Hello Furiends!
Thank you for your patience as we post our news segment a day late! I hope you’re feeling springy in your neck of the woods. The Human is insistent that she can smell spring in the air. We think she’s nuts.

This is from Weather Kitty today. Note the temperature and the feline at the airport dressed to leave this chilly place and head to a warmer climate. I think this is all I need to refute The Human’s “spring” argument.

And while we hang out at home, waiting for warmer weather, I found an absolutely magical piece of brown wrapping paper and have been racing around the closet, bathroom and bedroom with it. Neither Lily nor Oliver have embraced the joy of the brown paper like I have.

Sigh, some cats just don’t understand the joy of paper!

Celebrity cats of New York

New York is home to many famous people but there are a number of New York cats who have a claim to fame too.  Meet Spongecake, Mocha and Donut, a fantastic feline trio who have become social media stars. Watch their video and see how the conquer New York with their purrfectly wonderful purrsonalities.

Man sells couch with his cat inside

I reported on a sofa sale with a cat inside quite a while ago. I thought this was a rare occurrence. I was wrong.  It happened in Vancouver, B.C.

Matt Lumabi was moving into a new place and in the process, noticed his cat was missing. His cat, Marley had somehow gotten into a sofa that he’d sold and had quite an adventure.

The buyers took the sofa, blissfully unaware that they’d received a bonus with their purchase. The couch was then quickly resold, and Marley never made an appearance.

The second buyer did find Marley after three days.

While Marley was moving to new places in the sofa, Matt tore his new place apart looking for, searched the neighborhood, posted on social media and put up “missing cat” posters all over his neighborhood.

The first couch purchaser was notified that there was a cat in the couch and they called Matt. Matt and Marley were reunited after three days, she was checked out and had suffered no physical problems from her adventure. She is happy to be  home and Matt says, she’s been more cuddly than ever.

Cat goes to work with his human for 10 years

Dude the museum cat goes to work every day with “Big Guy” at the Delaware Museum of Natural Science. He makes sure he does the rounds that his job as Snoopervisor requires. Dude is celebrating his 15^th birthday on March 8^th. You can go to the museum’s Instagram account and wish Dude a happy birthday.  You can find him on the TikTok and Instagram accounts of the museum (@delmnh)

Cat purrserveres and gets herself adopted

Avery Rogers was working at her family’s North Carolina food truck when she encountered an unusual hungry customer. Rogers told The Dodo that the cat kept coming closer and got close enough to accept a treat that was offered to her.

When her shift was over, Rogers went to where the cat was sitting and the cat marched toward her, making it clear she wanted a home and some love.

You can watch the cat walk up to Rogers and ask to be loved here.

That cat convinced Rogers that she should have a home. After a health check and a check for a microchip at the vets the deal was sealed. Rogers named the cat Blue, after the family food truck’s most popular hot dog, the Bluetick Hound.

Blue was estimated to be about a year old and she had no trouble fitting in with the cats already in the house.  People have said that Rogers found Blue at the perfect time but Rogers says it was the other way around. Blue’s insistence to be adopted was days before one of Roger’s childhoodcats passed away within days of Blue’s arrival. Rogers said that Blue was a much needed source of comfort and that Blue showed up right when she was needed.

To keep up with Blue, follow Rogers on TikTok.

Polish cat is the city’s #1 tourist attraction

A CHONKY black-and-white cat called Gacek has been named the No. 1 tourist attraction in the northern city of Szczecin. He’s scored an average Google rating of 4.9 out of 5,moving past icons like  the award-winning Philharmonic, the Castle of Pomeranian Dukes and the city’s underground WWII tunnels.

The six year old Gacek can often be found dozing in his  little wooden home on Kaszubska street.  He’s known as the King of Kaszubska’ and ‘the cat ambassador of Szczecin’, and he’s  amassed in excess of 1,000 ‘Google user reviews’, with the overwhelming majority leaving him a ‘puurfect’ five star rating. Comments such as, “Best thing to happen on our holiday,” or  “the Mayor of the city”,  are representative of how his fans feel about him.

Two paws up for the city of Szczecin for having a purrfect #1 tourist attraction!