Tag Archives: cats

As I mentioned this morning, I’m spending a few days at the Fort Lauderdale home of my ex and his partner. While they were at work today I noticed that they’d placed the Xmas stocking embroidered with my late cat’s name on the box containing his ashes. (We always had stockings for the pets.) I left Ripley with Ken when …

The world’s first off-leash park for cats has been proposed in Vancouver. It is quite common in most urban public parks these days to have a designated area for dogs. These areas allow owners and their furry companions to have the freedom they may not feel in other urban spaces. Well, according to a group of cat owners in Vancouver’s …

Yes, yes I do totally want a Cat Scratch turntable. Even if Shelley never touches it. Want.

MTV promotes the upcoming VMA awards with a feline recreation of Madonna’s famed performance on the show’s 1984 edition. (Via – Boy Culture)

RELATED: If it weren’t for Shelley, I’d have likely tried to steal the semi-feral one-eared old tom that rules the bodega on my corner. His name is Harvey Fierstein due to his battle-scarred voice.

He still has the attitude that probably cost him that chunk of his ear.

This raspy-voiced fellow has been pacing on the railing outside my hotel room every morning.

Four years ago today I brought Shelley home from the East Harlem ASPCA. She was 18 months old, very undersized, timid, and FIV+. Today she’s a chubby little lap snuggler and every visitor’s instant pal, despite the stern look she’s giving us above. As I like to do on this date, I encourage you to visit your local shelter and …

According to the authors of a first of its kind study on bird mortality, the American housecat is a “non-native, invasive species” responsible for the deaths of 500 million North American birds annually. Nearly 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian …

He’s climbing in your window, snatchin’ your panties up…

According to Buzzfeed, the latest silly trend in Brooklyn is the catpack – a meshed backpack for carrying your kitty around town. Sometimes I feel bad that Shelley never gets out of my tiny apartment, but I’m very confident that if I tried this with her, the screaming would be heard from here to Harlem. Maybe these are just for …

New York City’s thousands of bodegas are ruled by thousands of cats. And now there’s a Flickr group devoted to them.

One of the Island House toms likes to climb in my window in the mornings.

As a silly diversion from all this DADT drama, I promised Dan Savage I’d help him freep this Tidy Cat poll in favor of his cat lady relative, Colleen K. In return, Dan has promised to lunch with MY cat lady, Dr. Jeff, a massive Savage Love fan who’ll be watching Shelley while I’m in Florida for two weeks over …

As I presume many people who live alone do, I talk to the cat. All day. Usually it’s just things like “How are you doing?” and “WHAT are you doing!” and “Down!” But last night I put on my coat and paused at the door to ask if she needed anything from the store. SRSLY.

Gothamist tips us that the new fan favorite of the Tampa Bay Rays is DJ Kitty, who now rallies the stadium from the Jumbotron at every game. Another video at the first link, news story about DJ Kitty here.

(Via – Copyranter)