Nine different men, nine different lives, one unlikely common thread: a house cat that changed everything.
What is Cat Daddies about?
This 2022 documentary turns its camera on ordinary men across the country and lets each one explain, in his own words, how caring for a cat altered his daily routine, his sense of purpose, or the shape of his household. There is no single narrator forcing a thesis; the film simply cuts between homes, workplaces, and the quiet moments that pet owners recognize instantly. Some subjects talk about rescue, others about companionship after a hard stretch of life, and together the portraits build a picture of masculinity that has little use for old stereotypes about who is allowed to love a small animal out loud.
About the cast
Cat Daddies is built from real people rather than a scripted cast, so the film credits its subjects instead of actors, and the record behind this page does not carry a formal cast list. What comes through instead is unscripted testimony -- men speaking plainly to camera about an attachment many of them never expected to defend.
Context & significance
Documentary features about pets have carved out a steady niche over the past decade, moving past viral internet-cat culture into something closer to character study. Cat Daddies sits in that lane: nine chapters, an 89-minute running time, and a directness that favors listening over narration. Released in 2022, it arrived alongside a wider run of nonfiction films willing to treat an unglamorous subject -- a man and his cat -- as worth a full feature's worth of sustained attention.
Watching Cat Daddies on Ktime
Cat Daddies streams on K-Time with a free account login -- no separate purchase beyond an active subscription, and no gimmicks to track. The catalogue page itself is readable without signing in, and the Farsi-first interface means the rest of the library, from documentaries to dramas, sits one click away for Persian-speaking households watching from anywhere in the world.