For Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month, Petfinder and Cat Fancy asked
readers to create an ad for our feline friends. The winning entry, from
"I'm actually a dog person," he says, "but last summer a cat started hanging around our house. We'd leave food out for her, and she wouldn't let me touch her, but then one day she jumped up on the patio" and became a part of the family. "She's like a dog, what can I say?" Randy says of the cat, Lamont, who now keeps him company while he works. "She'll beg at the table; she's very vocal." But unlike a dog, Lamont doesn't require a lot of walks. "She sleeps all the time!" Randy laughs.
He came up with the concept for the ad and called a local photographer, Martin Reuben. "He's a big cat lover," Randy says. "He has two or three cats himself. He got a model into the studio and got shots to me that same day." Randy credits Lamont with inspiring the ad. "I was thinking about someone who's thinking of getting a pet but isn't sure what kind," he says. "Cats are easier than dogs, and you get a lot of the same benefits."
