A Very Interesting Discovery...

[Pooki]

Such adorable fur-babies and real babies!  My head is gonna explode from all the cute!

[Ry]

Ah, Hec, I love seeing pics of Chelsea and Shea.
And now they're artists, too! Petunia's on Wool Carpet sounds interesting, too bad you didn't snap a pick, sweets...lol.

[Hecubus]

I should have.

There's a wonderful book, published probably 20 years ago, called Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Asthetics...it's developed into an online museum, found here. I once copied photos from the book and put them in frames to decorate my office; I loved watching the double-takes as visitors realized what the pictures were really of...

Busch and Silver are also the creators of the Japanese erotic art form of Kokigami.

[glasscigarette]

Awww...all the babies are so cute. Hec, your kitty looks almost exactly like my mom's cat Ming. If yours is in love with a hammer and likes to lick telephones, then they might be twins.

Here are my babies: Edison & Uno, my ferrets. They are stinky and annoying but I love them.  I normally can't get them to hold still long enough to get a picture, but they built a nest and fell asleep so I was able to ambush them. It turned out alright considering the fact that I was using my cellphone.

[alia]

Ferrets! 
I love ferrets! I wish I had one. Or two.

Cute kittehs, guys, and Ry, your son is adorable.

[cookiepirate]

My human kiddies are all grown up, but my non-human (don't tell her that!) baby is only 3.  This is my deaf kitty Tippy (you can't tell from the pic, but she got her name cuz she has a white tipped paw).  I've had her since the day she was born, and she follows me everywhere, which is a trait of deaf cats.

[chemistrycourtney]

aww, cookiepirate, hec, others, your fur bebes are adorable. 

Ry, what a handsome little dude.  So cute he makes your head explode.

[Zillah]

don't have any kitteh digitised photos at the moment - will this do?
z

Greystorm and Bismarck

[chemistrycourtney]

I can has your doggies nao?

[Renegade]

Hecubus - how did you initially discover your cats could paint?  I'm kind of tempted to see if mine can, but I don't know how I'd do it: "This is paint. This is paper. You take paw, put paw in paint, then paw goes on paper!"? lol  Is paint even safe for cats to have on their paws?  They'd likely have to be thoroughly cleaned before they could go about their catly duties.

ETA:  The word paws now means nothing.  Paws, paws, paws, paws, paws, paws, paws. See? No longer makes sense.

[Zillah]

I can has your doggies nao?

Only if you want to be drowned in dog spit.
z

[keirra]

Love the four legged babies everyone and Ry, Eli is too cute.  I just want to hug him.

[Hecubus]

Hecubus - how did you initially discover your cats could paint?  I'm kind of tempted to see if mine can, but I don't know how I'd do it: "This is paint. This is paper. You take paw, put paw in paint, then paw goes on paper!"? lol  Is paint even safe for cats to have on their paws?  They'd likely have to be thoroughly cleaned before they could go about their catly duties.

Actually, my cats are not painters as much as they are mixed-media artists. Chelsea particularly likes to sculpt - her prefered medium is upholstery. Shea also does performance art; he is currently doing 2am showings of "If I cry loud enough you will come watch me do my bunny imitation." My previous cat, Duiffie, was the improvisational painter - he would take advantage of my own paints. I'm pretty sure paint is as bad for cats as it is for humans; however, most watercolors, acryllics, and latex paints aren't toxic in small doses. Duffie, for some odd reason, was not deterred from painting by the baths he'd receive (although that might have something to do with the walnut-sized brain).

ETA:  The word paws now means nothing.  Paws, paws, paws, paws, paws, paws, paws. See? No longer makes sense.

Try the word 'word' sometime.

[chemistrycourtney]

ok, now I wanna watch black sheep.  road. road. roe-ad. roooad.

[calalily]

All your "fur babies" are gorgeous too. Acceptable. You may also be spies.