Tabs

Tabs had excellent table manners for a roguish food enthusiast.

Contrast this with PGR (Pretty Girl Rosie), who likes to have food poured over her head when she comes to the bowl…

She’s polite about most things, but when it comes to food, she’s got absolutely no shame.

Tabs, though, would wait patiently while you prepared his food. Even though he loved to eat, as evidenced by his profound girth. (At the height of his powers, he was a mighty 18 pounds.) But he would always wait until you were out of the way…

And then he’d stroll over to enjoy his meal…

Cats are so funny with their weird quirks!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Are you ready for some football!? The Niners game is about to start. I bet Tabs is watching from the Rainbow Bridge because, as you know, he was a big fan, and the Niners were his team.

Well, his heart was always with the Mill Valley Wildcats, because that’s the team he played for, but as a Bay Area native, he cheered for San Francisco.

If the Niners win tonight, they head to the Super Bowl.

So exciting!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Oh, boy, I bet Tabs is hooting and hollering in kitty heaven! His team is still in the playoffs! He loved rooting for the San Francisco 49ers. In fact, that tabby just loved sports in general.

I mean, he loved relaxing, obviously. He spent a lot of quality time napping, but he also loved sports, ever since his days playing kitty football for the Mill Valley Wildcats.

And whenever a kitty modeling campaign with a sports theme came available, he was all over it. He felt that professional sports combined most of his favorite things — competitiveness, interesting fashion, fitness and fabulous post-workout meals.

Go Niners! 😺

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Not to take anything away from Baby Yoda, who has admittedly rocked in that role, but Tabs also auditioned for the part of cute sidekick in The Mandalorian.

Yup, we don’t really know for sure why he didn’t get the part, but I suspect it had to do with his long-running feud with Jon Favreau. You see, Jon wrote Chef with Tabs in mind for the lead part, but Tabs turned it down because he said there weren’t enough recipes involving gravy.

That’s why Jon ended up having to star in and direct the movie himself…

As you know, Tabs was a huge Star Wars fan throughout his life. His portrayal of cat Jedi Master F.T. (Fussy Tabby) Catwalker in Star Cats: The Fierce Awakens is widely regarded as the greatest purrformance in science fiction history.

Tabs loved Star Wars so much. I think he would have really enjoyed The Mandalorian.

The first season was fantastic! Whenever we watched it, we thought of Tabs and how much he would have loved watching it with us.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

When Ryan Seacrest calls you at noon on New Year’s Eve and begs you to fly to NYC before the ball drops so you can fill in for a last-minute cancellation by Justin Timberlake in the big show, if you’re the incomparable, indefatigable Tabs the cat, you make it happen, even if it means chartering a private jet.

In the entertainment business, Tabs had a reputation as a fixer. He was the cat you called when the stakes were high and there was a crisis, and you needed someone of talent and integrity to fix it — someone who could dazzle a crowd at a moment’s notice without any practice.

Most years, Tabs preferred to ring in the new year by staying local and celebrating with his Marin County friends…

But there were a few years, like 2014, when he was needed elsewhere.

It’s hard to believe that last year was his last New Year’s with us… It’ll be different celebrating the start of a new decade without him. 😔

Miss you, buddy. Love you forever. ❤️ Happy New Year. 🎉

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen