I always say that I have a mental cat-map of all the stores in my neighborhood that have cats. So, I decided to take my mental map for a particularly fertile (cat-wise, at least) stretch of the area and make it into… an actual cat-map.

If you know of any other local stores in NYC that have cats, shoot me an e-mail and I’ll expand the map or possibly map other neighborhoods… or you can make your own cat-map of your favorite local haunts that have feline friends to greet their customers!

Although I don’t live in California (sometimes I sure wish I did!), this is a great roundup, complete with a handy chart, of bookstore cats in Northern California.

As the article says, “A bookstore cat is a shop’s mascot and keeper, equally adept at charming customers and, when the lights go out, chasing away rodents. And so let us celebrate these furry souls – hopefully not an endangered species! – as more and more readers get their books delivered in shrink-wrapped packages from out-of-state corporate behemoths, or transmitted, in blips, to hand-held devices no cat would ever want to cuddle up to.”