This video, showing a very chill tabby enjoying music, comes from Haburu the cat’s YouTube page (he lives in Japan):
Some of Haburu’s most favorite songs: –
The best lullaby for cat (Meowssage): https://youtu.be/9lbhSyMLR-M –
Proud of MEOW: https://youtu.be/Pc13fDZvQ5g –
Brahms’ Lullaby for Meow: https://youtu.be/TzVFzSediQc –
Always with MEOW: https://youtu.be/3UxqIhZdt7Q –
Masterpiece Mashup for MEOW: https://youtu.be/zKcSfCMvKnk
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This is from People Magazine (click on screenshot), though it should be in Cats Magazine:
Some excerpts and photos:
Aaron Benitez and Prince Michael has been inseparable since the day the Brooklyn man adopted the grey feline.
It’s a well-documented friendship thanks to Benitez’s YouTube account Aaron’s Animals, which has over 2 million subscribers and dozens of videos featuring Prince Michael and Benitez hanging out.
“We really are best friends, on and off the screen. I know I can always count on Prince Michael to put a smile on my face when I’m down or be my wingman when I’m up,” Benitez said of the “friendly, easy-going, loyal, loving” cat.
So when it came time for Benitez to get married, he knew Prince Michael had to be involved.
“When we looked for venues, allowing cats was the main priority,” the cat’s owner told PEOPLE. “When we picked a caterer, we made sure they could make salmon (Michael’s fave). And when we booked a DJ, we made sure he wouldn’t play ‘Who Let the Dogs Out.’”
Along with making sure Prince Michael was comfortable at his wedding, Benitez also gave the cat the honor of serving as his best man — a role the feline took seriously.
“He actually did a ton throughout the day. Aside from strutting down the aisle, his biggest role was keeping the party going well into the night. As a groomsman, he kept everyone in the wedding party entertained and energetic,” Benitez said.
Prince Michael attended the event in his own custom-made suit created by a “special tailor” and took part in plenty of wedding photos.
“They all loved it!” Benitez said of his guests’ reactions to Prince Michael’s presence. “I mean, who doesn’t want their pet at their wedding?”
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And from The Atlantic (click on screenshot), we get the story of Moxie, a black cat at Ohio’s Kenyon College:
Moxie, now two, has been a campus “pet” since he was six months old and adopted by campus pastor Susan Stevens after the moggie wanted some of her French fries. The cat is ubiquitous all over campus and is sometimes a pest:
What [Stevens] didn’t know at first was that he’d become a Kenyon darling almost overnight—these days, the two-year-old cat treats the students like his personal chauffeur service. Moxie regularly jumps up onto the backpacks of passing humans, traversing campus on his two-legged chariots. He delights the school, but also disturbs it. Recently, for example, the fire department had to rescue the cat from a coffee shop’s roof. He likes to infiltrate classroom buildings, too; signs warning students not to let Moxie into the lecture halls abound. Every once in a while he enters Kenyon’s on-campus Episcopal church unannounced, in the middle of Reverend Rachel Kessler’s sermons.
Here’s a video of the beloved Moxie, including an interview with Moxie’s staff; note the “no Moxie allowed” classroom sign!
Moxie is a social-media celebrity, and is even the subject of a Facebook group with nearly 400 members. Sarah Stewart, a senior and the co-founder of theWhere Is Moxie @ Kenyon? group, says it’s updated daily. Such fandom makes sense at Kenyon, which—like a growing number of colleges across the country—prides itself on being a fur-friendly institution, Kenyon President Sean Decatur (or “D-Cat” as the students call him) recently told me.
The sad thing is that it took Trump’s elections to get the students to love campus cats this much:
Other unofficial mascots and communal campus pets—such as American University’s Wonk Cat and Wheaton College’s Cowduck—serve the same purpose: a bit of fun in a stressful environment. Stewart calls Moxie the campus’s communal emotional-support animal. She often observes students look up from their phone, stop to greet the cat, and “stay present.” Teddy Hannah-Drullard, another senior, told me she cherishes Moxie so much in part because her own application to have an ESA was declined.
“The biggest reason Moxie is such a popular entity is because he showed up at a time … when the Kenyon student body really needed something to hold on to,” Hannah-Drullard says. Moxie materialized at Kenyon after the polarizing 2016 election and stayed through tense debates over new campus rules governing student protests, for example, as well as its elimination of peer-counseling services.
So be it; at least there’s one good side effect of Trump’s election. Here’s a student with Moxie:
h/t: Barry, Michael, Dave, Scott
Love that piano cat.
I happen to loathe mawwying and weddings. But.
I ‘ld certainly ‘ve taken the late Mz Moxie Grace OwlFace,
my previous Maine Coon – tortie and also quite laid back,
to any such, or other, event !
Blue
Always enjoy Saturday sends but especially liked the Moxie story. Stress buster for a lot of these young people.
Damn spell check – I said “Caturday” above.
Yes, I agree. The Moxie story lowered my blood pressure. I actually started purring. 😎
I was quite taken by Moxie,too. However, I consulted with Jarvis Dupont and he pointed out the indignity of the last photo that should be captioned “Driving Ms. Moxie.”
This gross affront: depicting a woman of color (a black woman, at that) toting a cat and a pack on her back as if she were no better than a beast of burden, as if she were chattel, demonstrates that Kenyon College is woefully insufficient in wokeness. I’m going to call Evergreen College and demand they send a re-education team to Kenyon post haste.
I guess it should be Mr. Moxie, which simply compounds the offense. Hopefully, once the campus has gone through its re-education, Mr. Moxie will undergo a his-her-rectomy and become Ms. Moxie.
During grad work at The American U (1966 MA in Computational Linguistics), one of our classmates was a life-sciences lass who wore a lab coat at all times. One of its pockets was home to Skosh, a tailless rat who was quite civilized. He’d peak out the pocket flap and never go farther if a class was in session. He’d be out and socializing all over the lab coat during breaks. I’m glad he’s no longer there; I’d hate to think of Wonk Cat consuming Skosh, just cuz predation is in firmware.
Computational linguistics already in 1966!? Fascinating!
What is the procedure for removing a complicit vice president? Maybe during the presidential impeaching process, perhaps enough comes out on vp complicity, he/she resigns perforce. This Pence so-called person is of course guilty of being a knowledgeable part of a corrupt regime but if,inshallah, trump is convicted in impeachment votes, what happens to Pence? A seat on the throne and another impeachment? Or what, I wonder?
Why do they say “Moxie is my son”? Strange.