The 12 Days of Catmas 

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Art Director/Production Manager
Susan Kruithof
SIGN: Taurus
BIRTHPLACE: Bloomington, Ind.
WORKED AT CW SINCE: 2000
TURN-ONS: Midwestern boys
TURN-OFFS: Know-it-alls
FAVORITE MOVIES: The Last Picture Show, Dead Man Walking, Brazil
FAVORITE BOOKS: Middlesex, East of Eden, Gone Girl
FOODS I CRAVE: Saag aloo, salmon gukan maki, split-pea soup
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: I was a saute cook for about a year in Bloomington, Ind., as a part-time job. My full-time gig then was selling advertising, not designing it as I do now.
FAVORITE HANGOUT: Brewvies. Love the vibe; they have amazing employees. It's just like being Norm from Cheers. Everyone knows my name, and I know theirs. I seldom watch a movie, but love to hang on the patio.

Clyde
AGE: 3
Gender: 100 percent male
TURN-ONS: Wrapping myself around my human's neck, killing critters in the backyard
TURN-OFFS: Catnip. I'm just naturally high.
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Brawling with neighborhood cats, peeing where I'm not supposed to
SECRET DREAM: Hanging with Bill and Ted and having a most excellent adventure
FOODS I CRAVE: Chicken: roasted, baked, salad, stir-fried ...
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: Rocky Balboa and Michael Corleone
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: I use to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Cat Ring in Murray, but it was messing up my face too much. A couple of scars is ruggedly handsome, but a missing eye would put me out of the modeling business.
FAVORITE HANGOUT: Top of the living-room couch
GUILTY PLEASURES: I really love eating Wheaties. I know, I know—no meat, but damn, those Wheaties are delicious.
AMBITIONS: I'd like to be a stunt cat in movies.
FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN MY HUMANS ARE AWAY: Pee in the stove well

Wicket
AGE: 6
Gender: Female.
TURN-ONS: Having my fur detangled with the yellow wire brush of love
TURN-OFFS: Stinky teenage boys
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Primping
SECRET DREAM: Run away to go live with a super-rich owner where I get to eat gourmet cat food and get brushed by my own personal groomer
FOODS I CRAVE: A nice spiral ham
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: Princess Diana, Nicki Minaj, Sleeping Beauty
FAVORITE HANGOUT: In front of the kitchen heater vent
GUILTY PLEASURES: Rattling the cat food bag, whether or not there is food in my bowl
AMBITIONS: I'd like to go live in Cinderella's Castle at Disney World
FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN MY HUMANS ARE AWAY: Scooch my food bowl into the middle of the kitchen floor, then dump out crumbs from said food bowl

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Account Executive
Pete Saltas
SIGN: Leo
BIRTHPLACE: Salt Lake City
WORKED AT CW SINCE: 2007-2014 (pursuing a full-time modeling gig in 2015)
TURN-ONS: Back rubs—any day, any time
TURN-OFFS: Dirty feet. Keep your shoes on, and frequently change your socks!
FAVORITE MOVIES: I hate horror movies. Will watch just about any good comedy. This Is the End is the funniest movie I've seen since Wedding Crashers.
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: I'll turn the TV on next year when Game of Thrones starts up again. Spoiler alert: I've read the books and will look down upon you if you ask me a Game of Thrones question and have not read A Song of Ice & Fire.
BEST CONCERT: Too many good concerts to name just one. Top two would have to be Paul McCartney in San Diego with my mama and Santana at Red Butte with my brother—both this year.
FAVORITE SONG TO SING: Anything from Les Miserables. (Btw, people, give Russell Crowe a break!)
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: Not a finite list, but my parents and siblings top my list of admirable people.

ADOPT ME

Lilly
AGE: 2 or 3 (age is just a number anyway!)
GENDER: Female
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Best Friends Pet Adoption Center
TURN-ONS: My people friends! (except Pete Saltas)
TURN-OFFS: Pete Saltas
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Kicking around a ball of yarn with the other cool cats at Best Friends
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: The cats in the "Hang in There" photos
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: I was the stunt double in Mouse Hunt; worked a weekend for Jimmy John's bike delivery downtown; this summer I was on the cleanup crew for the Twilight Concert Series
AMBITIONS: To have a human friend take me home!
WORST PICK-UP LINE I'VE EVER HEARD: "What makes you purr?" —Pete Saltas
BEST PICK-UP LINE I'VE EVER HEARD: "What makes you purr?" —Channing Tatum (Tate-YUM!)
SIGNALS I GIVE A HUMAN WHEN I WANT HIM/HER TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE: I call it the Puss in Boots move ... eyes wide open while clutching my hat! Gets 'em every time!
IF I COULD GO ANYWHERE, I WOULD GO: To Jon Arbuckle's house to eat lasagna with Garfield!

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Blogger
Colin Wolf
SIGN: Aries
BIRTHPLACE: Muskegon, Mich.
WORKED AT CW SINCE: 2011
TURN-ONS: Internet arguments, "boobs" spelled out on a calculator
TURN-OFFS: The war on Christmas, or people who sniff wine and say "oakey"
AMBITIONS: Invent a stupid word like "bae" and then retire as a lazy playboy
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Saying "sorry" and never meaning it
FAVORITE MOVIES: Pacific Rim
FAVORITE BOOKS: No, just movies ... specifically Pacific Rim
FAVORITE FOODS: Ordering a fresh pizza from the Dominos app
BEST CONCERT: Chief Keef
FAVORITE SONG TO SING: "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & the News
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: Online poker player
SECRET DREAM: To someday meet a pretty lady and share a Facebook account
SEXIEST CITY IN THE WORLD: Probably a toss up between Key Largo, Contigo and Kokomo ... that's where I want to go
FAVORITE WAY TO SPEND A SUNDAY: Poppin' wheelies into your heart

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Ben
AGE: 4
GENDER: Male
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Best Friends Pet Adoption Center
TURN-ONS: Meaty snacks, licking my butt
TURN-OFFS: People who judge my lazy lifestyle
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Naps
SECRET DREAM: I once dreamt of the perfect sausage only to find out at the end of the dream that the perfect sausage was ... me.
FAVORITE FOODS: An above-ground pool filled with Fancy Feast
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: Guy Fieri
WORST PICK-UP LINE I'VE EVER HEARD: Let me get a sitter for my litter.
BEST PICK-UP LINE I'VE EVER HEARD: I'm spayed.
FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN MY HUMANS ARE AWAY: Lie in the sun and pretend I'm a sausage with arms
IF I COULD GO ANYWHERE, I WOULD GO: To Applebee's ... with anybody, really

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Music Editor
Kolbie Stonehocker
SIGN: Taurus
BIRTHPLACE: Spokane, Wash.
WORKED AT CW SINCE: 2011
Turn-ons: Small, warm spaces; when plans get canceled and I get to stay home; soft, fuzzy things
Turn-offs: Sticky hands, hard-boiled eggs, dishes clanging together
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Netflix, biking, playing video games, thrift-store shopping
FAVORITE MOVIES: My Neighbor Totoro, Napoleon Dynamite, Fantasia, Edward Scissorhands
FAVORITE BOOKS: The Harry Potter series, The Lord of the Rings series
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Parks & Recreation, The Office, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Supernatural
FAVORITE FOODS: Grilled-cheese sandwich & tomato soup, Pie Hole pizza, hash browns, sushi
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: Receptionist, pizza-delivery person, City Weekly copy editor
FAVORITE HANGOUT: Couch
SECRET DREAM: To be a librarian, have a sanctuary for stray cats, and spend a day at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter when it's closed to everyone except me
HOW I MET MY CAT: One night, a couple of my brothers told me there was a kitten hiding under my car. She looked like she'd been abandoned: leaves and twigs were stuck in her matted fur, and she was meowing piteously. I lured her out from under the car with some tuna fish, petted her, and gave her some food and water. The next morning, she was waiting at the back door for me, and we've been best friends ever since.
FAVORITE WAY TO SPEND A SUNDAY: Getting day drunk, napping on the couch and playing World of Warcraft

Tabitha (aka Tabby)
AGE: About 4
Gender: Female.
TURN-ONS: Sniffing car tires, getting brushed, hearing my humans pull the milk out of the fridge
TURN-OFFS: Human singing
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Playing in paper bags and tissue paper, clawing my scratching post, staring out the window, sniffing stuff outside, napping on the couch, climbing into boxes in the closet
SECRET DREAM: Being able to communicate to humans about ghosts in apartment, killing the string once and for all
FAVORITE FOODS: Toast with jam, waffles, cheese crackers, chicken, tuna fish, yogurt, ice cream, treats
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: Conservationist John James Audubon, for his prolific bird slaughtering.
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: Couch scratcher, bug hunter
FAVORITE HANGOUT: The top of the cat tree, couch, end of humans' bed, the shower after the humans use it
GUILTY PLEASURES: Shredding paper, clawing the couch, drinking water out of human glasses, getting in the garbage
AMBITIONS: Sniff all the things, kill that goddamn string
FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN MY HUMANS ARE AWAY: Walk around on the kitchen counters
IF I COULD GO ANYWHERE, I WOULD GO: Outside

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Staff writer
Colby Frazier
SIGN: Aries
BIRTHPLACE: Spanish Fork
WORKED AT CW SINCE: 2013
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Being around my family, bullshitting loudly, floating down a river
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: The Wire
BEST CONCERT: Every time, no exceptions, Built to Spill
SPORTS PLAYED: I run.
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: The happy and the rough
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: Brewer, newspaperman, pizza-delivery boy
FAVORITE HANGOUT: My shredded chair
HOW I MET MY CAT: I met her at my house, a little while after my wife, Sarah, and daughter, June, brought her home from the shelter.
FAVORITE WAY TO SPEND A SUNDAY: Reading The New York Times—the version that leaves ink all over my fingers
FAVORITE PLACE TO GO ON VACATION: I don't like leaving Utah.

Spark
AGE: 1
GENDER: All woman
TURN-ONS: Belly rubs
TURN-OFFS: Standard cat food
FAVORITE ACTIVITIES: Sleeping, scratching, eating food off the kitchen table
SECRET DREAM: To be a human chef
FAVORITE FOODS: Cold cereal, expensive cheese and meat—all sorts of meat
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: June and Sarah
JOBS BEFORE MODELING: Was on my way to becoming one helluva alley cat
FAVORITE HANGOUT: Top of the stereo
GUILTY PLEASURES: Scratching the hell out of the furniture—not that cool scratching-post tower that was built for me
AMBITIONS: To eat everything in the house, and then destroy all of the chairs
SIGNALS I GIVE A HUMAN WHEN I WANT HIM/HER TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE: As a human strides across the living room, I collapse onto my back right in front of them
FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN MY HUMANS ARE AWAY: Sit in the window and fantasize about killing all the world's birds
IF I COULD GO ANYWHERE, I WOULD GO: Into a gallon of milk