In 1998, I was residing in the Mid-Atlantic. I had a roommate who decided to move back home to the West Coast. Moving day started early that morning, and after a few hours of loading up the truck with the help of a small army of mutual friends, she was on her way. But by …
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This is the season when humans get all political. Politics are the way humans make important decisions and determine who’s the boss. Apparently it involves voting. One person gets one vote. Our house runs by politics, too, but we have a one-cat-one-vote system: I’m the cat, I get the vote. I voted myself boss. Mommy …
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Back in the old days, people thought cats were the familiars of witches. They were afraid of things that seemed to possess unnatural powers (so of course they were afraid of women and cats — both of whom can’t help being awesome). These days we know cats aren’t the harbingers of evil, but we know …
Cute adorable sleeping kittens? Meh, pretty cute. Cute adorable sleeping kittens hugging teddy bears? Oh, sweet mother of goodness gracias … YES! The Internet wins again. Now get scrolling. There are kittens to squee at! Omar’s teddy bear guards him from the monsters under the bed at night. Photo by Pork Nose. Loki’s teddy bear …
First of all, what do you call a group of cats? We had to look it up! Did you know it’s called a clowder? Yeah — a clowder. So what do you do if you’ve got a clowder of cats and you need to direct them from one place to another? How do you get …
Who Says You Can’t Herd Cats? This Woman Herds Cats! Read More »
Who sits in a field on a summer night and watches back-to-back viral cat videos? Whoever they were, more than 10,000 of them showed up at the Cat Video Festival on Thursday, according to Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, which hosted the event. And don’t picture a field full of elderly women crocheting in folding chairs …
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