There’s a popular internet meme that reads, “The best thing about being alive is that sometimes there’s a cat,” usually written over a photo of a cat.
A new event in Sacramento intends to replicate that feeling by bringing people to the cats.
On Sunday, NorCal Resist, a community activist group, hosted its first NorCal Resist Cat Tour around Sacramento. Attendees walked and drove around to different parts of Sacramento County to visit sites where volunteers offered visitors the chance to meet their feline friends or observe them from a window. Then visitors could go on to the next site as if trick-or-treating for cats instead of candy. Many of the sites offered merchandise for sale or freebies such as water, cat toys or even clothes.
The idea for the cat tour was inspired by a similar event in Minneapolis that spurred a national media frenzy in 2024, according to Jackie Va, a NorCal Resist volunteer who pitched the event. Va says a video of the Minneapolis event and a cat sticker handed out at a NorCal Resist event led her to create a Sacramento version…