Celebrity's And Their Cats

Vivienne Leigh

Here's a little round up of celebrity's over the years photographed with their cats. Of course some may simply have been for publicity purposes, but I think you can tell those that are genuine.


I'm totally not surprised by the number of celebrity photographs that featured Siamese! They are very 'Hollywood'. I can't help but feel sad though as I look through these photographs, many of these famous people have gone, but somehow the inclusion of their cats makes these images timeless.

James Dean, the night before he died.

'A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.'
Jerome K. Jerome

Clark Gable & Carol Lombard

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy

Mary Pickford

Elizabeth Montgomery in 'Bewitched'

Hayley Mills in Disney's 'That Darn Cat'.

Frank Zapper

'Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.'
Paul Gray

John Lennon

Jane Mansfield

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
Jerome K. Jerome

George Harrison

Audrey Hepburn

Sophia Loren

Kurt Cobain

Morgan Freeman

Cameron Diaz

David Bowie

Russell Brand

Katy Perry

Brigitte Bardo

Marlon Brando

Grace Kelly

Kim Novak and her 'Meezers'.

Freddie Mercury

Oscar & Tiffany

President Bill Clinton & 'Socks'

Mark Twain

A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat,

may be a perfect home, perhaps; but how can it prove its title?

--Mark Twain 

Mark Twain was asked: "What is better than a cat?" To which Twain is supposed to have 

replied: "Two cats!"

Quentin Dreams

When you wish upon a star...

makes no difference who you are.....

When you wish upon a star.......

Your dreams come true!

An Interview With Rachel And Henry Williams, The Rock 'N' Roll Cats!

For our very first celebrity cat interview we are thrilled to get up close and personal with Rachel and Henry Williams; The 'Rock N' Roll Cats'! 

Please start by telling us who your mum is?
Our Mum has pink fur and scribbles on her arms. We think she calls them 'tattoos' we're not sure but we think it's an awfully funny colouring for any kind of Kat (cat). She spends most of her day in front of her computer writing about weddings and talking to people on twitter. We heard Daddy say she is a wedding blogger and is pretty obsessed with it. Her blog is called Rock n Roll Bride.

1. Henry, describe Rachel to us?
Rachel make a lot of noise (well more than me as I hardly ever mioaw!) She is a maine coon too so she trills a lot especially out of the kitchen window when she sees a bird or another cat. She loves cardboard and will always chew it if she finds some. She also loves to sit on it! She loves to scratch wooden things (the chest of drawers and the back of the front door - much to Mummy's dismay) She spends most of the afternoon sleeping on Mummy & Daddy's bed and likes to drink water from the tap. She is the softest cat I have ever known (and there were a lot of us at the breeders!) We are not biological brother and sister but as she is 2 weeks younger than me I like to look after her.

2. Rachel, describe Henry to us?
Henry looks after me as I am much shyer than he is. He comes and sees me when I'm snoozing and licks my head. Henry loves playing with Daddy and lying on Mum's lap when she's on her computer. He also likes to sit on her desk, and walk in front of her computer screen which Mummy says is cute but annoying! Henry always does everything first. I'll watch quietly from the side and join in a bit later. Henry either lies down as he eats or bats the dry food around the kitchen with his paw and chases it before he eats it! He is a very funny kitten and is interested in EVERYTHING! Daddy said there are 2 types of things in the world "things that are Henry's and things that are not YET Henry's!" he is obsessed with straws and likes to carry things in his mouth. he once stoke a whole corn of the cob from Daddy's dinner plate and ran upstairs with it! He does the same thing with lettuce when Mum & Dad have fajita's for tea. He does 'kneedy paws' on Mummy every morning and chases Daddy's feet at the end of the bed when it's time to get up!

3. Do either of you have any quirky habits?
I think we covered it above! We both have big and very different personalities.

4. Where is the best part of in your house to chillax?

Well for Christmas, Mummy got a new chair for her office. It came in a massive brown cardboard box! it is amazing!! We adopted it straight away and like to sit on it in the middle of the living room. it is big so we get to sit high up and look down on Mum & Dad. It's also made of cardboard of course which is awesome! I hope Mum doesn't tidy it away too soon.

5. Guys, you’re well known and have a strong web presence, how does your mum cope with living in the shadow of your fame?

We keep telling her not to get jealous but she does! She knows we are much more popular than she is. Our photo shoots (she puts pictures of us up every week!) are very popular and Henry even got into her first video blog! 

6. Rachel, your mum asks if she can dye your hair pink for a day to help with a photo shoot, do you say yes?

Of course although I'm a bit shy with strangers or new people so I'd be hard to photograph. I am beautiful though - definite model material Mum says!

7. Henry, your mum has some really cool tattoos, if you could have any tattoo apart from your identity number, what would it be?

A portrait of Rachel because she is my best friend and my little sister.

OK, quick fire round;

8. Litter or wood chip?

We are spoilt and have the best cat litter in the world! Mum & Dad buy it because it can be flushed down the loo! it's genius apparently.

9. Wet or dry food?

We get both....again we are spoilt!

10. Water from a bowl or toilet?

From the tap please! we are maine coons and our breed loves running water. in fact we'll only drink out of our water bowl when the water is moving. Henry bashes the water bowl to make the water ripple first before we drink it. it always spills though and Mummy get annoyed..only for 2 minutes though as we are both too adorable to be mad at!

11. On top of duvet or underneath?

On top!

12. Flees or worms? Which would you rather have?

Erm...we dont want or have either thanks hehe!


Well Rachel and Henry, it's been a real privilege and a pleasure to have this rare interview with you this evening.   Could you please ask your mum if she'd let you have a 'double play date' with Mishka and Quentin next Friday?

Many thanks to Rachel and Henry's mum Kat Williams for allowing them to stay up late for this interview, and for providing the beautiful images for this post. You can visit Kat's site here;
Rock N' Roll Bride


Photograph of kat by David McNeil


All other images by Kat Williams.













Coming soon; Milo Stepney, Feline Muse and new kid on the block.

Top Ten Oriental & Siamese Cats On YouTube

Quentin and Mishka love watching TV, so we thought we would post our Top 10 favourite YouTube stars, all carefully selected for your pleasure! So here we go, from 10 down to 1. Enjoy.


10. Introducing 'Baggy' - Champion Black Oriental Prince Baghira with the biggest personality!

9. It's the 'Wayo' brothers. "What d'ya smell son?"

  

8. It's Alaska, Baggy's sister. She has to come in, it's difficult but she's got to try.

7. Baggy's back, and this time he's a right little devil!

6. Look who's dropping in! Not for the faint-hearted.

5. Halfway point and we need some cuteness. Say Ollie Ollie Ollie...Oi Oi Oi!!

4. In at number 4, it's little Jimmy the Seal Point Siamese. Like WOW!

3. It's Koda, the creepy cat!

2. It's Castro the Havana, and he's trying out for a Bee Gees tribute band.

1. Finally here we are at No.1. Here's an Oriental that must have been really hard to name! Hey Adolf, lighten up!

Well there you have it, our Top Ten favourite YouTube videos. Hope you enjoyed! Don't forget to leave a comment.

Quentin And Mishka Go Walk About

I say you foolish woman you, why have you got your cats on leads? Well I'll tell you why. See that beautiful handsome boy up there? That's my Sacha Boy. As you can see he is impossibly handsome, distinguished, a chap of fine breeding. Totally loving and loyal, at least he was. We had him for a almost a year, one wonderful year. He was such a character, that photo was taken as he sat on my desk staring at me. He often did that while I worked. He also slept above my head on my pillow every night, always there when I awoke. He always had his little routines; go out into the garden with us, go out for a few hours in the afternoon, visit certain houses and especially his mate Fred in a house behind ours. They apparently would sit on Fred's owner's sofa and watch TV together. However, Sacha would always come home, always.

One night he went out and he didn't come home. I knew something had happened. I immediately posted flyers on lamp posts and knocked on doors, sent off a photo and description to missing cat sites but it was all in vain. Sacha's crumpled little body had been found in the road by a neighbour. I saw him coming to our door and I knew straight away.

I believe cats should go outside, I don't believe cats should live their entire lives indoors, always sitting on window sills watching the birds. Indeed, Sacha's breeder consoled me with the knowledge she would rather he had had a year of wonderful freedom with us than a lifetime of average!

When we decided to have more cats we were faced with a very difficult dilemma. I simply couldn't let them have free range again, risk something happening to them. Losing Sacha in such a horribly violent way was so distressing and I couldn't go through that again. So we have these little cat harnesses and Quentin and Mishka go for the occasional roam, and sometimes they are allowed to roam off-lead. However, we never leave them outside alone and always get them to come back in with us.

I'm not sure how this will work as the weather improves and the door is left open with kids coming and going. Right now they are thoroughly lazy and seem happy to spend most of their time indoors. We will have to see what happens. Siamese and Oriental cats are terribly gregarious and will go to anyone to make friends, and these two seem to know no fear. So another potential problem is that of them being taken or fed by people in an attempt to take on ownership.

Well anyway, I hope you enjoy these photographs taken on their first jaunt into the great outdoors!