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Cat Ladies: Origin Stories With Leysan Khabibullina, Lucy Meggeson, and Haley Shapley
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Cat Ladies: Origin Stories With Leysan Khabibullina, Lucy Meggeson, and Haley Shapley

How does one become a cat lady? I talk to three of my favorite cat ladies and find out how they proudly accepted the mantle of cat lady.
This nimbly-bimbly little kitten lived in a trash pile behind my apartment building and was the impetus for helping an entire colony of feral cats.

The brand Cat Lady has come to symbolize singleness, is usually preceded by the word crazy, and is generally not a compliment. If you’re a single woman who has a cat, or two cats, or five cats, you have probably seen some eye rolls and been told that men will run away in terror from you.

But fuck all that noise! Cats make great pets,cat ladies are rad, and I have the receipts to prove it.

This is the first in a series of episodes about cat ladies, where we break down stereotypes surrounding single women with cats and reveal the real people behind the cats. Today, I talk to my guests Leysan, Lucy, and Haley about how their cats came into their lives.

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