Store Cats

The weirdest encounter I had with a store cat was at Second Story Books in Bethesda, MD. One of the cats that used to live there wrapped itself around my neck and started sucking on my earlobe.

My friend C**** went out drinking with some coworkers one night a few years back, at the local bar, Peter's. Peter's has several "house cats" that run around the place. C**** dislikes cats. C**** plays soccer. C**** is a huge alcoholic (from what I can tell). The combination of the three resulted in C**** picking up one of the cats and drop kicking it across the bar. He was banned from entrance for a long, long time.

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I want a small business so I can get another kitty.

haha B.Potter = total BITCH sometimes

http://gizmodo.com/5634257/ikea-let-loose-a-herd-of-100-cats-into-store-to-see-what-happens

oh, and the actual ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeCsAQdVnSg

shop cats are the best! i've met this one...

http://www.shopcat.com/smallworld/esme.htm

i am really allergic to cats, so i am not a fan of shopcats. i love animals, but i do not love hives.

local art house/video rental place with sections organized by director has a chubby, regal persian named gary. <3 <3

coincidentally, they showed this a couple of months ago:

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/7/4/c/highres_12010060.jpeg

Local record store has a resident cat, a black named Vinyl. Per their FAQ:

What's the cat's name?
Vinyl... or Kitten, Little One, Cutie Pie, Baby Girl, Mouse, Rat, Worm, Weasel, You Little Monster, Chubs, Tub-a-Love, Allergen, or anything else that spills out of our mouths...

Does the cat stay in the store all the time, or does she go home with you?
The cat only lives in the store. When we close, she walks into the vinyl and disappears like the players in Field of Dreams.

They even sell artwork with her on it:

http://www.musicsaves.com/images/Vinylcatprint.jpg

The Lowe's (giant hardware store, if you don't know) in my old neighborhood had a store cat. She had a collar and a tag and just hung out between the shelves all day.

thats my new wallpaper PhilD A++++

Music Saves store cat and art = A+A+A+A+!

The cat at my local drycleaners is always just permanently asleep in a pile of plastic wrapped suits on the left of the counter, and then whenever you put your item of clothing on the counter it wakes up and comes and sits on it and just stares at you.

Shop cats at nurseries/garden centers are the best. They have entire jungles to rule.

I liked looking at the shop cats on the website get bent linked to above, but all the UK ones were added 10 years ago and were already several years old, so it is pretty bittersweet :'(

My old job was near two different pubs with pub cats. I miss them now. One of them was a real massive bruiser of a cat, probably a fancy breed judging by its squashed face and long silver-white hair, but it would go out hunting rabbits in the fields near the pub and come back all matted and bedraggled. They had a tiny cat too, short-haired and looked about a quarter of the size, so I was surprised to be told it was the mother.

Big one was hit by a truck; don't know what became of the little one as the pub stopped doing food and therefore stopped being a good lunch stop. RIP big guy

http://recyclebookstore.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/gertie.20301138.jpg
One of the shop cats at Recycle, a lovely bookstore in San Jose. They have super-long aisles that the cats dutifully patrol.

http://www.brooklynbased.net/art/LV_Academy1.jpg
Tigger sez, "Whaddaya want from me?"

^^ looks a little like my cat!

http://www.ironfrog.com/catsmap.html

a map of library cats across the planet. these guys even made a mid-90s docu about library cats.

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c2308d_5918e50c2fb24d008d7c438b77353432~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_506,h_675,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/280340975_293211156346331_3159142295361653872_n.jpg

Carl LaFong, official greeter, Keaton & Lloyd Bookshop, Rome, NY. I met him during Capitolfest earlier this year; he was impressively chill.

great revive

ffs

ol' Dan

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/life/animals/shoppers-true-value-hardware-south-portland-has-famous-tiktok-cat-daniel-celebrity-feline/97-3787ed61-7175-4ee0-bf74-6f1b5b4a93de

i will never store cats

I used to work a Saturday afternoon at an RSPCA Charity shop and Henry (who lived nearby) for some reason would come into the shop most mornings and go to sleep on the counter all day, which was cute but made it very tough to wrap things for people sometimes.

His brother also visited occasionally, but was a little bit more skittish and motivated by food.

Henry, however, did mooch for treats but seemed more interested in the general hang, loads of people would come into the shop just to say hi.

On occasion, he would sleep on the shelf under the glass countertop and I would prop a sign by him, 'Dissociated Feline £5', things like that.

https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/4672037

I like Henry

Carl LaFong of the Keaton & Lloyd Bookshop, Rome, NY, has an intern:

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c2308d_4ec61b36da894c42b9720e16a1e595b3~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_405,h_540,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/318187877_450823047242725_2244768634108164885_n%20(1).jpg

Meet Hoagy Catmichael, who responded to Capitolfest visitors with aplomb.

what a good and special scruffy demon baby!

https://www.skeletonmuseum.com/sir-indiana-bones/

Sir Indiana Bones, of the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City.

ilu sir indy

his story is actually making me cry, thank you/darn you, j.lu

At Some Bookstores, Pets Are the Most Popular Sales Associates

https://archive.is/iz5Zx#selection-481.0-481.62