About Felis Castello
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Felis Castello’s story starts with Loki, our beloved Bengal cat.
Loki is what we call, in our professional slang, a “reject”.
At barely one year old, he was involved in a road traffic accident and
brought into the veterinary practice I worked for. As his owner could not
spend the funds needed to fix Loki’s broken leg and shattered hips,
they decided to surrender their fur baby to the practice. A few operations and a long rehabilitation period later, Loki found his new home with us.
This lovely boy made a full recovery; but even now, more than 5 years after his mishap, he is still unable to jump high and in need of an extra comfy bed to lie on.
He prefers to lie on an elevated surface rather than the floor (as most cats do), which sent us on a mission to find a not-too-high cat sofa for him, so he can get on and off easily.
There were plenty of pet couches to choose from, but none of them would have looked nice in our home. No matter how hard we looked, the sofas we found were either boring and dull or too loud.
We, therefore, decided to make our own.
As a veterinary surgeon, my job was to make sure the sofa would be soft, comfortable, and just at the right height; and my wife (who has a passion for interior design) was tasked with designing it.
The project proved to be a great success; Loki loved it from the first moment. The sofa is by far his preferred place in the house.
But this was not the end of it- our friends loved it so much and kept asking if we could make sofas for them too! And so Felis Castello was born.