Bodega Cats

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Did you know that, in the 1970s, there was a famous fat cat who lived in the women’s lavatory in London’s Paddington Station? I did not, until I discovered these pictures in Getty, which inform that this is Tiddles, “the famous fat cat which lived in the public lavatories at Paddington Station, London,” a caption which seems to assume that this cat’s existence and celebrity are common knowledge.

Becky Wisdom, co-founder of Greenpoint Cats, says that taking care of just one of Greenpoint’s multiple cat colonies can be lot of work during normal times. “There’s a lot of vet visits; one gets sick, one gets in a fight with a racoon,” she said. Wisdom has tended to a Franklin Street colony since April of 2018, and has since grown her reach beyond Greenpoint with the help of a network of volunteer cat rescuers. With the arrival of the pandemic, Wisdom noticed that bodegas and delis began shutting down, some leaving behind their shop cats, such as the cat … read more

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We ask Alice de Almeida, the Algonquin Hotel’s chief cat officer—yes, that’s really her title—everything you wanted to know about the hotel’s glamorous cat-in-r