Full Frontal Cute-ity!
See, this is why you need to be extra careful in the Internet Age: You're at a party, you're hitting the catnip a little hard, and so you pass out in the guest bedroom -- and that's when somebody whips out the cell-phone camera, and the next morning you're the newest star on HotWildOutOfControlAmateurKitties.com. Unless you're a boy cat, in which case everybody took turns writing on you with Sharpies first.
Oh, the shame of it, Ollie G.
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mmmm marmie for breakfast
And here I thought cats were models of decorum.
[Suuuuuuuure you did... - Ed.]
That's why you go easy on the catnip!
Crazy kitties :3
Ah, I was just looking for some birthday cheer for myself this morning. I can always count on Cuteoverload to make me smile - even on the day that I am turning 41!
Whew! No modesty tail THERE! Kitty looks waaaaaay comfortabuhls.
MARMEH BELLEH!
This is what I fear! You try to raise your kids right, with good morals and having earned excellent grades. You send them off to college, only for them to go to Florida on Spring Break and end up in a "Kitties Gone Wild" video!! Oy!
Happy Birthday Brendy!
41 and young! :-)
that belleh needs a zrbbt. bad.
[http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Furbert - Ed.]
EVEN as I type this, I have a rescued marmie kitten hidinks behind my toilet. I found him at the grocery store. He was living under the stairs outside the building. I bribed him with chicken. I'm just going to leave him alone with his food and his thoughts for a couple of days, then he's goin to the vet.
Haha! It's like that one anti-pot commercial with the girl walking to school and everyone's whispering behind her back because they all received the same phone pic of her at a party doing something that people on weed don't actually do. ever.
But this pic shows the tragically lazy outcome of catnip binges perfectly.
Haha..my kitties love this position! My last cat never exposed his belly and hated belly rubs, but my 2 little boys now are always sleeping on their backs. It's hilarious the positions you'll find them in.
Ah yes, the kitteh's inestimable dignity - what an awesome thing. I think on a subconscious level, it's aware of its stellar pose and, even in sleep, is trying to cover his face in shame. But then when it wakes up, it'll smack its lips and go "Okay, where's breakfast" and will not remember......except for this embarrassing pic.
Ok, caaarefullly checking other posts.... nope, nobody's said it yet, so I must: "*GASP* OH NOO!! KITTY PORN!!" *Covers eyes and turns away* *dials Furry Child Protective Services*
Oh, won't someone please THINK OF THE KITTENS!
Whoa! This is, like, NSFW! When I saw all that decadent orange stripiness, I almost started banging the desk and yelling, "YES! YES!" just like Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally." Holy screaming marmiegasm!
Heavens!
*averts eyes
Well if that happened at a party at my house, the folowup picture would be me kissing the belleh. Follwed by the pissed off waking up kitteh and the geneal blod and mayhem that would ensue!
gee, I just read that, I need a new keyboard!
*pressing extra hard right now*
wanders in and tickles kitty on her sooo soft belly .. then whips out the feather stick when kitty wakes up..
Well! I'm surprised that this picture hasn't posted on TMZ or one of those scandal-mongering websites with a caption:
"The Morning After: When Cats Go Wild!"
OMG TUMMY!
(the original) Mel, your kitty gathering efforts are to be vigorously applauded.
DKN, I once heard an anti-pot commercial on the radio in which a teenage girl is babysitting, and her boyfriend comes over, and they get so stoned on the Evil Reefer that they take off and leave the baby at home alone. I thought that one was hysterical.
Like, man, where'd all the 'nip go?
LOL Jelliajamb! I don't think I've heard that one. High-larious! *snerk*
MARMIEGASM! HAHAHA!
i actually went to HotWildOutOfControlAmateurKitties.com hoping to see a new site. i was sadly disappointing. :(
Okay, you admirers of kitten belly, please instruct me in the proper way to rub the belly! I've never had a kitty before who liked belly rubs, but Chloe keeps flaunting her belly at me with darling paws up, and I don't know what to do! Is it like petting the back, just a long stroke from chin to rear? Or do you skritchle the belly? I've tried everything I can think of, but none of it seems to really make her happy...
My marmie tiger does this exact pose. In fact, this could BE my Robot. I wonder if this little guy also likes to knock over glasses of water and stand on his hind legs while begging for treats...Every orange tiger I've met lately has eeriely similar traits.
Punkinberry - Every cat is different! You will have to try different things. My friend's cat likes wiggling fingers. Kind of like tickling, but a little more pressure?
Yikes! Cameltoe.
@Brandon: Sorry about that, but I deliberately picked a non-existent address. I didn't want to risk sending you nice people to something actually nasty. ;-)
I love the Garden State reference!
The anti-pot ad does kinda fit this situation, but here's a public service announcement that's even more fitting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvp-kZeoWW0
Don't fall for it people!! He's not really sleeping. He's quietly waiting for the hand of some poor unsuspecting peep to touch his belly then CHOMP!! And Hello emergency room.
NTMTOM-Your post suggests Personal Experience and Regret. Hmm?
You know, a Not Safe For Work tag would have been nice. Thanks Mike, thanks a lot. :P
It's hard to say, punkinberry. Every cat's different, and since you say you've already tried different things . . . . Maybe she just wants admiration (or food)? If you had dropped in on my parents any morning back when they had Kit, you would have heard, "Show us your pretty belly!" repeated until she complied--THEN she got fed.
Also: One time as I walked past an animal shelter, I saw a GINORMOUS orange stripey cat (My favorite kind!) stretched out on his back while a worker RAKED up and down the length of his belly with both hands, fingers curved in claw-like fashion. This cat was in heaven, Nirvana, Shangri-la and Eden all rolled into one. But then, if you tried that with some cats you'd be drawing back a bloody stump. Idiosyncratic little buggers--but that's why we love them.
Jen (and Ed.):
"that belleh needs a zrbbt. bad"
You guys scooped me. And of course it's a furbert when it's done on a furry belly that muffles the sound. :)
My cat sleeps like that alot. I call it "Drunken Kitteh Master" mode!
My Homer loves belly rubs. When he wants attention and I'm not giving it to him, he flops over onto his back and because he knows I can't resist his spotted belly. I don't have any technique - I just go for it.
Oliver, my other cat, bites anyone who even gets near the belly. Go figure.
On particularly warm days, my kitties will lay out like that, spread eagle and all. I swear, no shame at all!
This is what I love about cats, they put two, Dactyls? up to out moral and behavioural mores.
Geesh. That should have read our moral......but actually, outing them may be right?
With his tail, head, and arms, all going towards the same direction, it looks like a strong wind is blowing him away. Very pretteh kitteh.
original mel, good luck with the marmie kitty rescue.
privacy tail....YOR DOOIN IT RONG!
She is ggggreat!!
taj - I know it's really summer when I get up in the morning and my Melanie is lying on her back with her floppy little legs in the air.
BRAVO, (the original)mel. Fix that cat and love him furevur!!! ;)
And yesh, THE SHAME OF IT!!! OMG. Full orange embarrassment. Hope it happened in Vegas.
Marmie kitten seems content behind the toilet for now. He's only about 10 weeks. He seems pretty okay with humans. I tentatively petted his head and he purred and made biscuits, but won't budge from behind the terlet. I'm going to give him his space and I think he'll come out eventually. He hasn't hissed or scratched/bitten. He doesn't seem feral.
Oh my god! I so totally have the 411 about this party. Brandon told Cody who told Jenna who texted Madson who e-mailed Sophie who sits next to me in summer's Driver's Ed (SO totally lame!) that Jonah had this total rave while his folks were at Marriage Encounter and that he scored some catnip from Jens, that totally Jude Law-ish exchange student from Amsterdam!