Cats

 How to Use Your CatToys.com Box

Remember it is not just the box that your order came in, it is also a very special treat for your cat! Boxes are fun as you can see by our friends Boris and his sisters!

1. Open the box upon arrival.
2. Remove all items in the box except the tissue paper.
3. Place the box on the ground so your cat can get in it.
4. Optional step: adjust the flaps on the box for easy access.
5. Sit back and watch the fun.**

** Be sure you have a camera handy to capture all the fun.

We would love to see any photos or videos you take of your kitties playing in our boxes and with the toys they receive.

Above all else have fun with your cats!

Our pal Boris Kitty shows what a gentleman he is by sharing his CatToys.com box with his three sister kitties in this entertaining video.

I you would like to see more photos head on over to his blog, Boris Kitty - 4 Paws for a Cause, and see what fun a box delivered with a pinch of catnip in it is for this feline foursome.

Any one who has a cat and has brought a box into the house knows the simple truth…cats love boxes!

Even if they don’t quite fit in them, they’ll still get in them. But the best box of all is one that is delivered directly to the house and contains catnip!

 As you can see by the photos below, this kitty is one very satisfied customer!

Photos courtesy of Allan Densmore, who is owned by Briar. 

A “Sticky” Situation — On September 22, 2009, a Pennsylvania SPCA Law Enforcement officer responded to a distressing call from a North Philadelphia woman who had discovered a cat wrapped in duct tape from head-to-toe and dumped in her backyard.

A Happy Ending For Sticky – On September 29, one week to the day that Sticky was rescued by the Pennsylvania SPCA, she went to her new home with a loving family.

Thanks to tips received from concerned citizens, the same Humane Law Enforcement officer who rescued Sticky was able to make an arrest in the case.

Source: Pennsylvania SPCA www.pspca.org.

Today is known as MeowMondy in the Twitterverse and we are celebrating it by offering up some healthy, tasty treats for your kittehs!

We are giving a bag of Whole Life Freeze Dried Salmon to two lucky winners!

How do you enter? It is easy. First, follow @CatToyscom on Twitter (if you don’t have an account sign up for a free account today at Twitter.com). Once you are following us tweet or retweet (RT) the following:

Enter to win Whole Life Cat Treats from @CatToyscom! http://tweet2win2.notlong.com #catnomnoms - Just follow & RT

More rules: Contest ends 9/4/09 at 12:01 am. All valid tweets/re-tweets are eligable as entries into the random drawing to be held on or about noon on 9/4/09. Two (2) winners will be drawn at random from all entries. Each winner will receive one bag of Whole Life Salmon Pet Treats (nom nom nom). Winners will be contacted via Twitter @replies and/or DM (direct messages). If winner(s) does not contact us within 48 hours their prize is forfeit. Contest for North American Twitters only (due to food restrictions).

Good Luck and have fun!

Let us introduce you to Boris (twitter user: @BorisKitty). Boris is a large and in charge kitty with a great purr-sonality that will win your heart. He was rescued at the very young age of 3 weeks. He was just a tiny little thing that could fit in the palm of your hand. Well all that hand feeding must have done him some good according to his profile he is a big ole moose of a cat now.

Boris just celebrated his fourth birthday with quite a bang. He is even running a big “birfaday” contest on his site right now. Photos from his party were even featured on PeoplePets.com. We hear he is working on perfecting his autograph right now.

See all the trouble this cat gets himself into over at his blog Big Bad Boy Boris it is lots of fun. He even has his own domain name now too — BorisKitty.com.

Since MeowMonday always puts a smile on our face at the start of the week we’d like to celebrate MeowMonday by giving you all a chance to win a great prize from CatToys.com!

All you need to do is follow us on Twitter or be our friend on Facebook then answer the simple question below! (You can email your answer to us or post it here in the comments).

One winner will be randomly chosen from all correct answers we receive from 12pm today until midnight (est) tonight!

The prizeis the Kitty Hoots Catfisher Bobber. No matter how quick and agile the swatting cat may be, the CatFisher Bobber always returns to the upright position. Good Luck!

Question: Name one the three “animals” you get with the CatFisher replacement lures in our Fat Cat section over at CatToys.com?

Send your answers to us at meowmonday [at] cattoys.com  (replace [at] with @ to send to us). Please use subject line: MeowMonday Contest and include your @Twitter account name or facebook name to be eligible for the prize! The winners will be chosen on the following business day and contacted via email.

This is our first MeowMonday contest so if it is a big hit we will do more!

Update: We are very pleased with our contest entries. We had quite a few people answer not only correctly with one of the animals but several told us all three!

Answer: We would have accepted any one of the following…mouse, fish, butterfly.

Winner is @BrewskieButt who not only answered correctly but gave us all three lures. So we are also giving them a set of Catfisher Lures to go with that Catfisher Bobber toy. Now all you need is the fishing pole to go with it! Congratulations!

Some of our friends over on Twitter started up a little club for their favorite cat toy – the Kong Duckie (formerly known in some circles as the Dr. Noy’s Duck cat toy). Since it started the Duckie Club has gathered quite a following among the cats who twitter crowd.

They started telling all their friends about how much they (or rather their cats) enjoyed this little yellow duckie toy. Manxington started it off by showing the world how much he loved his duckie and asking if other cats had pictures of themselves playing with their duckies. We just loved the pictures of Boris that he posted on his blog, Just Ducky: A Tale of a Boy and His Duck (we even used one of his pictures in our store, with his permission of course). Soon cats all over Twitter were posting images and talking about getting a duckie. Those kitties sure know how to have fun, don’t they?

The Kong Duckie cat toy has a Velcro closure on its back so that it can be filled with the enclosed catnip pouches (each toy comes with 2 catnip T-nip “teabags”).

We have joined forces with our friends @Manxington and @BorisKitty to donate duckies to kitties in rescues. For every 25 duckies sold through links on their websites we will donate a duckie to charity.

Check out these blogs for more information:

• The Duckie Club
• Boris Kitty
• What A Slacker Blogs

There are many hidden dangers to our cats some of which we probably don’t even think about because we use the products on a daily basis. One such danger is household bug spray.

We were just alerted by a fellow cat lover about an article in the Wired magazine about what’s inside a can of RAID. Basically the main insecticide used in the bug spray cannot be filtered out of your cat’s system fast enough before it hurts or even kills them.

There are natural alternatives to these chemical sprays like the Sentry Natural Defense Household Spray that is safe to use around pets, children, and even food. It kills most household pests like spiders, ants, fleas and more naturally.

Mind you the product does contain mineral spirits so do not use in direct contact with your cat and keep him away until the spray is completely dried just as you would the more harmful chemical based products.

From the product brochure, “Because octopamine is not found in humans or other mammals, birds and fish, the natural active ingredients in Sentry Natural Defense products are safe to use around your family or pets, when used as directed.”

If you would like more information or have questions please visit Sergeants.com.

We just added a line of kitten toys to our site. These four new toys are designed smaller for smaller paws. They are part of the Play-n-Squeak cat toys line so all four kitten toys have that famous realist mouse squeak that kittens and adult cats love.

These new kitten toys will keep your kitten busy stalking, pouncing and chasing for hours all the while he is learning valuable habits and behaviors for life. Playing with toys stimulates the kitten’s predatory behavoir, teaches new kittens social skills and cooridination, and most importantly keeps your new kitten busy and entertained to prevent behavior problems associated with boredom.