Comedian Juan Medina believes nobody can truly bond with their pet cat until they scoop their poop for further inspection. “I look forward to [it]. You want to check out how their health is. Are they hydrated? What are they eating? It makes me feel connected to him.”
Medina is talking about his cat, Chubbs. Chubbs is a rescue, 11 years old and orange, both a “clown” and a “little beast.” It’s just after 7 in the evening on the third Saturday of the month. Medina is on Zoom addressing his fellow feline fans for “Cat People: Felines Online.” It’s the third iteration of the show Medina has done virtually, but pre-pandemic he’d hosted the “Cat People” comedy show for three years, every month at the Layover in Oakland. As many Bay Area performers have found, it’s harder to connect to an audience through a screen in their living room.
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