Do you remember Disney’s movie “The Aristocats? Would you be interested to know that you can see the real-life Aristocats? The beautiful rescue cat Duchess gave birth to three kittens that looked exactly like the ones in the movie. Well, if you remember the story you would know that these kittens were black, yellow, and white.
The real-life Madame Adelaide is Shelby Sewell-Lopez who rescued the gorgeous white cat and named her Duchess. Shelby’s story is not like Madame Adelaide’s, but she was lucky to get these cartoon characters in her life.
They live in East Texas and the Duchess was adopted in 2018. The poor cat had hernia and parasites so Shelby had to take her regularly to the vet until she finally got well.
She is obviously an aristocrat because she took all these treatments gracefully.
“Through all of the rehabilitating, she kept her calm demeanor and a beautiful cat emerged. She is unbothered by everything except the vacuum cleaner!” – said Shelby.
However, the strangest thing happened when the Duchess actually gave birth to the real-life Aristocats. Of course, Shelby gave them the Aristocats’ names.
Real life Aristocat Marie
Even the genders matched to the three kittens in the cartoon.
Meet Toulouse
And the last of the Real Life Aristocats – Berlioz
They even got a “bonus kitten,” and they named him Blue.
The Story of the Aristocats
If you are not familiar with the story of the Aristocats or can’t remember what it was, here is a short summary of the storyline. “The Aristocats” is an animated featured film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on a story about a family of aristocratic cats written by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe.
It is a fantastic story about a retired opera diva, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, who lives with her butler Edgar and the cat named Duchess with her three kittens, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Marie, in Paris. Madame Adelaide is preparing her will, where she decides to leave all her fortune to her butler and her cats. However, the greedy butler Edgar doesn’t want to share the wealth with the Duchess and her kittens, so he sedates them by putting sleeping pills in their milk and drives them to the countryside to get rid of them.
Luckily, two hounds named Napoleon and Lafayette appear and ambush Edgar, leaving the cats stranded in the countryside. After a long journey that the Duchess and her kittens have running from Edgar and trying to return home, the butler falls into his own trap and loses his way far from the cats. With their mother, these brave kittens find their way home, where Madam Adelaide decides to exclude Edgar from the will, under the impression that he just left her.
Just as a reminder, take a look at the short excerpt of the Aristocats: