Purringtons Cat Lounge on Instagram JUST TEA FOR TWO and two, for tea. You heard right: Portland’s premiere cat cafe, Purringtons Cat Lounge, opens tomorrow a week from tomorrow! If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of cat cafes, they are just like regular cafes, except for one tiny detail: THERE ARE CATS YOU CAN PET. […]
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The Pixie Project’s Pixie Party
Yay! The Pixie Project non-profit animal adoption center and rescue is having a fundraising Pixie Party on Sun Oct 19 at Coopers Hall. A decidedly food aggressive event, there will be plenty of gorge-ables from the likes of St. Jack, Ataula, Clyde Common, Lardo, Chefstable, and Salt & Straw. AND! The evening will also feature […]
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Don’t Miss the Mercury‘s X-Treme Pet Issue!
Guys! Don’t let this week’s issue of the Mercury ride out over the horizon before checking out our second annual Pet Issue feature! The adorable illustrations by Susie Ghahremani are reason enough alone to treasure it: ARTWORK BY SUSIE GHAHREMANI Plus: In honor of the tightness of our bonds, we explored some of the more […]
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TV/Internet Meme Headline of the Day
From the Hollywood Reporter: The live-action project, “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever,” will bring “fun and irreverence” to the network, says Lifetime exec Arturo Interian.…Lifetime is casting the voice of Grumpy for the live-action project, which will shoot this summer. The cable network said the movie, which Interian describes as “a little Home Alone and […]
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Orange is the New Black… with Cats!
Need to get caught up on the first season of Orange is the New Black for the season two rollout that debuted today on Netflix? Like adorable cats? YOUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED. Presenting: Tabby is the New Cat. (I give these things to Alison Hallett every week instead of paychecks.)
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Eat, Drank, Donate, and Win at TNT: Tacos ‘n’ Tequila!
Guys, have you heard??? Our new food/music/booze event TNT: Tacos ‘n’ Tequila is happening Sat June 28 at Mississippi Studios/Bar Bar from 11 am-6 pm! In case you missed the memo, TNT is a daylong orgy of tacos made by some of the city’s finest (La Taq, Mi Mero Mole, Xico, and Bunk Sandwiches), tequila […]
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If You Want That Cat Cafe, Time to Pony Up
A few months back it was revealed that plans were underfoot for a cat cafe in Portland, a la the ones popular in Japan, where people can seek feline refuge from their cramped, pet-inconducive apartments. Purringtons Cat Lounge and Cafe promises a cushy holdover for adoptable cats and a destination for those who love them, […]
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Metal Cats Poses Your Favorite Metal Musicians With Their Sweet Kitten Friends
I love it when music and animals come together (duh), so obviously I love the new photo book that combines both metal and kittens in a glorious display of adorable weirdness. Metal Cats, out today, is a collection of portraits featuring metal musicians posing with their cats—the book features members of Isis, Cattle Decapitation, Napalm […]
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Must-Have Cat Upholstery: Portland Fashion Week, Day Two
If there is just one thing you should know about Saturday night’s Portland Fashion Week show, it is that Brady Lange took the grossest, cat-patterned, possibly-meant-for-upholstery-purposes fabric from the grandma section of Mill End and turned it into a moto jacket (plus matching pants) that has become possibly the most coveted piece in the history […]
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Meat for Cats & Dogs’ Hail Mary Indiegogo
Meat certainly isn’t the only progressive pet food supply store in town, and it probably isn’t the first to emphasize a raw meat diet for your critters either, but it was Meat’s Heidi Liedeker who has shaped my approach to cat nutrition. I love and trust her store so much that even though it no […]
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Okay, Fine. Here’s the 911 Recording About the Cat that Attacked the Baby
Guess what? This is what it sounds like when a large and angry housecat swats at a baby and then chases the baby’s parents into a condominium bedroom—prompting those frightened and nervous parents to make a sheepish call to 911 for relief. Now you know. (Thanks, KGW!)