When the rich start painting their cats, there may be a problem
I’m no anthropologist, but once the rich start painting their cats, it’s likely a sign of an impending apocalypse.
The cats are painted with non-toxic paint, that lasts up to three months. Apparently it’s all the rage in high society. From the BBC:
Update: Have I been spoofed? It appears so. Of course, so was the BBC. Decide for yourself. Nonetheless, enjoy the images, and I stand by point that a lot of rich people would paint their pets if they could. So there.
H/T Fritz
–WKW
March 16th, 2007 at 10:27 am
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256503.htm
Painted Cats? It’s a Spoof!
Some folks are irate, others are perplexed, and many are downright incredulous after viewing a widely forwarded email containing dozens of photographs of ordinary housecats whose fur appears to have been painted in a variety of decorative colors and designs (examples here). “I don’t see how a cat would remain still to have themselves painted. This can’t be genuine,” objected one reader who found the email entitled “Painted Cats” in her inbox earlier this week. “I find this dangerous and abusive,” wrote another.
I’m happy to report that there is no cause for anger or alarm. Though the cats are real, the paint jobs are not. Most if not all of the lovingly Photoshopped images came from a tongue-in-cheek volume entitled Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics (Ten Speed Press, 2002), written by New Zealanders Burton Silver and Heather Busch, the same pair responsible for the equally deadpan Why Cats Paint (1994) and Dancing with Cats (1999).
Silver, a well-known cartoonist, was also the co-author of What Bird Did That: A Driver’s Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) — actually a compilation of photos of bird droppings presented as a “handy glove compartment guide enabl[ing] the motorist to identify quickly which species created which display on the windshield.”