Five Famous Cat Owners

1- Marie Antoinette
Most famous for "let them eat cake," Marie Antoinette was known to have her beloved snow-white Angora cats roaming about her palace.  You better believe they ate better than the peasants.













2- Winston Churchill

Churchill's had a marmalade-coloured cat named Jock.  Jock slept with Churchill, shared his dining table, and attended numerous war-time Cabinet meetings. If Jock was late for meals, Churchill would send servants to find him, waiting to eat til the cat was present. Jock was curled up next to Winston on the day Churchill died.

One has to imagine that cat ownership contributed to his optimistic outlook on life.












3- Pope Benedict XVI 
Owns a cat named Chico, who is black-and-white domestic short hair.  During his time as Pope, Chico continued to live at the Pope's home in Germany because cats weren't allowed in his Papal quarters.  A lot of people speculate that his resignation as Pope was due to his pining for his cat.  Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles, once said “The talk that the pope loves cats is incorrect. The pope adores cats.”






4- Mark Twain 

A source of some of the best and most famous quotes about cats, Mark Twain made no secret about the fact that cats were one of his life's great loves.



















5- King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette's husband wasn't just indulging his wife by buying her those gorgeous Angora cats.  He loved them just as much as she did, and had custom-built down-filled beds with silk sheets built for them.