So hats (or cats) off to the Ripple Rug, the little rug that could. It’s tale as old as time: one cat, one rug, and a wobbly paw pranging hard against the tide of eBay. Techcrunch event.

Fred and Natasha Ruckel invented a cat toy called the Ripple Rug. It's like a scrunched up doormat with holes in it, and for cats it's like Disneyland-level fun.

In several of the shots of the cat toy, the Ruckels spotted…a Ripple Rug logo? “We assumed they had manufactured a copy of our rug and sold a ton of them,” says Fred; hence, the back order.

The claws are out in a fight over the Ripple Rug, a cat toy that a Danbury man is accused of ripping off and selling via infomercials under the name Purr N Play. In a lawsuit filed March 30 in U.S ...

The Ripple Rug's inventor says Opfer Communications helped market the Purr N' Play — a 'nonexistent' competing product. ... A Springfield company is caught up in a lawsuit over cat toys.

One reviewer raved: "Usually [my cats] get bored with some of their interactive toys, but not so with the ripple rug. I can form new tunnels and caves, so it is always changing.

The internet was supposed to get rid of middlemen--but instead they are taking over the global economy. Episode 724: Cat Scam Fred and Natasha Ruckel invented a cat toy called the Ripple Rug. It's ...

The New York-based inventor of the Ripple Rug, a cat toy, was holed up in a seventh-floor room at University Plaza Hotel in downtown Springfield. With Apple laptops fired up, ...

Note: This episode originally ran in 2016. Fred and Natasha Ruckel invented a cat toy called the Ripple Rug. It's like a scrunched up doormat with holes in it, and for cats it's like going to ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2015, Natasha Ruckel and her husband, Fred, were sitting in their living room in Gilboa, N.Y. Natasha was improvising on the piano, and Fred was listening while messing ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2015, Natasha Ruckel and her husband, Fred, were sitting in their living room in Gilboa, N.Y. Natasha was improvising on the piano, and Fred was listening while messing ...