Name: Arlo
Breed: Domestic long-hair
Likes: Playing with plastic straps that my mom gets when she orders 5 reams of paper at once. Sitting on special paper my grandma gives me from packages she gets. Sitting in my special box that I have in every room. Playing monkey-in-the-middle with a ball that my mom and dad roll or throw in the living room.
Dislikes: The […]
Name: Rosie
Breed: Domestic short hair (?)
Likes: Sitting and lying in and on everything including the arm of the couch (my family call me a “hood ornament”); boxes, sinks, baskets, under the Christmas tree, beds and of course laps. I love to lay curled up in front of the fire when it’s cold out and stretched out […]
Name: Miss Kitty
Breed: Domestic Shorthair
Likes: Playing with stretchy hair bands — paws down The. Best. Toy. Ever. Being outside (when my people are home). It used to be fun to climb the willow tree but now I like to hang out under the […]
Name: Comma
Breed: Domestic medium-hair tabby? Unsure
Likes: Sprinting around outside. Using tree trunks as scratching posts. Sleeping for hours in piles of leaves
Dislikes: His food bowl getting low on cat chow, being left alone too long, having his ears cleaned
About Comma: His family adopted him five years ago from the Baltimore SPCA. They chose him because […]
Name: Satchmo, AKA Satch, Sassmo, and “The.Best.One”
Breed: Debonair Jaguar. Or Polydactyl Tuxedo Cat. Depends on who you ask–Satchmo or his humans.
Likes: Drinking from a dripping bathtub faucet is a big favorite. He likes being around his people–he’s like a dog, the way he hangs out with us. He likes to have an audience when he […]
Name: Chester
Breed: Cheetah (aka grey mackerel tabby)
Likes: Bonito flakes!! “Dry brush” after breakfast; treats anytime; paw massages; my moms; tabby tussling with my sister Armstrong; exploring the hallway of my building.
Dislikes: The cat carrier (which normally means the Vet!); the Dyson vacuum (very scary); being disrupted when I’m lounging or resting; when my mom goes out of town (but I […]
Name: Mabel
Breed: Domestic Long Hair Fuzzball
Likes: Spooning with mom; lap naps; grooming myself likes it’s my job; wrestling loudly with Oskar (kitty roommate) to get mom’s attention so she’ll FEED US
Dislikes: Oskar (he’s a stinky, clumsy boy!); human paws where I’ve just groomed (ahem); being moved out of mom’s bed
About Mabel: Mom had just lost her dear old tomcat Handsome and […]
Name: Aubrey & Percy
Breed: Burmese
Likes: Dried salmon, leaping off the top of tall furniture, running on the treadmill, racing from one end of the house to the other.
Dislikes: Anything or anyone that thwarts their desires. Lamps and vases that get in the way.
About Aubrey & Percy: The boys were born in […]
Name: Zeus
Breed: Domestic shorthair/Russian blue?
Likes: Attention, screened-in back porch, fetching rubber toy, trying to escape house via front door, us, Max, Sam somewhat less so, Lindsay from Sit-a-Pet, the cat tree, chewing bare feet (particularly our daughter’s), sleeping in the linen closet, something to do
Dislikes: Lack of attention, being confined against his will, being bored
About Zeus: We adopted Zeus […]
Name: Orion
Breed: Domestic short hair, orange and white
Likes: Lounging on the screen porch, a good scritchin’ behind his ears, being talked to, smelling and rubbing up against really stinky shoes, catnip toys
Dislikes: Wearing a sweater, riding in the car, when his brothers Marty and Channing encroach on his personal space
About Orion: My husband and I adopted Orion from Caring for Creatures (CFC), a sanctuary […]
