Does this mustachioed kitty remind you of someone? Look closer… Exactly!
Say hello to Zappa the Cat.
If you know the rock legend (and a well-known cat lover!) Frank Zappa, you’ll have got it straight away.
We spoke to Zappa’s human Lisa Williams, and Zappa isn’t her first kitty to resemble America’s alternative rock star.
“I had an Oriental Shorthair who was black and white with a mustache named Marceau,” she shared with We Love Cats and Kittens.
“Everyone told me he looked just like Frank Zappa and some people referred to him as Zappa Cat.”
This is Marceau…
Sadly at only 3 years old, Marceau had heart failure and crossed over the rainbow bridge.
Lisa was totally devastated.
But not long after he passed, Lisa spotted a black and white kitten with a mustache that belonged to a breeder in Russia.
She contacted the breeder who explained that he wasn’t available as she was keeping him for breeding.
But this didn’t deter Lisa.
“I begged and nagged her for weeks until I convinced her to let him be mine,” she recalls. “I named him Zappa in memory of Marceau, my original Zappa cat.”
So the new Zappa stepped into her home and heart!
And what a handsome kitty he turned out to be…
But the similarities between the two kitties stops at the mustached face.
“This Zappa couldn’t be more different,” explains Lisa. “Marceau loved to be held and Zappa hates it. Marceau talked all the time and Zappa is quiet.”
However, he’s quite the character. Out of all of Lisa’s cats Zappa is the most playful.
“He loves to play games like hide and seek and chase with my daughter. He sitsby her door in the morning and waits for her to get up so they can play.”
Zappa also loves to go for rides in his stroller for cats or sometimes Lisa’s laundry basket on wheels.
He’ll come running when he sees it and never gets bored of going around and around the house.
There are three other kitties in Lisa’s family and they are all Oriental Shorthairs, just like Zappa.
There’s Keebler…
Thatcher aka Thatchy…
And Peterbald LeMieux, usually shortened to LeMieux…
