Posted in crazy cat ladies, tagged animal massage, cat massage, dog massage, everything is terrible, maryjean ballner on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You might also like dog massage!
I think my favorite part is how the dog’s name is Henry Wrinkler. And also how the host’s name is Maryjean Ballner.
(Go here http://worldwidewhiskers.org/2009/08/18/the-front-of-your-cat-is-a-veritable-treasure-chest-of-fun/ to see the original cat massage video.)
Posted in crazy cat ladies, tagged cat stampede, crazy cat lady, russia, tuxedo cat, you tube on November 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My friend Heather sent me this video in an email entitled “Your future, Erica.” But I’d like you all to know that I would never have hundreds of cats. How would I manage to give each one the special love he or she would deserve?
Though there are some cute fluffy tuxedo ones in there.
Posted in crazy cat ladies, do-good, tagged kitten, kitten little rescue, new york times, rent control, tammy cross on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is Tammy Cross (and an unnamed kitten.)
Tammy lives in a tiny apartment on the upper west side, made even tinier by the fact that at any given time she might be caring for up to 21 tiny kittens, including little Prudence, found on Kitten Little Rescue’s petfinder page.
Tammy Cross may be the only person in Manhattan who I don’t begrudge her rent-controlled apartment. Kittens definitely deserve rent control.
Posted in crazy cat ladies, tagged awkward family photos, cats winning prizes, crazy cat men on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, cats looking silly, cats on film, crazy cat ladies, tagged cat massage, you tube on August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I can’t even begin to describe how much this video about cat massage disturbs me. And I say this as someone who has used her back massager on her cat (what? he likes it. I think he thinks it’s another cat.)
Seriously, though, please watch. And try not to vomit.
Posted in crazy cat ladies, tagged crazy cat lady, multiple cat owner, tidy cat on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tidy Cat has launched a new campaign in support of people who own multiple cats. The Tidy Cat Campaign to End Cattiness invites owners to submit their stories and “tell the world that owning multiple cats makes life better.” They want to “debunk the stereotype of the crazy cat lady.”
I fully support anything that explains how awesome it is to own a cat, but I’d like to point that it’s possible to be a passionate, loving, devoted cat owner (aka “crazy cat lady”) even if you only have one cat.
Posted in animals being friends, crazy cat ladies, other animals, tagged animal planet, hippo, jessica the hippo, south africa on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is Jessica.
As you can see, she is not a cat. She is a hippo. But as I marveled at her last night on Animal Planet, I knew I had to write about her. Jessica lives with her family (her human family) in South Africa. She eats sweet potatoes. She cuddles with the dog. It’s fairly insane.
And, as you’ll see in this video, her owner may be the first hippo lady.
Posted in crazy cat ladies, tagged cat ladies, cat ladies documentary, crazy cat lady, jack on June 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The moment I met Jack, I knew he was meant to be our cat. And while I haven’t felt anything that strongly towards another cat, I do melt at the sight of those trucks with cats up for adoption. As I said to Jon yesterday, if Jack wasn’t destined to be an only cat (his megacolon means we have to monitor his “output,” which would be hard to do with another cat around), we would have adopted another one by now. But another and another? Probably not.
Unlike the ladies in the following documentary trailer.
Yet despite the fact that I’ll never have anywhere from 16 to 116 cats, I still consider myself a cat lady. I do, after all, run a cat news blog. And I got jealous of an old lady on the street the other day who had a kitten umbrella.
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, crazy cat ladies, RIP, tagged california, car accident, cat hit and run, hit a cat and i'll hit your kid, lodi, outdoor cats, tina teixeira on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The woman in this video, Tina Teixeira of Lodi, California, must be grieving intensely over the loss of her cat last week in a hit and run just beyond her front yard. Because if grief isn’t the reason for her actions, then I don’t know what is.
Yes, that’s right, Tina thinks the solution to cat hit-and-runs is to sit in her yard with a sign that says “hit a cat and I’ll hit your kid.” And she seems quite shocked that anyone would think she was nuts.
Tina, here is a tip for you: keep your cats indoors. I guarantee it will work better than that sign.
