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December 6, 2015 9:38 AM

Bodega Cats is a Twitter account featuring cats that live in stores
posted by The Whelk (28 comments total)

Not sure how I would react if I reached down to grab a box of brownies and instead got a fistful of fur and claws.
posted by cynical pinnacle at 9:50 AM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

With hugs and smoochies on their little noses THAT'S HOW
posted by poffin boffin at 9:54 AM on December 6, 2015 [29 favorites]

I like the "Little Bites" cat. She looks like she has it all sorted out.
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:54 AM on December 6, 2015

I want to hang out with this little guy. Or this one.
posted by Existential Dread at 9:55 AM on December 6, 2015

Also, light bulbs are nice and toasty.
posted by Existential Dread at 9:59 AM on December 6, 2015

I'm finding the Instagram layout easier to browse. Also I will buy this cat in bulk.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:01 AM on December 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

Also this cat appears to have some physical abnormalities like dog ears and dog paws and a dog face but is nevertheless a very good cat.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:04 AM on December 6, 2015 [8 favorites]

I love bodega cats, though I just love the idea of a cat that works for a living (he said as he glared at his lazy, good-for-nothing adorable fluff ball sprawled out on the couch).

There's a cat at the bodega around the corner from my apartment, and he will every once in a while come by and just sit in front of our front window and stare. Which of course drives our cat nuts.
posted by Itaxpica at 10:08 AM on December 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

How do stores that sell food and have cats running around not violate local health codes?
posted by Going To Maine at 10:09 AM on December 6, 2015

In NYC they used up all their available health codes on rats. 🐀🐀🐀
posted by Existential Dread at 10:12 AM on December 6, 2015 [5 favorites]

not cool, cat
you're just rubbing it in
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:14 AM on December 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

In NYC, bodega cats are technically against the health code but they're mostly overlooked because they keep vermin away, which are way worse. You do hear about bodega owners getting fined periodically, but most bodegas have cats anyway.
posted by Itaxpica at 10:17 AM on December 6, 2015

I've been bugging this deli cat for years
posted by The Whelk at 10:20 AM on December 6, 2015 [11 favorites]

This cat is like, just try buying these, friendo. These are my cat birthright.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:27 AM on December 6, 2015 [5 favorites]

I had not been previously aware that sleeping on ATMs was a Thing.
posted by thomas j wise at 11:03 AM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

That's where the warms are.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:30 AM on December 6, 2015 [7 favorites]

To follow up on Itaxpica's comment, other forms of vermin control (like traps and poison) tend to leave little corpses rotting behind large, hard-to-move refrigerators. Some customers might not like cats, but I'll bet they really don't like the smell of rotting flesh An added bonus is that some cats like to eat cockroaches too (I know mine does).
posted by Drab_Parts at 11:55 AM on December 6, 2015

And I know a lot of New Yorkers who have developed close relationships with their local bodega cat.
posted by Drab_Parts at 11:57 AM on December 6, 2015 [4 favorites]

I wish my local store had cats hiding among the potato chips to dissuade me from grabbing some. (Or going for the cat instead of the chips).
posted by TwoStride at 12:50 PM on December 6, 2015

Indeed. Just throw in the cat and I'd be set.
posted by TwoStride at 12:55 PM on December 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

Look at all these ridiculously good cats!
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:17 PM on December 6, 2015

Taste what people are talking about!
posted by Countess Elena at 1:48 PM on December 6, 2015 [9 favorites]

I've literally never seen anything that made me want to live in NYC.

UNTIL NOW
posted by wintersweet at 4:23 PM on December 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

There was a corner store in my home town we didn't shop at any more after my mom walked in one fine day and found the store cat lounging about in the cold cuts.
posted by lagomorphius at 5:54 PM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Top-voted hotel and ryokan cats of Japan.
posted by wintersweet at 6:02 PM on December 6, 2015 [4 favorites]

I always feel better about a bodega with a cat.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 6:42 PM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

I was all this is the best thing ever! until I saw the one sitting inside a laundromat dryer, and now I need therapy.
posted by wallabear at 10:08 AM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Croissant kitty is mimicking the croissants! (or they are mimicking him)
posted by kitten magic at 12:09 AM on December 8, 2015 [1 favorite]