This is day 6 with Olivia and she already has followers and cheerleaders interested in her, excited that she has been rescued and is being cared for, and eager to hear about her progress. Some are waiting for her to appear in the Klepto Cat Mysteries. But there are cats out there with many more fans and enormous fame.
We all remember Grumpy Cat. Like Morris, the finicky cat in the cat food commercials years ago, Grumpy Cat became enormously well-known and popular among both cat fanciers and those who aren’t particularly fond of the feline species. Then there was Lil Bub, the odd-looking cat that won many hearts. In fact she reached over 3 million likes on her facebook page. Do any of 
you remember Stubbs. I wrote about him and if you ever took a tour through Alaska you may have heard of him or met him. He was the orange tabby who became mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska in 1997. He died a few years ago of 20. In fact we visited Talkeetna the year before he died and asked to see him, but were told he was too ill.
With the advent of the Internet and Facebook and the prestige of the simple 
“like,” more and more cats are gaining fame. There’s a cat named Gli, who lives in a cathedral in Istanbul, and boasts 48,000 Instagram followers.
Hamilton the Hipster cat, so named because
of his mustache, has 821 followers. Like so many cats that gain some sort of notoriety, he was a feral who was rescued and ultimately adopted
Nala is reported to have the most likes of any cat ever—in fact it’s recorded in the Guinness record book. What’s her allure? Evidently it’s her seriously crossed eyes. She has a whopping 4.3 million followers.
Why do we follow cat? Why do we read about cats, get a thrill when there are cats on display at the pet store, visit cat shelters, stop and smile at cute videos and pictures of cats, bring cats into our home? I mean, who doesn’t love a cat?
