In addition, the painting on the cover of her 1997 album, Firecracker, is called Kitten, even though there’s no cat.
Loeb’s cat connection continued with her 1995 major label debut, Tails, which had a drawing of a cat on the cover. "My friend Amy was in charge of the cat and had to throw her - gently - into the video a couple times." "It was all filmed in one take, and it’s hard to keep a cat in a video," she laughs. For instance, her acclaimed video for "Stay," filmed in actor Ethan Hawke’s New York City apartment, featured his cat, Mardoe, in a crucial role, albeit with some challenges. Still, her love of the feline species did leave its mark. Then, in 1994, when "Stay (I Missed You)" became a hit after being featured in the Ben Stiller-directed comedy Reality Bites, she chose not to have pets because she didn’t want to put a feline through the pressures of touring. When she was growing up in Dallas, her family had two cats for 18 years, a tabby and a black-and-white short-haired cat, who died while she was in college. Loeb says she has always been a cat person. "I want to pet cats I see on the street, even if I shouldn’t."Ĭurrently, two felines are the objects of her feline affections: Chinchy Morty, a "mutt" she says looks like a Russian Blue, and Sweetie McGee, who she describes as a tortie similar to a calico but with every color.
"Cats make me happy when I see them," she admits. Behind the scenes, she has been as devoted to cats as she is to glasses or guitars.
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