Shadow

My brother Dave and his girlfriend Nina were visiting me this weekend from Boston and we spent Friday evening at a beer garden and later got dinner in Park Slope.  At some point during our intoxicated wanderings in the neighborhood Nina spotted this adorable black cat in the shadows, and she was brave enough to pick him up!  I think Shadow really enjoyed the love he got :-D

Etti-Cat

I was at one of my favorite museums, the New York City Transit Museum, this weekend with my brother Dave and his girlfriend Nina.  One of the best parts of the museum are the old subway cars lining the platform of the decommissioned station.  You can go inside them and see some of the old advertisements from each era.  In the 1960s, the MTA had an advertising campaign featuring Etti-Cat, the mass transit etiquette cat.  Here are a couple ads I saw.

And I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a real cat down on the museum's platform!  Here is Etti-Cat in the flesh and blood, hanging out on one of the subway cars (a trash car?).  He has a collar, so I assume he is the museum's pet--his job is probably to keep the rodent population under control, since the museum is in a former station in the subway system.  

Note (2/9/13): I just learned that the live Etti-Cat is named Sadie!  That is the name of my first dog :-D

Brighton Cat

My brother sent me this picture of a little cat that he saw near his apartment in Brighton, Massachusetts yesterday!