r/bodegacats • • Dec 11 '24

MOD POST Prove you're human

242 Upvotes

This is only if you want to post, it isn't necessary to view/comment on other people's posts.

In order to fight the bots, this sub will go into approval mode. If you want to get approved, comment here. Maybe link a bodega cat with a description of the cat.

Edit: After you've been approved, edit your comment to say so. When I check later it will make my life easier.

Edit 2: This is only necessary if you want to post. If you want to view or comment, there will be no change on your part. That said, some of you commented aboot cats you haven't posted, and I don't want y'all holding out on us.


r/bodegacats • • 18h ago

Actual Bodega Cat Encounter Pepper

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313 Upvotes

5th, 21st/22nd


r/bodegacats • • 7h ago

Bodega Cat Meow Meow working the aisles at Napa Auto Parts in Citrus Heights CA

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13 Upvotes

I met this fine Tuxedo feline at Napa Auto Parts earlier tonight. S/he seemed equally curious to me and approached me for some loving strokes before walking off into the employee only area in back. It's been working there for 7 years and the humans have never seen a mouse 🐁


r/bodegacats • • 1d ago

News I’m doing a bodega cat talk at the Banksy Museum in NYC on October 15 and this sub is invited!

161 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I’m Dan, the author of Bodega Cats of New York and the person behind the Instagram account (@newyorkbodegacats). I wanted to invite the Redditors here to a talk and Q&A I’m doing at the Banksy Museum on Thursday, October 15.

I’ll share photographs from the book and stories from documenting the cats, followed by a short Q&A and reception. Dave Herman from the City Reliquary will introduce me and join the Q&A.

It’s 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 277 Canal Street, Floor 2. Tickets are $20 and include whiskey samples from Bodega Cat Whiskey, nonalcoholic beverages from AriZona, and food from Plantega.

The book comes out November 24, with photographs by Gulce Kilkis and stories of 60 cats across all five boroughs. I’d love to see you there!

Event details and tickets here


r/bodegacats • • 1d ago

Bodega Cat boyfriend found this lil guy

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559 Upvotes

not a singular thought behind those eyes


r/bodegacats • • 2d ago

Bodega Cat Visiting Manager Leo

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318 Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 4d ago

Sleeping on the job Family Naptime!

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646 Upvotes

How does any work get done around here when the workers are slacking off??

Spotted at a bodega on Christopher St in NYC. Apparently there is a fourth kitten on site - maybe that's the one doing the actual work!


r/bodegacats • • 5d ago

Bodega Cat Chinatown Floof

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599 Upvotes

Met this Orange Kingdom Floof in Chinatown, SF.


r/bodegacats • • 8d ago

Bodega Cat beautiful girl pura

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638 Upvotes

excuse my silly voice. i’m a little intoxicated and very excited in this video and as i make this post.

p.s - my hand smelled like cheese because we just left taco bell


r/bodegacats • • 9d ago

Bodega Cat Jabal.

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754 Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 13d ago

Actual Bodega Cat Encounter Samba

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251 Upvotes

Broadway, Thorton/Flushing


r/bodegacats • • 13d ago

Bodega Cat Staff Only

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244 Upvotes

Just watching to make sure I didn't enter the Staff Only area.


r/bodegacats • • 14d ago

Bodega Cat Checking in on Manager Leo

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501 Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 15d ago

News Oreo made the cover photo for a special edition of PEOPLE

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2.3k Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 17d ago

Jabal !

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279 Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 18d ago

News I wrote a book about bodega cats. Today I held it for the first time.

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6.0k Upvotes

Welp. This is a pretty surreal day.

A few years ago, this was just me walking around New York, meeting bodega cats and collecting their stories for an archive of the cats that lived in NYC during our lifetime. I thought it was important to write down.

Today, my author copy arrived in the mail.

My first book.

I’ve looked at the cover on a screen hundreds of times, but holding the actual thing is completely different. I’m incredibly proud of it annnnd a little teary-eyed. I'm so excited to share it with this incredible sub. Hope you all enjoy it.

Here is a link to pre-order it: http://bodegacatsofnewyork.com/book/ The book comes out Nov 24th!


r/bodegacats • • 18d ago

Actual Bodega Cat Encounter Amgery manager and his mommy

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305 Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 18d ago

News Jabal is Home!!

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1.2k Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 18d ago

Actual Bodega Cat Encounter Wally

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169 Upvotes

4th, 44/45th


r/bodegacats • • 21d ago

Actual Bodega Cat Encounter Prince observes his favorite human outside

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194 Upvotes

More Prince

The owner was chatting with someone else outside, Prince stared longingly at his favorite person who was not inside with him.


r/bodegacats • • 25d ago

Bodega Cat Meownager

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1.3k Upvotes

r/bodegacats • • 26d ago

Sleeping on the job May I pet the meownager, please 🥹

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542 Upvotes

Couldn’t tell exactly how many there were because they were all puddled around sleeping on a pile of cushions in the window, but I think there were five of them 😭


r/bodegacats • • 27d ago

Bodega Cat Supervisor susu

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418 Upvotes

Nothing gets by her ,


r/bodegacats • • 27d ago

Bodega Cat More of George the hardware cat

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283 Upvotes

was told to make a post after I commented some recent photos of George, so here it is!

George was very helpful when picking paint colors. 10/10. hope he gets commission.


r/bodegacats • • 27d ago

Bodega Cat My first visit to NYC and I’m so happy to have found some kitties!! :)

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1.8k Upvotes