Ever Feel Guilty about that coffee sleeve Cozy?

Our friends over at Etsy always have the coolest stuff. This morning I found a seller Rooty Toots (a Virginian, ahem). She has a collection of cat themed recycled wool felt coffee cozy for your morning coffee fix.

Plus, if you spill coffee on it you can refashion it as a cat toy.

$9.99 at Etsy

[picture courtesy of Rooty Toots at Etsy]

Rooty Toots at Etsy

Cats' Eating Junk Food

The nice people over at Discovery Channel's Planet Green

have an article on additives in cat food. According to Discovery, most commercial supermarket pet foods are largely made from fillers and waste products from the commercial meat industry.

"In fact, the animals used to make many pet foods are classified as “4-D,” which is really a polite way of saying “Dead, Dying, Diseased, or Down (Disabled)” when they line up at the slaughterhouse. Unless that can of Chicken ‘N Liver Delite explicitly states that it contains FDA-certified, food-grade meat, you should know that its contents are considered unfit for human consumption—but apparently good enough for your cat or pooch."

Not surprising that given last year's pet food additives scare many more people are switching to organically certified pet foods.

BTW: Toby our editor in chief eats Innova feline diet*

*when not enjoying the occasional stolen goldfish cracker

Cat Learns to Take the Bus

According to Brittan's Daily Mail, a cat in England has learned to use the bus.

According to reports, "The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings - he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop."


This guy just might beat us at our own game! Daily Mail

Screen Printed Cat Pillow

No..not a pillow for cats, a pillow of cats. This really col cat pillow tutorial is posted on craftster.org.

Global Warming Causing Kitten Population Boom!

According to treehugger and the Toronto Star a mild winter and early spring is causing a kitten population boom which is overwhelming local animal welfare agencies. Toronto Star