Adopt Shelter Pets

Here is an article from the New York Times about the inadequacy of our city's shelter system.  There are only three shelters--not nearly enough to accommodate all of the homeless animals in New York.  It is, unfortunately, a kill shelter.  I, personally, wouldn't drop off an animal there, but I adopted Scribble and Doodle from the city shelter in East Harlem.  I love them and if you wanted a pet, you should adopt because you will love your pet, too.  Even if s/he was homeless.

Tiger: Update

I had a long, stressful day on Tuesday and went to the store that sells beer near my apartment (side note: why do so few corner stores in Bensonhurst carry beer??) and saw this cat.  As it turns out, I'd seen her before, but, for whatever reason, thought that she was grey instead of orange (even though her name is Tiger--it was a long day, okay!?!).  Then when I got home, my day became even more craptastic when I found some unpleasant mail in my mailbox, so I completely forgot to post her.  I didn't remember until tonight when I was walking home from the subway and saw not one, but two cats, neither of whom I could get a picture because they ran away and it was too dark.  Well, here is Tiger.  Now you can see her face instead of just her butt.

Breast Cancer Awareness Cat

Heidi and I were kicking around the city today trying to go to Open House NY events and saw this kitty in a breast cancer awareness window display of the C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries store in Greenwich Village.

Maneki-neko

I was in Chinatown tonight with Heidi and walked by a store that had so many lucky cats in the window!  (As a side note, I always assumed that these were Chinese cats, but I learned--for the purpose of this post--that lucky cats, or "Maneki-neko," are actually Japanese.)

The first ones to catch our eyes were these super chubster lucky cats:

Then we saw one that was even more chubster:

And a family:

And finally, a bunch of baby lucky cats:

City Fishies

Now and then I stray from the cat theme here at City Kitties and post non-cats.  I think I've only posted mammals up until now, but I've seen this koi pond a few times in my neighborhood and decided that it is worthy of being featured.  I'm not sure if it is clear enough, but there is a particularly large, black fish just below all the small orange ones.

I wonder where they live in the winter?

Mossie

Heidi saw this cute moss cat from Dig at Atlantic Antic in Brooklyn yesterday.  Thanks, Heidi!

Mooca

Heidi and I went to my friends Justin and Shay's apartment last night for dinner and met their fantastic cat Mooca.  She used to be named Fatty, but later had a name change because she looks a bit like a cow.  (And she really isn't fat, anyway.)  She is suuuuper friendly and cuddly and hung out with us the whole night.