Christopher resides at a local Carroll Gardens bike shop. There was some debate amongst the folks at the store concerning Chris’ gender. Everybody refers to him as a she - but maybe he is a he? Although really, what is the difference, he is chubby and friendly and older than my rust bucket bike which I might add is a pretty sweet classic 3 speed (circa the 60s). Most notable is that the Chris is probably twice the size of the dog who is also a fixture at the store.

This little kitty really wants his wet food. REALLY!

link from Jesse

thanks for the link heide!

…where you just want to take your cat for a swim to cool off.

Wiggum keeps hogging the machine. How many times a day does he HAVE to check his fantasy baseball scores? I mean really.

Lauren sent in this pic of bookstore cat, Gus, mid nap.

As many of you may have noticed el gato del dia has entered the sluggish summer season - but no more! Inspired by one-eyed Evangeline here - we’ll get our butts back in gear and continue to post various nonsense for you. Please send us your cat pics - we want to see them - and we want to post them.

Evangeline sent in by Chip

I’ve recently changed my desktop images to one of my favorite El Gato Del Dia photos. I think this makes the best desktop image ever. If you would also like to make this your desktop image follow this link, and then right click on the image selecting “set as background” from your menu.

not sure where steve got this from - but thanks for sending it in!

More fun toys that I didn’t have when I was a kid:

via Plime.com

Ms. Waller crochets some truly crazy pieces. What level of genius thinks of crocheting a prosthetic arm?

This cat takes a commuter bus to “work” every morning — getting on at his home bus stop and hopping off at the local fish and chips shop. I’m not even kidding.

Read Macavity’s full story here.

I really do hate to re-post something from another blog, but this clip from Cute Overload (which happens to be one of my favorite blogs) can not be ignored. Let’s put it this way, I either put it on the blog or everybody I know gets some horrible chain email. Anyway, this is possibly the sweetest thing I have ever seen. EVER! So on the blog it goes. Be sure to watch till the end.