Arya Goggin on SKINDRED’s battles and Disney cats

Cats and Other Celebrities · Jul 30, 2026 · 30m

Arya Goggin spent years trying to make a cat love him. She never did.

He grew up around dogs, then met Trixie, who tolerated him out of what he suspects was pity. "I fell in love with Trixie," he says. "I don't know if she ever fell in love with me." It did not put him off. He waited, and when the time came he got two cats of his own, rescue sisters from Celia Hammond named, with great ceremony, after a Bond girl and a Disney princess: Domino and Belle. One struts like a model, one is the girl next door, and one, allegedly, has a French accent.

The cats are only half of it. Arya drums for…