Pioneer Pet Products, LLC, SmartCat, Sticky Paws

In the late 1990s Betsy Lipscomb, a cat behaviorist, cat lover and founder of SmartCat understood that people surrendered their cats to shelters because they didnt know how to change unwanted behaviors. She began gathering wooden fence posts from her farm in Wisconsin. She wrapped them is sisal rope and mounted them on sturdy wood bases. Her sole purpose of making these posts was to send them to pet parents who needed help with scratching behaviors. People were amazed to learn that the scratching post solved their problems. These posts became vastly popular and soon Betsy was making up to 50 a month by hand. Betsy decided that she wanted to start a company whose sole mission was to enhance our pets quality of life, by providing for their behavioral needs. She especially wanted to detour pet parents from declawing their cats, as it is a cruel procedure. With a lot of persuasion she finally convinced her husband, John, to manufacture a larger version of her homemade scratching pos...