Panther

I went to a bike shop in my neighborhood to pick up a Presta-to-Schraeder adapter and saw this kitty! His name is Panther, and I think that the somewhat-gruff (although helpful) men who worked there were amused when I asked to take his picture.

Tiger, a.k.a. Skittish Cat

I'm cat-sitting for my friend Eva this week (you might remember Claudius), and I was waiting for the bus to get to her apartment when this little orange cat sauntered out of it's discount store and hid behind some granny carts. I tried to get its picture and it came out and rubbed on my leg, then ran back into the store. Unfortunately, I only got a picture of its butt.

UPDATE: I went to this store this evening and saw the little cat again. It turns out that her name is Tiger (not Skittish Cat), but she is still skittish as ever.

Kitty Prints

I know they are hard to see in this picture, but I ran across these prints in the sidewalk last night in Park Slope. Hopefully wet cement didn't stick to the kitty's paws!

Crazy Christmas Cat

I saw this cat this morning on my block running toward a house that is all decked out for the holidays. It took a very photogenic seat at the base of an oversized nutcracker. This is kind of like a "Where's Waldo." See if you can find the kitty in the picture!

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.