I know I have already posted about Mittens, the cat who lives along the street, on the Terrace, and how he rules downtown Wellington.
He has a Wikipedia entry, and his own facebook page, called The Wondrous Adventures of Mittens.
This is because he is a Curious Cat and a natural rover. He heads up to the university to visit offices and student flats, or else down Ghuznee Street to visit anything from churches to strip clubs. He usually waits for the green light at crossings, and is very good at using elevators, rather than stairs. But, because he wanders so far (often two kilometres or more), people kept on thinking he was lost, and handing him in to the SPCA.
So it was SPCA staff who started the facebook page, to inform our citizenry that Mittens is fine. Just don't feed him, because it is the hunger pangs that send him to his loving home each night.
And the facebook page became a hit, with just about 45K followers and an untold number of views. Mittens has made headlines in the Guardian and in Belgium and Japan, too. Unfortunately, he is unaware of this. Because cats cannot read.
He doesn't even know that he is the first to be pictured in a competition staged by the Wellington City Council, called "Colour in Welly," where a city icon is featured every week.
Download and colour in Wellington's favourite fluffy friend, it says, and provides a handy template. And the council has an album of entries on its site.
So the kids are enjoying themselves, some not even New Zealanders, but as keen on the game as any Kiwi. Even more fun is that at the same time adults have taken up the challenge -- not to color the template, but to send in pictures of their Favorite Kiwi Cat.
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| Yan Heere |
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| Emily Valverde |
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| Madison Davy |
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