See Kate Beckinsale Play Miniature Pool With Her Cat
Kate Beckinsale attempts a game of miniature pool with her Instagram-famous feline friend.
Kate Beckinsale’s cat must have been on Santa’s “nice list” this year, because she got a brand new miniature pool table to play with! In Kate Beckinsale’s latest post on Instagram, fans can see the actress wearing a high ponytail and a giant black bow in her hair as she attempts to teach her (now naughty) cat, Willow, how to play pool.
Willow is obviously interested, watching the balls closely as Kate Beckinsale hits them with the pool stick. She then tries to move them around on her own before rubbing her face on the table and knocking the white ball into one of the pockets. When Beckinsale attempts to retrieve the ball, though, things go south as the grumpy cat swats at her hand.
In the second short video in the post, Willow seems to be getting the hang of things as Kate Beckinsale praises her for learning. That video is followed by a still photo, in which Willow can be seen sleeping on the miniature pool table, hugging the pool stick.
According to a 2019 interview with People magazine, Kate Beckinsale is, in her own words, “Very much a cat person.” The actress grew up with cats and a large dog, and says that cats are the easier of the two. “You don’t have to walk around with a bag of poo like you do with a dog,” she says, “… I hate to walk around with a bag of poo.”
The actress’ cats, Willow and Clive, often show up on Kate Beckinsale’s Instagram page, often doing funny things or wearing funny costumes. She adopted Willow when her friend found her to be “insane,” and gave her to Beckinsale because she got along so well with Clive.
The two cats have vastly different personalities, however, with Clive preferring to dive into a bag or a box and Willow preferring to seek out “creepy, psychopath places” to sleep, like in a drawer. “Places that she could die,” Kate Beckinsale clarifies.
Kate Beckinsale also made headlines earlier this year when she made friends with a wild fox in her parent’s garden. She posted numerous photos of it on Instagram and was even able to get the wild animal to eat from her hand. It was so comfortable around her that it even rested its paws on her leg while it was eating.
Not all of her interactions with animals have been so magical, though. Snow White – I mean, Kate Beckinsale – has such a love for animals that in 2020, someone gifted her a rabbit and a basket of rose petals… and no real explanation. Instead of this being a cute gift as perhaps the giver intended, it was actually quite creepy, and the animal lover took to Instagram once more to warn people never to give others “unsolicited pets.” She also pointed out that it was an extremely hot day that day, so if she hadn’t found it when she did, the poor bunny could have been roasting on the porch for hours.
Luckily, Kate Beckinsale found the rabbit a good home, and the story had a happy ending. For now, she is sticking with her cats, who one day, hopefully, will have mastered miniature pool.
