Scratchy Things

24/12/2023

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06/10/2023

22/09/2023

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08/09/2023

We're celebrating Autumn🍂 with a sale.
We're in a heatwave and all ready for this awful Summer to be over. So Autumn everything, please hurry up

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The sale is time-limited and ends on September 11th

Shop Pet furniture, cat furniture, bunny rabbit feeders by ScratchyThings located in Tenja, Croatia.

30/08/2023

Go and check out the last big project we did

This open space home had a lot of space to give to its pets. It is filled with cat wall furniture of all kinds, from play areas and walkways to an abundance of cushioned spaces for rest. From carpeted cat steps for better grip to ultra-high and wide scratching posts that act as tree trunks. These ca...

31/10/2021

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17/03/2021

This brings new meaning to the term "spoiled rotten cats"

11/03/2021

We did a very special project for our local . The clients wanted something light, bright, colorful, and on levels so that the cats could have a place to run away when they've had enough of people and the noise. They've chosen the colors, gave the budget, and left us to think of something that could work in a cat cafe with multiple cats with different needs and preferences. The theme of the space was a colorful jungle so we've integrated plants in our designs and made a special Step feeder shelf just for them. Thick outdoor PU grass was an extra touch of green with an additional soft bearing for cats. It works as both a soft pillow surface and as a secure walkway on the highest levels.
We've selected items that could have multiple uses, as the place needed many different routes for the cats and a few secure spots for some alone time.
The items are also different in sizes, as we've made the main wall with our Wally Big Cat items and others with standard Wally items so that every size and kind of cat has a big enough and cozy place to lounge and enjoy.
We've made some additional customizations with the lengths of the bridges, mounting plates and made a special Wally Tunnel Upside-down to fit a narrow space over the tv.
There's a nook overlooking the outside that has 4 fully customized Wally Corner Tunnel units connected with Wide bridges and with a special floor-to-ceiling Mount pole.
Cats seem happy with their new surroundings and that's all that really matters.

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If you need catifying your own space, we're here to help

07/03/2021

Kitten Room nedjeljom 💙💚
Ok, Kittenovcima je svaki dan nedjelja, pogotovo kada dođe vrijeme sieste 🤗
Kittenovci mole za jedan poziv na 060989898, da si obnove zalihu keksića i paštetica 🙏🤗💚💙

06/03/2021

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
Albert Schweitzer

03/03/2021

19/02/2021

As many of you have experienced, working from home during these hard times can be hard when you've got cats. Either they're walking over your keyboard, or showing you their lovely behind, or bumping you with their little soft head or demanding attention by biting or screaming.

They can certainly be annoying and hard to control. Especially when you're in a Zoom call and you just keep looking when will your precious cat join in the meeting.

Luckily we've got a solution to your problems. We can make you a special place for your cats to lounge and play while you're working.
This was a project made for clients who wanted to make the best out of their big home office.
These are the before pictures, the previews and the final layout.

16/02/2021

After much hardship and many sleepless nights, we've finally moved into our new workshop. We're still getting some things sorted out, but we're doing our best to catch up on orders and to speed things up.
This weekend we'll also be moving out of our old apartment into the house adjacent to the workshop. The biggest part of the move is over, all of our animals have been moved along with their stuff. Everything else can wait a few more days.
We can finally focus on working without the hassle of covid measures and lockdowns, as we'll be working and living at the same address. We've moved away from Zagreb, to a more peaceful and safer area. So no more worrying about the earthquakes too.
We can now finally focus on new projects and new items, there is a lot of it in the making.
We've got a lot of catching up, as the last year and the beginning of this one were crazy and everything was disrupted.
So stay tuned, we're coming back in full force 💪🏻

24/01/2021

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Kitten Room Udruga Devet Života
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Prijepodne sa kittenovcima je najbolji način kako započeti vikend 💓

01/01/2021

Wishing you all the best in the new year🥂!!!

As many of you probably know, a 6,4-magnitude earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday. The quake could be felt across the Balkans and as far away as Austria and Italy. The quake came after a 5.2-magnitude tremor hit the area the day before.
7 people lost their lives in the rubble.
The quakes caused significant destruction, phone lines were cut and a state of shock and fear gripped the region. The number of lost homes is still unknown as the ground keeps shaking constantly with yet more damage. There have been about 300 registered felt earthquakes in the last 4 days and now there's a danger of flooding, as the rain keeps soaking the devastated areas.
2020 has been an extreme year and not much, if any, good has come out out of it.
It has certainly been a devastating experience, taking away all the plans for business and private life, taking away our health both mentally and physically. It took a toll on everybody and everything.
We're looking forward to maybe a brighter future in 2021, as hope is the only thing left. We'll be moving to another city, to a better and bigger workshop. So that's hopefully a start in the right direction.

For the time being, we're not working, as we do not feel safe in our workshop. We've been to the workshop once after the quake and it was a brief look at the situation, there is some damage, but we'll deal with the full scope of things when it's safe to go back. Lot's of heavy and dangerous equipment and wood could do major harm if there is a chance of a larger quake, and we have a home full of frightened animals to keep safe. We're also taking in injured and lost animals from the affected areas to foster. Luckily the building we're living in is secure.

Thank you all for the shown support, for all the kind words and patience.
Last year was hard on all of us and one thing we should have learned is to be kind to one another.
We hope you're staying safe and taking care of your loved ones and yourself.

07/05/2020

We have to take some time away from social media and wanted to update you all.⁣
Unfortunately, we are behind on everything due to the whole COVID-19 measures and earthquake situation but are doing everything we can to minimize the delays on our part as much as possible. ⁣
Many of our suppliers are still shut down and we had to overcome some obstacles and find new suppliers. We have also had major delays with wood supply too. ⁣
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Basically, it's an ongoing nightmare. The post office and couriers are way behind on shipments, understaffed and overworked, and are doing their best to process as many parcels as possible. ⁣
On top of this, we're all keeping to strict government guidelines for safety and some jobs that were done in pairs are now done by a single person, making it much slower and harder. ⁣
Social distancing and safety measures are a huge but necessary obstacle we're all learning to cope with.⁣
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There was a massive delay caused by a 4-week long shipping ban to the USA and Canada. Some sent packages got bounced back to us and we were forced to store part of the packages in our already too small workshop. ⁣
The bans were lifted a week or so ago and the packages are starting to move again but unfortunately, the situation created chaos in logistics and slowed us down significantly. ⁣
Shipping bans are still active for Australia, New Zealand, Russia and a few more countries but our government is slowly opening back business and lifting shipping and travel bans so we hope to have things as close as possible to normal soon. ⁣
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We're drained both physically and mentally as we've also hit a major breaking point in our personal lives. ⁣
Our eldest cat, Freddie, is in the final stages of renal failure and we're taking all the time that we can to spend with her and ease her state.⁣
She's been the reason for this business. She raised a couple of hundred foster animals with us and is the force behind all of our work. We can not imagine life without her. 16 years isn't enough, it will never be enough.⁣
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Currently we have to focus on our work and complete the delayed orders and ship them as soon as possible.⁣
We'll be back, posting and answering all your comments and questions but we need to take some time away.⁣
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🐾 If you are waiting to hear from us, please give us more time to answer. We're currently not able to answer in a timely manner as we have been doing before⁣
🐾 If you are waiting for a parcel from us, you will get a tracking number as soon as it clears customs and we are certain that it is on its way ⁣
🐾 If it is already late, we apologize but please be patient, it will be processed in the next few days ⁣
🐾 If the parcel is in transit but the status hasn't changed for more than 10 working days, give it 2-3 days more as some postal offices don't have the time to scan all the packages and in this state, tracking delays of over 10 days because of missed scans are an unavoidable part of shipping. ⁣
🐾 All the packages are insured and with tracking so if there is any issue we will do our best to resolve it. ⁣
🐾 As the postal services and couriers are swamped with requests and calls it's almost impossible to get ahold of a live person, so we have to wait for an email update which takes days.⁣
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Please stay safe and take care of your pets 💜

01/05/2020

Vulko je spreman za svoj upit. Zato se i zadovoljno smješka :) siguran je da će upit za njega doći brzo, a mi se nadamo istome jer je naš Vulko savršen mačić i bila bi šteta da to je dokaže u svom Zauvijeku 💙💚

31/03/2020

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29/03/2020

28/03/2020

We had to stay at home for a few days and finally had some time to think about what to put in our own space. This is a part of our living room and is just a rough draft. The couch is new with lush green velvet and I'll bet that the bunnies and cats are going to love it, maybe a little bit too much. ⁣
The scratcher in the corner is one of the first things we did for our own cats. The design of it isn't our best work, but it was intended to house a lot of platforms and poles in a small space. It was part of the learning curve and was before we freed ourselves from the concept of cramming too much stuff in small yet tall space. Cats use it, but most of the poles are too short to be useful. It's ideal for kittens and our bunnies love sleeping in the bottom platform, so we decided to leave it inside the bunny playpen.⁣
Our bunnies are free-roam and are the real masters of our home. They love taking over all the cat stuff, they even go to p**p in cat toilets and try to eat dry cat food, so we had to make something where they could be free without doing damage to themselves or our furniture. If the cats are sleeping on the couch, they'll be on the couch and will spay all over it. This is why we can't have nice things 😂⁣
This is giving us all some peace, as the buns are too territorial. They'll still have plenty of time to free roam but mostly under our supervision.⁣
Cats are left with two Wally tunnels over the couch. That way they have views through the window on the left and the balcony on the right and can observe everything that's happening around. ⁣
We usually have around 15 cats at home and every room in our home has plenty of elements for them to play and sleep on.⁣
I think it's clear that we're overrun by fluff masters and that we slave over them.⁣
It will probably take us a few months to catch some time to make this come together IRL, as we're preoccupied with the current order queue and with all the crazy things that are going on around us. ⁣

27/03/2020

Customized Nibbler Combo Maxi with 2 compartments for snacks or toys

26/03/2020

NEW 🆆🅰🅻🅻🆈 🆂🅷🅰🆁🅿 collection⁣
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23/03/2020

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Cijepljen, kastriran, tretiran protiv nametnika i zdrav mladi dečko, odaaaavno spreman za svoj upit!
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22/03/2020

We're safe, we're ok.
Thank you for all the support and for thinking about us.

This has been an experience that shook us to the core. Amid a coronavirus crisis, when we're quarantined and already feeling unsafe and panicking, a 5.5 magnitude earthquake woke us. This is the biggest earthquake in the last 140 years and isn't something that we were prepared for. Earthquakes here are usually so mild that most of us don't feel them. Not this one, every single person affected said that they were scared as never before.
We were woken up by cats flying around, like crazy cooped up birds smashing against the walls, it was terrifying. In a split second, I couldn't wrap my mind about what was happening. Everything from armageddon to alien invasion came to mind. There was an awful eery sound echoing, like thunderbolts crashing down, everything was shaking, moving around. Alarms started screaming, you could hear people screaming, panicking, doors slamming, most of our building rushed outside. I was aware that there was no way that we could save all of our animals and saw no point in breaking quarantine and endangering yet more people. I checked the load-bearing walls and was assured when I saw no damage, no fractures. Another 5.0 earthquake followed, this time it seemed shorter, without the eery noise. We've had 3 other earthquakes over 3 magnitudes, but nothing major and there are hundreds of smaller ones happening in the last 13 hours since the big quake.
Cats are calm, so we're calm. After the big quake, they were all shaken koup for more than an hour. Some peed from fear, others took comfort in small nooks around the apartment, while others rushed under our covers.
More than 600 buildings so far have been damaged, our hospitals are old and around the city center and they endured a lot of damage. The timing couldn't have been worse, yet it couldn't have been better, as the army and medical staff were doing all that they could to prepare for the intake of coronavirus victims and have put up numerous tents for emergency and quarantine. The obstetric hospital had to be vacated and women preparing for labor and the ones that just gave birth were rushed almost naked to the street. It was really cold with freezing winds(for days before we had mild weather with lots of sun) and snow started falling, but only a couple of snowflakes. It took some time, but they were all taken to safety with the help of the army and volunteers. They are being taken care of in tents that the army prepared as crisis tents for coronavirus patients. So we could say that this was a lucky coincidence for now.
Many of our friends and acquaintances had to leave everything and are seeking shelter. The ones that really worry us are the people who just like us foster a lot of animals, and we've seen really bad cases where a house almost collapsed and is unsafe, but the volunteer can't find a shelter for herself with 20+ cats. We're full, as the adoptions stopped and some of our adoptive parents are stuck all over the world, but we'll find the room to house a couple more cats.
there's a lot of lost pets, as animals managed to escape and now their owners can't walk around looking for them.

I'm writing you all of this because I know that many of you are in quarantine and you think that that's the end of the world. Things could be worse, much worse, and at a time that nobody expected them. I would have never, not in my wildest nightmares, dreamed of enduring a worldwide pandemic lockdown and an earthquake all at once, but things happen. We were extremely lucky that this happened when we had all the infrastructure set for the intake of coronavirus patients.
Quarantine actually saved lives, as the earthquake was bound to happen at some point. Public transportation wasn't working, all the shops, restaurants and markets were closed, there were no tourists in sight, just empty streets. Almost all of us were inside, in the comfort and safety. If this was just a regular Sunday morning, the streets would have been filled with people and we would now be counting bodies and tending to those injured. We were lucky.

Quarantine is here to save lives and today it saved a lot more than we could have anticipated. Keep yourself safe, avoid going out, relax and enjoy as much as you can. Things could go tumbling down real quick.
Our country is probably a week or so away from the Italian scenario we're seeing now, if this happened a week later we would be in a much bigger problem now. Before this, people in our country acted pretty selfishly, partying and BBQing instead of taking the quarantine thing seriously. This earthquake put a lot of fear into people and reminded them that they are not invincible. We are never going to be this lucky. We're all alive, only 17 with injuries and we have space to house those unlucky people who lost their homes. Learn something from us, don't be naive and stupid. Stay inside, it's not the end of the world.

We haven't been to our workshop today, so we don't know the extend of the damage, but everything can be replaced and made again.
We'll keep you posted and message everyone whose order might be damaged and delayed. We'll continue working, but for now, we have to take care of the unlucky animals and their humans.
Take care of each other, it's all that we can do.
Stay safe! ❤️

19/03/2020

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Kitten room je (uvijek) spreman za ručak!! 😹😹😹
A i za upite za Zauvijek 🤗

17/03/2020

Cats have the winning card now.⁣ 🎖️
You're advised to stay at home and take care of your feline friends.⁣ 🥳
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👉Time to move the couch and find that long lost treasure of forgotten toys and bottle caps, time to do some DIY toys to keep you occupied.
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How are you keeping busy? ⁣
Are your cats helping you while you WFH?

13/03/2020

Witcheru, šta radiš?
- evo Krpa i ja testiramo novi royalni ležaj!
Došao sam do mobitela jučer i gledao koliko Dvonožna ima slika drugih mačaka, nabasao na album "Kitten room" i imao sam šta za vidjet! Prvo, ne da ima slika drugih mačaka, neg ih ima milijun! Drugo, te mačke imaju grebalice i police od poda do stropa!!!
Jasno, jedno je vodilo drugom, malo sam se požalio - čisto reda radi :) i ona to rekla mojoj matičnoj udruzi i došla meni polica u royalno plavoj boji 👑👑👑
Kako je dobro bit Kralj ❤️👑

13/03/2020

ATM some orders are a bit behind because of the COVID-19 pandemic status. The future is uncertain, but for the time being, we're still working hard on our end and keeping ourselves isolated both in our home and workshop, as is the rest of the country. There will certainly be delays in logistics and shipping, and unfortunately, we don't have any influence over that, but as it stands now, the delays are not big and it is expected for things to hash out during the next week or so, depending on how things develop further. ⁣
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USA customers- although your POTUS declared the travel ban from EU to the USA, that refers to air travel(passenger flights) from 26 countries under Schengen zone(a special area that allows free movement of people throughout each of the member countries without any barriers), which we are not a part of and doesn't refer to cargo shipping. The cargo shipping will not be affected by the bans but there may be some delays due to employee shortages and the panic that is going around, but nothing major. ⁣
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We're all doing our best to get through this. Our country has only 32 infected out of 4M people and 0 deaths, but out of the concern for global health and wellbeing, we're keeping suggested practices during the pandemic outbreak and actively disinfecting everything and washing our hands as many times as possible. ⁣
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We'll keep you updated as we know more, but for now, we're preparing for the worst scenario and taking time to stockpile on food, medicine, and supplies for the many animals under our care and for ourselves. ⁣
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Please be patient and stay safe.⁣