Deux Chats

Of course I loved finding these chats as we strolled near Canal Saint-Martin!

Métro Chats

I took this one for Meeps. She liked it and asked again why she can't go to Paris with me.

Alexa et le chat!

This is what happens when four cat lover and Peter visited the Café des Chats! This is the perfect place for cat lovers. Their chocolat chaud was delicious as well.

Café des Chats

9 rue Sedaine

75011 Paris

Le chat du fleuriste

Clearly unimpressed with the photographe américain.

Shhhhhhhhhh!

Chats dorment, but don't worry, there are always plenty who are awake and awaiting a lap or some petting.

Café des Chats

16 rue Michel le Comte

75003 Paris

Le chat

As luck would have it, as we strolled through the Asnières sur Seine neighborhood, on our way to le Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques.

Bonjour Chat!

Ohhhh, I love this image of Eva captured during our three weeks in Paris, 2009. We passed this street art by Nemo, every single day, going to and from the Censier Daubenton métro. During our time in  Paris, Eve kept a running count of the cats she spotted in Paris. Maybe she included this one!

Deux Chats

These two very docile cats were the main attraction as this organ grinder played his tunes. Before I was allowed to snap the first photo, I was shown the euro basket. I complied. I'm not sure how he keeps those cats in that basket with all that's going on in front of Galeries Lafayette, and the traffic. Oh and yes, that would be Peter patiently waiting in the background!

Meeps' Parisian cousin

Try and visualize this scenario: Mary, Peter and I are enjoying a leisurely lunch by the window of a lovely cafe when Mary spots a chat noir across the street that looked exactly like my Meeps.  He came across the street and I jumped up, grabbed my camera and flew outside to snap a few photos.  With a polite, "Merci, mon petit chat", I then slipped back inside and finished my lunch. Shortly after, the owner came by, scooped him up and took him home.

Eva et le chat

In June 2009, Eva and Davis delighted in counting the dogs and cats we encountered each day in Paris. This day, on our way to Jardin des Plantes, we discovered this clever way the owner had found  for her cat to spend outdoors on the window sill.  Eva couldn't resist some nose to nose time.

Deux Chats

Curieux 

Cimetière des Chiens d'Asnières sur Seine

Le chat du fleuriste

This is what caught my eye in the window.

This is what I found when I opened the door.  The owner even let her go outside for a walk and  to say hello to Mary!

Cousines !

Meeps' cousine parisienne

My Meeps here at home wishing she was in Paris

Imagine my surprise when I discovered this Meeps look-alike at the Cimetière des Chiens, paying her respects to dear Lick.  I've known all along that my Meeps was a chat noir parisien at heart and this proves she has French cousins there don't you think?  After I took this shot, I sat down on the gravestone beside her.  I knew better than to touch.

As luck would have it, my friend Peter (Peter's Paris) has just posted a fine blog story about this place and as always the case, he's willing to let me link to it.  Hop on over to his blog and have a look.  Tell him I sent you!