About Ponoto

Florian Cochard, Founder of Ponoto

Florian Cochard founded Ponoto in Toulouse, France, after failing to find catnip toys that were both durable and interesting to Pookie, Nova and Thelonious, the three Ponoto cats. Florian designs every Ponoto toy and writes Ponoto's guides on catnip, silver vine and cat play.

Ponoto makes one product, Le Croissant: a handmade kicker toy in OEKO-TEX Standard 100 cotton, filled with catnip and silver vine. Read the longer story on our story page.

How we research and write our guides

• Claims about how cats respond to catnip, silver vine, valerian and Tatarian honeysuckle come from peer-reviewed research, mainly Bol et al. (2017) in BMC Veterinary Research. We cite the study at the end of the guides that rely on it.
• We use one set of figures across the whole site: about two in three cats respond to catnip, about four in five to silver vine, and almost 75% of catnip non-responders respond to silver vine.
• Every guide shows when it was published and last updated. We revise guides when new research or better information appears.
• Our guides are general information, not veterinary advice. If your cat has a health or behaviour problem, talk to your vet.

About our cat toy brand comparisons

Ponoto publishes the cat toy brand comparison and its head-to-head pages, and Ponoto is one of the brands compared. We do not earn affiliate commissions from any brand listed. Competitor details come from each brand's own public product pages and listings; when a brand does not publish a detail, we mark it “Not specified” rather than guess.

Corrections

If you spot an error, including about a competitor's product, please contact us. We check every report and update the page when the correction is confirmed.