can a chicken be a pet?

That was the very first question that our four founders asked themselves in the final year of their product design course at the Royal College of Art in London. They left university in the summer of 2003 with the very first Eglu prototype, a coop design that challenged the norm and the dream of pet chickens in every home.

Behind the designs

A man at a stand showing an early model of the eglu cube

Presenting our first prototype at the RCA Graduation Show 2003.

A sketch and small model of the eglu chicken coop

Early sketches and designs of our first chicken coop.

A group of people posing at a stand with the eglu cube chicken coop

The Eglu's world premier at the Urban Garden Show 2004 in London.

A delivery driver next to an Omlet branded van carrying a box of chickens

One of the first to jump into the curious collective, Roy delivered Eglu chicken coops with hens included.

A family sitting next to a pink eglu chicken coop

Our dream of pet chickens in every home becomes a reality.

Four men examining the eglu cube chicken coop in a workshop

20 years later, we're still asking questions and inventing solutions.

Two designers looking at a screen with a presentation

From four designers to a team of passionate pet people.

Girl and woman looking at a rabbit in a Zippi rabbit run

We never stop asking how can we improve the lives of pets and their people.

For 20 years, this inquisitive approach to design has created remarkable products that bring people and pets closer together. Our questions make dreamers of engineers, watching and learning from our animal’s behaviour, we design solutions that make you ask - why hasn’t it always been done this way?

Scroll through the photos to see our journey so far.

the curious collective

Our Curious Collective may have started with four. But it has grown into a global community of thousands of thoughtful pet owners all looking to do what is right by their animals, not necessarily what is expected.

We’re Omlet, the pet company that endlessly asks. Since 2004, we’ve set out to rethink every aspect of keeping and caring for animals. Product designers first, we ask so we can invent.

can a chicken be a pet?

Behind the designs

the curious collective

asking led to these inventions