Mike Bridavsky

The owner of the recently departed Lil Bub has a new famous cat—an annoyed-looking snaggletooth named Mr. Marbles.

“This is a very progressive city,” says Hofstetter. “We wanted to do something positive to change the bill. For bands to give something, not take it away.”

“[Fame] was her survival strategy because she’s not able to survive in the wild. She could only survive in the age of the Internet.”

If you’ve wanted to meet Lil Bub, the famed “perma-kitten” with tens of thousands of followers across social networks, you may be in for a special treat.

When I first meet Lil Bub, as her legions of Internet fans know her, at her owner’s apartment in Bloomington, she’s staring up at me from the living room floor.