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Friday Time Waster: Cat Videos!

A closer look at some of our hometown Internet heroes of the feline variety

By Jaclyn Norton February 6, 2015

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Perhaps because of all the Super Bowl hype, we missed an equally important event that happened last weekend: CatVidFest at the Kirkland Arts Center, hosted and produced by none other than Seattle’s favorite cat-video creator Will Braden. The feline fest screened oodles of cat videos that Braden hand-picked and appeared in a reel shown at the 2014 Internet Cat Festival. (FYI, The 2015 Internet Cat Festival, which happens in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, is currently accepting cute cat video nominations here.)

Since we missed CatVidFest, we corralled a few videos starring our fierce hometown felines such as, Henri le Chat Noir, Cooper, Honey Bee and Colonel Meow. Here are some of their most shining moments.

And this one because it’s so sweet:

For even more animal fun, pick up a copy of our February pet issue, on newsstands now.

 

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