Georgie (male, tabby, six months old)

Georgie is as close to a perfect kitten as you can get. He is curious, playful, quiet, and clever. If you’re around him long enough, Georgie will flop down in front of you. This is the sign for “rub my belly, please.” His previous owner went missing without a trace, and I will think about her for thirty years before understanding why. Georgie also loves head scratches!

Muffles (female, American Bombay, seven years old)

Muffles is an older cat with an affectionate personality and the tiniest of meows. Will yours be her forever home? Muffles is ready to move into your vivid waking dream where you levitate through an old zoo full of faceless guests, and she likes natural light.

Duke (male, spotted tabby, twelve months old)

Duke’s favorite food is eel, which is also my favorite food. In the nineteen-sixties, I loved two women differently. Come meet Duke at our weekend adoption event!

Puggo (female, domestic longhair, fifteen months old)

I sat in my apartment near the university, and Puggo sat with me. I played her a jazz record and drank a small bottle of beer as I boiled water for pasta. Then I had two more small bottles of beer as I listened to the jazz record and read Flaubert. Later, Puggo turned into my lost love, before turning back. Puggo and Brenda would like to be adopted together.

Brenda (female, domestic longhair, fifteen months old)

Brenda has been with us for three weeks now, and I can’t stop looking at her ears. Her ears are unlike any ears I have ever seen. The photos of her don’t do her ears justice. She’s a sweetie pie! Her ears.

Kathy (female, calico, nine months old)

Kathy was a little shy when she first arrived at the shelter, but now she feels right at home. She came to us from the bottom of a well on a moonless night. Her previous owner was the personification of Macallan Scotch whisky. I took three trains across Shibuya Ward to eat a plain dish alone and, instead of going home, I followed the wordless Macallan man to Kathy. Proof of an in-home well or similar void required for adoption.

Doctor Hirofumi Tanaka (male, tuxedo shorthair, seven months old)

Doctor Hirofumi Tanaka is my wife’s secret lover, trapped in a cat. (Still litter-box training.)