Scenes From First Caturday at Dolores Park in SF

[KamaAina]

http://hoodline.com/2015/05/scenes-from-first-caturday-at-dolores-park

In what was billed as an event to "stop letting dogs have all the time, friends and fun" (and perhaps in response to the popular DogFest event), furry felines and their human counterparts from the Castro, Mission and beyond descended upon Dolores Park for First Caturday this past Saturday.

While humans attending the monthly event kept busy taking photos on their phones and posting them to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the cats passed the time socializing, sleeping, exploring the park, and enduring the adoration of their human fans.

Organized by First Caturday, the event was first started last August at Dolores Park. Yet, according to First Caturday, "the ritual of kitty gatherings is rumored to be an ancient and global one, its magnificence lost only in recent centuries. Although the origins are unknown, we are thankful this playful tradition remains alive in various forms worldwide, whether yearly in Belgium as the festival Kattenstoet, daily in esoteric Japanese parks, or here & now at Dolores Park."

This will not the last you hear from First Caturday. "With sufficient purring, it is the hope of First Caturday to continue on the first Saturday every month, in parks near you. And soon, purrhaps also in parks very far away from you."

[murielm99]

1. Imagine all those dogs coming back,

after Caturday. They will wear out their noses sniffing all that cat smell. LOL!