"Kitty Kitty"

Sometimes I stop by a building supply store in Chinatown to get things for work (e.g. goo gone... really useful product, by the way). A really cute cat lives there and spends most of its time sleeping on a box on the floor in one of the aisles. The store is so crowded with random things that I almost didn't even see him; he blended right in! When I asked one of the men working in the store what the cat's name was, he shrugged and said "Kitty Kitty?"

Once and a while when I walk by the store Kitty Kitty is sitting in the window. God only knows how he even gets to the window because there is so much stuff in the way!


Here is Kitty Kitty waking up from a nap on his favorite box:

Walker

Walker is a really friendly cat who I met in the winter of last year. I saw him around a lot on the block between my apartment and the subway. When we first met he was really shy, but he warmed up quickly and walked with me all the way down the block to the subway stairs. He was smart enough not to get on the train with me!

Here he is, sniffing something interesting in someone's Queens-sized "yard."

City Kitties: A Revival

After 18 months, City Kitties is back! I suspended posting mostly because Verizon charged me too much money (yes, 20 cents is too much for me. I'm a graduate student... at CUNY no less, ok!?!) to email myself the pictures of kitties that I was taking with my prehistoric cell phone, but I have since gotten Metro PCS (unlimited texting!) so I can take and post as many kitty pics as I want.

City Kitties is all about the kitties I happen by while going about my business in my city, New York. Some of them are strays, others live in stores, and some are friends' or other people's pets. I didn't have any particular goal when I began the blog in 2008; I just noticed that I had a lot of pictures of random cats I had seen on my cell phone and an acquaintance suggested I make a blog. However, since then I think my blog's mission is to promote adoption of pets from animal shelters. I adopted both of my cats, Scribble and Doodle, from the New York City shelter in East Harlem. I understand that some people are against kill shelters, but I like the idea of really saving an animal. I love my cats so much; they are just as great, if not better, than any cat I could have found in a pet store.

Blog posts used to be written in the voice of the cat, but I found it to be difficult to create a new personality each time. It was also a little too dorky (though I will admit, a blog about stray cats is definitely weird) so posts from now on will just me written from my own standpoint.

I'm definitely looking forward to meeting more cats around the city. On the rare occasions that I get to travel elsewhere, I will include kitties from other cities!

Mad, Jr.

I am Mad, Jr. I am possibly a relative of Mad Cat, the kitty that live in the Dominican bodega in Brooklyn. I live in Queens, but not that far away. We have similar furs in that my furs are grey with pretty little orange tufts. Just like Mad! I am cute and rather happy, but I can't be Happy Cat because the folks at icanhascheezburger.com already took the name Happy Cat. So instead I am Mad, Jr.
Speak of the devil! Here is Happy Cat now:

Now that I think about it, maybe I am related to Mad Cat AND to Happy Cat. We are all grey and cute and have emotion-based names. That would be so great if I was related to a cat as famous as Happy Cat!

Just so you can see the rezemblinses, here is another picture of Mad Cat looking super cute, like meeee!:
The girl found me rolling around outside on the sidewalk near where she lives. I haven't been around for a while. I hope I am not homeless! By guys!

Pawn Shop Paws

Oh, hello there all you silly people walking into the hole in the ground. I am electronics store/pawn shop cat and I always sit in this window and watch dumb people go under ground. I don't think it is so bad under there, though, because usually people come out, too. But usually when people go underground they don't come back and when they do sometimes come back it is after many hours since the left in the first place! I wonder what is down there... but not too much because I would really rather just stay in my store. My store is located on the border of where Brooklyn and Queens meet. Technically, I live on the Brooklyn side, but when I am sitting in my window watching the world go by, I mostly see Queens. If you ever need some electronics or need to sell some stuffs you just, ahem, happened to come across, stop by and visit me!

Accordion Cat

Oh, hello. Let's be friends! Let me rub on you and scentmark you and you can bring me home. I live here at this bodega in Queens and I like to walk around outside and munch on grass... See? munch munch. I have a funny voice. It is very low and I sound like an accordion when I meow. Maybe I am a boycat. All I know is that I am very cute and friendly. My bodega owner is friendly, too, but not so cute! Also, this turd boy lives next door and he dragged me back to my store right in the middle of my grass snack! I was so mad at him. Those grasses were going to make good barfs.
I love you! Thank you! Come again!

Pet Store Kitties

MEEEOOOOWWW! We are little itty bitty kitties that live at the pet store. We are sooo small and cute, but the girl is against buying pets at the pet store when you can save them from the pet jail. Anyway, we are cute, but also depressing because a lot of us had eye problems and there was lots of goop coming out of our eyes. The girl asked one of the employees at the pet store if we were ok and he said yes, usually that happens when litters gets in our eyes. But the girl kind of thinks that is b.s.
Anyway, we are cute and friendly and the girl hopes we got a nice home despite our goopy eyes. The girl will not be visiting any more kitties at our pet store anymore because it is too depressing.