Minnie the cat lives at Pet Central on 23rd Street & 7th Avenue.

One thing that has bothered me since starting this block association is the absence of cats on our front page. We have a whole set of Dogs of the Day at this point—if you’re new around here, allow me to introduce you to Macchia the Dalmation, Bosco the Mini Australian Shepherd, Jackson the Portuguese Water Dog, and Winston the Brown and White Dog. But no cats. Do you even exist on the internet if your page doesn’t have any cats?

That brings me to Pet Central on 23rd Street and 7th Avenue. On a recent late night walk around the city, I wandered across Pet Central, which is a small Manhattan chain that sells what it sounds like it sells, and I saw this cat in the window staring and then stretching back at me. I did a little bit of digging, and apparently her name is Minnie and she lives at Pet Central.

So Minnie is our inaugural Cat of the Day, and you are perfectly free to send in other Cats of the Day. Also, because our residence and species requirements are extremely lax, I’ve made the executive decision to add Minnie to our membership rolls.