Here’s a fun new product that lets you create a customized climbing structure for your cats. It’s the Catty Stacks, designer cat house system. These super strong corrugated cardboard boxes can be connected in three dimensions to create all sorts of configurations for climbing, perching, playing, napping, and hiding. The nice folks at Catty Stacks sent us a set to test out and they were an instant hit. Here are Simba and Dee checking out the new play station:
The boxes ship flat and are really easy to set-up, just unfold and insert some tabs into slots and you’re ready to go. The special corner design allows you to clip the boxes together (clips are included) to create a nice sturdy structure. Once the boxes are clipped together, you can lift the whole stack to move it (just make sure there aren’t any cats inside!)
Holes on the side of the boxes allow kitties to enter and exit and connect from one box to the next. When two boxes are clipped together, you can remove a larger portion of the side panel to create a more spacious inner lounge area. When boxes are stacked on top of each other, the vertical access holes are staggered, making it easy for kitty to get her footing as she climbs up through the boxes. The thing I’m most impressed with is the strength of the double thickness cardboard. This is some of the strongest cardboard I’ve seen, so the Catty Stacks should last a long time.
There are a number of accessories you can purchase as add-ons for your Catty Stacks, including a crawl tube that connects between two boxes, special felt pillows for extra comfort, and an animation wand that connects easily to one of the accessory points and has a clip on the end to attach kitty’s favorite toy. Here’s Theo getting ready to attack the dangling toy:
The boxes come in light pink, chocolate brown, sky blue, pistachio green, and white, all printed with 100% soy-based inks. The cardboard used is also 100% recycled and recyclable. You can choose any combination of colors when ordering the boxes in kits ranging from one box for $17.99 US, to ten boxes for $129.99 US.
BONUS GIVEAWAY! ENTER TO WIN!
Catty Stacks is giving away a six box set in the winner’s choice of colors! I guarantee your kitties will love Catty Stacks! To enter, please leave a comment on this post. The winner will be chosen in a random drawing on July 12. One entry per person. This giveaway includes free shipping to addresses in the US and Canada.
July 7th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Yes please! Want very much!
July 7th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Who doesn’t like to climb things!
July 7th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Wow, comments are over 1000! If they can be cheaper, I bet there will be more orders. BTW, we love it!
July 7th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
little mui would love this! pick me!!
July 7th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Please pick us! Simba, Monty, and Topaz
July 7th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
My cats would LOVE these!
July 7th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Wow, these look like alot of fun; for me and my kitties. Purrs.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Neat. My cat would have so much fun!
July 7th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
My crew of 7 fur faces would love these!
July 7th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Interesting idea. I’d love to try these out.
July 7th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
if we win, my three kitties could have two boxes each to pounce and destroy! thanks!
July 7th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
My Siamese cat, Frankie, would go bananas over these.
July 7th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Oh wow my cats would LOVE these !!! I have 8 kitties and a pack of 6 of these boxes would ROCK THEIR WORLD !!!!
All the fun they could have playing hide and seek in these !!!
My kitties would be honored to be chosen for such a kitty castle !!!
They are eyeing some of those pink boxes
July 8th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Will catty stacks support my fatty cats?
July 8th, 2010 at 2:00 am
this looks awesome!! out kities would love to play in one of these–it’s like a cat playground!
July 8th, 2010 at 3:13 am
I would love some catty stacks! My cat could definitely use them!
July 8th, 2010 at 3:57 am
These are wonderful and great colors!
July 8th, 2010 at 4:51 am
My cats would love these. They have lots of energy to burn
July 8th, 2010 at 6:33 am
these look awesome! so fun!
July 8th, 2010 at 7:42 am
This looks like a lot of fun for my cats!!!
July 8th, 2010 at 7:51 am
I don’t think my cats would ever leave the cardboard climber!!
July 8th, 2010 at 7:52 am
My kitty Sulley would just love to win this! This site is so cool!
July 8th, 2010 at 9:10 am
I can see how cats would find these boxes so alluring!
July 8th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Wow. What a clever idea!
Almost every cardboard box that comes into our place quickly belongs to our several cats. We’ve done various things to/with boxes, but these Catty Stacks are a simple, clever, and elegant idea.
It’s so simple, I’m embarrassed I didn’t think of it first. Heh…
We’ll be saving to get a few, and you can bet we’ll tell friends. Thanks to moderncat for bringing this idea to our attention.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:27 am
My girls would LOVE these. The selection of colors are nice. Hope we are the big winner!!
July 8th, 2010 at 10:32 am
I like!Cute
July 8th, 2010 at 11:09 am
My kitties would love these.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:25 am
These just look cool!
July 8th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Fun, functional and environmentally friendly looks like the perfect thing for my 5 cats. Thanks for the opportunity to enter this giveaway. =^..^=
July 8th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I want one!
July 8th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Neat.
July 8th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
I love the colors and that they are made from recycled cardboard! I hope I win the set for my kitties!
July 8th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I have four cats that love their nylon connect-o-squares, but I love the idea of recyclable cardboard.
July 8th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
My cat would just LOVE this!
July 8th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
LOVE >**< LOVE!
Let the Games Begin!
July 8th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
This would be wonderful – I can just imagine my cats little faces looking out from the box portholes!
July 8th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
These are the coolest thing I’ve seen for kitties in awhile….
July 8th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I would never be able to get my kitties to come down!
July 8th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
These are awesome!
July 8th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
I love this idea and its one of the few things I’ve seen that all of my cats can play with at once.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
These are even better than the cardboard boxes that they all can’t get enough of, especially Jules. He would even fit in one of these!
July 8th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
these are so cute. and of course all kitties love cardboard boxes!
July 8th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
wow, these are great – with a starter set of 6 I would probably only need to double that. the cats would love these.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
I could see having to fill up a room with these boxes and perhaps even make a path through the house from one room to another so that they cats would have their own private walkway. they would/could have a world of fun. this is definitely something that would be put to good use in my house.
July 8th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Great idea! I know 4 kitties who would LOVE these!
July 8th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Sweet! Those are so AWESOME. If I don’t win I might buy some anyways for my three cats. I was just thinking of a way to create a play area for them.
July 8th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Looks like an expensive version of Cube. (www.TheCreativePet.com)
July 8th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Wow,
my little troublesome kitty would love this!
She hides in absolutly everything from tiny boxes to her own play tunnel
Think this would be her dream come true!
July 8th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Oh my gosh, these would be perfect for my kitty Cortana. They could be place next to a window for ultimate bird watching!
July 8th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
These seem fun! That cream cutie looks like my Sebastian:)