Just across the state line, Frank Potter of Virginia said the four cats in his household demanded recognition, and he obliged with plates for his Miata that read MEOWTA.
With 27 cats, all of which were stray before they found a home at the Edgley household in Maryland, Linda’s rag top Cadillac has earned the nickname CATILAC.
Meow-Meow, Teardrop and Trooper are city kitties and country cats traveling regularly between Karen Johnson’s city condo and country home. Johnson and her husband have plates that read MEOWSER and PURRPAD. “Since we take our three cats back and forth with us, we wanted our love for them to be reflected in their home on the road,” Karen of Virginia said.
Laurie Budgell Lavocque of Ontario, Canada, said her Mustang with PURRER on the license plates purrs down the highway, but not as loudly as her cat, Hidee.
Karen Kona-Anderson and her husband, Jay, of Pennsylvania have 5 KATS and KAT MEOW on their license plates. Karen said their friends and colleagues have nicknamed their cars the “catmobiles.”
Mary Lou and Chuck Glazer of Ohio said the state motor vehicle department suggested PUURR because their first choices, PAWS and MEOW, were already taken.
Mary Scholz of Pennsylvania said her first choices for cat-related license plates were also taken. “PUR POWR just came to me as I was making up a second list,” she said. “Fortunately, it turned out to be mine.”
