Animal Freedom Day

Dear Friends,

Animal Freedom Day is fast approaching and will be taking place this Saturday July 24th!

We hope that you are looking forward to this day as much as we are.

We want to thank everyone for all of your support with Animal Freedom Day. Not only have you helped to make this event worth while but we have also been receiving amazing responses from many. A special thanks goes to those who have organized their own events around the world for Animal Freedom Day.

I would like to remind you and invite everyone you know (including your family, friends, co-workers, network, etc.) to watch us online on July 24th. In addition, I also encourage you to sign up and take the "Veg Pledge" - "Be a veggie for one day."

Find out how you can help the environment, your health, the animals and world hunger by being a vegan for one day.

Be a part of Animal Freedom Day and speak to us live via Skype. Share your thoughts, feelings and your efforts. Our Skype account name is animalfreedomday.

Make sure to watch us live online

Animal Freedom Day has been making a lot of buzz these days. Please visit AFD's Media Page and have a look.

With your participation in Animal Freedom Day you will be included as part of the climactic moment of the film Don't Eat Me. You will be able to view never before seen footage from Don't Eat Me on Animal Freedom Day during our program. Don't Eat Me is planned to be released in summer 2011.

With your contribution Animal Freedom Day has become an international celebration.

Once again thank you for your support and love of animals.

Let's make every day an Animal Freedom Day.

Happy Animal Freedom Day!

The Cat Castle

Floppy Cats has honored us with an amazing review of both our Cat Castle and Catio Furniture! Haven't seen it yet? Here's a sneak preview:

Now - check out Floppy Cats to see what they think about our new line of furniture.

Best Sleeping Positions

Catio Furniture!

We're pre-selling our newest Catio Furniture Set. Dims are approximately 64" long x 36" tall x 24" wide. Consists of 3" and 2" log poles from a Lodgepole Pine Forest in Montana. It will have 3 Sunbrella material hammocks, so rain, snow, sleet, sun won't affect them. Bargain price of $199 includes free oversize freight. Working on video for install, but all holes are pre-drilled and you will only need an electric drill for quick assembly.

Catio cats! We have heard your cries for outdoor furniture! Now it is time for you to rise up and tell your bipedal humans to purchase!

All of our furniture has a 110% money back guarantee (including the freight) so you can buy in confidence.

Check this out!

Found this online and I thought you might like to check it out. Catsplay.com is one of our resellers. She has great products for cats of all kinds. Buy from her if you can't find a set you like on felinefurniture.com. Scott

http://inventorspot.com/articles/think_modular_cat_furniture_6204

Put this into your browser.

Scott
Owner
Felinefurniture.com
951 640 3890

Cool Set Up Of Two Kittie Corners

Rob is an innovator. He ordered two of our kitty corners and put together this amazing set. He also ordered one extra hammock you see in the bottom left. He says it best.

Scott

I hope the pictures get to you.

When you delivered the boxes you saw Jake in the front window - we refer to him as the "Home Security Chief" As you can see he also really likes the new furniture.

Kathy and I just found your company on the internet - We have been looking for really sturdy strong furniture, and thanks we are very impressed. Unfortunately we went through two other similar kinds of
furniture before we found your company.

We have five Cats and two Dogs, a full house, but they are all great friends. On the furniture are Jake, James, Daniel and Gabriel. Peter was off somewhere else but he likes the furniture as well. I'm sending his picture in a separate e-mail

Thanks again Scott - You have made their A+ list

Rob

Comfort Pet Window Perches

People love the window perch. We only sell one version as there is no reason to sell another one. This one is the best and it is made in U.S.A. from Comfort Pet Products. My associate John does a great job with this perch. It is strong, sturdy, and assembles quickly. Easy to clean too.

Here is the comments of one customer who just ordered 4 of them about our other furniture.

Scott: I ordered two window perches and then ordered two more (orders 135 and 136). Just wanted to let you know that you can ship them all together - my error.

By the way, my 4 cats love your furniture. There is always someone sleeping on it. I am looking forward to maybe trying the tunnel in the future. Thanks again for such great cat furniture.

Loretta, CA and her 4 cats.

Big and Fat Furniture

Hey Scott,

I owe you a big thank you for the new, more luxurious condo from felinefurniture.com. I had no sooner walked in the door, and set it down in the foyer when Cream Cheese jumped up on the roof, then went below to the lower bunk, and back on top. I tried to explain that it wasn't going to be left there, but he wouldn't budge. So I gave up and got on with my day.

Eventually I moved it to my bedroom, next to my bed so I could keep a watchful eye on the occupants. I have had hours of amusement, just watching the condo. All 3 kitties LOVE it! They seem to really like the extra roomminess, especially Baja since he's the big boy. Cream Cheese was sound asleep on the roof, and Baja decided he wanted to be there too, so he just sat on CC. Cream Cheese gave up and went inside the condo. Peaches waits until someone leaves the room, then she sidles in and curls up in a ball. She matches the fabric best, so it's hard to see her especially being so petite. "Mom" really likes it better because the color is more neutral and it fits in with her home decor so much better than the animal prints did.

I don't know why the children like it so much better, but they all spend many more hours in the new condo than they ever spent in the older and smaller one. Of course the spring toy is almost bare - that attack happened the first day, and most of the fuzz is rolling around on the carpet. They still play with it; it is so cute the way they grab it with their paw, pull it down, and let it bounce back only to hit them in the nose! Sometimes my brilliant kitties are just plain dumb. But they are smart enough to claim their territory and go directly to sleep. Thank you again for such a lovely "entertainment center" for me!

Gini - CA

This is a pretty funny cat joke

This was sent to me by my father in law.







The Veterinarian
One Sunday, in counting the money in the weekly offering, the Pastor of a small church found a pink envelope containing $1,000. It happened again the next week!

The following Sunday, he watched as the offering was collected and saw an elderly woman put the distinctive pink envelope o n the plate. This went on for weeks until the pastor, overcome by
curiosity, approached her.



"Ma'am, I couldn't help but notice that you put $1,000 a week in the collection plate," he stated.
"Why yes," she replied, "every week my son sends me money and I give some of it to the church."



The pastor replied, "That's wonderful. But $1000 is a lot, are you sure you can afford this? How much does he send you?"

The elderly woman answered, "$10,000 a week."

The pastor was amazed. "Your son is very successful; what does he do for a living?"

"He is a veterinarian," she answered.

"That's an honorable profession, but I had no idea they made that much money," the pastor said. "Where does he practice?"

The woman answered proudly, "In Nevada .. He has two cat houses, one in Las Vegas, and one in Reno '

How a Cat Drinks Water

Check out this funny video.

Top Ten Tips to help your fat cat

Top Ten Tips To help your Fat Cat Lose Weight:

Recent survey shows that 35% of all house cats are overweight. If your cat falls in that percentile, then these tips are for you:

1. Consult your vet before putting your cat on any diet. Have the vet run a blood panel prior to the diet to rule out diabetes and other health concerns.

2. Weight loss needs to be gradual-no crash dieting for your fat cat.

3. Avoid free feeding and cat treats!

4. Use interactive toys to encourage kitty to exercise i.e. “Da Bird.” or cat teasers.

5. Hide catnip in places high up to encourage your overweight cat to climb.

6. Avoid feeding table scraps

7. Feed small amounts on a regular schedule several times a day. If you work invest in a timed automatic feeder.

8. Provide cat grass for your cat- good for digestion.

9. Provide fresh water- suggest you invest in a Drinkwell Pet Fountain.

10. Introduce new food gradually- otherwise kitty will become ill.

At Felinefurniture.com we just started selling a Big and Fat Cat Modular Playground. It is a great place for them to excercise and then call home after hitting the gym. Take one of our teasers and give your fat cat a work out on our playground. Then put some cat nip at the top and let him/her have a good roll in it.

We are also working on the worlds tallest manufactured Cat Furniture playground that will encourage high climbing for maximum weight loss for your fat cat.

This information was provided by Maryanne at Felinexpress.com.

Stairway To Kitty Heaven in unique configuration

Dear Feline Furniture:
I am amazed. The structure is attractive to cats, and looks better than almost anything else I have seen. I have seven cats ( of 17 residents) on my admittedly interesting construction, so I think I will order some additions after I have lived with is for a bit. (you can't see the kitties in the "condos")The structure has been up about 8 hours. The stair step setup/design didn't fit very well in the space, and because I have dogs I need more high space,so I will have to get more creative. A rubber mallet made assembly much easier. Feel free to share the not-very-good picture, and the testimonial.

She recently ordered a Kitty Hawk to add to the set. This is the most creative use of a Stairway To Kitty Heaven I have seen so far. Can't wait to see the updated set after she gets the Kitty Hawk we are sending today

Modern Cat Blog is very cool

Check out moderncat.net. They have some very cool looking cat furniture. See entire message below.

Hi Scott,

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly! Since my cat’s old “Stairway” set finally bit the dust they’ve been driving me up the wall! Per our conversation, I need all the pieces for a new Stairway set except for the connectors and the spring toys. Just to recap, I will need the following (but please double-check me to make sure I haven’t missed anything!):

• 105 of the 13.5” carpeted beams
• two condos (in gray)
• six hammocks (in gray)
• 14 end caps (don’t want the spring toys, just all end caps)

Thanks so much for your help, it is GREATLY appreciated. I hope business is going well for you. Believe me, I know all the cat trees/condos etc. out there and you’ve got a customer for life with my brood! Also, if you aren’t familiar with it, check out this blog called Moderncat (www.moderncat.net) by Kate. She highlights high-end modern furniture and accessories for cats and has some really cool and interesting—albeit very pricey—stuff for people who love their cats but also want their cat’s things to work well with their furnishings (i.e.: none of the typical carpeted cat trees…yuck!). She has a pretty big following in the cat owner/interior design world. With the right marketing, she could probably get the word out and help increase your business!

Thanks again!

Julie

There is such a thing as a catman

Check out The George Clooney of Cats. Paul is so funny in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4 Until I learn to embed video into this blog you will have to copy this clip or type in Engineers Guide To Cats and it will pop up.

And while we are male bashing, check out this incredible story sent to me from one of female customers named Chris.

Cat Lover or Not, this is Hysterical!


We've all had trouble with our animals, but I don't think anyone can top this one:

Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate my excuse, I always get the feeling that my boss thinks I'm lying.

On one recent occasion, I had a valid reason but lied anyway, because the truth was just too darned humiliating. I simply mentioned that I had sustained a head injury, and I hoped I would feel up to coming in the next day. By then, I reasoned, I could think up a doozy to explain the bandage on the top of my head. The accident occurred mainly because I had given in to my wife's wishes to adopt a cute little kitty.
Initially, the new acquisition was no problem.


Then one morning, I was taking my shower after breakfast when I heard my wife, Deb, call out to me from the kitchen.

'Honey! The garbage disposal is dead again. Please come reset it.'

'You know where the button is,' I protested through the shower pitter-pa tter and steam. 'Reset it yourself!'

'But I'm scared!' she persisted. 'What if it starts going and sucks me in?'

There was a meaningful pause and then, 'C'mon, it'll only take you a second.'

So out I came, dripping wet and butt naked, hoping that my silent outraged nudity would make a statement about how I perceived her behaviour as extremely cowardly.

Sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink to find the button. It is the last action I remember performing.

It struck without warning, and without any respect to my circumstances. No, it wasn't the hexed disposal, drawing me into its gnashing metal teeth. It was our new kitty, who discovered the fascinating dangling objects she spied hanging between my legs. She had been poised around the corner and stalked me as I reached under the sink. And, at the precise moment when I was most vulnerable, she leapt at the toys I unwittingly offered and snagged them with her needle-like claws. I lost all rational thought to control orderly bodily movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my masculine region.

Wild animals are sometimes faced with a 'fight or flight' syndrome. Men, in this predicament, choose only the 'flight' option. I know this from experience. I was fleeing straight up into the air when the sink and cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent.
The impact knocked me out cold.

When I awoke, my wife and the paramedics stood over me.

Now there are not many things in this life worse than finding oneself lying on the kitchen floor butt naked in front of a group of 'been-there, done-that' paramedics.
Even worse, having been fully briefed by my wife, the paramedics were all snorting loudly as they tried to conduct their work, all the while trying to suppress their hysterical laughter......and not succeeding.

Somehow I lived through it all. A few days later I finally made it back in to the office, where colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me about my head injury. I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk about, which it was.

'What's the matter?' They all asked, 'Cat got your tongue?'
If they only knew!

AND THE LAST PART OF THIS EMAIL WAS: AN WHY ARE THE WOMEN ALWAYS LAUGHING.

Mahalo Cats Love the Clubhouse

Here is what P (full name is protected because we are all jealous she lives with her cats in Hawaii) had to say about her recent purchase of two Kitty Clubhouses.

Aloha Scott!
My cats love, love, love their clubhouses!
They started to play on them as soon as I put them together!
My dog is extremely jealous, maybe you guys should make a doggy playhouse!
Thanks for all of your help.
Mahalo,
P

P purchased the clubhouses after finding us in the internet. She had a unique need. She is boarding her cats while she is on vacation. The boarder offered her to bring in her kitty condos, but she needed something less than 18" high. After searching high and low on the net she found us. If you take our clubhouse and turn it sideways like she did it is 17 inches high.

From what I can tell Mia & Mavi are enjoying their clubhouses and the view of the ocean in Hawaii. Good luck P getting your cats to the boarder. I think they like it right there just fine.

Wow, they love this stuff

Check out what one customer has to say about our stuff and her cat's love for it. This is from a suzzane in Ohio. Name withheld because cat told her not to tell anyone for fear her stairway may be taken again.

My 16 year old cat had her stairway to heaven since she was a kitten. She was without it for a year while we were out of our home. When we returned home, even though she has other (sorry Scott!) cat furniture in front of every window in this house, she headed straight for the stairway to heaven and if anyone would so much as dare to look at her while she was nestled in a hammock, this normally loving and affectionate cat would let out a growl and if their gaze didn't go away quick enough or if she was approached, she would hiss and growl. I can't help but wonder how many times she tried to ask me where the %$*# her stairway was!!

Cat Rescue to the Rescue

I get quite a few calls from Cat Rescue organizations looking for products for cats or an upcoming event. I try to help as best as I can. I had an idea of a long term solution and I want to get your feedback here.

In our last email we offered anyone the chance to put on a cat party at their home or facility and make some money by helping us sell our products. No one took me up on it. Okay so my ideas are a dime a dozen and I can't expect everyone to jump on board day one.

Then I got to thinking about cat rescue orgs who send out email blasts or newsletters to their donor base and a lightbulb went off. How about if we created a coupon with the organizations name as the coupon. Say your org is called Saveacat. That would be the coupon code. Everytime someone orders and uses the code savacat that organization would get free product. The org doesn't have to do much except promote the website and the offer and we will send them free product to help them with their rescue efforts.

Or we could do a cat cancer awareness day and sell pink condos and hammocks. See them under accessories on the website felinefurniture.com

Any other good ideas out there?

Big Cat Furniture

You have asked for it. More new products. We have received a few calls about creating larger cat furniture for larger breeds like Bengals, Main Coons, and Savannahs. So we revised out sets to accommodate an 18" vs a 13.5 beam we use on our current sets. We make oversized hammocks and condos and beefed them up with extra velcro straps. We love it and hope your cats do too.

Check them out under big cat furniture at felinefurniture.com.

Still loving the business. Keep the great comments coming. I think I got in this business because it seemed like a good opportunity and everyone loves there cat. I think I will stay in this business because everyone loves their cats and loves our furniture too. You nice comments mean the world to me and that is what motivates me to come up with crazy cat products that cats love.

The Cat Business is Incredible

I purchased this business when my current business of running my own printing company was being battered from all sides of the economy. A friend of mine told me about a friend who was interested in finding a good home for it and he said he only knew of one person crazy enough to do this and that was me.

Well, almost 7 months later we had our best day ever. One client who had a financial windfall ordered two kitty hawks to satisfy his brood of 12 cats. His old one was 5 years old and it needed to be refreshed.

Another order came in from a Shelter that is going to use two Cat Castles in their adoption room to show case the cats ready for adoption.

Then we got another order for some miscellaneous stuff.

I knew if I worked hard, took care of the cats and their owners this day would come.

I just want to thank you all for believing in Feline Furniture and me and let's keep the ride going.

Let me know your thoughts, wishes for your cats and concerns if you have any.

Thanks,

Scott Rundle
Feliner

Fat Cat Furniture

I recently had a person contact me and tell me she thought I was missing out on a great opportunity selling furniture to large, plump, fat, big, Maine Coon types of cats. Well, never one to turn down a good idea I decided to test The Big and Fat Cat Line. Pardon me if I offend, but the name was too good to pass up. If you have Fat Cat and are offended then call it the Big and Preciously Plump Furniture Line. I will never call your cat Fat. Check it out on Felinefurniture.com.

My cat is 106lbs and he was featured in our last email blast. (Really he is a big yellow lab that is a retired seeing dog) He doesn't know that though so please don't tell him.

I love cats and grew up with them and had them a few years back. My 6 year old is allergic to them and gets a rash on his face every time he pets ones. So we are catless for now, but with this business and hearing your stories I know we will end up with one or two soon and we may have to put my son outside. LOL.

OMG its Jan 2010

Wow, it has been over 6 months since I have owned the business. Thanks to you and your orders it is now paid off. Now we can really do what we want to do and that is serve your cats.

I have had a total blast hearing your cat and life stories. Today I heard from a customer who has four cats and inherited 8 other ones, so now he has 12. He has a 5 year of Kitty Hawk and he recently had some good financial news ( don't we all need that in this economy) and he is going to order two more Kitty Hawks.

The care and the love you all put into your cats makes us want to do better for you.

Steve, crash, Corbin - He got the name from flying his hand glider too close to trees, rocks and branches. 2 parachute pulls, and one broken back from his last crash does a bit of work for us and he has a cat Yoda Dendron. Well he called his girlfriend tonight on his way back from work and she said he needed to rush home as Yoda Dendron was missing him. Too cool. Steve is an inventor and you should see the set Yoda has in his two story house. He climbs up his tower and then walks to the second floor.