SUPPLIERS OF CAT HAPPINESS
SINCE 2016
Every day we make the best cat toys in the Benelux that are manufactured in consultation with cat experts. We are proud of the brand and this is reflected every day in our pursuit of a fully-fledged premium product.
We distinguish ourselves by being obsessive about quality toys in combination with relentless service and advice so that cats are satisfied with our range. For us, the cat is central!
All natural by-products such as pheasant and goose feathers to produce Tabby Tijger toys originally come from Europe and the United States and are 95% made from A to Z in our Tabby Tijger Studio in Antwerp.
We then personally test all products against some strict criteria before we offer them. We do this because we believe that safe and quality products should take precedence over cheap and unsafe toys from Asia or other countries where animals are abused for their feathers or fur.
We are committed to the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats . That's our guarantee!
WE USE
AS FEW COLORED FEATHERS AS POSSIBLE FOR THE TABBY TIGER TOYS.
Only with the Standard Bird Deluxe do we use marabou feathers and plant-based dyes - without heavy metals and other toxic ingredients that you can unfortunately often find in most toys. Working on a vegetable basis does make the coloring process much more difficult. The result also depends on the biological structure of the panicles. And it can differ depending on the condition of the birds when we collect their feathers, the time of year, their diet, etc. That is why in 99% of the cases you will usually find the natural colors in our toys.
CHEAP TOYS FROM 'THE SPECIAL STORE'
COMPARED TO THE QUALITY TABBY TIGER TOYS.
For the well-being of your kittens and animals in general, it is important to be aware that in 90% of the cases other brands offer 'Blood feather' refills that are manufactured or obtained in an animal-unfriendly manner. This is completely against our principle! Worse still, you often buy them on the corner of the street at the so-called (animal) friendly 'pet shop'.
The Tabby Tijger 'Cruelty-free' pheasant and goose feathers, on the other hand, are collected during the moulting season in the countryside in North Brabant (NL). That is why all the toys in our range are unique and often one-of-a-kind. Our quality model ensures that we thoroughly assess each supplier every year according to the Tabby Tijger manifesto.
Moreover, we are not the only ones who share this vision. More and more people think carefully about what they offer their cat:
“Cruelty-free feathers are much better quality. Commercial craft feathers are sold by the ounce because that's a faster way to sort them, rather than examine and count each feather separately. But if you look at those bags of feathers, they are often of rather poor quality, very uneven in size, sometimes even broken, and are usually “blood feathers,” which means they were not fully-formed on the quill end and pulled from a dead carcass, probably by a machine. Cruelty-free feathers, on the other hand, are fully formed, naturally shed, and hand sorted. They are usually sold by “count” rather than “bulk” and yes, they cost a lot more per feather. You just can't get that quality with commercial machine packaging.”
source: Why cruelty free feathers don't come cheap – (peta2.com)Noord
OUR COMMITMENT AND COMMITMENT.
We determine the success of Tabby Tijger by fulfilling our mission. By advocating the right way to live with cats, we want to inspire all cat owners to become change agents in their turn.
We are therefore proud to support a number of initiatives that owe their existence to this mission.
Tabby Tijger is 'cat godfather' of Rata's Animal Shelter.
Tabby Tijger is a sponsor of the DreamCATchers adoption cat café in Ghent.
Tabby Tijger is the proud co-founder of the 'Feel Good' cat event Catopia .
