Top 10 Cats of 2021 by Dora Blount
1. Scratch and Sniff Scratch and Sniff, world’s best cats, turned 5 this year.
2. Indianapolis Farm Cats Six intriguing, highly engaged black cats live at this AirBnb on a small farm just ten minutes outside of Indianapolis. Luna and her kittens Jungle, Shakti, Harvest, Maya, and Panther are very friendly and are living the good life with lots of adventures and animal friends of many species.
3. Wiggles Legendary pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen’s cat Wiggles is one of several excellent cats that can be found in her storefront/painting studio on Hudson St. in the West Village.
4. Dora and Louise The great honor of my life so far has been to have a cat named after me. Dora and Louise are beautiful statuesque white cats.
5. Stuyvesant Heights Ginger This magnificent ginger was spotted on top of a carport in Stuyvesant Heights in Brooklyn. When we circled back, I found him next to the house, just beyond a fence, with his tongue sticking out.
6. Rockaway Beach Cat in the Window Perfectly full-body-squished against the window in a cat hammock, snoozing with his toys tucked underneath him on a sunny summer afternoon at Rockaway Beach.
7. Logan Square Ginger There is a happening cat scene in the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. I encountered this magnificent ginger relaxing in the garden on an idyllic Sunday morning.
8. Dolly Holding Cats A surprising Dolly Parton discovery found in the Chasing Rainbows Museum at Dollywood was this photo of young Dolly holding two cats!
9. Julia Warhola’s Cat Drawings It was very enlightening to see Andy Warhol’s mother’s cat drawings at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which were very similar to Andy’s own cat drawings, but more eccentric
10. Minyoung Kim’s Cat Paintings Minyoung Kim is a Korea and UK based artist. Her drawings and paintings of cats are surreal, funny, mysterious, and dark and offer a nightmarish vision of their possible inner lives. This one is titled Who is your mum?