Another Brooklyn Attempt to Kickstart Cardboard Boxes for Cats

We’ve now been asked for money by (at least) two Brooklyn-based cardboard cat-house companies on Kickstarters. A year ago, I wrote about the Cat Townhouse; essentially a cardboard box with a cat-hammock for the top and a scratch post at the bottom gussied up on the outside to look like a brownstone. Sadly their Kickstarter campaign did not do so well and they didn’t raised the $10,000 they were asked for.

This new “product campaign,” is for Meowses, which is literally just a cardboard box–without the hammock or scratch post–and they’re asking for $25,000 on Kickstarter. That’s 25K for a cardboard box. And Meowses expects to win you over with their spokesperson: a cat puppet named Smokey that speaks with a ridiculous Brooklyn accent by way of Jersey Shore. Some pledge rewards can get you an autograph from Smokey himself, along with a “dime bag” of organic catnip.

Because even a cat who sounds like he’s in a low budget mob movie still only eats organic in Brooklyn.

If you can’t get enough cat-themed Kickstarter campaigns (after all, it was Cat Day earlier this week), there’s Dr. Catsby Food Bowl for Whisker Relief. It has nothing to do with Brooklyn, but their spokes“cat” has a Masterpiece Theatre accent that’s easier on the ears than Smokey.