Subway man + cat + kittens: West 4 station

On the way home last night LL and I saw this man and his three cats (two little kittens and one possible-momma cat) in the subway entrance.

I asked if I could take his (and cats') picture and he kindly said yes. And he told me how calico cats (the one that looks like my baby kitten, right by the man's blue shoe) are always girl cats (all the kittens in my kitten's litter were calico, and all were girls), and I told him how orange stripey cats are almost always boy cats.

It's amazing that the cats stay with him and don't just run off into the night; I wonder how he gets around with them all without losing them.

W 113th St, Manhattan (unusual)

On my way home last night I actually saw a cat on the street in Manhattan! Poor kitten (she looked about 6 months old), she had no tags, was VERY skittish, but also friendly; I stopped for a while to talk to her and by the time I tried to walk home I almost couldn't because she was winding herself between my legs.

Really hard to take a photo of though since she moved so fast and the light was low AND it's just my phone camera.

I thought about taking her home because no cat should really be wandering around Manhattan alone, but my house is so inhospitable to cats right now that I've moved my baby kitten to the office. So I didn't.

But then, this morning on the way to the subway I saw this:



So I guess she'll be ok for now. (I'm not good at naming like Tom is, maybe he will name this little one?)