Earlier this week, we called out The Stranger’s Dominic Holden for his efforts to exploit young Capitol Hill puppies. He responded with what can only be called super puppy power. And while the picture of puppy Jack has warmed CHS’s cold, dark hearts, we’re not giving this up without a fight. It’s time to summon a powerful force from our past.

We give you Hillcats 2012.

To include your Capitol Hill feline in the fighting force, send us a picture along with your kitty’s name and what part of the Hill you call home to [email protected] or post it on our Facebook page. Yes, ferrets and snakes are cats. (You can also try adding a picture via the comments but, warning, our system has been shaky lately.)

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“oh we have kitties. l to r: Amaterasu, Opus, Fiddy, Orfeo.”

“This is Samantha. She lives by Summit/Mercer.”

“Gobby with Toast and Egg necklace :)”

“Hill cat loves chs blog!”

Mondo — “He is our newest addition to our Cap Hill Cats! :) Just adopted him from a rescue 4 weeks ago. He’s an old 12 yr siamese. Sooo cute!”

“Winston is an 8-year old Persian rescue cat with no dignity who lives near Madison Market.”

“My boy, Buffy. Definitely a Hillcat.”

“Frankie helping with Hill Style”

That’s Clementine in the guitar case, Natasha sleeping on the computer case, and Lemmy sitting like a Muppet. 

I’m just off of 15th near the Safeway. Good luck with the battle. KITTEHS RULZ!!1

Mitzi (watching the birds) and Smudge live with me near north Broadway (or more specifically, Belmont & Republican).

“I call this one, ‘Tuesday in Repose.’ She lives on the edge of Capitol Hill (don’t we all?) in the Tuscany.”

MORE!

“This is Colby, my 15 year old recent rescue who lives at 13th & Madison. Likes: litter-flinging, Boston Fern-gobbling. Dislikes: the #12 bus, shenanigans outside Madison Pub because those rabble-rousers disturb his 23-hour long naps.”

“I have two Hillcats who want to rumble. Steve on the left, Sam on the right.”

“Joey and Tigger off Broadway”

“Figgy is a 4-year-old rescue tabby living on the South eastern corner of The Hill near 23rd and Madison. She enjoys chattering at crows and destroying rolls of toilet paper.”

“This is Peebles Ann Peebles. Much like the singer she was named after, she can’t stand the rain against her window either. Peebs lives near Bellevue & Denny.”

“Mexico Kitty – 15th and pine”

“Filthy – he lives at 14th & E. Union and is a bookstore cat”

“This is Ziggy with his proud tail.”

“This is Fiddy, Opus, Orfeo having a cuddle.” — also featured at the top!

“Gracie & Erwin Schrödinger, Hillcats from the Hilltop.”

“Charlie annoying Gracie. LOVE THEM!”

 

“This is Madison, she lives off of Melrose.”

 

“Buddy was 4 months old when he moved to Belmont Ave E & Summit, he now lives close by at Bellevue Ave E & Thomas. Forever a Hillcat!”

“Bodhi lives on 14th and Harrison. Regal.”

I am loving this Hillcats 2012 plan! Please include my droolmonsters Ollie and Ted. Ollie proudly wears a full tuxedo every day and enjoys spooning my husband’s lap while he plays video games, and Ted is a sensitive soul whose preferred position is sideways. They live the life of luxury near Volunteer Park.

“I am submitting a picture of my awesome Hillcat Yobo. Yobo (“sweetheart” in Korean) lived his entire life (safe the first few weeks) on Capitol Hill. He was a fixture in and around our hood just off 15th. He died recently, and one of the things that made us feel better was how neighbors from blocks around expressed condolences for him when they found out he was gone. He was a helluva cat. I hope he still qualifies to be included. He was the epitome of a Hillcat. Beautiful, social, rambunctious, and now, sorely missed.”

“This is Willow, she lives near Thomas St. Park. This is her best Obi-Wan impression.”

“This is Loki; she calls 15th and Union home.”

“This dust mop is Zeno — we live on E. Madison.”

“Yoshi, in-bread cat, models the latest in gluten-based feline fashions on Hilltop. :)”

“Here’s Snickers, she lives on north Broadway! She’s a big baby!”

“Winifred and Phillip have lived on the Hill for 5 years, currently near Summit and Olive. They were feral kittens from Seattle Persian & Himalayan Rescue.”

“Eggs Florentine who lives on Bellevue Bellevue and bellevue”

“I don’t know this fella’s name but he lives near the Thomas St. P-Patch (10th & Thomas) and poops in my garden plot every damn day.”

“Kitty kitty bang bang — The Bering; 14th and Thomas”

“Flossy and Frank live near 11th and Denny”

“Newly adopted from Kitty Harbor in West Seattle. Ada (the smaller one) and Monkey (the tortoiseshell) have got their humans wrapped around their little paws.”

“Kitty I ran into yesterday at Boren and Union. Cute little guy/gal.”

“Starbuck and Marcel were born and raised on the hill, love treats from Trader Joe’s a block away and await a snowy owl sighting.”

“Wallace Twitch is acutely aware of something fishy. He lives under the Madison Towers.”

“Gatsby, who lives on Bellevue and Republican.”

“If a woman brings over a purse, it will get sat on, period. Her name is Madison; she lives on Pine & Summit.”

“Pixel is one year old and lives near Pine and Bellevue. She’s some sort of tabby Siamese mix, but we adopted her from a shelter as a kitten, so who knows.”

Bear & Monkey (No, they’re NOT named after the JN song), 12th & Pine

“This is Kiki with her favorite toy (Miller Park).”

Hipster cat band starred Tigger, Puff, and Smoke.  Tigger (18) and Smoke (16) both passed away earlier this year but they held court on the hill for their entire lives. Puff is surveying the goings on at Thomas & Boylston from his bedroom window (and has been doing so for 17 years.)

“Winston of Summit and Roy likes to do it with his socks on.”

“Meet Bucket (alert) and Lulu (lounging). They’re proud Hillcats and daily Hill observers. They know if you’ve been naughty or nice.”

“This is Charmer – he likes sleeping next to the heater this time of year. We live a few blocks from Trader Joe’s.”

“Gary Glockenspiel of Bellevue, Bellevue, Bellevue”

“Jaspurr Johns does it all for the belly rubs. 23rd & Aloha-ish”

“Christmas kitties on Bellevue E.”

“Last of my HillCats: Meet Antoine Rasputin Little-Bunny-Foo-Foo-Hopping-Through-The-Forest-Scooping-Up-The-Field-Mice-And-Bopping-Them-On-TheHead Napoleon Bathory the Third! He dressed up as QuailCat for Halloween a couple years ago.”

“Hector the glamor puss.”

“Elizabeth Taylor and D’Artagnan making sweet love. They are actually brother and sister, so presumably this is just a friendly hug and hopefully not a passionate embrace….They live very happily on Federal and Republican.”

“This is Foo. He resides on Belmont & E. Olive St.”

“Bellatrix is also a proud Hillcat.”

“Hi! This is my cat, French Mathematician Blaise Pascal! We live in First Hill, but CLOSE ENUFF.”

“Oh, and this handsome devil is moving to Cap Hill on Monday! His name is Tiger and he belongs to my parents, Karen-Phil Lloyd.”

“Hillcat Sweet P’Tater has most likely watched you as you walk around 12th & Madison.”

“Rupert is a Hillcat, and he wants in!”

“Mister E is a Devon Rex Hillcat and lives on 23rd Ave E.”

“Delilah and Jezebel, from the Pike/Pine Corridor, enjoying their favorite movie.”

“Jean Claude ives on 25th Ave E. between Prospect & Helen. Some call this North Capital Hill although we are on the poor side of the street. Everyone in the are knows him as he is very social. If your door is open he will help himself in and plop himself on your couch, or eat your cat’s food. Goes on walks with us and our dog. No fear.”

“Skeletor in the back, Ophelia in the front, stretching. They are sisters and live at 16th and Harrison.”

“Here’s Tosh, contemplating a cat-nap, at Bellevue, Belmont & Summit….”

“This is Kingsley. She’s a sassy east coast lady who moved to the hill this past summer by way of Long Island and Massachusetts. – Bellevue and olive”

“Here is a pic of Winston Major, an 8 month old rescue that turned out to be a rare odd-eyed khao manee. He is naughty smart and likes to fetch. He lives on Harrison and Boylston.”

“My name is Porgs. I like my wheatgrass straight up.”

“Winston. Thomas and Harvard.”

“We live on Capitol Hill at The IN on 17th and Olive. Her name is Mali. She is an Applehead seal-point Siamese.”

“Dapper gentleman Desmond lives at 17th & Madison.”

“This is Googly Magoo Boodlecat LaVigne, kickin ass at 14th and Denny”

Fritz (Siamese mix) and Lulu (grey/white) live on the North end of the Hill near Miller Park. They get occasional pop in visits to their yard from their neighborhood outdoor friend, Snug (orange guy).

 

“Winston (white) and Nigel (black) are from England originally, but now reside on Roy Street between Summit and Bellevue. They enjoy pigging out, snoozing, taking shit about dogs, and cuddles with each other and their humans.”

“Noodles (orange) and Sebastian (tuxedo) are two brothers snoozing away their days at E Union & Boylston. Mreow.”

“Here are two pictures of Shaman.  One, he is doing an awesome leap.  This is not where we live; we often go out for walks together that cover 3-4 blocks.  He loves to walk with me; he never runs off or gets lost.  Two, he is wondering if he should brave going out in the snow or not.  Shaman is a rescue kitty born in the back of an abandoned car (or so we were told) who lived about a year on Madison and 25th; lived six years in a lovely house near 23rd and Aloha, then two years near 15th Ave E and Mercer. He ever so recently moved off the Hill but would love to share these fond, memories of his time on the Hill, 2002-2011”

“Mini the cat lives in the Harvard Belmont area”

“This is Lily, at Harvard and Republican. She was a foster cat from the Seattle Animal Shelter who we couldn’t part with.”

“This is Bob Dylan and Iris (Devon Rex kitties) who live on the north end of Summit Ave E”

“This is Rodney. He relocated to the hill from NYC in 2009 and has embraced his new job of bird and people watching at 12th and Howell. He also loves couch scratching (hence blue sparkly softpaws for his many toes).”

“This is Valentino. He lives at 14th and John.”

“This is my beautiful Stella – she loves to look out the window of her Biltmore Apartment at Summit and watch the ivy leaves float by. If she’s very, very patient – and holds very, very still – she sometimes catches a glimpse of a bird among the leaves.”

“Laser Princess Nezumi and Monster Mutant Grendel the First, Esq., happily living near Boylston & Howell.”

“This is Jake. He lounges at 14th and Mercer.”

“this is my last picture of Gabby. she was a tabby who loved to hang out on the boylston/republican corner, but she ventured for attention…or just a feisty swipe.”

“Tala of North Broadway”

“spaghetti, 14th and union”

“meatball, 14th and union”