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Is Your Cat the Boss in Your House? You Are Not Alone – These Famous People Are Known Cat Slaves

By: Summer Samba24 Comments

If you think your cat is the boss of you, check out these famous people who are also cat slaves.

If you live with a cat, chances are, your daily life also revolves around your cat. Their meal and snack times. The napping spots that are strictly enforced and unencroachable. You’ve given up trying to keep them off the dining table. If your cat wants 90% of the bed, lucky you – you get that little 10% corner. Clearly, your cat is the boss of you.

If you feel like your life has spun out of control, that you’ve become a mere servant, catering to your cat’s every whim, what can you do? The answer is simple: join the club!

Many famous people have been cat employees, including two presidents. There was Abraham Lincoln, of course, who even fed one of his cats from the table during a state dinner. And there was also Calvin Coolidge, who turned Washington DC upside down in search of his lost cat, Tiger. After a police search and radio broadcast, Tiger was found napping in the Navy building.

And of course, authors are famous for being cat slaves. Mark Twain was just as frantic as Calvin Coolidge was when his cat Bambino disappeared. The newspaper ads he put out only resulted in people showing up with Bambino lookalikes. Bambino? He sauntered back home on his own eventually. Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home is synonymous with polydactyl cats. When Hurricane Irma raged through the area, people were at least as worried about the cats as they were Hemingway’s home, now a museum (both cats and home made it through).

And pop culture icons worship their cats too. When Freddie Mercury was touring with Queen, he’d call home to talk to his cats. Taylor Swift was so influenced by her feline companions that she made the almost career-destroying choice to appear in the awful film adaptation of Cats.

When you’re in company like this, do you even have a right to complain? Enjoy your servitude.

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  1. BellaDharma an BellaSita Mum says

    HAHAHAHAHA!!! What a cute post Summer!
    I have been a “Cat Servant” since 1969…..an entire Lifetime…
    Wouldn’t have it any other way!
    And BellaDharma agrees 150%!!!!
    {{{hugs}}} BellaSita Mum & **purrss** BellaDharma

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  7. pat k says

    I had to come back at end of day to read other comments.
    It is as I suspected…..there are multitudes of loyal cat “servants”.

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  19. pat k says

    My son and wife are “on staff” for two cats. They really
    enjoy their cat friends. For myself, I talk to their cats
    on FaceTime. Our whole family has enjoyed cat company.

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  20. Eastside Cats Blog says

    I prefer ‘enthusiast’, but being in servitude to cats is okay too, Summer.
    You know whom else is a cat lover in Hollywood? Nicholas Cage. Miss Ellen from 15andmeowing.com knows that!

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  22. Cleo says

    Ha, “servitude” is a word that should replace “cat ownership”! That opening question in this post is a no brainer, I say, and I’d be surprised if there was actually a human in existence that felt otherwise. Excellent post, my dears.

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