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This just in, People! From roving Cuteporter Chris H.! Macy's San Francisco is featuring precious kittehs in their holiday windows—all for adoption—beware, there may be some stampeding.
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I love the little black and white kitteh! I want to adopt him. Look at the little white streak on his nosie!
I wonder if all the Macys are doing this. They are having a problem in Chicago cause they bought out the landmark Marshall Fields, but kittens in the windows would bring back even the most diehard Field fans.
YAY!! kettehs in windows! it would be so cute if the gray was sitting in Santa's (?) chair. "And Annie wants a kitten? Well I'm right here!" All too many on the list would want kitteys tho... TIME TO RESTOCK!!!
the first picture! omfg!
is the Parker's living room:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/
leg lamp and all.
how Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted stupendous!
Hey! top kitten Ralphie got a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock! And there's the Major Award in the window!
I wonder if the holiday decor includes festively wrapped litterboxes?
Yay, Christmas Kitters! Hopefully they can all go to a home for the holidays.
Awesome! I hope they find homes for bunches 'o kittehs.
WOW, I wish Macy's ALWAYS did this! There's SUCH an overpopulation of cats, it's unbelievable (at least, in Minnesota). The humane society I volunteer at has been inundated with cats all year - it's insane!
Anywho... they are absolutely ANERABLE! Best lil' stocking stuffers EVER.
I'm gonna walk to Macy's right now (in Mpls) and check out their windows.
and the 2nd picture is "Kitteh on 34th street"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039628/
Where are their litter boxes, I think I missed them.
mariser, i saw the leg lamp, and that's what got my attention. then i saw the red ryder, couch, and tv and i knew that the christmas story hasn't ended yet
I would adopt them all.
And then the wife would kill me.
I walked by here yesterday! the animals are so f-ing cute it's unreal!
love the window display for the adoption..makes to feel like home.
What adorable kittens!!!!!!!!!!
tuxkit has to be named Ralphie. has to!
Kittehs should not have BB guns. They'll put somebody's eye out.
thehawke - *lol*
maybe you need a new wife! Men like you are hard to find. >^0.0^<
This is the 20th year that the San Francisco Macy's has done this, in asssociation with the SF SPCA. This year's theme is Hollywood, and each window represents a seasonal movie.
Press release:
http://www.sfspca.org/volunteers/holiday_window.html
oh! The first kitty must be imported. She's FRAAA-GEEE-LAY!
Arrgh! I can't believe that I was in downtown SF on Sunday and I didn't go by there. I remember when Macy's did this years ago-- I thought they had stopped.
Now the question: do I brave the holiday crowds to go and see the kitties?
Dazie, ROTFL
some folks watch "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas eve. at my house we tune to the 24-hour "a Christmas Story" marathon. no betta way to spend the holidays.
Cuteness! If I lived up north I would visit these little babies every day! :) I hope they get adopted and get all the love they need!
That's IT! I'm moving to San Francisco RIGHT THIS INSTANT!
This post has COMPLETELY MADE MY DAY! Thank you, Dr. Cuteologist!
This is one of the *best* things about Christmas in the Bay Area. The SPCA windows started years ago at Gumps, and now they do it at Macy's. It is worth the absolute nightmare of parking in The City to see TEH CUTE! Fergit shopping, gaze upon the wee kits and mogs for a wonderful afternoon!
Kitties. Are. The best window display EVER.
I've got chamber music on the radio, I've got ZuZu's petals in my pocket and I have this post in front of me.
Nothing can hurt me.
(Walks into busy intersection to prove the theory, only to be saved by a...dog in a seatbelt???)
Holy Turkey Legs!!!! The cute is killing me!!!! I want da kitties to wuv and snorgle and play wiff!! I would take such good care of them!!!
Damnit, I KNEW I should have gotten an application for the Macy's downtown - I'm a native San Franciscan hunting for a job. "Kitten wrangler" would look purrrrrfect on my resume, no?
AAAAAAAGH! I WANT ONE!!!
MINE!!! MY PRECIOUSSS!!!!
Move over Tickle-Me-Elmo.
They did this for many years in a row at the Bay department store in downtown Toronto, in conjunction with the Humane Society, and I'd walk by those windows every dayon the way to and from work. At 9 in the a.m., I could always get right up close to see the kittens, by 5 p.m., there was no way with the crowd of people around. The litter boxes are always hidden out of sight behind some prop so as not to be unsightly.
I can only speculat they stopped doing it for one of two reasons:
1. The Humane Society decided not to promote the idea of pets as gifts as opposed to responsibilities.
2. The store wanted the windows to promote commercial items rather than charitable.
Any of the Toronto peeps out there know the real answer?
soooo... hard to resist... Seems like a really great idea - draw in people, adopt out some cats. Hopefully they've got a kitty-friendly return policy. Lots of places don't adopt out this time of year, because they worry about impulse adoption.
Aaack, look at those teeny white feet! I used to have a cat who looked just like that. He was my buddy. I'M in danger of impulse adoption.
Pure GENIUS!
Haha yay, the first picture is awesome. You'll shoot yer eye out!
That may be one of the greatest ideas ever! Way to go Macy's!
Just remember kids - a kitteh is for life, not just for Christmas.
Hey, shouldn't we invent a new holiday - Cutemas? It could unite the globe (dreams of mice and cats and puppies all holding paws as they sing the festive Baroo song...)
AWWWG! Dazie, that's my favorite line! and, mariser, i also tune in for the 24 hour "A Christmas Story" marathon. it's the best way to watch it! I hope these baby kittehs find the bestest homes!
Okay, that is like, the most awesomest thing EVAR. More stores should jump on the bandwagon and do this. I'm sure every city in the country has an overpopulation of pets that need good homes. My kitties were rescued. :) I wish I could rescue them all.
I saw the kittehs last Friday - this year's displays are great. You can check out more pictures of the display at my blog:
http://sassyjane.vox.com/library/post/kitten-caboodle.html
And there are puppies too!
No kitties in the windows of the Chicago Macy's - the main windows are Mary Poppins though - I would prefer the kittehs (I work right by the store, so that means I'd get to see them twice a day!)
Laurie C, I wish I'd been there for kitties in the Bay. They must have stopped that by the time I moved to TO. Would have been *much* cuter than the high-artsy displays they always have now!
I love this! Our city has a "Twelve Strays of Christmas" thing, where for 12 days in December, the Humane Society features a different dog or cat on the TV news. They always caution about giving animals as gifts, though, which is important to emphasize in such programs.
Meantime, I just loves the cute kittehs...
Mariser - Your enthusiasm is wonderful.
thehawke - You sound wonderful.
Katie - My mom was the head "window dresser" for Marshall Fields in Chicago. If she was there now (Macy's) there would be cats!
Laurie C. - I guess a combination of the two?
Cutemas. I love it. I think there needs to be a family kitty huff around the fire on Cutemas Eve and catnip pudding on Cutemas Day.
thinker, they only did them on the Yonge St. side. The Queen St. side was still always left for some storybook/Santa Clausey display with moving elements for the kiddies to watch. Or, like last year, the Narnia themed display based on the movie, with lots of terrifying dioramas of characters wielding sharp pointy things. I kid you not.
How did I forget Cutener? Cutemas!
Wonderful idea! I vote you Cute Overlord of the globe.
i took pictures of those cats on sunday! they were so cute!
They don't look like they have any toys or amusements though. :(
Zenith -- you're joking, right?