Camera-shy Cat

You may not be able to see her (yes, I am assuming the cat's sex by it's size) very well, but this is a cute grey cat that I saw on my way to the gym last week. It did not want to make friends with me, apparently.

Neglected Cat

A few weeks ago there was a cute, fluffy, orange cat frantically meowing in the hallway of my apartment building. I figured it belonged to my new neighbors (the ones who now live in the apartment once occupied by my terrible neighbors who made their cats, Nosy Neighbor and Spy, use their litterbox on the fire escape), since I knew they had a cat. My boyfriend and I knocked and knocked and knocked on their door. Finally they answered and Neglected Cat returned home.

I regretted that I didn't take a picture of Neglected (who also was in desperate need of a brushing), but I was so worried about him that I didn't think of it until after the whole ordeal. Well, I got my chance today when Neglected was once again in the hallway. This time his apartment door was ajar. I thought of telling my neighbors that their cat likes to go on extra-apartment adventures when they leave the door open, but at this point if they don't realize that I don't think I can help them all that much. I expect to see Neglected again sometime in the near future.

City Kitties Travels: Peekskill Peeper

My boyfriend and I took a trip up to Peekskill, NY to leaf peep in the Hudson Valley. Unfortunately, we arrived a few weeks before decent foliage did but we did see this cute cat who was hanging out in his yard.

Roller Cat

I saw this kitty this afternoon while walking to the City Hall R stop. As in the case of Telepathic Cat, I was thinking about how I hadn't seen many kitties around lately when I noticed this cat in a mesh roller backpack rolling down the sidewalk in front of me! (It is black and white, so you can really only see it's white patch of fur.) It didn't seem to mind being out and about in a backpack and, in a way, it sort of reminded me of the times that my boyfriend and I used to take Scribble and Doodle for bike rides on our tandem with each in her/his own backpack.

Stray Miami Kitty

This kitty is stray for two reasons: 1) it is a stray and 2) I didn't realize that I left it out of my Travels: South Beach post. So here it is! We saw this kitty our first night in Miami and it was eating something in a paper bag.

Rude-y Kittianis

Whenever Scribble or Doodle are doing something bad, I call them Rude-y Kittianis (get it?). Well yesterday I was walking around the East Village yesterday and saw this mural of kitties doing very rude things! Much more rude than the things Scribble and Doodle ever do. Although I do not condone the use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco by kitties, I still had to take a picture.

City Kitties Travels: South Beach Cats

I went to South Beach (Miami, not Staten Island!) on an impromptu mini-vacation this past weekend and was delighted (or saddened?) to find that Miami has a lot of cats.

Below is the first cat we saw. It greeted us right near the boardwalk:

We met the rest of the cats while we were meandering down Jefferson St. searching for art deco buildings (and later found that the good stuff is on Ocean Dr.). Unlike the boardwalk sentry, who seemed like it was homeless, I think these were pets:

Entrepreneur Cat

I met this cat at a corner store a couple of blocks from my apartment. I wanted a snack, but instead found this cat who was very friendly and welcomed me to his store with a "meow." This cat was a much better store manager than the actual person working there... mostly because I didn't see any people working there. Needless to say, since cats aren't tall enough to reach the cash register, I couldn't buy anything and went snackless. But the cat walked me to the door as I left :)