NICOLA GINZLER

Senior Graphic Designer
My gray-and-white tuxedo cat "Eights" lying on a gray comforter. She has a tiny orange party hat badly Photoshopped onto her head and is looking directly at the viewer.

Feline Font Friday 3 – it’s #eightsthecat’s 7th birthday, also it’s Tuesday

Today, February 28, 2023, is my lovely and delightful cat Eights’s seventh birthday. Lucky seven! Next year will be extra fun as it’ll be Eights’ eighth, so I’ll give her eight of everything, or maybe everything divided into eighths, or both.

Here is gray and white Eights (on the left) when she was a wee thing.

May 16, 2016. Eights has a littermate brother, Aces, the black one on the right (Aces and Eights, geddit?) who now lives with my ex-husband. We adopted Aces and Eights in May 2016 as a bonded pair. Here they are when we first got them at 8 weeks from the SPCA. We had to return them THE SAME DAY because they were both really sick, and we didn’t get them back until they were better, which was FOUR MORE WEEKS. Reprehensibly, the shelter DOES NOT PROVIDE LOANER KITTENS while yours are in the shop. I am still bitter about this.
Eights sleeping on my lap, May 2016
Aces and Eights stretched out on the bed, later in 2016. As I said, they were billed as a bonded pair, but Aces was always way more rambunctious and playful than Eights. This degenerated to Aces being really aggressive towards her, including chasing and biting her. We had to keep them separate a lot.
Also later in 2016: Eights with Squeaky Mouse, a frequent chew toy.
Aces asleep, eights yawning, also from 2016. The “hammock” top of this little cat tree fit both of them when they were little; now Eights fills the whole thing!
Eights peeking out from under a blanket, January 2017
Aces and Eights curled up, sleeping, September 2017
Aces yawning, Eights starting at the camera, June 2018
Eights in front of the TV, December 2018. MSNBC is playing in the background.
Aces and Eights, curled up around each other on their third birthday in 2019
December 2019: Eights singing the song of her people. Or yawning, not sure.
February 2020: Eights has a little gray spot on the back of her right foot, which will allow me to pick her out of a lineup if she goes on a bender and starts robbing banks again.
August 2020: Eights and I after my ex-husband and I split. As I said, Aces lives with him now, which is a good thing as he (Aces) was chasing and biting Eights a lot.
Eights rocking a badly Photoshopped birthday hat, 2021.
November 2021. Eights talking back.
Eights’ sixth birthday, 2022.
November 2022. Eights KNOWS WHAT YOU’VE BEEN UP TO. One of my favorite photos of her.
February 28, 2023. Eights fits in the “hammock” on the little cat tree all by herself! Happy birthday number seven, #eightsthecat!
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