City Kitties Travels: Pattaya Cat

By the time Jimmy and I got to Pattaya, a popular Thai beach town, I was actually tired of taking pictures of cats.  I never thought that would happen, but Thailand really wore me out.  Here is a cute calico we saw there.  Jimmy has pictures of at least two other cats from Pattaya, so maybe I will get them from him and post them later.

City Kitties Travels: Bangkok Cats

So, Thailand has a lot of cats.  So many cats, in fact, that I didn't even take pictures of some of the ones we saw after a while.  Here is a selection of the kitties I saw in Bangkok.

Bangkok is full of motorcycles, mopeds, and other small motor vehicles (tuk tuks!), so it is only appropriate that I start this post with a picture of a cat on a motorcycle:

This cat was fast asleep next to its dog friend.  I thought the tongue was pretty priceless.

Orange cat on Khaosan Road:

Babycats on Khaosan Road:

One of the many cat residents of Wat Pho, home of the famous (and enormous) reclining Buddha.

Kitty near one of the Chao Phraya ferry piers:

Jimmy and I were randomly wandering around Chana Songkhram when we saw this pretty drum tower:

And, what a surprise, there were cats hanging out on it:

สวัสดี! (That means "hello" in Thai.  And, yes, I just googled it and copy-and-pasted it here.)

City Kitties Travels: Wat Arun Cats

The first place that we saw cats in Bangkok was at Wat Arun, which was closed by the time we got there.  But you could still walk around the premises and since there were no tourists and the temple was lit up very nicely I think it was actually better that way.  It was also ideal for seeing some of the many, many kitties who live there.  At first I was kind of upset to see so many cats, but then I noticed that the temple's monks feed them.

Here is the kitten that greeted us at the temple.  And yes, that is poop next to it.

More Wat Arun cats:

Black cat wanted to play:

Black cat also had only one eye >^. ^<

Tiny kitten, with my goofy foot for scale:

Two cats and a Buddha:

City Kitties Travels: Macau Maus

Jimmy and I spent a night in Macau.  We had just walked through the super touristy ruins of St. Paul's to a much more quiet residential street.  It seemed like the perfect place for a kitty to be, so we were actively looking for city kitties.  Within minutes we heard meowing, so after a bit of looking around we found this cat!

Kitty had a friend under the car parked next to it:

This woman feeds them by sliding food under the cars:

We continued to wander around the old residential streets and found more cats.  There were a bunch in this one place, but I could only get a couple of crappy pictures of one of them.  Can you spot it?

Now, here is an interesting establishment that I saw later in the day after we had gone to the island.  Why would I post it to City Kitties, anyway?

Because it's called Cat Poop Cafe!  Jimmy explained to me why, but I forgot.  Maybe I will ask him and amend the post later.

City Kitties Travels: Bibi

This is Bibi!  Bibi is a little orange kitten who lives at an amazing hot pot/bbq place Jimmy and I ate at in Mong Kok with his friend Edward.  Bibi was one of the cat highlights of my Asia trip, so I have to post a bunch of pictures of him.

Bibi + hot pot = the best.

Bibi playing with Jimmy's sweatshirt string.  He kind of destroyed it...

Bibi napping after playing a whole bunch:

Bibi followed me to the bathroom after I fed him some squid:

City Kitties Travels: Hong Kong Cats

I spent most of the last two weeks in Hong Kong and got to see lots of adorable city kitties there.  Here are a few of the more random ones.

This cat I saw on a market street in Central:

The following two cats are pet store residents in Mong Kok.  The pet stores don't like you taking pictures, so I had to be sneaky about these ones.  That also explains why the second picture is kind of crappy.

I'm actually not sure where I was when I saw this cat.  I was riding through Hong Kong island (I think) on the tram when I spotted this kitty sign.  I thought it was so cute, so I took a picture, then Jimmy noticed the cat in the window!

This cat I spotted on Cheung Chau island:

Random Mong Kok store cat:

Another random Mong Kok store cat.  This one was very wary of us.

And, for good measure, here is Ocean Park's most photogenic panda:

City Kitties Travels: Sung Mo

Jimmy and I had a layover in Beijing a couple of days ago and decided to see a little bit of the city.  I got really lucky because in the few hours I was there I saw Sung Mo in a park we walked through.  We named her that because it roughly translates to "fluffy hair."