Meet Mao Mao, a Feline Car Model That Earns More Than Most Humans
Mao Mao, a two-year-old British Shorthair from Chongqing, China, works as a professional cat model and earns between 5,000 yuan ($775) and 10,000 yuan (1,550) per appearance. Mao Mao’s rise to fame was somewhat of an accident. Her owner, a man surnamed Zheng, works in the automotive industry, and during an auto show he had […]
Cat Survives Three-Week Journey Locked in Shipping Container With No Food or Water
A resourceful feline has surprised the workers of a shipping company when it emerged from a locked container after spending three weeks at sea with no food or water. Earlier this month, Ukrainian logistics company Star Shine Shipping LTD took to Facebook to report a rather unusual tale of survival involving a curious feline. When […]
Animal Lover Shares Her Home with 480 Cats and 12 Dogs
Maryam al-Balushi, an animal lover from Muscat, in Oman, shares her house with 480 cats, most of which were strays, and 12 dogs, spending almost $8,000 a month on food and vet bills for them. The 51-year-old retired civil servant might seem like a life-long animal lover, but the truth is she hasn’t always been […]
Russian Cat Lover Shares Her Apartment With Two Full-Grown Lynxes
Anastasia Poznyak, a young cat lover from Sankt Petersburg, managed to adopt two baby lynxes from a Russian fur farm and has since been sharing her home with them despite her neighbors’ complaints. Anastasia was always a cat person, but somehow she had wound up with eight dogs – six huskies, a Samoyed, and an […]
Nekobiyaka – The World’s Only Black Cat Cafe
The Japanese castle town of Himeji is home to the only known black cat café in the world, Nekobiyaka, where you can enjoy a refreshing drink in the company of about a dozen black felines. There are hundreds of cat cafes all over Japan, but only one dedicated exclusively to black cats. Nekobiyaka opened in […]
Care to Buy a Living, Breathing Wish-Granting Cat for $127,000?
Forget wish-granting goldfish and genies in a bottle, you can now own your very own magical cat and have all your wishes fulfilled for the modest price of 10 million rubles ($127,000). A Novosibirsk woman recently posted a bizarre ad on Russian classified ad platform Avito, asking people to pay a small fortune for her […]
Cosplay Enthusiast Turn Cats into Feline Versions of Popular Anime Characters
A Japanese cosplay enthusiast from Tokushima has been getting a lot of attention online thanks to his adorable collection of costume cat costumes inspired by characters in popular anime. The talented artist, who goes by Yagyou (@YagyouNEKO) on Twitter, is the one-man-team behind one of the most adorable projects I’ve seen on social media in […]
Singapore Couple Divorce After Wife Becomes Obsessed With Pet Cats
Singaporean media recently reported the bizarre divorce case of a couple whose separation was largely caused by the wife’s obsession with cats, which eventually drove her husband out of their house. In a sentence issued on May 21, Judge Sheik Mustafa Abu Hassan pronounced the official divorce of a couple that been married for 45 […]
Pet Cat Survives 40 Days Locked in Apartment After Human Family Is Hospitalized with Coronavirus
Le Le, a British Shorthair cat from Wuhan, China, has become a symbol of resistance during the current pandemic, showing us human that if she could survive by herself in a locked apartment for 40 days, then we can handle a bit of social distancing and isolation too. This story of feline endurance and survival […]
Meet Xherdan, Unofficially the World’s Scariest-Looking Cat
We’ve featured our share of famous internet felines, from grumpy cats, to incredibly beautiful fur balls, but we never really posted about scary-looking felines. That ends today, with Xherdan, the scariest-looking sphinx you’ve ever seen. The phrase “a face only a mother could love” is usually used maliciously, but in the case of Xherdan, a […]
Japanese Housewife Creates Insanely Realistic Cat-Shaped Handbags
Japanese housewife and amateur designer Pico grew up collecting faux-fur animals and now spends whatever free time she has creating her own. And, as you can see, she’s really good at it! A self-described cat enthusiast, Pico first attracted media attention five years ago, when photos of one of her incredibly realistic creations went viral […]
Cat Goes Crazy, Keeps Owner Captive in the Kitchen for Two Whole Days
A Russian woman was allegedly unable to leave her kitchen for two days after her pet cat started behaving aggressively and tried to attack her whenever she tried to exit the room. This is the kind of news story that sounds so crazy, it has to be fake! At least that’s what I thought when […]
Family Discovers That Their Cat Had Been Living A Double Life Complete with Different Name and Other Owners
A Mexican family recently discovered that their pet cat had been leading a double life, meaning he had a second home, a different name and another family just a few blocks away. Cats like to be independent, so whenever her cat Pixi went away for longer than usual, Mary Lore Barra assumed that he was […]
Man Faces Five Years in Prison for Using Live Cat as Weapon Against Police
A 59-year-old man from Moscow risks spending up to five years behind bard for allegedly using a live cat as a weapon against police, last year. On October 4, 2018, the suspect, Gennady Shcherbakov, was reportedly sitting at the foot of his apartment building’s stairwell. He had been drinking heavily and was causing a ruckus, […]
Exhausted Cat Needs Glucose Drip to Recover After Mating with at Least 5 Females in One Night
A male Russian Blue cat who was left to roam freely in a pet hotel in Sichuan, China, ended up needing a glucose drip to recover after mating with at least five female cats in just a few hours. News of the cat’s exploits was shared on Chinese social media by his owner, a certain […]