Cats of Madison and Dogs of Madison adds adorable photos to animal lovers’ feeds

On wonderful days, you might find Jason Nolen going for walks via a Madison neighborhood snapping photos for his Instagram accounts, @cats_of_madison and @dogs.of.madison. 

Cats of Madison boasts far more than 23,500 followers and Puppies of Madison has approximately 17,000. Following setting up to article a couple photos of cats in his community on his individual Instagram account in 2015, Nolen was encouraged to generate an account just for felines. 

Nolen suggests he didn’t have expectations for the account at 1st, but he started off to obtain a significant variety of followers in the initial several months and it became a much more critical undertaking. Considering that launching his Instagram accounts, Nolen estimates that he has place in thousands of several hours of strolling for pet photos, exploring Madison’s diverse neighborhoods to discover photogenic furry friends — he almost certainly is aware about 400 cats in Madison by title. 

“A lot [of cats] figure out me now as the man that’s likely to continue to be for a whilst and pet them, so they’re just like, ‘Hell yeah,’ ” Nolen claims. 

Nolen, who will work total time as a researcher for CapTel Ultratec, has two cats of his very own, Toddler Woman and Button. His principal cat-recognizing areas include things like the Marquette, Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara, Sherman, Eken Park and Monroe neighborhoods. Nolen claims it’s not only the cats that realize him these times lots of of the cat homeowners have designed interactions with him, also.

“It’s an brilliant combination of the cats it brings into my life and the men and women it brings into my everyday living,” he says. “Madison loves dogs, of program, but they adore their cats, as well.” 

Retaining up with his Instagram pages is a labor of really like for Nolen, who estimates that he can make between $1-$3 an hour from his efforts. The posts on their own do not carry in money, apart from a few sponsored posts — but he has sold merch and calendars, secured enterprise sponsorships and will do personal photoshoots on a pay-what-you-want foundation. He also accepts donations by way of PayPal. 

Nolen states his comments section is amazingly healthful, and he enjoys persons loving the animals and interacting with every other.

“Especially now in the last few several years, the world is a mess and men and women are having difficulties and getting a really tough time,” Nolen claims. “This is a person of the matters in the globe that is still light-weight. I’ll see comments that say, ‘This is what I wanted right now,’ which is the most effective point that can occur for me.”