January 19, 2005

Unlickable Nameneko - Don't lick me! Once upon a time in a place called Japan, there used to be a big fad for people to dress up their cats in costumes, place them in little diorama-like sets & take pictures of them. Cats in Japan must be of a particularly patient or semi-comatose breed.

Via Presurfer.

posted by Korzeniowski the Cat 19 years ago
  • Taxidermy?
  • Not only Japan -- in the early 50s a company called Ethicon published a series of picture books which featured on each page a black and white photo of a cat or cats often dressed as doctors, nurses, patients and having underneath a line or two of dialogue. Ethicon made surgical sutures and these were distributed to members of the medical profession; I used to pore over these as a kid -- most of the captions were over my head.
  • I hate to agree with arse_hat but I do believe the little buggers are stuffed. Either that, or drugged outta their little itty bitty kitty minds. I can see me trying to do that to my cat--"I'll be just fine if I can get the bleeding stopped and find my left eyeball."
  • I'm with the Horse - dress a cat up, lose some skin. That's why we loves them...
  • My little sister & I used to dress our cat in baby clothes. The sight of that cat slinking off in a little gingham smocked dress with those cute puffy short sleeves never failed to send us off into gales of laughter. On occasion, when my sister went to bed, she'd get backed into a corner, yelling for us to help her as the cat would jump at her legs. It was wild to see the cat freak out and attack out of the blue like that. We'd have to distract the cat long enough to get my sister into a room with the door shut. Funny, I never put the two events together until just now.
  • I cannot imagine any cat allowing this to stand, and it would not surprise me if the photographer vanished under mysterious circumstances.