71 cats added so far!

November 17, 2021 6:35 PM

Two are named Potato. [reddit video]

Who has been added to the chorus (so far)?
Romeo, Chino, Thaumiel, Squid, Noodle, Haku, Don Eladio, Marley, Egg, Hank, Rexie, Sasha, Pumpkin, Chuck, Ruby, Olive, Panko, Isla, Atlas, Kaia, Cousin Bruce...

The artist, u/friendlynoodless
Noodle the Friendly Cat on Twitter
Three of the artist's floofers on a shelf.

posted by Glinn (25 comments total)

OMG all of the cats with their silly faces and open mouths. I can never get my cats to stay still with that expression.

My photos are 78% my cats, 20% other people's cats and children, 2% proof that I eat meals (I send those to my parents).
posted by spamandkimchi at 7:28 PM on November 17, 2021 [8 favorites]

Also, my vet disapproves of the practice of naming cats after food items (they mentioned it in the context of our cats having old-fashioned people names). I hadn't really thought about it, but it does seem like a trend?
posted by spamandkimchi at 7:31 PM on November 17, 2021 [4 favorites]

Oops. I meant to link this Instagram account which actually features all the cats in the painting and not the cats in real life www.instagram.com/rebeccasalinasart/
posted by spamandkimchi at 7:48 PM on November 17, 2021 [3 favorites]

T̶u̶n̶a̶.
posted by clavdivs at 7:53 PM on November 17, 2021

Oh yeah, the IG should have featured. I just happened to come across the video on reddit and loved the cats and the painting so much!
posted by Glinn at 8:02 PM on November 17, 2021

Two Atlases and two Milos as well, if I caught that right.
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 8:03 PM on November 17, 2021 [1 favorite]

Re. naming cats after food, IRC there was one in a Carry On film called 'cooking fat', which at least has the ring of frequent [slang] use about it
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 8:03 PM on November 17, 2021 [1 favorite]

The music is from The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker, if you were wondering.
posted by mhoye at 8:30 PM on November 17, 2021 [1 favorite]

Depending upon where you come from: "Milo" is also a food.
posted by pompomtom at 5:30 AM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

Ah, my grandparents grew Milo (sorghum).

Back on topic: I like cats.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 5:36 AM on November 18, 2021 [3 favorites]

My cats are named Gravyboat and Lady Sage (cat tax: their instagram account). Those were their shelter names and I kept them. The staff at our vet clinic are always chuckling about Gravy's name.
posted by wicked_sassy at 6:08 AM on November 18, 2021 [4 favorites]

Well, gravyboat isn’t a food item; it’s a gravy container, which is an aspirational role for every cat I’ve met.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:24 AM on November 18, 2021 [17 favorites]

wicked_sassy, do your cats also love avocado!?!? My cats come galloping into the kitchen if they hear me cut open an avocado. I don't know how they can even hear that sound if they are in the other room. They also misidentify other uses of that knife (potato??? come on guys).
posted by spamandkimchi at 7:43 AM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

Excellent! I, too, love the open mouth expression, so cat!
I hope the artist realizes this is the most perfect wrapping paper ever, and of course fabric repeats.
posted by winesong at 9:00 AM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

I have a cat named Potato. We actually have a very strict cat naming protocol in our family: cats must be named after a food that begins with the letter P. Growing up we had Pumpkin and Pepper and Peanut. I have Potato. My sister has Pizza and Pickle. My kids have planned multiple names for potential future cats (the current leader is Pepino).
posted by sleeping bear at 9:19 AM on November 18, 2021 [6 favorites]

Decades ago when I adopted two cats from the shelter at the same time, I named them Bean (black kitten) and Toast (medium hair tortie). Five years ago I adopted another pair of kittens (siblings), and I named them Zipper (floofy tabby) and Button (floofy calico).

I love this painting and all the cat names.
posted by fikri at 11:45 AM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

Also, my vet disapproves of the practice of naming cats after food items

I wonder how the Mr Potroast from the video fit into that?
posted by Dr. Twist at 12:50 PM on November 18, 2021

Also, my vet disapproves of the practice of naming cats after food items (they mentioned it in the context of our cats having old-fashioned people names).

Harrumph. I disapprove of your vet's disapproval of how people name their pets. (This may be colored by my disapproval of a certain family member's strong disapproval of giving pets "human" names because they see it as somehow disrespectful of any humans who share the name... which, uh?)

Also colored by my happy memories of Olive, a small black cat whom I adopted from the shelter about a week after I'd bought a HUGE jar of Kalamata olives from Costco, which turned out to be far more olives than I was able to consume.

When we met, my now-husband was not a cat person. The day I came home to find him flying a happily excited Olive around the kitchen in a Supercat pose ("because there's a fly she can't reach, so I'm helping") was a good one.
posted by Lexica at 12:53 PM on November 18, 2021 [5 favorites]

@spamandkimchi: Yes! Lady Sage is an avocado fiend and, like yours, will run into the kitchen when she hears me scooping out avocado from the skin. It's very cute. Sometimes she filches them from the counter and rips them open in the middle of the night, which is hilarious but less cute. She also insists on tasting all of my food, despite me being vegan; this week, she has attempted to steal injera from Ethiopian food, tortilla chips, and shredded kale.

Gravyboat likes to steal one green bean when I'm cooking those but otherwise is pretty uninterested in human foods.

So many good kitties and fun names on this thread!
posted by wicked_sassy at 1:50 PM on November 18, 2021 [3 favorites]

slight derail but until this morning I didn't think cats farted
posted by elkevelvet at 3:22 PM on November 18, 2021 [2 favorites]

I also have a cat named Potato. I didn't realize it was such a popular feline name.

Then again, I once met Jaron Lanier and he told me that his cat is named Potato, too. So there's that.
posted by Dr. Wu at 4:22 PM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

Oh, elkevelvet, I wish I knew otherwise.
posted by mollweide at 5:26 PM on November 18, 2021 [3 favorites]

wicked_sassy, do your cats also love avocado!?!?

That cats love cantaloupe was a given but that they feel the same about avocado is new to me.
posted by y2karl at 6:13 PM on November 18, 2021

My friend had a cat named Potatoe.
posted by matildaben at 6:32 PM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

I kept my composure until MR. BINKLES.
posted by emjaybee at 10:45 PM on November 18, 2021 [1 favorite]