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HeartofSteel
10-20-2008, 05:36 PM
I'm not sure if anyone else has seen these but I thought were to interesting to not share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tU9u44nvGo
starkitten
10-20-2008, 05:38 PM
Freaky ;) I liked it
HeartofSteel
10-20-2008, 05:40 PM
Lol, I don't think I would want my Kitty's painted
WashingtonBay
10-20-2008, 05:45 PM
I think they've only been painted in Photoshop. :) And it was free... (a little less than $15,000)
HeartofSteel
10-20-2008, 05:48 PM
Wbay: I was thinking that but I'm not sure.... I have heard of people who have them so who knows
Gypsy Rose
10-20-2008, 05:54 PM
I got the email with those pics- IMO, if it IS real, I don't think the cats would be too thrilled about it!
HeartofSteel
10-20-2008, 05:55 PM
Gypsy: No kidding! They would have to like tranqualize the cats to get that much detail on them!
WashingtonBay
10-20-2008, 06:04 PM
snopes.com: Painted Cats (http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/paintedcats.asp) :D
HeartofSteel
10-20-2008, 06:08 PM
Awww you just had to ruin all the fun lol :p
cloedoll
10-20-2008, 06:10 PM
I thought it was fake, too, but very neat. =D
WashingtonBay
10-20-2008, 06:29 PM
I think the background from snopes is amusing. :) The original joke was a coffee table book called "Why Cats Paint". It was a spoof because cats don't paint. At the very front of the book is the notation: ''Why Cats Paint is a registered international experiment in inter-species morphic resonance and is designed to test the hypothesis of formative causation.''

In other words: If you describe a phenomenon, perhaps it will come to exist.

As Carroll predicted, a good many people did take Why Cats Paint at face value and failed to realize it was a spoof. The phenomenon was repeated with the 2002 release of Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics — whereas the focus of the former book was cats as painters, the subject of the latter was cats as canvases, a topic that led some readers (who again mistakenly took the book literally instead of humorously) to be concerned about the propriety and potentially harmful effects of artists' painting designs directly onto cats' fur.
carla
10-20-2008, 06:34 PM
Well, if it were real, I just don't think I could take the cat with the swim cap/bikini seriously.

And what would a cat do if it looked in the mirror at all that? :jawdrop: