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Cassaday, who goes by Cass, turned her “crazy idea” for a collective of vintage stalls with a cat focus into Catnip Coalition Vintage Mall in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The store, with its eye-catching cat sculpture overlooking the entrance, is hard to miss on a bustling stretch of Magnolia Avenue in Burbank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
I petted my bird by tapping my screen while my real life cat glared at me from a corner.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
But then I found a pet adoption company online and a photo of a tuxedo cat named Omelette caught my eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
One small boy was absorbed in a ball game with a cat with luminescent fur.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Meanwhile, other browsers chitchat about cats, weird vintage finds and their eccentric animal obsessions from childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The “Lover” singer is known to have a very soft spot for her own pets: three cats, named Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Beyond cat vibes, Cassaday knew she wanted shop cats and to help furballs in need of a home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
After all, as our cats grow so will the potential for other medical issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Get away!” he would say, and he would chase off the cats, the birds, the occasional mouse or rat on the underground.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Last week, he was catted by the Association of German Friends of Cats, and by Herr Victor Fraenkl, chairman of the German League for Animal Rights, one of the Association's principal spokesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anchor was being catted, sails going up, and yards being trimmed; but, to observers like us, no guiding spirit was noticeable.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
The next instant, Mr. Leach reported the anchor catted and fished.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
Hardly had the little transport Vectis catted her anchor when the Republic of Natalia was proclaimed and its flag run up on the staff of the forsaken British Camp on Durban Bay.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
The ship broke out her own anchor, which we catted and fished, after a fashion, and stood off from the lee-shore against a heavy head sea, under reefed topsails, fore-topmast staysail and spanker.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
He was a Viet Nam Vet who had been "catting" on the city streets for years.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016
The lads up front have got their sprint on at the top and after some catting and mousing they finish the San Mauro Cilento in the following order: Wauters, Boaro and Taborre.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013
We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
While those who were stationed on the top-gallant forecastle were engaged in catting and fishing the anchor, those who had been assigned to places on the topsail and top-gallant yards were sent aloft.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic
The subsequent "catting" and "fishing" of the big "mud-hook" was all a confused dream to me.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
