Shortly after the turn of the false millennium, or early in
the year 2000, I was cruising a favored Apple computer forum
and chanced upon the picture you see to your left. That's Frankie,
the progenitor of the Infinite Cat Project, admiring the beauty
of a flower. (Major kudos to Paul Hamilton, owner of Frankie,
for kicking this whole thing off.)
Not long after that another visitor to the same forum beheld
his cat growling at the picture of Frankie and summarily posted
an image of that event. I thought this sequence held promise
and had my own cat, Poozy, join the queue, a progression that
now boasts over 1500 cats.
There's always room at the table for one more kitty. So join
us, won't ye?
Lulu
Meet the New Toms, Queens, Kittens, Felines and Felinettes.
And ye olde Infinite
Cat keeps on a-rollin' along. Everyone say hello to our newest
Infinauts: Pascal, Tanuki, Chise and Lulu.
Welcome one and all!
The thumbnail images for all the kitties on this site are arrayed
in 25-cat groups for the convenience of those who wish to start
elsewhere other than the begining or the end. Choose the group
of your choice and have fun! BTW, if you
don't see "Select a cat group" below it means you
need to install the free Flash plug-in. You can download
it here.
"How Do I Make My Feline Buddy
A Star On the Infinite Cat Project?"
I'll be happy to add your kitty to the ICP but even rinky-dink
web sites like this one have standards to follow, so click
on the link
to the left to check out my minimal mandates and
to get a few good tips on achieving the best Infinite Cat
image.
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
- Henry
David Thoreau
23 Stories
About Our Favorite Furballs
I've recently added Cat Tales number twenty-three to our ever growing archive.
Pop in and peruse a few, won't you?
Today's
Gratuitous
Dish O' Kute
Kittiness
Gogh, cat, Gogh!
Cat
Mewvies
Cute
With Chris asks "Which is cuter? American kittens
or Canadian kittens?"
The
Pinky Show - Meet
the progressive Pinky and his sidekick Bunny in
a thoughtful and entertaining series of animation
and editorials.
Kurrent
Kitty
Komic
Yay!
I tracked down a few of Gilbert Shelton's famous Fat Freddy's Cat
cartoons!
There were created in the early 70s so Shelton was WAY ahead of the
cat comic curve.
Cat
Tales
Chloe the Car
Surfing Cat.
by Jennifer Eliot, The Cairns Post
The two-year-old's morning nap on an ambulance ended in a hair-raising 13km trip
from Port Douglas to Oak Beach at 100km/h, with lights flashing and siren blaring
all the way.
Chloe's owner and paramedic Myles White got a huge shock when an extremely distressed
meow alerted him to a "goggle-eyed" cat sitting on the roof.
"We did the job and we were loading the patient in the back of the ambulance
when we heard a cat let out a big meow," he said.
"Someone said there was a cat on the roof and I looked up and was very surprised
to see it was my cat, Chloe.
"The road to Oak Beach is quite windy and it was lights and sirens all the
way.
"I cannot believe that she managed to stay on and survive.
"When I took her down, she was all fluffed up and her eyes were a bit blown
out and she did a big 'Help, get me off' meow."
The call-out came on Tuesday morning from a New South Wales (Australia) couple
holidaying at Oak Beach whose six-year-old daughter was seriously ill.
Despite the seriousness of the situation, the family managed to find the humour
in the situation.
"Everyone had a good laugh and even the little girl, who was very sick,
found it funny," Mr White said.
"We just could not work out how she stayed on the roof.
"There was nothing for her to hold on to."
But amazingly one brush with death was not enough for Chloe.
Within hours of surviving a road trip, she was rushed to the Mossman vet clinic
after a being bitten by a paralysis tick.
"I think she has used all nine lives in 24 hours," Mr White said.
"The following night she was walking funny and was quite sick, so we took
her to the vet.
"She is all right now but it's been a big 24 hours for her."
The guy who wrote this terrific game vanaished form the face of the
internet but he left behind one swell, cat-based game. I'll always
wonder who the old broad really was. Click here to
play.
Do you like to sew? Do you like cats? Do you have a wall that
needs decorating? Are you lactose tolerant? Then you've come
very close to the right place as a good friend of the ICP has
just released this adorable new wall-hanging pattern featuring
those fab felines. Click here
for more details and a larger view.
Where
Do We
All Come From?
Since
first erecting this web site I was amazed by how many of its
visitors live outside the parochial boundaries of the United
States. Now, thanks to feedjit.com, I have a visual map of the
last 100 visitors to the ICP. Just mouse over the little red
dots on the map to your right for extra details on our foot-traffic.
This is a wonderful tool but it tells me I'm in Arlington, Texas,
rather than Dallas, Texas. But that's close enough.
Captivating
Cat Crapola
Collection
While
I don't seriously expect anyone to actually buy any of these
questionable items, I've slapped together a startlingly
goofy collection of cat-related commercial goods
to be found on the backwaters of Amazon.com.
Oh yeah, plus a link to cafepress.com
where you can find official Infinite Cat Project ephemera.
Consider yourself warned.
Not
an ad...
Honest!
Need
a web site that's attractive, fast-loading, Google-friendly
and a great value? Then see my friends at X-Site-D Web Creation.
Tell 'em Mike sent ya!
Sign
of
The Times
If
you're interested in placing a graphic link on your web site
back to the ICP, here's the very thing you're looking for:
Click the
Paypal
link above and
help support the
Infinite Cat
Project
"My Infinite Gratitude"
The following is a list of those who have contributed in support
of the Infinite Cat Project. In lieu of listing the names
in any intelligent way I decided to post them alphabetically.
It's not a perfect system, those of you of Polish descent
get the shaft again, but at least it helps me keep the names
straight. If I've missed your name or misspelled it, please
let me know.
The green colors indicate donations in excess of $10 while
the single listing in orange is for one very exceptional cat
lover. You know who you are and I want to have your children.
I thank you, the cats thank you, and my web host thanks you.
M.
Adam, S. Adams, L. Aimone,
S. Almaguer, G. Ancell,
M. Axtell, A. Bachman,
K. Berenson, H. Bielefeldt,
T. Blassingame, P. Blassingame,
A. Bolt, R. Bruner, J.
Bullas, A. Chiang, M. Cogen, D. Conlin, M. Cracauer, M.
Dawson, J. Delton, T. Devrick, J. Diamond,
T. Dixon, C. Dofer, E. Dorfman,
B. Dutton, E. Fitzpatrick,
B. Fonteboa, E. Foss, B. Friesner, G. Garcia, M. Gordon,
A. Gunn, J. Hamblen, B.
Harper, T. Henry, D.
Herbert, A. Hertz, A. Hilbert, K. Hildebrandt, A.
Hoger, P.
Houser, V. Huston, , J.
Ikeda, S. Jowett, W. Lee, M.
Lufkin, C. Lewis, M. Knight, K.
MacKenzie, M. Mcgann,
J. McGinnis, M. Mckercher,
S. Melhuish, T. Miles, D.
Morse-Kahn,
A. Neduha, A. Nelson, L. Nevins,
C. O'Brien, A. Ocean,
www.oldamericancentury.org, K. Orman, Pinky
& Bunny,
R. Owens, J. Pavlov, R. Perry, C. Phillips,
H. Pirani, C. Plant, R. Poletto, D.
Rakowski, R. Redman, R. Riitala, M. Ryan,
W. Ryngwelski, D. Sanders, M.
Schluter, H. Sherwood-Taylor, J.
Sokel, S. Somero, M. Stabile, F. Street, J.P.
Thompson, D. Thoms, G. Toland, C. Ullrich,
J. van Luyt, A. Walls, J. Weisenfeld, K.
Welles, B. Wilkinson, J. Williams.
The following merchant
has the Infinite Cat Seal of Approval
