Hello to all the dragons!

Welcome to the new year — the Year of the Dragon!
We hope you like our Squaredy Cat dressed as a dragon :)

Happy Chinese New Year!

Who else is missing summertime?

We hate to bother Mother Nature while she's doing her thing, but maybe she could ask Jack Frost to lay off for a little while so we can enjoy some warm weather.

Squaredy Cats are not squared to make waves.

¡dn ǝpısuʍop sı ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ

¿ƃuılıǝɔ ǝɥʇ uo ƃuıop noʎ ǝɹɐ ʇɐɥʍ ¿¿¿ʇɐɥʍ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

˙ʞuıl sıɥʇ oʇ sǝoƃ ʇıpǝɹɔ uʍop-ǝpısdn

Free iPhone app is live!

The ShakyPlanet iPhone app is live…and it's FREE!

Now you can download ShakyPlanet for your iPhone, and collect Squaredy Cats ShakyGlobes.

We've made 3 so far (just search the ShakyPlanet store for the titles below or look in the Monkey Doodle Dandy collection for all of our globes!

The "not squared to go green" ShakyGlobe is FREE :)

The "not squared of yer booty" ShakyGlobe is 99¢

The "not squared of wasabi" ShakyGlobe is 99¢

See how ShakyPlanet and ShakyGlobes work in this video:



If you don't have an iPhone, see what Little Ricky Software's ShakyGlobe app is all about here.

If you have an iPhone, download the FREE app and globes, and write a review here.

If you would like to tell us which Squaredy Cats you'd like to see in more ShakyGlobes tell us at this link.

Cat Scratch Fever

Welcome and thanks to all the Squaredy Cats fans from Michigan who voted for their state.

There's no place like home

Kansas is the sunflower state.

"Kitty,  I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Many thanks, and a special hello to all the Squaredy Cats fans who voted on our Facebook page.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Party safely!

Joisy Kitty

We hope you enjoyed our New Jersey Squaredy Cat. It's tough to make a cat that "represents" an entire state without coming across as playing up to a stereotype. We certainly know not all cats from New Jersey wear red baseball caps, leaving the hang tag on. For those who questioned it, the cards are for Atlantic City. This cat actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Keep voting on our Facebook page to see the next of the 50 States Squaredy Cats.

Rock and roll over, so I can rub your belly

Ohio Squaredy Cat is rock and roll.

As we continue our 50 cats for 50 states, we move on to Ohio where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is. We thought we'd have trouble designing this one, but it seems like we like it so much we're thinking we can do a whole rock series later. Notice the shape of the guitar.
Hello, and welcome to all the Squaredy Cats fans from rockin' Ohio!

Enjoy a Florida Squaredy Cat.

Cheers to Squaredy Cats fans.

When life gives you lemons — make lemonade. But what do you do when life gives you lemonade??? Say, "Thanks," of course! And drink it in along with sitting in on a Florida Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico. Wear sun screen and comfortable shoes ;)
We started doing a Squaredy Cat for each state of our great union, and Florida won the first vote! We did New York first because that's where we're based, but it seems most of our fans reside in the sunshine state! Keep checking the Squaredy Cats Facebook Page, try looking through the photo albums, or the "What State are you in" album. Check for your state. If it's not there, post a vote to our wall telling us what state you want us to do next!

Roar a little

If your store doesn't carry Squaredy Cats… roar a little ;)

Our series of Zodiac Squaredy Cats continues with Leo, the lion. The inspiration to do the Zodiac set came from our "wild" series' "not squared to be fierce" cat. Actually the inspiration and design are flipped. When we were working out the look of the lion's mane our original "fierce" cat was colored more like this one, but we wanted that one to be a little friendlier. Since we were theming the Zodiac Squaredy Cats with more earthy colors when possible we had the opportunity to go back to the brown mane. We hope you like our Leo. "I'm king of the squarey world!"

We promise not to vanish

The Cheshire Squaredy Cat. Apologies to Lewis Carroll.

We thought it would be fun to start a "fandom" tag for our blog and a "fandom" photo album for our Facebook page. There are plenty of pop culture and sub-culture icons that we and our fans would love to see as Squaredy Cats. We can't sell any of the images, but we can appreciate the ability to show homage to those icons that inspire us. We hope you liked our Squaredy Cats version of the Cheshire Cat; but unlike the Lewis Carroll character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland we don't intend to disappear ;)

Which is more fierce?

 We prefer the teal background…

over the yellow background.

After the suggestion to do a "Cheetah Squaredy Cat," we brainstormed ideas for more big cats. We love lions, and lions are fierce so the logic was easy here. What was hard was getting the mane right. We did four different manes before finally settling on one. But we think we may have jumped the gun on the background color being yellow. While designing our new buttons we used a teal background for the lion, and think that color works better.

Which background color do you like best?

Chase your dreams

Cheetah Squaredy Cat will help you chase your dreams.

A fan on our Facebook page recently suggested we create a "Cheetah" Squaredy Cat after she saw our "not squared to go wild" (tiger) Squaredy Cat. We always love your suggestions, so keep'em coming. It's important to us that what we design works, so, though we liked the idea, we needed a good reason for a cheetah.
After some thought and brainstorming here we added a few other big cats with appropriate phrases to accompany them. Cheetahs are known for their speed, and with our hopes to always present a positive message we associated our own attempt to chase our dreams as toy designers who want to have our own successful brand. The chase may last a while, but when it comes down to it you'll always be happy trying to achieve your goals. Don't be scared to try.

Silly. We forgot.

Squaredy Cats are silly.

Silly us. We forgot to post this one. We designed this one (along with some others) to show a certain company that may want to make plushy Squaredy Cats. Cross your paws for us!

Hippity hop

This one was based on "not squared to play vinyl," but was updated for all our headphone-wearing friends who appreciate a bass beat.

We changed our stripes

Our first tiger Squaredy Cat.

We tried in our first designs to do a tiger-striped Squaredy Cat, but we originally set ourselves up with too many restrictions. The one linked here was our very first Squaredy Cat design, and he had very basic stripes. Early on we intended to work only with symmetry, and simple expressions. After designing more than 50 we decided they were more fun and playful when we broke our own rules.
Since our first cat we've designed so many we've lost count! It's got to be almost 100 by now. We'll have to check when we're feeling less wild and crazy ;)

Peanut butter jelly time!

Squaredy Cat in a sticky situation ;)

Om nom nom! Everybody likes PB&J, right? The cat was intentionally colored orange to resemble peanut butter so the purple would instantly look like jelly. Don't you just love when you pack a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and the jelly goes through the bread? /s
Here's the solution: Spread peanut butter on both slices of bread, and put the jelly in between! The peanut butter protects the bread from the squishy, sticky purple attack! :)

And, so it vegans…

Each of the Squaredy Cats is representational of what they are not "squared" of in one way or another. Sometimes it's ironic, sometimes it's silly, sometimes it's literal. This might be the first one that actually became an inanimate object. We might explore that. It's fun.
This was posted on our Facebook Fan Page yesterday, and I was glad to see nothing but positive responses. I'm personally not vegan, but I can respect it enough to know that it's a difficult choice to defend when people think you're high-and-mighty about it. Keep doing what you do. Don't let anyone's criticism stop you from living your choices your way.

Bubble, bubble, no toil or trouble

Every day is bubblegum day with Squaredy Cats!

We'd like to welcome all the new fans to the Squaredy Cats Facebook Fan Page that found their way over from the bubblegum sites :)
Blow your bubbles as big as you want!