Charlotte the cat travels the country with three human friends who preferred not to share their names. In addition to her three human caretakers, Charlotte pals around with a male cat, Yoda (not the father), and her six two-week old kittens. Her human friends were transporting Charlotte in their car from California to Seattle two weeks ago when Charlotte began birthing her kittens in the backseat. One stop at a truck stop later and Sephera, Baghera, Oreo, Twitch, Lucky, and the nameless one were back on the road. If you spend any time in Pike/Pine around 10th or 11th, you might find them sitting against the wall, watching the world go by.

We ask photographer Alex Garland to follow marchers in the rain and do crazy things like trying to make yet another picture of yet another huge apartment building look interesting. We thought we’d ask him to do something a little more fun. Capitol Hill Pets is a semi-regular look at our furry, fuzzy, feathered, and finned friends found out and about on Capitol Hill. Are you a Capitol Hill Pet we should know about? Drop us a line.