A few years ago after bringing Miss Trudy home… and after a few years of putting my design degree to “good use,” I finally got to the point where I could afford “nicer” furniture. What I found was, she loved it too. So I set out on the quest to find something else that she could shred. What I didn’t count on were endless amounts of carpet covered tubes, boxes and poles... My “Beer Budget” and “Champagne Taste” were confronted with products that matched more of a “PBR taste.” That’s when I decided to put my design degree to use for myself. With some help from a couple of colleagues, we came up with a few ideas, tested them on Miss Trudy and tested them again and again… and again. As everyone knows the job market tanked and the first people to feel a bad economy are the people in the design industry. My colleagues and I set into survival mode starting a design company of our own. Our kitty concepts went on to the shelf and our noses pressed firmly to the grindstone. A few years passed. Miss Trudy has her favorite chair. This past holiday season we tested a new version of our “Cattino” concept on Amazon. Miss Trudy approved. “Made in the USA,” more specifically Cincinnati. We hope to be building a ecommerce website soon, but we are always faced with “the cobblers kids always having no shoes.” We’ll get it there. Our goal is to: keep it “cool,” keep it local, keep it natural and keep it fun for kitty.