Emma the cat is our fattypants kitteh of the week. She’s a super-mellow 9-year-old striped tabby with brown, orange, black, and gold in her coat. She likes watching pigeons, rubbing her head against things that stink (men’s feet especially), and sleeping on warm laundry. Most of the day she spends watching traffic on Jones Street or snoozing in sun beams. As you can see by pics below, she also has a healthy appetite.
Autumn the Cat spends most of his time looking out a window onto the street, sometimes pausing to engage in staring death-matches with the kitteh across the street. He’s not the brightest animal, but he’s pretty nice to strangers and loves being petted on his soft little head. He likes to sleep on his back but if you try to pet his irresistibly fluffy white tummy, he’ll clamp on your hand like a Venus fly trap. Belly = off limits. Boo.
Text in pic above (in case you can’t read it) is my attempt at an American Apparel ad and says: Meet Autumn. He’s 10 years old. Half-Siamese, half-crazy. Citizen of the world. When not hanging with his BFF Emma (behind him) he’s begging for treats, hissing at fire engines, and shedding his ridiculously fluffy white fur everywhere. He once gave my ex-boyfriend cat scratch fever. You go, Autumn.
Valet Kitteh may not initially look it from the title photo, but she’s a pretty lovable cat that hangs out in the parking lot on Cosmo Alley. Don’t really know what she does there all day other than looking cute, yet annoyed at all the parking that goes on around her.
It’s not easy finding kittehs in the Loin to feature in this section, but a couple days ago, I was walking up Leavenworth between Post & Sutter and saw this cool looking cat down in the alley drinking from a puddle. I thought, “My but that would be a good kitteh to feature if only she wasn’t so far away for me to get a picture.” Kitteh heard and today, I was walking by again to find her up at the gate to this alley which obviously meant that it was picture time.
This cat is all love. I have no idea what she’s doing in this alley, but I think that she might be someone in the building’s cat that made a fast break out a window, down a fire escape and got stuck in the alley like an idiot–a cuddly idiot. I just hope that she’s all right and is just hanging out in the alley by day and curling up on a bed by night. If you live on Leavenworth by this alley with the set of blue-painted steps that goes way, way down and wonder where your awesome cat with the pink collar got to, she’s there, purring it up for random strangers.
We haven’t had a doggie of the week in a while, since lately all the pictures we’ve been snapping of the neighborhood boogers have been blurry. Ah, impatient doggies… So instead, here’s another kitteh of the week that we’ve spotted a few times looking sad behind a window. We ignore his name, but he’s a very furry and cute little fella who has some cute brown spots on his whiskers that caught our attention. You can see him on Geary between Leavenworth and Jones.
As you can see, the furniture seems to be very classy, and he’s always standing in a very royal manner. Which makes us wonder what the name of this fine, fine tendakitteh is. Anybody knows him?
It’s time to enjoy a new tendah kitteh, this week brought to you thanks to our reader Garrett Cullen*. Meet Tip, the most polite cat in the hood:
Garrett tells us that Tip is now four and that he’s a bit of a lover. “He woes any of my friends who come over with his cuteness”, he adds. And looking at this, we surely believe him:
Apparently, Tip was named Tip after the white tip on his tail although we can’t say for sure since these pictures don’t show his tail. Q-tip also after the hip hop artist.
*Reminder: keep sending us pictures of your tendah kittehs (We’re looking at you, Eric!)
This week we’re featuring a rather professional tendah kitteh. His name is Beto:
He typically sleeps over at Terrasol on Larkin between Sutter and Post. During the day, according to co-owner, Steven Trimble, he “commutes to work” over at Galleria Tempest on Polk Street. Trimble and his partner Alberto A. Rojas are the owners of both these location and it’s from Alberto where Beto gets his name as it was Alberto’s nickname growing up.
While he is in a surrounding that’s work, work, work, all the time, Beto’s days primarily focus around: napping and eating everything in site. It’s the later activity that makes him a bit, well, plump. Beto was about two years old when Steven and Alberto picked him from the SPCA two years ago. They were warned at the time that, like many Americans, he has little control over his appetite. While sensible cats will only eat until they’re full, Beto will devour whatever is there and then ask for more.
His plumpness is a bit disarming though as while he is okay with letting small dogs be, he will gladly try and confront larger dogs. So, for those bringing your overly gregarious yellow lab in to Terrasol or Tempest, be forewarned that Beto is a sleeping cobra. Here is additional proof:
It’s time for another tendah kitteh of the week, because we love to highlight cute neighborhood pets. This one is brought to you by Charlotte, one of our favourite Tenderblog readers who also runs a great blog on food, photography and her love of French things called à la poêle. Her name is Ellie:
Here’s what Charlotte wrote to us in an email about her best pet friend:
She’s a 13 month old dilute tortoiseshell rescue cat from the streets of Oakland. I got her last August and we’ve been BFF ever since. My friend who was with me when I adopted her suggested I name her Eleanor, but we call her Ellie. When we moved to the TL from Oakland she was pretty freaked out by the upstairs neighbors (we were on the top floor in Oakland) and all the sirens and hollering that goes on outside, but now she sleeps through it like a champ. Ellie also has an affinity for sweet things like ice cream and banana popsicles.
Judging by the photoset devoted to Ellie on Charlotte’s Flickr account, it seems that she also likes windows, fishtanks and pink plastic bags! Oh, and playing with Charlotte’s groceries, posing “a serious risk of distraction from still life photography” (which she often takes for her blog):
Do you remember Kathleen, aka Cielo Gold, proud Tenderloinette who was featured on the blog I live here: SF? Well, thanks to her Twitter avatar we discovered that she has a very cute kitteh named Ace:
So we asked her to send us some more pictures of Ace the Cat. And here’s what we got, purrrrr:
We got one more of him as Santa, but we’re selfishly keeping it for ourselves to use next Christmas to greet our friends…
If you guys have tendah kittehs at home, and we know many of you do (we’re looking at you, Charlotte), please send them our way
Update: As it turns out, Ace the Cat has now been featured on I live here: SF too! And not only with a super-cute picture, but also with a truly heart-warming story. Here’s a little excerpt:
I know that a lot of people who live here in the Tenderloin are either lost or come to die. I know. I can hear them screaming at each other all day long as I look out my window. But I came to the Tenderloin to live. Living the good life here in the Tenderloin has made all those scary nights of living on the streets without food, water or human loving attention all seem worth it now. I am proud to call the Tenderloin my home.
