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Van City Kitty: Meet Chaucer and Swift!

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:05:54 +0000

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Van City Kitty friend Dr. B. (who incidentally is writing a book about Douglas Coupland‘s work; how cool is that?!) is an English professor. Ergo, her two cats are named Chaucer and Swift. I’ll let her tell you their tails:

Name: Chaucer
Info: This is Chaucer. He is a grey tabby. He lives in New West, though he was born in Ottawa and spent four years in Fredericton. He rode in a car from Fredericton to New Westminster, and didn’t complain once until he hit the Port Mann Bridge which, hey.

He likes sleeping, washing all of his toys, and getting stoned — and then washing all of his toys and sleeping. His favourite place to sleep is on pricier electronics. He has regular morning jaunts on the balcony and loves to sleep on a well-packed box.

He has pretty much the biggest heart ever and takes life extremely, extremely seriously.

Name: Swift
Info: This is Swift! Also a grey tabby. He is equally as well-travelled as his older brother, Chaucer, and also now calls New West home.

His hobbies include sleeping in boxes, sleeping on bookshelves, and jumping on to super high things — to sleep. He spends many hours willing his thumbs to grow so he no longer needs humans. He likes spooning with his big brother and murdering feathered objects.

He’s a goofball and a trouble maker, but we’re pretty sure he loves us.

If you’re interested in adopting a pet, check out our Happy Tails feature or our monthly Van City Kitty Take Us Home editions (most recently here or here.)

If you adopted your pet from the SPCA and would like to share your awesome story on Happy Tails, send an email to Rory.Blanchard@novusnow.ca.

Chaucer + iPad 4 ever

Swift

Chaucer chills

Swift snoozes

Van City Kitty: Ziggy Stardust

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:30 +0000

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Here are the deets on Ziggy, submitted by VIA reader Leah K:

Name: Ziggy Stardust
Breed/Colouring: Flame Point Siamese
Hood: Cedar Cottage – East Van
Habits:Adopted at 9 months after spending a good portion of his kittenhood in a Northern BC shelter, Ziggy now resides in a cozy apartment in East Vancouver. He’s very social and loves meeting new people and other animals. With his constant need to be the center of attention, Ziggy can often be found wandering around announcing his actions in loud Siamese yowls and trilling sounds. He is also known to enjoy the odd car ride and chewing on sparkly sequin garments.

If you’re interested in adopting a pet, check out our Happy Tails feature or our monthly Van City Kitty Take Us Home editions (most recently here or here.)

If you adopted your pet from the SPCA and would like to share your awesome story on Happy Tails, send an email to Rory.Blanchard@novusnow.ca.

Van City Kitty: Meet Oreo!

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:06:13 +0000

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Here are the deets on Oreo, who lives with VIA reader Lauren Tetrault:

Name: Oreo
Breed/Colouring: Black and white
Hood: Mt. Pleasant
Habits: I’m a big fan of licking the bathtub just after someone showers. I also love meowing around 5 a.m. right into the ear of everyone sleeping. Once they are up I go back to sleep. I want whatever you are eating and will stare at you until I get it.
Hangouts: Anywhere my owner is sitting. If she is editing on the computer I take up most of the chair and she sits on the edge to make me happy. I also have three beds around a small one bedroom apartment.
Other info:I’m an 18-year-old diabetic cat so I’m pretty much the boss. I need two needles a day so I travel with my owners whenever possible. I was born in Whistler and love to go back there for Halloween.

If you’re interested in adopting a pet, check out our Happy Tails feature. If you adopted your pet from the SPCA and would like to share your awesome story on Happy Tails, send an email to Rory.Blanchard@novusnow.ca.

Van City Kitty: Meet Vanilla

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:35:39 +0000

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Submitted by VIA reader Justine Kurek, meet scrumptious Siamese Vanilla:

Name: Vanilla
Breed/Colouring: Siamese
Hood: English Bay
Habits: Cuddling my two mummies, attacking my mummies when I don’t get enough cuddles, standing like a statue and staring at my two mummies in the eyes, chasing flies, seagulls and crows, breaking through the neighbour’s apartments like a thief, playing with mummy’s headbands, eating expensive rose bouquets, getting high on catnip and racing from one end of the apartment to the other, but still being cute most of the time…
Hangouts: The computer’s keyboard, mommy’s pillow, camping chairs, mommy’s cashmere pullovers, drawers…
Other info:I was a born in Paris but I am proud to be a Van City kitty now!

If you’re interested in adopting a pet, check out our Happy Tails feature or our monthly Van City Kitty Take Us Home editions (most recently here or here.) If you adopted your pet from the SPCA and would like to share your awesome story on Happy Tails, send an email to Rory.Blanchard@novusnow.ca.

Van City Kitty: It’s Eddy

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:21:26 +0000

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Submitted by VIA reader Courtney Komonasky, it’s Eddy. An original East Van toughie:

Name: Eddy
Breed/Colouring: DSH/ black (duh)
Hood: Mount Pleasant
Habits: Resident tough guy. He’s super social and goes and hangs with the neighbours when I’m at work to mooch love and food. Loves to sit on any sunny front porch or directly in front of the heater.

He recently broke a tooth and fractured his jaw doing who knows what, protecting his turf most likely.

Van City Kitty: Meet Skinny Minnie

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:00:54 +0000

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Meet black panther cat Skinny Minnie, submitted by VIA reader Bailey Finden:

Name: Skinny Minnie
Breed/Colouring: Black Panther
Hood: Oakridge
Habits: Sleeping, hunting mice and giving them to my owners, sleeping, cuddle time.
Hangouts: My owner’s bed, the computer chair, couch, and I love laying in bathtubs!
Other Info: My name may be Skinny but I am a cat of huge stature. Eating is my favorite hobby!

Van City Kitty: Meet Princess

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:30:47 +0000

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Meet 18 year old beauty Princess, submitted by VIA reader Jen McIntyre:

Name: Princess
Age: 18 years (Ed: that is equivalent to approximately 89 human years! Wow!)
Breed/Colouring: Domestic Short Hair
Hood: West End
Hangouts: Apt balcony, bed comforter, cat perch watching birds, couch, computer chair.
Other Info:Was adopted from the SPCA as the runt of the litter. Lived in East Van 2/3rd of her life and moved to the West End at the age of 12. Wishes she could catch a bird once in her life. Enjoys sleeping to keep up her beauty.

Van City Kitty: Meet Sparrow

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:31:50 +0000

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VIA reader Eryne Donahue submitted her awesome traveling celebrity enviro cat Sparrow!

Name: Sparrow “Cedarpaws”
Breed/Colouring: A petite grey-brown tabby
Hood: East Van (Fraser-Broadway area)
Habits: Opening and slamming kitchen cupboards to get attention and treats, late night visits to the local elementary school, drinking from the toilet and begging for milk when its coffee time.
Hangouts: You can find her skulking in the 11th ave curbside gutter, running around at the local elementary school, looking down at you from the roof, snoozing in her cardboard “occupy” tent or on the road anywhere along the coast (she’s a traveller!).
Other info: Born on the streets of East Van and adopted from the SPCA as a kitten, Sparrow has been brought up by an artist and an environmentalist in an old heritage home rental suite. A bit of an adrenaline junkie, she enjoys bumpy car rides on forest service roads, canoe trips on False Creek (and gunnel walking), dog slapping and miniature dog chasing (seriously!), climbing very high trees, sliding down playground slides (on her own!), trail “running with the pack” (i.e. her owners), running into Coyote dens in Squamish or on the Oregon coast (seriously!), roof walking, staring down speeding cars from the middle of the alley and taking on the big cats. She is only one year old and yet she has already travelled to Squamish, Pemberton, Lillooet, Kamloops, Logan Lake, Hope and all the way down the coast on a roadtrip to San Francisco- tent camping along the way. She’s been invited into pet stores, corner stores and a Sonoma county winery! Not only that, but she’s also participated in the creation of 4 wetlands as a conservation project in the BC interior, behaved herself well in a Pemberton breeding bird count, has been featured as “vole patrol” on the Tk’emlups Indian Band facebook page! Wow…she’s a bit of a celebrity enviro cat.

Van City Kitty: Stu

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:28:51 +0000

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Here are the deets on Stu, submitted by VIA reader Sami Christianson:

Name: Stu
Breed/Colouring: A cross-eyed ragdoll cat
Hood: Mt. Pleasant
Habits: Sitting like a human, stealing sushi, trying to fit into purses and bags, running into windows, going for jogs down the hallways of my apartment, sitting on my alarm clock as soon as it goes off so I don’t hear it, licking my face until I wake up to feed him, and attacking my toes in the middle of the night.
Hangouts: The fridge, the bathtub, purses, casserole dishes, countertops, right in front of the tv, the bed, my shoulders while I’m getting ready for bed, and his kitty condo.
Other info: I rescued Stu at 5 months old from a family that was going to pass him off to the SPCA. How they could not want this little guy I will never understand.

Some of Stu’s cute little quirks are: He likes to carry his toys around the apartment in his mouth, he greets me at the door every day at 6 o’clock when I get home from work, and he loves to be picked up and cuddled… as soon as you pick him up he flops in your arms like a doll (hence the name ragdoll cat).

Van City Kitty: Meet Hood

Nikki Reimer — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:13:03 +0000

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From VIA reader Kimberley Station, meet raddest East Van Cat Hood!:

Name: Hood (Spoonface)
Breed/Colouring: Orange and white PersianX
Hood: East Van and Commercial Drive
Habits: Chasing bugs on the window and warming up the bed for his owners all day long.
Hangouts: On the very top of his 8 foot cat tree, or with his bum curled up right in your face in bed.
Other info: Hood was adopted 3 years ago almost unrecognizable covered in mats and dirt from living as an alley cat. Now living the good life, he is employed as ‘cat tester’ at our local shelter a few hours every month, where he meets lots of dogs and helps them find the most suitable homes! This handsome “SPCA special” cat wants you to remember there’s lots of nice kittens and cats for adoption at local shelters and rescues!