This video from the band Holy F*&% is full of cats! It is awesome. I am guessing the guys in this band must be cat-lovers. If there is one way to get me to listen to a band’s music, it’s to make a video full of cats! Something like 40 million households in the U.S. have cats, so maybe this is a sound strategy to reach lots of new listeners.
I don’t know what is about people who love cats and people who love knitting, but those two groups intersect quite a bit (I certainly count myself among the cat- and knitting-obsessed). So of course I love this ad for Purina, featured on the Craft blog, that shows cats going bananas with balls of yarn.
Further proof of cats loving yarn: My own felines with my wooly stash.
Apparently, the new Chief of Staff for President Obama, Pete Rouse, loves cats. And he’s a two-cat man! The Baltimore Sun says, “CNN puts it like this: Everyone from [Tom] Daschle to Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggests that the key to getting on Rouse’s good side is to express interest in his cats – two loyal companions who never ask him about policy and politics at the end of a long day.” And Canada’s National Post thinks Pete Rouse’s feline love “bodes well for international relations” since Canadian “Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen, have shared a “mutual love of cats” since they first met.” Gawker says Rouse is “obsessed with cats.”
My husband sent me this photo of Glenn Danzig buying cat litter, although the husband noted: “Too bad he’s a fresh step man, that stuff is horrible.”
Anyway, it’s even more proof that many famous musicians love cats – including Kurt Cobain, Joey Ramone, Freddie Mercury, and a whole bunch of metal dudes.
This beautiful tortoiseshell cat is Cleo, and she is 20 years old! Menandcats.com reader Jennifer submitted this photo of Cleo and her man (who prefers to remain un-named).
Jennifer says, “When I met my husband, I had a rule that I would only date men who had a cat. He had TWO! We’ve been together a long time now (14 years), but our little tortie, Cleo, has me beat – she’s been with him since she was a tiny, rescued kitten, 20 years ago. Here he is with Cleo (this was taken a few years ago, when she was 17 – she looks pretty much the same, which is beautiful, especially considering her age!). Cleo loves anywhere warm and a nice lap, in the sunshine is just about perfect.”