Yesterday, someone wrote on Gothamist Contribute, "One of the winners at the cat show today freaked out and took off. By show's end, it still had not been found. Poor thing. Maybe expecting cats to stay put like dogs is just a bad idea." Ack! Luckily, Russian Blue "Evgeny Pushenko" was found this morning at 9:20AM. Evgeny, who was present for the “best of show” segment, slipped away from a judge and sent everyone......

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It's always nice when a story we've been following for awhile has a happy ending. So you can imagine that we were happy to see in today's Times that the Lower East Side Russian Blue cat who wandered from her owners home back in 2004 is finally going to ">return to his owner. The story, for those of you who don't remember and/or don't want to follow the links we've laid out for you,......

There are suspicious packages and then there are suspciously cute packages (take a breath and enjoy whatever you want to read into it): The Daily News reports that a police officer found a suitcase filled with cats in Brooklyn yesterday. Someone reported a "suspicious package" (saw something, said something) and a patrol car was dispatched, but the only crime was adorable-ness, as there was a "2-year-old gray Russian Blue mix and three kittens about 6......

The law moves slowly. Last year, we posted about a disputed Russian Blue cat who wandered from her Lower East Side apartment, only to be rescued and adopted by a new owner. The original owner of Oliver, Chavisa Woods, is fighting the system, trying to get her cat back, but it turns out there is a 111 year old law that says owners only have 48 hours to notify Animal Care and Control that a......

Cat owners, be warned: A Lower East Side woman's cat disappeared while she was away, only to appear at a Petco and later be adopted by another person. And according to NY law, the original owner can't claim the cat, as the "law mandates that an adoption agency must keep an animal for at least 48 hours to give the owner a chance to claim it," because original owner Chavisa Woods was 4 days too......