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neaira in booksellers

Store cats

Mar 20, 2006 19:43

I work at a small independent bookstore in Kansas, and I was just playing with our store cat. Then I got kind of curious about how many other you on here also have store cats. It's a pretty normal thing around here. Most of the stores Downtown have cats, in some cases 3 or more. We'd have more, but little Miss Emily Dickinson just won't have it ( Read more... )

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Comments 27

thisdaydreamer March 21 2006, 01:47:51 UTC

I wish...

fourwaytriangle March 21 2006, 03:18:30 UTC

*echoes*

wldrose March 21 2006, 02:00:05 UTC

cute cat

One of the people on my Flist opened a store, a few weeks ago and one of the things she did was take a hard to place cat from the shelter. (handsome but older and feline hiv+) My heart allmost broke, store cats are a good thing.

Ash

neaira March 21 2006, 04:09:54 UTC

Yeah, we saved Emily here, too. :) A friend of my manager found her as a kitten and couldn't keep her, and since we had been looking for a cat... the rest is history! :) She's about 3 years old now. The local paper even did a story about it. We're a very boring town. lol

gruyere March 21 2006, 04:50:49 UTC

store cats are a good thing

Not for those of us who love books and are allergic to cats.

postmodernpeach March 21 2006, 19:27:53 UTC

agreed. :( although i do like cats, they make my throat close up. le sad.

akatonbo March 21 2006, 02:16:08 UTC

The used bookstore I work in has two cats. (My favorite back in Seattle had SIX at the main location, plus they had a couple of other locations and each also had a cat.) It's lovely to have a cat in my lap while I'm entering books for ABE listings.

neaira March 21 2006, 04:11:54 UTC

Oh my goodness, six at one location! Emily's really territorial, so we can't have any more at the moment.

seattle... msandromeda March 21 2006, 07:50:21 UTC

twice sold tales?

bjorker March 21 2006, 21:52:13 UTC

Ooh, I love that bookstore (I'm assuming Twice Sold Tales)! I've only ever been to the one off of Broadway though.

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Re: :) neaira March 21 2006, 04:11:09 UTC

Awww, I'd love to have a store dog! Someday when I have my own bookstore....

cjspock March 21 2006, 03:24:34 UTC

I wish we could have store pets, but alas, I work for a big chain. We do have a regular customer who is blind who brings his seeing eye dog in. Its the sweetest dog ever. We actually got a complaint from another customer the other day. Apparently, this sweet dog was bother her and asked that it be removed. Apparently, the presence of the quiet dog was bothering her too much and she couldn't read. What about the blind guy... are we supposed to kick him out cuz he needs a dog?!? People suck.

neaira March 21 2006, 04:10:19 UTC

How horrible! I would have kicked her out for being a moron. :/

karena March 21 2006, 04:57:07 UTC

I work for a big chain in Canada, and we allow dogs into the store. I think it's great. I get my doggie dose whenever they're in! I wish more people brought them.

bitwhizzle March 22 2006, 02:10:59 UTC

My store (in that same big chain...) LOVES dogs. We had a "Doggie Day" once, and invited all our customers to bring in their dogs for contests and treats, a dog show and prizes. It was GREAT! Most of our managers have dogs, and at some point or another, there's a dog in the store, or in the manager's office. Our regulars bring in their dogs, and the employees with pups (myself included) get swarmed by staff when we bring ours in. I love it. I don't think we've ever had a complaint...except the one time that an ex-manager brought in his jack russel, and it peed by one of our displays...he asked ME to clean it up and I laughed in his face. Then he sheepishly got the paper towels out...hehehe.