Loki the Vampire Cat

Loki, a black domestic shorthair with protruding lower canines and pale blue eyes, was adopted from the Chittenden County Humane Society in Vermont by Kaetlyn Koch in 2013. The fang prominence is natural rather than the result of dental disease, a clinical detail confirmed in veterinary documentation that Koch has discussed in subsequent interviews; the cat also has one eye that does not fully close during sleep, an unrelated minor structural variation that contributes to the menacing photographic resting face. The Instagram account @loki_kitteh launched in 2014 and benefitted from regular reposts by Cats of Instagram and from a 2015 piece in Time's online culture desk that ran an extended profile on the visual contrast between her fanged expression and her gentle personality. The account reached approximately 350,000 followers by 2015 and crossed a million by 2018, with subsequent growth slowing through the early 2020s. Koch has been consistent in interviews about the cat's domestic temperament, framing the menacing photographs as unposed candid frames captured during the cat's ordinary household behaviour: Loki hides under bath towels, asks for belly rubs, and exhibits the standard affectionate behaviour expected of a well-socialised domestic shorthair. The contrast between photographic appearance and household personality has been the account's editorial through-line across its active period, positioning Loki alongside Princess Monster Truck, Monty, and the broader cohort of special-needs and unusual-appearance Instagram cats. Coverage in BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, Mashable, and several pet-blog aggregators has cited the account as part of a recurring 2010s pattern in which cats with unusual facial features become Instagram-platform favourites because the photographic appearance lends itself to caption-based humour. Loki has occasionally appeared in promotional partnerships with Vermont-based shelter organisations and in fundraising campaigns for the Chittenden County Humane Society, supporting the rescue that originally placed her. Koch has run limited commercial output through the account, declining most licensing offers beyond a small line of prints. Loki was approximately twelve in 2025 with continued account activity under the original handle.