Cute message on kitten's fur

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The fur on this kitten, born Sunday in Sacramento, California, seems to spell out "I (heart) (dot)." That's especially cute because the kitten's mother is named Dottie.
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absimiliard

@Takuan

Gahhh1!!!!!1!!!elves!!!

Too far! Too far!

On the other hand, I’m no longer insulin-shocky AND I’m outraged.

So maybe that anti-kitty, revulsion-chaser was in fact just about right….

*grin*

-abs
Takuan

Photoshop? I suck at Photoshop. Just used a black marker.
grn_eyes

It looks real to me..My aunt use to have a dog that had the #14 on its side..and I have a rat terrier that has a silhouette of snoopy on his back…
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

ScottSigler (29): “Awards? Success? Fame? Perhaps one day they will be yours. But the fact is, nothing youâ€™ll ever do will be more popular than that online picture of bacon taped to a cat.” –John Scalzi

Arkizzle: Sorry, but everything 3DayWalk ever posted on Boing Boing had that link in it. Spam in a good cause is still spam.
3daywalk

To all the silly Photoshop comments…watch the video again while wearing glasses! :)
Takuan

yeah,wondered about that….. good causes and charities, but there are just so many of them – all worthy…….
nanuq

I hope they don’t sell that kitten to Cruella DeVille.
Antinous

Alt + 3(on the number pad) = â™¥, for those who didn’t already know and have an overwhelming desire to annoy their friends.
Anonymous

CATS RULE AND THIS ONE IS GONNA BE A WARRIOR FOR SURE CUTE!!
arkizzle

Teresa, all good, it’s a tricky one huh?
Roger Knights

From watching the video, it looks real, and so do the folks. And it’s part of the usual that the unusual occurs, so I vote Real.

BUT–just so you know–there is a new hobby–somewhat akin to decorated “art cars”–of customizing cats by staining their fur various odd shades. The results are striking.

(You’d have missed this bit of trivia if you don’t follow the supermarket tabloids. Someone should put up a link to a site devoted to colorized cats. There must be one.)
remmelt

I heart period.
pauldrye

Hey, cool — self-captioning cats. Does “I Can Has Cheezburger?” know about this?
arkizzle

3DayWalk, I clicked your link thinking it would be relevant to the discussion..

I feel for charity, but this feels like SPAM. If you had said “and by the way, please check out my worthy cause [link]” it would have been both more obvious and more honest.
franko

did the kitten’s mother read lolcats every day, or something? i can haz heartz?
Anonymous

Isn’t that soo sweet. It’s not uncommon as people think for animals to have patches like that, my mother’s minkz momma cat the biggest breeder of kittens and probably around her 6 litter she had one that had a number seven patch on his back and underdeveloped floppy back legs, giving the kitten away to a hispanic family, they said it was a sign from the God’s of course for good fortune. Reguadless of his disfunction. So I hope this family holds on to that special little kitty.
Anonymous

AWWWWW KITTY KITTY!!!!!
Anonymous

Unintelligent people saying this is fake…click the linkand watch the vid.
Memphismom

http://www.equineextravaganza.com/loviecupidarrowBC.jpg This is a picture of 2 horses. Cupid and Arrow. Have to see it to believe it!
-Memphismom
ornith

Roger, you’re not referring to Why Paint Cats, are you? Cause that really IS a photoshopped hoax book. And if you believe anything you’ve read only in the supermarket tabloids… I’ve got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

This, though….AWWWWW! My head asplode from teh kyoot. *boom*
scottsigler

For all the cool stuff BoingBoing posts, THIS is what gets linked from the Yahoo home page?
Tenn

People missing Photoshop Conspiracy Theorist Jokes:

uh. It’s a joke.
Anonymous

This is too beautiful. God works in mysterious ways!
someofmyorange

SpocksBrain: Yeah, I saw that too.. HIV and it’s a little plus sign :( Not so cute after all.
ponygirl

has no one ever heard of cupid and her baby arrow? they are adorable paint horses. They’ve been around for awhile, you can even buy statues of them. Animals sometimes just get strange markings, not everything is a fake.
w000t

This reminded me of a report I’ve seen of a goat with an ohm (IIRC) on his side. I couldn’t find it in a short search, but came across a really adorable puppy in Japan with a perfect heart marking on his side:

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/puppy-with-a-whopping-huge-heart/offbeat-news
SpocksBrain

Sorta looks like it says “HIV” to my eyes.

Admittedly the “H” has some ink-bleed problems, but still.
arkizzle

QSD: Yeh, probably you are. Why would you be ‘disturbed’ by a kid having a fun haircut? It’s not exactly subversive anymore..
I’m going to venture the entirely uncontroversial: hair-nazi

And Remmelt, reading that in English-English (as opposed to American-English) it sound like you really really like menstruation.
A noble plight, I’m sure :)
arkizzle

NICE :)
Anonymous

We are at Zoolatry (http://zoolatry.blogspot.com) and do lots of photoshop stuff on kittes… and if this is a photoshop work — I must congratulate the artist, cause it sure does look real to me… sorry, I just didn’t want to set up an account in order to comment here; but am not trying to be anonymous… we are Maggy, Zoey and the Zoolatry Human. Cute photo, cute kitten.
absimiliard

Awwwwwwwwww!

Quick, someone give me a chaser of something revolting. The cuteness is putting me in insulin shock!

-abs
GoodFellasOne

Don’t you understand people, this is a message from God…There is no doubt about it… Please have faith…
Ari B.

Aww, kitty!
Springtime for Spacers

That kitty was far too little to be taken outside into the sunshine. Poor thing, hope it survives the attention.
arkizzle

When can I expect my comic?
UnderRat

Awwwww. Thank every god that may or may not have ever existed that it’s not another freakin’ Virgin Mary splotch.
Anonymous

why would it be photoshopped??

like its THAT hard to believe.

technically a heart is just a random shape…ud think out of the BILLIONS of cats born one would end up having sports the shape of something we know…

its cute, but its not like its unbelievable
erindipity

A wee fuzzy love!
seyo

Thats a total shop job, I can tell, because I have used photoshop a lot b4.
Takuan

anti-kitty revolting chaser coming up!
http://www.aramnaharaim.org/Photo/George-W-Bush.jpg
iamme

I live in the Sacramento area and saw this video last night on the news. And it’s completely true. It seems different online then watching it on the news. Everyone is too skeptical these days.
David Pescovitz

@SEYO (#5), Ummm… did you watch the video?
twig

#5

Simpsons did it?
Anonymous

That is not photoshop… I can tell you that with confidence. I am an effects editor for movies and TV and that is original. No compositing in that video. If it looks pixilated you probably don’t have very good eyes.
Anonymous

SEYO,
Im a graphic designer and live in photoshop its not shopped at all. . .. and check out the video!
Metostopholes

#5

You can also tell from some of the pixels.
zikzak

@9: Yeah, real cats are furry, but this one is clearly all made out of pixels!
Anonymous

I’m going to read it as I Love. This kitten is a Beatles fan!! Yes all we need is love sweet kitten, all we need is love. LOL. Oh dear, I’m sorry but a message from God? Right cause God is like ‘hey I don’t have anything better to do so I’m going to put a heart on a kitten’s fur. Score one for me!’ Read the kitten’s fur as you like…For example, I may be the only one to interpret it as the kitten loves the Beatles. I do not desire to tell people that they should believe the same. Just a thought. :)
sonny p fontaine

great, when will this be on e-bay?
Jake0748

#5

Someone photoshopped every frame of the video?
QSD

Am I the only one who’s disturbed by a toddler with a mohawk?
creativesoul

this is pretty awesome. I didn’t know the mother’s name was dottie, there was no mention of this when the story broke out. Perhaps an overnight name change? lol… very cute kittie though!

ralph

http://www.helpuu.com – the google search engine that helps
Anonymous

how cute!! at least its not another pic of something in the shape of the virgin mary, like that pretzel…
Anonymous

Awwweeee!

Cutamiss!
Anonymous

My mom sent me an email with a puppy named Heart-kun that was born in Japan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42491000/jpg/_42491604_dogheart416_getty.jpg
Roger Knights

#18m Ornith, wrote:
“Roger, you’re not referring to Why Paint Cats, are you? Cause that really IS a photoshopped hoax book. And if you believe anything you’ve read only in the supermarket tabloids… I’ve got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.”

Thanks for the information. However, the stories in those tabloids stated that the pictures in that book were the result of dying. Therefore, some tabloid readers would have gotten on the bandwagon by dying their own pets (e.g., possibly, with hearts and dots). For instance, here a story from p. 2 of the latest Examiner (April 7):

“A Boulder, Colo., woman is seeing red after she was ticketed for dying her pet pooch pink! Joy Davis says she used harmless beet juice and Kool-Aid to stain her white miniature poodle Cici to call attention to breast cancer. Davis faces a $1000 fine …”
Antinous

Photoshop Conspiracy Theorists,

Have you never seen a cat? Heart shaped marks are common. Perhaps you should check out Cats That Look Like Hitler, for some perspective on feline markings.