The Cats of Belly Dance NY

Send a picture of your feline companion to bdny.events@gmail.com with "CAT PAGE" in the subject line. Pictures sent as jpeg or gif attachments work best.
Tell your dancer friends to send pictures. Dogs and other species can be honorary cats.
Samara has organized a wonderful cat adoption service--See it at Animal Connection.
Scroll down to see everyone who's on the page.

bruno
BRUNO lives with Julia in NYC.

BUDDY warms up with Anahid.

This page is dedicated to the memory of Ma'at Mewer who passed away on September 24, 2009. She is survived by her son Horus, her daughter Heidi, and her person Stella, who can't imagine a more loving friend or perfect companion.

maat 2009

Your hostess and host: the Divine Ms MA'AT MEWER (lower berth) & her boy HORUS MEWER at home.

MITCHELL (top) and MAXWELL, are brothers. They live with Stella and HORUS MEWER.

Naajidah sends us a snap of Ashiya's cat friend CHEWY demonstrating her double veil technique. All three of them live in Lincoln, NE.

MOCHA, an acrobatically inclined Tonkinese, lives on Long Island with Joanna

DOSA graciously shares her space with Nourhan.

FLORENCE moved from Savannah, GA to New York with Zoe Kamala.

It was love at first purr when Samara and NIMMER (Tiger in Arabic) met in Athens, Greece and lived there together for six months. NIMMER was Samara's darling.

NICOLE, who would go to bed when told it's time, was Samantha's sister & SHAYNA, a Halloween Lucky Black Cat adoptee who made their home with Rayhana.

NUNU is another buddy of Rayhana's who lives at Charles and Linda's.

BONJOUK, a belly dance natural from Istanbul, lives with Linda & Charles, along with GADOO & MISS NEWY.

GADOO who lives with NuNu and Newy is Rayhana's fiance. He always is interested in where she's dancing in case he has to show up for "muscle".

nuf
NUF plays percussion with Raquy at every opportunity

SAMANTHA's an undercover cuddler who's lovable, beautiful, vocal and one of six at Rayhana's house.

NEWY lives at Charles and Linda's and plans on dancing "Princess Newee" when Rayhana says she is ready

Down time at Sahar's--Big Cats enjoying a big sweater.

BELLA, here dressed as Tinker Bell, lives in NJ with Mayra.

MOM, who's settled down since her second litter shares Aisha's home in NJ. Here Mom shows us her Khaleegi dressed best friend.

ninja NINJA was for years Daisy's loving friend.

DAISY who lived in New Jersey with Morgiana, insisted upon a minimum daily requirement of twenty hours of beauty rest to maintain her hectic schedule of photo shoots.

pumpkin Handsome PUMPKIN was the first male of his species in DAISY'S life.

bella
Eva from Philly says, "My cat's name is BELLA and I just had to share here with all of you."

petunia and gizmo
Hanina Zeen tells us that PETUNIA (top) and GIZMO love floor work.

misha and masha

MISHA & MASHA MOUSE-ORSKI make their home with Morocco. Here they're enjoying the view from the balcony.

MONA, FIFI & SAMIA count their tips. Ranya says while they undercut her they bring the money home. They're half-sisters rescued by Margarita. FIFI is MONA's mom.

Kitten MONA helped Ranya with office type tasks.

yasmina and layla YASMINA and LAYLA share quarters and affection with JOEY

JOEY formally Yousef Omar makes his home with Soraya and the Doctor

Chotchke & Shadow
Tasha's sequin chasing pals CHOTCHKE and SHADOW

grebo
Mimi's cat friend GREBO excells at balances.

We all welcome Sarah's friend CHARLESTON CHU, our first honorary cat!

SABA knew Cornelia even before Cornelia became addicted to Belly Dancing.

ruben
RUBEN has joined EDGAR and MURPHY at Gia's house. He's already developed a great shimmy

EDGAR makes his home with MURPHY and Gia. Though deaf he adores drum solos...he feels the beat!

At 20 lbs. MURPHY has belly, will dance but Gia says he remains dubious about zills.

SNOOF, short for Snow On Fire, lounges beautifully on a contrasting couch.

QUINCY lives in the country with Pamela, Barre, and SNOOFIE.

IGGY had the good sense and good luck to move into Margarita's Florida yard.

MISH-MISH and IGGY now live happily up here in NYC.

fish
FISH has happily expatriated to San Francisco with Kamille and Ben.

MARVIN, seen here in DJ mode co-hosts Radio Bastet with Marisa.

PRINCESS shares her mistress Deborah with KIE KIE

kie-kie
KIE KIE lounges gracefully inside.

april and max
Orange MAX and APRIL are a duo at Alla and Angel's.

sasha
Lovely SASHA is APRIL'S sister.

PRINCESS PIZURKA, senior cat in Jezebel's home shares her quarters with new addition SABLE and honorary cat GILGAMESH.

Honorary cat GILGAMESH

Kitten SABLE

princess mimi

The lovely PRINCESS MIMI lives in NY where she provides vocal accompaniment to Patricia's belly dance music.

PUNKY supervises quality control for Noora at DECOTACH.

SPIKE & LITTLE BIT show us their
favorite dish. They live in Albany, NY with

From Alaska with love--COSMOS and his dear friend Koyukon, companions of former New Yorker, Terri.

mimi tent
Teisha's friend MIMI has her own tent.

TUXIE, KEESHA & TIMOTHYare happily living it up at Levanah's

keesha
KEESHA

Timothy

fred
15 year old FRED is senior cat at Magdalena's house but kittenish at heart.

jade
JADE dances on Staten Island with her dearest buddy, Jennifer.

SPOOKY is the new young lady in STRIPEY's life. She and STRIPEY generously put up with Vivian and Alex.

stripey
STRIPEY is an elderly gentleman who loves to lounge on his pillows like the sultan that he is.

smudge Nineteen year old SMUDGE stands guard while mommy Maheen is out dancing.

kooch
Cool cat KOOCH grooves at home with bass player Chris Marashlian.

NEPHTALI is a lucky 2 year old that Layona adopted from a Brooklyn shelter.

To see your cat friend here, merely e-mail a picture with your cat friend's name and any important details to bdny.events@gmail.com with "CAT PAGE" in the subject line.
Honorary cats are welcome, too.

bobby and jadey
Bobby and Jadey keep Anne Marie of NJBellydancing.org company.

Table of Contents