Marvelous Melissa Cat Toys

Marvelous Melissa Cat Toys www.marvelousmelissa.etsy.com eco-friendly toys for your favorite feline friends Thank you for choosing Marvelous Melissa for all your mice needs.

Three Blind Mice and darn!socks cat toys are hand crafted by Melissa Boyle whose craftiness comes by way of 10 summers as the “craft lady” at a Lake Michigan summer camp. Melissa has now settled in Duluth on the shores of Lake Superior where she brings joy to felines far and wide and keeps countless old holey socks out of the landfill. Making cat toys out of old socks is not quite what she planned

to do with an expensive degree in Environmental Studies. Yet feline fans across the country are proof that cats want an alternative to the Made in China toys sold at big box stores. When not making mice making, Melissa enjoys cooking, gardening, chicken watching, and teaching her feline assistants Aven and Itty Bitty to do the laundry instead of just testing the cat toys!

07/16/2025

PK doesn’t mind sharing her catio.

I have been extra busy in the mouse factory lately. 
07/05/2025

I have been extra busy in the mouse factory lately. 

06/28/2025
The mice are on their first trip to China!
06/06/2025

The mice are on their first trip to China!

Selling mice today.
05/31/2025

Selling mice today.

A Duluth cat cafe is serving up a cup of joe and cats for adoption.

05/31/2025

A quick behind the scenes look at the mouse factory.

Happy National Pet Day.
04/11/2025

Happy National Pet Day.

It’s National Pet Day today apparently so here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems.

It’s called ‘On ‘;..p’[[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’

Back to work with this special helper. She’s overgrooming. Hence the space kitty look
02/04/2025

Back to work with this special helper. She’s overgrooming. Hence the space kitty look

PK is our smarty-pants. She knows probably a dozen words.
01/09/2025

PK is our smarty-pants. She knows probably a dozen words.

Cats possess impressive cognitive abilities, such as following human pointing, recognizing their own name, and even identifying familiar cats and people.

Researchers sought to investigate whether cats might be "hard-wired" to learn human language. To explore this, they designed an experiment inspired by previous research on 14-month-old babies, who showed signs of associating words with objects after only 16 to 20 repetitions.

The team tested 31 adult pet cats by presenting them with two short cartoon animations on a laptop screen, each paired with a made-up word spoken by the cat's owner. For instance, the animation of a unicorn-like creature was paired with the word "keraru," while the animation of an expanding and shrinking red-faced sun was paired with the word "parumo."

Remarkably, the cats showed signs of associating the words with the corresponding images after just two 9-second exposures. This rapid learning was evident when the researchers switched the audio pairings in a subsequent round. The cats displayed perplexity, spending an average of 33% more time looking at the screen when the image and audio didn't match.

Some cats even exhibited dilated pupils, further suggesting surprise or confusion. These results strongly indicate that cats can quickly form picture-word associations, possibly even faster than human babies. Researchers suggest that cats may be paying closer attention to our everyday conversations than we realize, actively trying to understand the world we share with them.

Learn more: https://www.science.org/content/article/cats-beat-babies-word-association-game

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