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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- Getting Ready at the Pet Expo, and a Celebrity Encounter
- Cat Training Like a Movie Star
- Happy Presidents’ Cats Day!


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
I love that more and more people are falling in love with and spoiling their cats. That’s the way it should have been all along 🙂
My mum was born to be my slave and she loves it!
To put it simply Summer, I can’t imagine life without my cats. They own my heart
I’d better be boss of my house.
Yes, indeed. We are card-carrying members of this group! 🙂
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”.
You are wise indeed, Summer!
We’re members too and darn proud of it. That was really interesting sweet Summer!
Sounds like we’re in excellent company!
Yes mum is my slave and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
We have a very strong bond 🙂
Purrs, Julie
Aren’t all cats the boss?
I’ll never complain. I have been a proud tail servant for many years.
I do enjoy my servitude. It is obvious when you enter our home that it is for the cats. XO
Our #1 declares herself honoured to be part of such an illustrious group of people!
Purrs,
Tama and Benny
Oh yes!! I have trained my person very well 🙂
Talk about living the good life!!
MOL!! MOL!!
Purrs, Julie
I am totally a servant…Servitude is my name. NOTHING is done without consideratuon of HER. How can you love a little furbling as much as we all do!?
We’ve always known that cats RULE!
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.
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!
Well, I always knew cats are #1!
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.
YES! I agree 1000000%
I am a proud member of this club!!!