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Cat fashion and fully stuffed catnip toys handmade with pride in Madison, Wisconsin. If your cat doesn’t respond to catnip, give ours a try! Drop us a line!

At TacoCat Creations, we have one obsessive focus - making cool stuff for cats and the humans who love them. And we have a pretty good track record, too - for the past seven years, our catnip toys have been driving cats crazy across the US and beyond. Each one of our cat toys is hand sewn and individually stuffed with super potent catnip purchased in small batches from a farm or grown right in our

backyard. We have built a reputation for making catnip toys proven to drive your cats crazy. Just check out our social media! From our large fully-stuffed MadRats and NerdRats, to our small MewMice, our super-durable RuffRats and refillable Fizzle Stix kicker toys - we have a catnip toy for every preference. Lounge around on one of our NipMats (available in two sizes!) or add catnip to the hidden pocket in the top for extra fun! Also featured is our unique line of DapperCat bowties and collars. Each collar and bowtie is sewn by hand - not glued - ensuring they stay sturdy and beautiful. Available in a wide variety of colors and patterns, we’re sure you’ll find something to complete your cat’s look. Rounding out our merch are fun cat-themed t-shirts, stickers, buttons, and magnets that are great to add to your collection or give as gifts. And you can feel good about your TacoCat purchase too. We’re not some big corporation. We’re a female/minority-owned small business, and all of our products are proudly made by hand in our home studio located on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin. We’re a small team of people totally dedicated to making cats happy. It’s the best part of our job, and we’re pretty good at it too! Owner Meagan Porter’s devotion for cats and over 25 years sewing experience led her to found TacoCat out of a need for high quality and unique cat toys in a dog-saturated market. Graphic designer and business manager David Van lends his talents to making our products look beautiful and keeping the wheels turning at TacoCat Studios. Together we supply a handful of small retailers across the US, run an online shop, and bring cool cat stuff directly to the people through one of our many local events. Interested in bringing TacoCat to your shop? Got an idea for a custom order? Wondering where we’re going to be next? We’re happy to help.

01/10/2025

Brooke says her kitty Bear is obsessed with his new MadRat! What an absolute cutie! 😻 thanks for this great pic, Brooke! And be sure to check out her amazing handmade creations at too !

01/09/2025

Just a heads up that this is why we are going to be two hours late to everything for the foreseeable future. 🥰

01/08/2025

We've added another snoopervisor to our TacoCat Team! Meet Gizmo!

While we weren't intending to adopt so soon after the losses of our precious Cleo and Finn last month, our one-year-old kitten Tofu has seemed lonely without his snuggle buddy. While he does play with Pixel, Mackie, and Charlie, no one really snuggles him like Finn did. So we kept an eye out for someone who seemed like they might fit into our clowder.

We first saw Jenny Cottontail on the Petfinder app on Monday morning; her description said she would love another kitty to snuggle with and we knew we had found the one. By Monday afternoon, our application had been approved and we were headed to Evansville to meet her. She had just arrived at All Paws , one of our great retail partners, who was hosting her for Misfit Felines , a local foster-based rescue that focuses on kitties with special needs, medical cases, community cats, neonatal, FIV, and FIP. Jenny, who we renamed Gizmo, is three months old and was found dragging her back legs. As a result, one of them was amputated, so she is a tripaw'd kitty!

Despite her disability, Gizmo gets around just fine and so far is able to play and snuggle like any other kitty. We brought her home yesterday and have started the process of slowly introducing her to the rest of our clower.

Thank you to Misfit Felines for rescuing her and to everyone at All Paws who took such great care of her too!

01/08/2025

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01/07/2025

Tonight! We're doin our regular Tuesday night TacoChat but this one is gonna be anything but regular! You won't wanna miss it cuz we have a super special announcement. 🥰 Hope to virtually see you there at 7pm CST live on Facebook!

01/06/2025

I brought home a new Dapper Cat bowtie for Oscar! But getting him to cooperate for a photoshoot is a different story...

01/06/2025

Hard at work restocking for 2025! There's about 150 Fizzle Sticks here 😳😳😳 thank you for always keeping us busy!

01/05/2025

I loved this message from Kara so much that I just had to share the whole thing! Go Fergus go!!! 😻 thanks to Kara for the great pic and the super sweet message too!

01/04/2025

Happy belated Gotcha Day, Mizuki! You are looking extra handsome in your Dapper Cat bowtie! 😻 thanks to for the great pic!

01/04/2025

We're SO EXCITED that .co is coming to Madison in February! And you bet your b***y that your favorite cat-toy slingin' short/tall duo is gonna be there! And we hope you'll be there too - get 15% off tickets by using the code partycats2025 at checkout!

Check out the website here --- https://popcats.co/cat-convention-pop-cats/madison2025/

01/03/2025

Who's excited for Valentine's Day?! I just picked up these super cute prints from and I'm thinking they will be purrrfect for Dapper Cat bowties - WITH matching collars!!!!

01/02/2025

I am LOVING these pics of Gabrielle's kitties enjoying their Xmas presents! So cute!! 😻 thanks for sharing, Gabrielle! And thanks to everyone who included us as part of their kitty gift giving this year!

01/02/2025

New Year, new Cats of Madison calendar! And they're on sale now so check em out on our website - https://www.tacocatcreations.com/cats-of-madison

01/01/2025

Happy Mew Year TacoFans! We have a pretty quiet January as we work on restocking our website, for events, and our amazing wholesale partners. And there might even be some studio projects and new products being developed too!

Catch us in February at in Milwaukee on Feb 1, Walkers Point Makers Market in Milwaukee on Feb 2, on Feb 8, .co in Madison on Feb 15-16, and back in Illinois for the Lincoln State Cat Club's annual show on Feb 23-24. What an exciting month!!

12/31/2024

When You Shop From Our Small Business --
Our company consists of two people who work on this full time (Dave and I) and a couple of part time helpers (my dad and my best friend Finn). We're a small business in every sense of the phrase, and we couldn't do this without all of you choosing to support us.

When you support our small business, here is what you also support:

You are helping us care for our six kitties and helped us provide end of life care for our two kitties who passed this year.

You are making it possible for us to pay rent to our landlord (also a local family business who owns a handful of properties on the near east side of Madison, purchasing and renovating old buildings that might otherwise be torn down) and our studio landlord (a local non-profit organization dedicated to improving housing opportunities and the business climate as well as provide jobs in our neighborhood).

You are supporting Dave's business, Madison Makers Market, as his work would not be possible without the flexibility that working at TacoCat affords him, and in turn you are supporting a network of hundreds of makers, artists, and small businesses who earn income from his events.

You are supporting local non-profits such as Farm Bird Sanctuary (over $6,000 donated this year) and Madison Cat Project where I serve on the Board, as well as smaller donations of gift baskets to other organizations. Our Pride Month campaign also donated over $900 to help fund a trans person's gender affirming care this year.

You are making it possible for us to keep food on our table and afford healthcare for both of us, as well as keep our two 20+ year old cars running (TBD on the Volvo).

You are supporting my dream of being a full-time creator, running our small business, caring for our clowder, and our goal of increasing the philanthropic work we do every year. 2025 will mark 12 years in business for TacoCat.

Who knew that so many good things could come from cat toys? When I made my first MadRat in 2013, sewing cotton fabric into an oval, stuffing it with catnip, and sewing on a braided yarn tail, I could never have imagined everything that would unfold from that small act. It started as a side hustle, and I never thought it could be possible to do this as my job, my full-time job, and that it could support me and in turn we could support others. I never imagined that we would build the community that we have, and that community would hold us up through the good times and also pick us back up through the difficult ones.

Like a pebble being thrown into a lake, your support reverberates out and reaches places I'm sure you never imagined either. We are truly all connected, and as this year comes to a close, I am so grateful for all of you, now and always. Let's keep going - together.

12/31/2024

Last TacoChat of 2024!!

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Madison, WI
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The TacoVan rides again! Two rides in a tow truck, one axle from a junkyard in Arizona, a new alternator, and many many cold hours of labor in our driveway later, Goldie the TacoVan is back on the road. Thank you to my dad, Finn, and Dave for all your work getting our wheels back, and thank you SO MUCH to our friends Mary and John and Anne and David for loaning us your vehicles while she was up on jack stands during our busiest month of the year. Your generosity made it possible for us to keep going, and we appreciate it more than you know. And thank you to all of our TacoFamily who heard our cries for help and responded with orders and even Venmos, all of your kindness helped ease our financial burden and mental anguish while we got her functional again. 💜 We are so grateful to have the support of our community now and always. Next up - the Volvo!

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Each one of our cat toys is hand sewn and individually stuffed with super potent catnip purchased in small batches from a farm or grown right in our backyard. If your cat doesn’t respond to catnip, give ours a try! We have built a reputation for making catnip toys proven to drive your cats crazy. Just check out our social media!

From our large fully-stuffed MadRats and NerdRats, to our small MewMice, our super-durable RuffRats and refillable Fizzle Stix kicker toys - we have a catnip toy for every preference. Lounge around on one of our NipMats (available in two sizes!) or add catnip to the hidden pocket in the top for extra fun!

Also featured is our unique line of DapperCat bowties and collars. Each collar and bowtie is sewn by hand - not glued - ensuring they stay sturdy and beautiful. Available in a wide variety of colors and patterns, we’re sure you’ll find something to complete your cat’s look.

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