Updated: This is the update on the kitty in the window…His name is Cormac Mckitty (after the author Cormac McCarthy).  The owner got him in 2009 to help control mice in the bookstore.

We were walking down Broad Street Monday night to take a picture of the Forrest Hotel for Mark’s post on the Forrest Barber Shop when we saw a family with a little girl coming towards us. The little girl pointed at a closed store and said something about seeing a kitty cat. We thought it was a picture or figurine. When we got to the store we looked but didn’t see anything. Then we saw this.

The cat was in the floor at first but then jumped up into the window display. We had to shoot through the glass and the cat wouldn’t pose for us, so it’s not a great picture. The cat turned around and walked away from us.

This is the display at Paradise Lost Books, which sells used books.

The cat jumped down and disappeared into the store, so we couldn’t get any more pictures. We have emailed the store to see if we can get the story on the cat in the bookstore.