Kitty News

Meow Mix House - Bambi looks for a new home

Poor Bambi, who was transferred like Cinderella from a New York shelter to the Meow Mix cat house, has yet to be adopted.

"Maybe it's the New York thing," Keith Fernbach, a publicist who helped develop the show, told the New York Post. "She's not the most social one in the group."

United Press International - NewsTrack - NY kitty remains homeless in reality show

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Belle's Out!

In case you missed it (like we did), the first Kitty was voted off The Meow Mix House!

According to her blog, Belle apparently had no interest in the contests or in the communal living under the pressure of celebrity exposure.  Fortunately for Belle, she's been adopted andwillbe enjoying a year's supply of Meow Mix in her new home.

More via the Daily News.

 

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Laser Cats!

Saturday Night Live: Laser Cats

Worth a watch. Brutally awful as intended.

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I want my .. MeowTV

I've been meaning to post this since launching the site last night so thanks to Gothamist for the reminder...

Set the DVRs!! Meow Mix has planned the release of a TV show about and starring cats!

From a CNN Piece on the same subject:

Annabelle Gurwitch, former host of the TBS program "Dinner & A Movie," hosts the program with her cat, Stinky. Broadcasting from their fictional living room, they narrate segments like "Squirrel Alert," where squirrels run up and down trees to fast-paced music.

The "Cat Critics" segment shows housecats watching a film about large cats, like lions and cheetahs, in the wild. The housecats in the forefront "comment" on what they see, Thompson said.

Actress Sandra Bernhard -- who Thompson said is a cat fan -- reads aloud "Cat Haikus," and viewers can send in birthday "shout-outs" to their cats, along with footage of their cats doing "something cool." The first episode features a cat that eats his meals with chopsticks and another cat that surfs in the ocean.

The idea was to try a different kind of marketing, Thompson said. Meow Mix toyed with a number of "fun gimmicks" before deciding this one had legs, he said.

There are 85 million cats living in 35 million homes in the United States, he said.

"We got a lot of input from all of our cat friends," Thompson joked. "We wanted to be sure that tabby cats and Persians got all of their demographics in."

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