Attention, outgoing felines and their human companions: The Meow Mix Game Show is having auditions tomorrow and Sunday to find contestants for "the world’s first game show to test how well people can think like their cat." Sleep...groom...chase a fly...sleep. We're told the audition includes a written quiz on cat knowledge/trivia (for the humans, we imagine) and then a Hollywood-style screen test to see how the person-putty tat pair look on camera. For every......

If you've passed the the Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square lately, you may have wondered, "What is a Meow Mix Acatemy?" Well, it's simple: Meow Mix is giving cat owners an opportunity to understand their cats better by offering classes about cat behavior! The Meow Mix Acatemy has all sorts of interactive courses to simulate different aspects of cat behavior. For instance, there's Catnapping, Cat-isthenics (rock climbing walls and human-sized scratching areas), Cat......

Tom Shillue performs at clubs all over New York City, has a Comedy Central Presents half hour special, has appeared in commercials for Audi, Heineken, Ameritrade, Snickers, and provided voiceovers for Verizon, for Amex, and Met Life. He'll be headling at http://comixny.com/event.aspx?eid=69&sid=221on the 14th. You were part of show called Meow Mix House . For the benefit of readers, could you explain what that was? I was hosting a reality show for cats in the......

Forget the fawn and focus on the feline: Bambi, the adorable NYC shelter kitty who participated in the Meow Mix House "reality show," was the only cat not adopted out of the ten cats in participating, leaving some to wonder if her solitary attitude (she loved sitting on a leopard print couch and hissed at other cats) was to blame. The Post had first reported that Bambi was the last cat standing adoption-wise (was......

Me-ow! We loved the idea of Meow Mix's reality show for cats so much that we had to check out the Meow Mix House for ourselves. The webcams are great, but there is nothing like going up to the window and trying to convince a cat that you're his or her best friend in the whole wide world. At 425 Madison Avenue, some storefront space has been transformed into a space for ten shelter......

Awesome! The Meow Mix House webcams are up. Why webcams? Why a house? Meow Mix is running its special cat reailty show where cats compete for a job with Meow Mix. Seriously. Cats from shelters across the country were selected to be put into a "house" at 425 Madison Avenue (Meow Mix's director of advertising and marketing, Ira Cohen, did tell the AP, "This thing is very tongue-in-cheek."). Each week, people can vote for......

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And, no, the cats are not eaten. Gothamist knows how your mind has instantly made the leap to the Far East, but, alas, it's a Meow Mix store where cats can grab a nosh. On the heels of the NY Times article a few weeks ago that revealed the Fifth Avenue (between 41st and 42nd Streets) location and menu ("Cluck-a-Doodle Doo; Fillet Meow"), the Meow Mix Cafe has finally opened. Rules of engagement: No dogs......

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City Rag, lately reporting all sorts of downtown institution closings, has photographs of Meow Mix's now permanently closed doors. The Lower East Side lesbian bar shut down its East Houston Street venue due to too much tangling with the city (random fines and closing) and flooding, as well as the smoking ban, but its owners will announce their new space at the end of the month on their website. Look for Meow Mix to return......

Pet owners may be seriously considering cloning their pets - or at least buying ones that look exactly like the ones they have - considering that some city landlords challenge tenants who get new pets to replace ones that die under a 1982 law. The City Council is holding hearings about the so-called "no pet clause". Queens Councilwoman Melinda Katz is looking to introduce a bill to remove the clause, saying, "I think they [the......

Speaking of great photographs, the NY Post has had some beauties the past two days. First, in Stuyvesant Town pet battle where landlords are offering employees $150 to snitch on tenants illegally harboring pets, the Post talks to a pet owner but goes to lengths to hide their identities (above left). But now, the CEO of Meow Mix, Richard Thompson is offering employees $160 NOT to rat out the tenants, plus free Meow Mix......

Hundreds, if not thousands, of New Yorkers reading the Times today will click on the article titled Meow Mix Produces a TV Show to read about the first lesbian-bar TV show. And they will be disappointed to learn it's just about how Meox Mix cat food will be producing a show for cats and their owners on Oxygen. The article talks about how Oxygen is ratings challenged, so free advice from Gothamist: Get the club......

You know the internet is reaching 100% penetration when MEOW MIX has it's own website. Come to think of it, Henrietta Hudson also has a website. The Cubby Hole is not, as yet, online, but for those of you desperate for a fix, you can always check out the robust Smith College site.......