Your friendly neighbourhood cat-lady

Yes, okay, you may be fed up of cats on the internet. Well, I'm sorry, but I'm new to this blogging game and I'm cat mad so you're just going to have to stick it for another few minutes (only if you choose to read this of course, no pressure).

I love cats. I love their warm, fluffy coats, and their cold, aloof manner. I love their blunt attitude towards you; the only time you're not 100% sure what they're thinking is when they roll over. It's a 50/50 toss up between a friendship-bonding tummy rub or sudden, immediate and incredibly painful arm-death. It's endearing. I just love cats.

I have two black cats, Daisy and Scout. Daisy is the oldest and fattest. She's grumpy and sassy, but then I would be too if I was middle-aged, deprived of gin and tonics and surrounded by younger females. Which brings me onto Scout, the younger and much, much more stupid of the two. She has a habit of meowing for recognition as she comes in, meows right at your feet and the proceeds to slink all around the house meowing until you finally meow back at the very place she started. Four or so years on and I still find it hilarious.

Daisy, the grumpiest of kitties.

Scout, following recent trends, wearing a bucket hat. Kittycat has got some style!  

Now I don't just love my cats. There's plenty of cat-appreciation to go around. I have recently made friends with some neighbourhood cats, which are meowvellous. We have Mr. Beautiful, who lives a few doors down, and then Phoebe, the timid little Siamese from next door. I recently visited the BioParc in Valencia, a huge zoo, and the first animal I saw was a little, teeny-tiny baby kitten curled up in a crack between two rocks. Safe to say I was the most excited about this precious little thing than any other animal I saw all day. Including a baby giraffe.

Mr. Beautiful

Baby kitty from the BioParc

You can show your cat appreciation in many different ways. Cat memorabilia is the way in which I mainly choose to display it, and I will share some of these items with you. A cat tapestry pocket tshirt from The Pocket Company, a cat tapestry rucksack I purchased off eBay, and a cat-face watch from New Look, so you can count down the time until you can come home to ya lil' kittycat/bestfriend/only person who truly knows the real you.

Don't worry. If you don't actually own a cat, then you can use this purrfect cat-print hipflash from Urban Outfitters to while away those sad, empty nights alone. Just look at its little face!

DO:

• use cat puns. It's still funny whatever other people are telling you. I'd be lion if I said I could think of any right meow, but let me just paws and get my catalogue out. I can't imeowgine that you didn't find any of those punny, although some were a catastrophe. 

• watch Disney classic Oliver & Company. The story of Oliver Twist but with a lil' ginger kitty playing Oliver, so a million times better. There are some pretty darn catchy songs in there too!

Oliver & Company, wuhoo!

DON'T:

• be tempted to steal a cat, no matter how cute they are and how much they love you better than anyone else. It is against the law. 
• cosmetically alter your face to look like a cat. It isn't the ultimate cat appreciation, it's just plain creepy. 

Ta-rah, 

- Beth