Dallas Wind Symphony's Office Cat Gets Own Apartment

A local symphony in Dallas, TX "adopted" a sleek, black cat known as Miss Widget who recently got her own digs too when offices were renovated and architects decided to include the animal in its design plans.

The shiny, midnight-color feline with a smooth debonair from America lives in the Dallas Wind Symphony (DWS) offices known as the Fair Park Bandshell. She even helped architects by "supervising" recently as historic offices got an extreme home makeover. (Source: Nancy Myers, Dallas News; http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/lifetravel/stories/DN-NHG_symphonycat_0831liv.ART.State.Edition1.bcd49f.html.

An additional little house designed also for the cat resembles a kitty condo with all the amenities. Miss Widget has been a resident at the office since 1998.

The DWS, known as the nation's only profesisonal concert band, according to Myers, was picked to get an office do-over by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) for a community project.

Since the DWS's backstage area was built in the 30s, the bandshell quarters are a little archaic.

Miss Widget, 10, was found when she was cruising around the Dallas Country Club property.

An employee at the symphony office said he wasn't a cat person when he started the job but said his fellow co-workers can attest that he is definitely one now.

"It's fun having her. She's great in the office," he said in a video on dallasnews.com.

As the video begins you can see Miss Widget laying on the back of an office chair. Then you see her playing, lounging in her new digs, getting food from her self-feeder with her paw and almost falling a couple of times climbing.

She even meows for the camera a few times including at the end just to wrap things up.

She plays with a shoestring with one of the symphony employees and looks at the camera lens filming her in-depth.

Looking like a black panther, lounging on the back of an office chair while an employee types away you can see why she is number one on the office closing to do list at the end of the day.

The first item on the "How to close the office" reads something like "Make sure Miss Widget has been fed, given affection, and played with."

She even has her name on her award-winning house, something she is clearly proud of.