How we choose
There is no shortage of things made for cats. There is a real shortage of things worth buying. So we keep a short list, chosen by hand by people who live with cats, and a piece only earns a spot if we would want it in our own home.
Made to last
We look for things made by people who care how they are made. Good materials, honest construction, the kind of piece that still looks right years from now and can take a cat without coming apart. If it will not last, we pass.
Good for the cat, not just the room
A thing can look beautiful and still be wrong for a cat. So we think about how it actually gets used, slept on, climbed, scratched, before we think about how it looks. When the two pull against each other, the cat wins.
Made by names worth trusting
Most of what we carry comes from small, well-regarded studios that built their name on making things properly. We would rather offer forty pieces we can vouch for than four thousand we cannot.
Worth keeping
The last question is the easy one. Would we want this in our own home, and would it still be there a year from now. If the answer is no, it does not belong here either.
You can tell a lot about a shop from what it refuses to sell. We skip anything flimsy, anything that treats a cat like a prop for a photo, and anything we would not use ourselves. No padding the catalog to look bigger, no here-today trends that fall apart by spring. When we are not sure, we leave it out.
We are a small team of cat people who got tired of wading through everything made for cats just to find the few things worth buying. So we started doing the digging ourselves. Between us we have spent years sourcing from independent makers and shipping orders around the world, and that experience goes into every name on this list. If we would not want it in our own home, it does not make it.
A part of every order goes to cats who are still looking for a home.
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