{"id":98880426,"date":"2014-06-24T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/animals-of-the-week-the-philadelphia-zoo-s-african-black-footed-cat-kittens\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:20:47","slug":"animals-of-the-week-the-philadelphia-zoo-s-african-black-footed-cat-kittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/animals-of-the-week-the-philadelphia-zoo-s-african-black-footed-cat-kittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Lori M. Nichols\/South Jersey Times\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2014\/6\/-62a9cb2f3b25f0a0.jpg\" alt=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Lori M. Nichols\/South Jersey Times\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re anywhere near Philly right now, know that a crazy cat lady in the OneTravel office is unreasonably jealous of you (as in, me). This past April, the Philadelphia Zoo got its paws on a litter of African Black-Footed Cat kittens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Philadelphia Zoo\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2014\/6\/kitten-3.jpg\" alt=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Philadelphia Zoo\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can gather from the photos, they\u2019re fluffy and impossibly tiny. So tiny that <a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/up\/2014\/06\/the-philadelphia-zoo-has-adorable-black-footed-cat-kittens-with-game-of-thrones-inspired-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Uproxx<\/a> reports that the breed\u2019s adults weigh between three and four pounds, making them the smallest cats in the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Lori M. Nichols\/South Jersey Times\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2014\/6\/-13661f829d3b550b.jpg\" alt=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Lori M. Nichols\/South Jersey Times\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHow so much cute could fit into such bite-sized kittens is one of Mother Nature\u2019s miracles. And for the record, they\u2019re named Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion after the dragons on <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>. Go ahead and gush, geeks!<br \/>\nBasically, no one in the world could hate on these cats, except maybe those with no souls. I mean, just<em> look<\/em> at these faces:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Philadelphia Zoo\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2014\/6\/kitten-1.jpg\" alt=\"Animals of the Week: The Philadelphia Zoo\u2019s African Black-Footed Cat Kittens, Photo: Philadelphia Zoo\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/up\/2014\/06\/the-philadelphia-zoo-has-adorable-black-footed-cat-kittens-with-game-of-thrones-inspired-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a>; Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/indulge\/index.ssf\/2014\/06\/philadelphia_zoo_visitors_paws_to_gush_over_black-footed_cat_kittens.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lori M. Nichols \/ South Jersey Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you\u2019re anywhere near Philly right now, know that a crazy cat lady in the OneTravel office is unreasonably jealous of you (as in, me). This past April, the Philadelphia Zoo got its paws on a litter of African Black-Footed Cat kittens. &nbsp; &nbsp; As you can gather from the photos, they\u2019re fluffy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98896831,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880426\/revisions\/98896831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}