Fox Point Patch has a poll of the Most Popular Cat Names. Janine Anderson writes that Lucy, Smokey, Bella, Charlie and Tiger were the top 5 most popular cat names for adoptable cats in 2011, according Petfinder.com. Rounding out the list were Oreo, Daisy, Molly, Max and Midnight. Those are all good names, but of…

Adorable even when yawning.

The soaring music the videographer chose, by the way, is John? Barry’s “The Day the Earth Fell Silent.”

It’s three — yes three — cat videos for the Friday before Christmas. The Jingle Cats sing O Come All Ye Faithful: Cat hugs kitten: Cat soothes crying baby (h/t Huffington Post):

Via YouTube.

As promised, festive holiday cats between now and Christmas —

My favorite: The Cats of Ulthar. Via Photopoly: 37 Beautiful Cat Pictures.

Below is a video from someone who makes an entire turkey for his cats. (Alternatively, he makes the turkey for himself, claims it’s for the felines, and merely lets the cats lick it. The former and professed motivation is the more desirable and hygienic one.)

From the New York Times comes a story of the next great animal competition: feline agility contests. Consider the nature of the competition, and be intrigued: Feline agility competitions, in which cats run through a miniature obstacle course full of hurdles and tunnels, have become fixtures on the cat show scene. Modeled after canine agility…

Via Huffington Post

I’m sure to get complaints about this week’s catblogging photo – an animation of a spat between a small child and a feline. Some will blame the cat, others the child, still others will wonder where the parents are (after all — it wasn’t another cat that filmed this conflict).