A therapy animal, Instagram star, and product tester. A customer greeter who’s also been lovingly dubbed the laziest employee on staff. Global Neighborhood Thrift & Vintage’s resident cat Smudge has many roles.
For nearly all of his three years, the green-eyed, gray-and-white feline with a smudge of gray on his left cheek has been living quite a cushy life at the local nonprofit’s Logan neighborhood warehouse and store. Beloved by staff — many of whom are refugees hired through its job readiness program — and shoppers, Smudge is definitely a local celebri-cat.
Born on International Cat Day, Aug. 8, to a street cat mama prowling the South Perry District, Smudge and his littermates caught the attention of Julie Kimball-Bryant, Global’s director of social enterprise and programs and a friend of the family who took the kittens in…