Late last week, the cat otherwise known as the “Mayor of Columbia City,” Felix—featured in our inaugural Pet Issue last month—was found by his owner critically injured outside their apartment. He was admitted to a pet hospital, where he’s been since early Friday morning. You can donate to theGoFundMe account for his medical expenses here. Get to know the fine feline in Mudede’s story from the issue below.
Something very strange happened on a recent Sunday night in Columbia City. Tillotson Goble and her husband were fast asleep in the main bedroom of their house in the South Seattle neighborhood. At 2 a.m., Goble’s husband felt fur on his nose and mouth and eyes.
“This obviously scared the shit out of him,” Goble recalled over the phone the other day.
Her husband awoke to find a big cat sitting on his face. The Gobles do not own such an animal. They keep dogs.
“What’s a cat doing on his face?” Goble continued. “He threw it off the bed. It was really scary. It was like: HOLY SHIT. How did it get in our bedroom? It had never even been in our house before.”
The cat, however, was not a complete stranger to her. She had seen it hanging out on her porch over the summer. Then it disappeared for seven months, and all of sudden it showed up on her husband’s face.
