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I love it when people recycle instead of filling up the land fields. A wonderful and smart idea. My cats would enjoy either one very much.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I love the use of recycled cloth, and my two rescued cats Garp and Elizabeth would too!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I would love this toy or should I say, Pepper would love this toy! She loves my socks and her “mice” !
November 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
My cats are menaces and love to destroy. Think they could handle these? I hope I get to find out!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
So cute, and a great idea.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
My beautiful and v e r y playful kitty Fjodor – adopted from the ASPCA yesterday! – would love him some of them mousies. ^.^
November 10th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
how clever are you to up with such a brilant idea for a tpy fpor our darling cats.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
My little cat, Cali, is always carrying one of my pairs of socks around the house, so I guess she would love that (and me too if I don’t have to pick up my socks everywhere…).
November 10th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I love these, especially the recycled part. Very cute!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Holey cow, batman….these toys look soooooooo Cool!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Two cats here who would flip for these.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
My three love anything “MOUSE”!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I absoloutley love the look of these toys; they are so cute!!! And eco friendliness is a great bouns!!!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
So cute! WANT!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
They look wonderful!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
what a great idea!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Adorable!! My cats would love playing with these!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Those are about the cutest little toys we’ve seen in a long time!!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
What a great idea. I love it!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Fantastic! I love recycling products.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Pig would go crazy for these guys!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Oh boy, my Clemmie really wants those sock mice. Love that these toys are recycled.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
so cute cute.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
My cuties would love these eco-friendly cat toys! Right now they play with mice made from felt & stuffed with catnip. So there have been a few times I come home to an empty mouse on the floor and catnip all over my bed. And of course the innocent looks when I ask what happened.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
My kitties want the 3 blind mice. They are good mousers.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Those sock toys would get no rest from our crew.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I love these! & I know my lil kitty would just adore such a cute n Eco toy! Hope we win!
November 10th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
My cat does like old socks, so these might do well…
November 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
These are just adorable!
November 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
those are so cute! there are so many creative people out there!