This is Rocky. I grew up my entire life having cats and had a total of 9 before my wife and I got Rocky. I say that because having known so many different cats over the years, Rocky is hands down the sweetest, snuggliest, and friendliest with strangers cat I’ve ever had.

If he’s not curled up on one of our laps, he at least has to always be in the same room as us. If we are in different rooms in the house, it’s as though he gets conflicted and will lay in the middle of the hallway to split the difference.

He loves to be carried around as he lays straddled across your shoulders.

He used to always meet us at the door when we came home, and we would have conversations with him where we would ask him things like how his day was and what he got up to, and he would loudly meow between each question. But now he’s mostly deaf, so he is usually asleep in one of his many cardboard boxes around the house when we get home.

He’s a terrible hunter, but he usually does a pretty good job of at least finding a bug on the floor. He’ll sit there and stare intently at it (until he loses interest and walks away), which is our cue that there’s something there.

He’s a special little dude, and we love him to pieces.

Can climb a screen door like nobodys business

This is my cat Cygnus. I named him after Cygnus x-1 which is thought to be a black hole. He’s a very very smart cat. He does tricks eg. shake, opens doors etc.

Sir Kitty would sometimes appear “lost in thought” while lying on his back. The first time I saw him like this, I was seriously worried he was no longer alive because he wasn’t moving and wouldn’t respond to me calling to him.

This is Simon. His favorite thing is the arm of the couch. He yells at you until you spank his ass, and then he sticks his butt up high and his tongue comes out.

Also, he can’t meow. He just chortles like a penguin. He also does this when he runs, so it sounds like he’s making a vrooom sound as he bolts past you.

Murphy is 20 years old and is deaf now, but still jumps up onto my lap and occasionally chases after strings. They told us he was found in a storm drain. He has been with us through 4 moves, the last time being just a week ago where he survived a 17-hour drive in a cramped car and pooping in a moving vehicle. He is a survivor and a sweetheart.

He loves rump smacks (cat bongos) and this rug. He especially loves rump smacks while on this rug.

This is Simón. He is my best cat. I got him ten years ago. He is the friendliest, snuggliest cat I’ve ever met. He is very vocal so we “talk” a lot every day.

He’s not even mine. He’s just a stray that hangs around and climbs up onto my shoulder whenever he sees me. I call him Cosmo.

Here’s my favorite picture of my old boy Kahn. I rescued him and his sister when they were itty bitty about 14 years ago. He is THE coolest cat. He has purred since the day he was born, it is nearly constant. You walk by and he flops to ask for belly rubs. He loves to have the space in between his toes massaged and will stretch his paws as wide as possible so you can really get in there.

When we got him we had three dogs. He loved them and they have since all passed. We had another dog who wasn’t with us long due to health but he loved him too. We have two new boys and it took him a second because he never had been around puppies but will curl up with them now on their bed or in front of the fireplace.

You can have conversations with him and he responds. Sometimes he is monosyllabic but will also meah back in short sentences.

He hangs out with the chickens and just chills. Such a cool cat and I will miss him when he’s gone.

I love his sister too, but she has chosen my spouse as her human and she doesn’t hang out if I’m home. She’s very stand offish and demanding. She has so many rules about who what and when she wants things and doesn’t want her time or space intruded on. as you can see on her face I am intruding on her human time.

3 AM. Lorelei has no sense of personal space.

When you sneeze Calcifer will sprint into the room and meow at you to bless you. If you ignore him he will keep meowing until thanks or pets are provided.

He also knows when my wife is in pain or having anxiety and will sit on her lap to keep her calm (maybe projecting this, but it’s very helpful and cute)

May I introduce Cleo and Sebastion! Sebastion is very talkative and shows lots of love, but from a distance. Cleo is a sweetie and will come and lay on my chest at night, and also find anything to make noise with in the morning, so I’ll wake up and feed them. They generally love each other and never fight, but sebastion can go into what I call Crack head mode, and anything goes then.

This is Brewster, who is so demanding about being loved, and yet so particular about it. He won’t come on my lap while on the couch, or in my office chair or in the reading chair, or anywhere else.

He’ll stomp around and yell, or roll around on the floor acting cute, or start clawing whatever furniture I’m on that’s not the bed until I get into bed, and I have to be under the covers, with this particular blanket, and then he’ll let me pet him. He’s such a doofus and I love him.

I have three, but one is particularly “special.”

I found him kind of mangled in a parking garage. He screams when he gets excited, it’s hilarious. There’s always a new noise from him. He comes into a room then you can see that he forgot why he came in, but at the same time he can open complex handles on windows that have push buttons. We affectionately call him an idiot savant, but he’s so sweet.

Oh yes. He also loves belly rubs, he really demands them. He also likes feet massages. Bizarre little kitty.