Watson

Please pardon the bad picture, but Watson is a cat that lives in an old, raw Tribeca loft space (of which there are few remaining) where my boss' acquaintance stores the books that we published last year. He's got a really friendly German Shepherd and a cat, but of the five or six times I'd been there to retrieve books I'd never met the cat until today. I felt weird about taking a picture when he introduced me to him (named for Watts Street, where he found the cat), since I don't know the man that well but when I had a second alone I snapped a picture from the other side of the door.

West Side Whiskers

My friend Suzy saw this cat near where she works in West Springfield, MA yesterday and sent him along to me. I love the long fur! Very cute :-D This worked out well, too, because on my way home from work last night I saw a cat in the dark, but it ran away before I could get a picture. West Side Whiskers' other name could be Coincidence Cat...

Top Cat

My friend Suzy spotted this cat in my new neighborhood today.  He is a local stray, who a neighbor on my street had neutered, hence the clipped ear.  He said his name is Top Cat.  Notice his cute white stripe on his black tail.

Lucky

I went to a corner store in my new neighborhood and met this little cat.  I asked one of the guys who works there what the cat's name is and he said "Lucky."  Lucky was also the name of my first cat, who my parents found in a box on the side of the road before I was born and lived until I was 10.  Does that make this cat Lucky 2.0?

New Neighbor Cat

 I unexpectedly had to move from Ridgewood to another neighborhood in NYC at the end of this past month, but luckily every cloud has a silver lining--in this case taking the form of a cat. I saw this cat yesterday morning on my way back from the laundromat and couldn't get a good picture, but later in the day I was on my way to the gym when I saw him again, playing in a bush near my building!