Famous Felines Get Frisky at CatCon

Famous Felines Get Frisky at CatCon
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A convention devoted entirely to cats? Yes please! YH joins up with comedian Andy Milonakis and heads down to CatCon to get the scoop on this purr-fect event and catch up with the famous felines in attendance, including Nala, Pudge, and, of course, Lil BUB, plus we check out some of the cat-tastic merch!
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Cats of Instagram. They're a huge sponsor of this event, right? Because pretty much Cats on Instagram made cats all that much more famous.
Yeah, definitely.
Little Bub, I met last night. She has like 1.3 million followers. Young Hollywood, here we are at CatCon. I have sweet Nala. Say hi Nala. Nala is a rescue, right?
She's a rescue, yeah. I adopted her when she was five months. Somebody dropped her off at a shelter, and I just got too lucky.
What's amazing about Nala is there's sweatshirts, there's t-shirts. Plus she pretty much almost everything right now. Yeah. I'm gonna have to get myself a Nala sweatshirt. What do you think Nala? What is up Young Hollywood? It is Drew and Drew number two. Andrew. Andy Milanakis is in the house. Since we have him, let's have him give us a little tour of this awesome thing we call CatCon, huh?
All right, I'll give you a tour, something I've never seen before. I'm down. We got a full-body cat costume, you know what I mean? I need one of those. Hook a brother up, bro. Oh, that's soft, man. I wanna cuddle with you.
That's some CatCon love right there, Andy.
Hell yeah, man, I get love with all I go, let's do it.
Okay, so here we are with Little Bub. Hi Little Bub. What's amazing is the following behind Little Bub. How did this all come about?
I started a blog for fun in 2011 just for friends and family. Friends shared with other friends, and before I knew it, there was a substantial following of strangers. We were on Buzzfeed, Good Morning America, The View, had a documentary about us, a book, and that was all within the first like six months. So now we're four years later, so. She's only cat diagnosed with osteopetrosis. It's also known as stone bone disease. So instead of her bones getting brittle, they actually get harder and denser with age.
She's so cute. So how has life changed Little Bub now that you're so famous?
Oh, she said she's she's always been famous, so not not too much.
This is awesome. Here we are at Pudge. I mean, that looks like me in cat form. I mean. Okay, here we are with Pudge. Hi Pudge. So first off, even though she has a mustache, she wants everyone to know that she's a woman. Do you think the universe is a hologram, or do you believe in string theory?
Oh, wow. Really?
Neil Degrasse Tyson, watch out, buddy, Pudge is coming for ya. Okay, so Pudge merchandising is really cool. Everyone, she's such a big fan, everyone wants to wear her, wants to have like a Pudge coffee mug. That's something that really is like almost your form of art, I've noticed. Like it's your thing to come up with new Pudge clothing, huh?
Right, yeah. And the merch started, people were like, I want a calendar of Pudge, I want a T-shirt of Pudge. And I went to school for design, so it was like easy for me to do that for people. It's sort of been the place where I could just sort of like have fun and come up with whatever and.
You know, Pudge is actually a girl though, bro. I am too. Look at my. Oh, wow, you make a bunch of miniature cat stuff, Andrew, look. In Japanese? Oh, nice. Shout out to Tokyo, shout out to Shibuya, shout out to Kyoto, shout out to Osaka.
So, this is a convention just for you. How does that make you feel? You're the star of the show. Is it hard to live a normal life now that you're such a celebrity, Nala? Oh, sweet Nala, come here, Nala. Nala. Oh, oh, oh, oh. You have a brother, don't you, Nala? His name's Coffee? Oh, no. Coffee's gonna be here today, too. Yeah?
Yeah.
Cats of Instagram. They're a huge sponsor of this event, right? Because pretty much Cats on Instagram made cats all that much more famous.
Yeah, definitely.
Little Bub, I met last night. She has like 1.3 million followers. When you guys travel, where have you been?
A lot of places. We come to the West Coast often. We're from Bloomington, Indiana. Uh, we recently were in Toronto, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cincinnati. We travel almost every other week.
Little Bub's met a lot of celebrities, huh?
Oh, yeah. She's pretty tight with Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters.
You're tight with Robert De Niro? That guy even scares me.
He loves cats. She loves cats. Well, who couldn't love Little Bub?
All right, well thank you so much for your interview, Little Bub. Uh, can you say Young Hollywood? Bye, Little Bub.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Andy Milonakis
Comedian joining Young Hollywood at CatCon
- Nala
Famous rescue cat at CatCon
- Lil BUB
Famous cat with 1.3 million followers and unique health condition
- Pudge
Famous cat known for her mustache and merchandise
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
Mentioned in a playful comparison with Pudge
- Coffee
Nala's brother
- Robert De Niro
Celebrity Lil BUB has met
- Whoopi Goldberg
Celebrity Lil BUB has met
- Barbara Walters
Celebrity Lil BUB has met
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