Category: Featured
Looking for an Earworm?
Carly Rae Jepsen is a master of sugary pop songs that sear themselves inside your cochlea as earworm classics. With her most recent release, “Now That I’ve Found You,” she challenges Taylor Swift and Katy Perry for the title of the music world’s most fervent ailurophile. And there’s a nod to Breakfast at Tiffany’s thrown […]
Good News Tewsday: Alabama Tornado Cat Found in Rubble
Grab a hankie, folks! Bugsy the Cat was lost after the Lee County, Alabama tornado this week. Her home was tossed from its foundation and flipped like a pancake. The family survived, but couldn’t find Bugsy afterward. “We searched the whole house by hand the first day and we didn’t find her,” Hunter Lashley said. […]
Phenomenal Feline Fotos
Japanese photographer Nyankichi Rojiupa has captured the antics of a kindle of stray street cats in a series of photos documenting their play in and out of drain pipe holes. Just when you thought every possible kind of cat photo has been done, you discover another brilliant feline photog. Be sure to follow him on […]
Ask Max Monday: Goal Met, Hair Gone
Doods…y’all are awesome. Your generosity pushed the Woman’s fundraising for St. Baldrick’s over her goal by $4. This year she raised $1504, which is a lot more than last year, and a good part of it is because of you. That’s a lot of treatment funds, or maybe research money. Either way, there are sick […]
Ask Max Monday: ISO Noah
Hi, Max. Mrs H is and has been threatening to move the Palace lock stock and barrel to other parts of the UK, somewhere cold and snowy by the sound of it–Scotland! Not sure how; maybe some anti-gravity device and float it up there, dodging air traffic control. Anyhows what would your advice be for […]
17 Ways to Catify St Paddy’s Day
As March rolls in, most kittehs start thinking about how they’ll get their green on for St Patrick’s Day. We’ve rounded up 17 ways to commune with your inner leprechaun and catify your St Paddy’s Day experience: Please follow and like us:
Edna Gets Her Day in Court
Edna the firehouse cat may be getting another chance to return home. The San Francisco Fire Commission’s meeting on February 27th may be attended by hoards of crazy cat ladies rallying for Edna’s reinstatement as the Station 49 firecat. Edna’s Instagram account has been asking her fans to attend the meeting and speak in favor […]
Ask Max Monday: It’s Wuv, Twue Wuv
Hi My Name is Jack and I am a large GingerTabby cat! I am about 3 years old! And I am the only Male in a Clowder of Female Cats! I need some LOVE Advice! Aspen used to love you Max! Well, I came to live here with Aspen back as a tiny kitten! V […]
Mancats, If You’re Looking for Well-Heeled Heiress…
With German fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld’s death died last week, his beloved cat, Choupette, is in line to inherit a portion of his $300 million dollar fortune. In an interview with Numéro last year, Lagerfeld announced that his cherished feline would serve as his heir. Choupette, whose name is French for “sweetheart,” has lived a […]
Sammy Meezer Has Gone to The Bridge
One of the old-time cat bloggers, Sammy Meezer, left for The Bridge early this morning, joining Miles, Skeezix and many other blogging furrends. If you haven’t already, please drop by his blog and share a remembrance. And bring ham. Please follow and like us:
Pixar’s New SparkShort Features Feisty Feral Feline
Pixar just released a sweet little short about a feral cat and a junkyard dog. Pixar SparkShorts is an experimental storytelling initiative that welcomes new creative voices at Pixar Animation Studios to share their stories. Unlike the super-slick movies and shorts that the studio releases to theaters, they’re more “sketchy,” the sort of thing an […]
Ask Max Monday: Talkin’ the Talk…
No questions this week, but that’s all right. Buddah and I have been busy working on something, and we’re not quite done for the day. Yep, you read that right. we’re working together on something. And in spite of how it looks, we’re not just messing up the bed (though we did do that, too.) […]
Feedstore Cat is a Joy Riding Maniac
In Amherst, Nova Scotia, a tabby hired as the boss of a feed store is shirking his duties in favor of snagging joy rides in customers’ vehicles. Hunter patrols the parking lot and sneaks into cars, one time ending up on Prince Edward Island in the next province. He always gets home, but looks forward […]
Edna Packs Her Bags
A social media campaign and certification as a therapy animal weren’t enough to keep Edna in the only home she’s ever known: Station 49 in San Francisco. In a statement, the San Francisco Fire Department said that “public health and safety concerns counseled removal of the cat from the premises.” This action was taken after […]
Ask Max Monday: Shiver Yer Timbers…It’s Nice Here!
Max – we got these new floors at our house. They are NOT carpet and we slide all over the place chasing toys. The mom thinks it is funny. Is it really ok for her to laugh that hard when we can’t apply the brakes on the new floor? It might not be okay, but […]
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Save Fire Dept. Cat from Eviction
UPDATE: Edna’s still being evicted, despite the fellas at the station getting her certified as a therapy animal thru the SF SPCA. PLEASE EMAIL a protest to fireadministration@sfgov.org to ask for a stay of eviction and keep Edna in the only home she’s ever known. A sweet tortie named Edna who runs Fire Station 49 […]
Frozen Fluffy Thaws in Miracle Recovery
Fluffy, a long-haired tabby resident of Kalispell, Montana, survived The Big Chill last week. Her owners found her frozen and unresponsive in a snow bank on January 31st as temps approached zero. They didn’t give up, but rushed her to the Animal Clinic of Kalispell. Dr. Jevon Clark said that Fluffy’s temperature was so slow […]
Ask Max Monday: Sometimes ‘No’ Is The Answer, and It’s All Right
Dear Max. We are having a big push here at the palace, to save the environment. Well when I say WE, I actually mean Mrs H, as she is the one that has to push the recycling bin down the palace driveway–all mile of it–and then push it back. Anyways, by changing our diets we […]
