Cool for Cats

My owners have expressed some concern that writing my Blog with six followers (Paws up to you all, my Peeps!) may lead to an exaggerated view of my own importance.

How ridiculous! I don't need my Blog to know that I am important! Cats ARE important! Every week there are stories about Cats from around the World proving that "The Cult of the Cat" is alive and well amongst all Societies.   

Cats are cool - it is official. The uber-trendy music magazine, NME recently featured an article on the "Most famous Cats in Rock" and band like Klaxons who feature their cat Orphee (the astronaut cat!) "Klaxon's Cat"; We are Scientists "We Are Scientists' Cat"  and Blink 182 "Blink 182 Cat" all feature my fellow Moggies on their album covers. Even the folk hero Billy Bragg features a cat (name unknown, left) who I swear is my Doppelganger! Many a mega rock star would sell their soul to be featured in the NME, and with effortless feline ease, there are my fellow kin gracing its pages!

However, some owners take Cat Cool to a cruel extreme. 

Personally the only piercings I can tolerate are those made by my claws into the supple leather of my owner's furniture (sooooo gratifying!). But it appears that a woman in the US (where else) is being prosecuted for piercing kittens with ear and neck rings and selling them online as "Gothic Cats". 

Apart from affecting their balance and causing infections, it does no kitten any favours to resemble a brain-dead-head-banging-Red-Hot-Chilli-Pepper-groupie! Rock 'n' Roll Dude! 

And then there is the strangeness of Cats as tourist attraction - meet the Taiwanese Tickle Cats.
Cool or creepy? There we have the tiny town inhabited by 200 people and about 400 apparently nymphomaniac Cats. They started with about 5 cats who obviously thought they were at a Sandals Resort for Cats and interbred, and now they have hundreds who have turned into a tourist attraction - people can buy feather tickling stick to "pet" the apparently friendly Taiwanese Kin, who seemingly bask in their new found glory! I still think it's a bit ....."icky".... and someone should check to see if they have webbed paws, with all that interbreeding!

I wish to be more than cool - I wish to be a Classic! A Cat of renown, and remembered for posterity.

This weekend my owners set off to cycle around London, on something they called the London Skyride? 15km using their own peddle power to traverse the centre of a car-free London with 80,000 other bi-ped-allists!

As I watched them peddle off from the comfort of my warm bed, I sent them with one goal - to photograph the (left) Edwin Landseer "Trafalgar Square" Lions, because Dear Follower I have a plan.

Apparently I have heard there is a Fourth Plinth in the Square, which they are constantly having trouble filling. Since there is already a precedent for Catty Kin in the Square, I am thinking of a bronzed stature of One, striking a thoughtful, regal pose, with the words;

"I BLOG, THEREFORE I AM" inscribed beneath. 

My argument being that I would seem an apt subject, since the NW corner (near where the said plinth is placed), has been the site of the King's Mews since the time of Edward I. 

QED!