Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Just the first pic induces heart explosions. Brace for second pic of Life & Times of Josie Cat. Coming. Now.
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I know, I know. The worst is yet to come though…
Shew. Can you handle it? Am barely coping...
I don’t really know what to say anymore. It’s just ridiculous that anything should be this cute. Josie Cat’s Guest Cat today, Finch, also happens to be exceptionally cute, a warning. Meet Finch.
Finch lives in the flat above Josie. Although younger than Josie by a couple of weeks, Finch is fortunate enough to have more liberal parents who are happy for her to roam free with her new collar. She’s a very sweet little girl and as fluffy as ever. Sadly, Finch and Josie do not get along but that doesn’t mean that Josie’s mom can’t pet Finch or take cutesy photos of her when Josie isn’t looking.
I haz bag, will travel
Interesting fact: Finch goes on road trips with her parents. Whenever they go away, they take Finch with. Amazing, right?
'Cat of the road'.
Travelling cat!! It does my head in! Finch’s mom happens to be a fashion designer – check out her stuff at ILoveLeroy. Thanks for sending her in Em! xx Send your CapeTownCat to CTG – editor@capetowngirl.com.
lives in the flat above Josie.
Although younger than Josie by a couple of weeks, Finch is fortunate enough to have more liberal parents who are happy for her to roam free with her new collar.
She’s a very sweet little girl and as fluffy as ever. Sadly, her and Josie do not like get along but that doesn’t mean that Josie’s mom can’t pet Finch or take cutesy photos of her when Josie isn’t looking.
Interesting fact: Finch goes on road trips with her parents. Whenever they go away, they take Finch with. They told me that they once had to phone around, asking all the guest houses in the area they were visiting, if cats are allowed. This was the first time that most of the guest house owners had received such an unusual request. Naturally.
It’s been a while since we got our Life & Times of Josie Cat aka Cape Town Cat on. No reason in particular, CTG just hasn’t been ‘feeling it’, but I’m totally feeling it again. Josie Cat has been faced with a whole new conundrum - a collar. You see, Josie Cat is kept indoors, but she longs to be able to go outside to play with her cat friends in her block. So Emma has been slowly introducing the whole collar vibe, but Josie Cat No Sure!
Josie Cat No Sure!
No thanks!
As Josie Cat grapples with this common feline existential dilemma, she presents from beneath her furry hidey hole 2 very worthy CTC’s who belong to Stella and Stuart, Duma and Pippa!
Meet Duma. Keep breathing.
And Miss Pippa. Bless!
As you can see, a lot of this sort of thing happens in Stella’s household:
Just lollin' out
As does this sort of nonsense:
I mean really. Have you EVER in your life.
Stella and Stuart, thank you for sharing your babies! Really, if your heart hasn’t melted into a million little pieces of goo by now, you might just be a reptile. CapeTownCat is back friends. Send your babies to editor@capetowngirl.com. Do it for CTG’s readers. Help make the internet a warmer, happier, cuddlier place.
Guys, this Nomu Pose With CTG Competitionhad many highlights for me. Many. I was alternately touched / moved / inspired / elated / validated / disturbed by your entries. I did wonder how to go about choosing a winner, since a lot of you went to a whole lot of trouble, but one last minute entry came in on the last evening of June, and I really don’t think I need to say much about why it’s the winner. Please, enjoy Sir Lancelot in his pink gown on his pink throne, sent in by his owner slave, Fran.
Sir Lancelot
And Fran giving him cuddles for his great performance.
Cuddles...
Fran and SL, you have completely blown my mind. I have printed the pic of Sir Lancey and stuck him up next to my desk, as a reminder of ‘why I do what I do’. Fran wins herself the following:
A free image consultation with Lipstick Spin, glamour lifestyle and wardrobe consultants (if you need an outfor for that occasion, these are the ladies to go to, trust me)
and of course, a ridiculous pastry box filled with goodies such as macarons from Cassis - the small bakery in Gardens Centre where CTG first discovered macarons.
Fran, sweetheart, I hope you enjoy every single one of those prizes, and do give Sir Lancelot some macarooney love from me.
Guys last week was (gasp) too busy to post Cape Town Cat stuff – to much protest. Fear not, I have learnt my lesson and we’re here, right? Right. Josie Cat’s been pushing the old cute envelope lately. Thumbing numbly through my facebook news feed, this has got to be the highlight of my scrolls:
Exhausted. Too much being scrolled over and enlarged.
Those paws! I run out of similes and expressions to cope with those little pads of joy. You’ll want to steel yourself for the next pic, just a warning…
Bam! Sigh... Like, what is she DOING in there? Devastating.
Today, from the bottom of a wastebasket, Josie presents 2 kittens that I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to deal with – no jokes. I’ve toyed with posting them a few times, but just looking at them makes my pupils dilate and sends me into a slightly breathy fluster and I must calm myself down by doing something totally unstimulating, like catching up on SA politics. Here. See if you do any better. Introducing MV and Luna (brace for palpitations):
MV has the darker-face, Luna is the light one
MV and Luna were sent in by Jess, but they belong to her friend Tarryn. Jess is brave enough to admit that they make her head explode. Dang. Are we coping? If so I’ll move on to the next pic, of MV chilling with Osca, his dowgy friend:
Just hangin'...
Has your head begun exploding yet? No? Alright, bringing out the big guns:
L'il Mz Luna
How are you doing there? Are you still with me? Thanks for these two, Jess. Send me your kittehs people. Help me help Cape Town’s head explode. editor@capetowngirl.com. x
So Life & Times of Josie Cat is back with more sordid photos of Josie doing things that really should be made illegal in some sort of kitteh capacity. See these outstretched paws. Do you feel the urge to chew them?Chomp them?Ingest them so you are somehow ‘one with the paws’?
Pawspawspawspawspawspaws
See this kitten-splitz. Does it make you want to eat your own hair just to *deal* with the situation? How do y’all cope with Josie Cat? I find I have to take a moment to compose myself after looking at her before I move on with life. It’s as if suddenly, what’s really important comes in to focus, namely ‘dem paws’. Pray for strength. Whatever your god. Pray.
Not just paws but paw PADS! *faints*
Today Josie has a very special Guest Cat to present, who is utterly tragically no longer with us. Meira belonged to Bruce and Lesley, and they loved her very very much. Be warned, this picture might drive you insane. Your eyes may tear up with blood that has welled from your beating, overstimulated heart.
Meira (may she RIP)
Writes Bruce:
“our dearest Miera; got taken by a dog while exploring the neighborhood. she was brave, maybe too brave.
she was my christmas present. but more an addition to our life.
we held her dead and cried.
we still miss her 4 years down the line…
rip, little m. “
Totally heart-melting in every way. We love you l’il M, wherever you are. Can we please take a moment of silence for her.
Thank you.
Keep your Cape Town Cat pics coming! Send them to editor@capetowngirl.com.
CapeTownCat time y’all! And we’re basically dealing with something quite serious today. Namely Josie Cat has been sleeping with her front paws tucked between her back paws. Why, y’all? Is she trying to destroy our lives by being ’so cute you want to smash your face into a wall’? Is she trying to ‘disrupt the economy’ via causing a severely distracted workforce, all pouring over facebook photos of ‘dose littie bittie kittie pads’? Whatever havoc JC has decided to wreak here upon us at CTG, she is so far succeeding at it. Please, bear witness to my pain:
Front. Paws. Between. Back. Paws. Head. Explodes
All this chaos aside, JC is very VERY proud to present today’s GUEST CATS, namely Barbara and Bernard, who belong to reader H. Says Reader H, “Barbara and Bernard are my best friends. Every morning I make some stairs for them to climb up and they sit in my cupboard and chat to me while I get dressed.” Please enjoy this little video of Barbara indulging in some serious ‘me-time’:
“Bernard and Barbara are brother and sister cats. And they love each other very much.” - Reader H
Cuddles in the sunshine
Barbara shows some tongue
Oh just sitting in a cupboard..
I particularly ADORE Bernard’s little overbite there. Do you see it? God it’s cute. Kills me. Please keep your kittehs coming for Cape Town Cat! Send them to editor@capetowngirl.com – I will feature your bebe, promise! xx
I know y’all have been GAGGING for capetowncat this week so it is with great pleasure we delve back into the riveting Life & Times of Josie Cat. JC’s been up to her usual, brain-explodingly cute nonsense, but that aside her mom Emma informs me she has also just been spayed (said in very hushed tones, we do not want to create unnecessary panic). So she has been sleeping a lot, and giving Emma death stares, and generally plotting revenge. Impossible in a creature so cute-looking, you think, but you’d be surprised…
A little bit of a spazzy climb
Back to sleep post the spaying (shhhh)
In her anesthetized state, JC would like to present to you 2 CTC’s who belong to makeup artist, Eloise Dreyer (who is a seriously fab makeup artist, FYI, click here to follow her on twitter). First up is Indi Pendula and her lazr eyes:
Indi
And next up is Zazu Gabore who we pay tribute to here on CTC, since she has sadly since passed.
Zazu (bless her)
Zazu after one of her wilder nights out in her youth. RIP ZG
Got a kitteh who makes you proud? Send me a pic of your CapeTownCat editor@capetowngirl.com and I’ll feature them here in LTJC. For those of you who send the weekly kitties – keep them coming! They brighten my day! xx
I know you’ve been positively gagging for the next installment of The Life & Times of Josie Cat aka CapeTownCat, and here is it. Let us catch up with our star, Josie Cat. According to Emma, Josie Cat has been getting up to her usual tricks, except now she is a lot bigger. But she is no less cute. Please observe:
Oh whatty whatty Josie Cat? Whatty looky at catty cat?
Scuse me I have lost my kitteh haz you seen it?
Just hanging out here. Breakin' hearts.
Wow, we really are not sure how Emma copes. I might explode if I was faced with that every day. Gracious star that she is, Josie Cat would like to introduce you to 2 very special Cape Town Cats, namely the acrobatic circus kittehs, Bubble & Grappa!
Bubble & Grappa belong to Carol & Luca(click their names to follow them on twitter). Bubble is ‘the prettiest cat in the land’, to quote Carol, and Grappa is Luca’s bebe. Bubble was a surprise birthday gift to carol from Andrew Brauteseth & Candice, and it’s soon going to be her birthday, where carol assures us there will be champagne. And hot dogs. Please, try to control yourself:
Miss Bubble doing circus tricks in her sleep
Miss Grappa giving Miss Bubble a run for her moneh
And as an extra bonus, this beauty from when Bubble was a bebe kitteh:
Josie Cat time! JC been up to her tricks. First Attack Cat – those twisty back ears are a dead giveaway! I love it when they do this! This is a very special moment for Emma to have caught on camera:
All that attack means sleepy cat. Sleepy where its warm, namely the macbook. Ah Josie. Silleh kitteh.
JC presents… CTG Guest Cat!
Meet Cinammon who, in his owner Rowan’s words. is ‘a big spazz, but he’s cool’. Please enjoy these pics of him lolling around his potplant! Brings the lols.
Me Mr Cinnamon cat
Me lollin round in a plantie plant...
We love Cinammon Rowan! He’s awesome. You guys can follow Rowan’s Posterous here… I recommend you check him out, in his words he’s stuck ’somewhere between adland and the real world’. If you have a fabulous kitty like either of these 2, send them in to editor@capetowngirl.com and he or she will be featured as Guest Cat on the next Life & Times of Josie Cat! I’ve already received some truly fabulous cats, so best you not make your CT Cat feel left out & send in your snaps. xx
