cats can wear stockings

November 4, 2013 10:39 AM

Meowfit of the day is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their hosiery, or why.
posted by adamrice (35 comments total)

I am officially not in favour of this meme because it is so visually weird. It's like a cat had sex with a muppet and had a weird hybrid baby.
posted by elizardbits at 10:42 AM on November 4, 2013 [2 favorites]

Welp, there's my WTF quota filled for today, I can turn off the internet now and go do something useful.
posted by Mary Ellen Carter at 10:47 AM on November 4, 2013 [11 favorites]

Why would you do this to kitty?
posted by Going To Maine at 10:48 AM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

Seems to be a spin-off a Chinese meme involving dogs.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:48 AM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

I know I'm not the only one who finds this incredibly arousing.


Anyone?
posted by Think_Long at 10:50 AM on November 4, 2013 [2 favorites]

No wonder you run away later, cat.
posted by Metroid Baby at 10:51 AM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]

There's something about this that I find like visually repulsive. Like I look at them and think they're incredibly, viscerally gross, despite there being nothing about them to take exception to. Odd.
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:53 AM on November 4, 2013 [5 favorites]

See also: dogs in pantyhose
posted by elizardbits at 10:58 AM on November 4, 2013

Like I look at them and think they're incredibly, viscerally gross, despite there being nothing about them to take exception to. Odd.

Animals in clothing almost always does this to me, to be honest, but this - and the dogs in pantyhose thing - takes it into quasi-uncanny valley territory. It gives me the heebee-jeebees.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:58 AM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

I know I'm not the only one who finds this incredibly arousing.

Well, not me, because right now I realized something which I didn't before: that an aspect of utmost importance about long beautiful legs is that they consist of two straight bits with a knee in the middle.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 11:01 AM on November 4, 2013 [2 favorites]

Cats in little teeny hats or ties or sweaters I find adorable- I've seen a cute picture of zoomorphic's cat looking very annoyed to be wearing a kitty-sized hoodie. Just this bugs the hell out of me.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:02 AM on November 4, 2013

Why would you do this to kitty?

I think one of the reasons I'm more of a dog person is that dogs are (on aggregate) wonderfully unself-conscious, and remind you not to take yourself too seriously. Cats, on the other hand, seem (again, on aggregate) to insist on conducting themselves with a pompous dignity, especially fat indoor cats. So it's kind of great when someone's goofy little project involves anything which undercuts that. The only downside is that the cats here seem pretty cool with it, so you miss out on when they have that look like, "WHAT'S ALL THIS?! WHY, I NEVER -- THERE'LL BE A LETTER IN THE TIMES ABOUT THIS!"
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 11:06 AM on November 4, 2013 [8 favorites]

Yes, animals in costumes are generally hilarious, especially when they have an air of longsuffering tolerance about them. But there is just something really unsettling about the tights thing.
posted by elizardbits at 11:07 AM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

Am I the only one who thinks that if cats were to evolve opposable thumbs, they would, alone among all species, only use them for snapping fingers at humans?
posted by Pyrogenesis at 11:09 AM on November 4, 2013 [4 favorites]

How do they keep the stockings from getting runs?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 11:28 AM on November 4, 2013

W R O N G
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:30 AM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

I was semi-ok with this until the one where the guy was laying with cat stretched out beside him. Then I got to thinking not good thoughts about where that was going.
posted by Kokopuff at 11:37 AM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

I agree with FAMOUS MONSTER. As a proud cat-owner, it's sometimes fun to do goofy things to them because of their air of feline superiority--except Chubby Cat, who is as derpy as they come and contains no dignity within her calico shell whatsoever.
posted by Kitteh at 11:39 AM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]

I could do that with my cat. As long as I didn't mind losing a few hunks of my arm.
posted by mondo dentro at 11:46 AM on November 4, 2013

I could do that with my cat. As long as I didn't mind losing a few hunks of my arm.

I think you're supposed to take them off before you put the cat in them.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 12:05 PM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

It's the lacy undies that makes it extra squicky...
posted by travertina at 12:25 PM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]

Pope Guilty: Kitty-sized hoodie?! WHERE?

I've been looking for such a thing forever, but don't feel crafty enough to create any such thing.
posted by drfu at 12:33 PM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

Never before has a cat's default "fuck you" face been so apt.

Also this one is tagged nsfw which is just.... *full body shudder*
posted by billiebee at 12:35 PM on November 4, 2013

A blog of every EXPEDIT in the world.
posted by bleep-blop at 1:07 PM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]

I think the cat allows it because he knows how wrong it is.


Did you notice that sometimes the placement of the cats feet makes it look like the noodle legged thing that should not be has a substantial package?

I did.

Well guys I have to go take a shower FOREVER
posted by louche mustachio at 1:46 PM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

I know I'm not the only one who finds this incredibly arousing.

*sighs*
Must we pander to this sort of perversion?

I'ma so disappoint. Cats in stockings, no. Cats in socks, yes.
Cats wearing socks is proof of a benign force for good in nature.


Here's the gospel, direct from Yahoo answers:

Why do cats wear socks?

"Because when iccle biccle kitties are born, and they first look at their paws, they say to themselves "Alas! I am a feline, without thumbs my plans for world domination are ruined!!!! I shall have to spend my life sat on the laps of other evil geniuses while they stroke me and speak sinisterly. CRUEL FATE!!! WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME????!!!!!!" . . . . . so they wear socks to cover their shame, they did this so much that eventually evolution made it fuse with their genetic code and that is why most cats appear to be wearing socks . . . . as humans, we find it adorable. "


Cats who chew holes in socks, NO! *lookin' at you, Dr. Steve Orange Cat*
posted by BlueHorse at 1:53 PM on November 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

What kind of drugs do people have to give their cats for the cats to allow such behavior?
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:54 PM on November 4, 2013

I'm sorry but asking for advice on how to drug your cats for this type of thing just crosses the line.

Keep that stuff to AskMetafilter.
posted by Llama-Lime at 2:11 PM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]

Her other blog is apparently about how to cook with a coffeemaker. It has a similar disturbing quality.
posted by genmonster at 2:31 PM on November 4, 2013

Cats, on the other hand, seem (again, on aggregate) to insist on conducting themselves with a pompous dignity

This is true. My two cats are very active, trim, and fairly ridiculous but they still have an air of seriousface pretty much all the time. Once the bigger one got partially caught in a paper bag, and he shuffled himself over to me, just sat down in front of me and totally had this look on his face that said "Ahem. You see the problem. I am in quite a scrape. Please fix immediately and let's never speak of it again." Most dogs would wimper, try to bite it off, etc. Cats are like, "human, address this problem."

FWIW I'm Team Cats and Team Dogs, just different fun.
posted by sweetkid at 2:57 PM on November 4, 2013 [3 favorites]

genmonster, I clicked on the coffeemaker blog and got as far as the Testikeltacos! post and now I am just chortling about Testikeltacos! No, Chrome, I do not want to translate this page that is in Swedish.

Also the dogs in pantyhose thing is a dozen times creepier looking to me. This cat in tights is like a sock monkey gone awry, but with the right pair of tights (polka dots? rainbow stripes?) can edge onto the cute side of the cute / WTF continuum. Me thinks.
posted by spamandkimchi at 3:53 PM on November 4, 2013

The 10th Regiment of Foot: "How do they keep the stockings from getting runs?"

Just trim their nails.

Or duct tape.
posted by Mitheral at 3:58 PM on November 4, 2013

elizardbits: I am officially not in favour of this meme because it is so visually weird.

I find spelling favour with a u so visually weird, unless you are a Brit.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 7:34 PM on November 4, 2013

That first kitty seems to be well endowed with more than just legs.
posted by quazichimp at 12:02 AM on November 5, 2013

You really should translate the coffeemaker blog. You are missing comedy gold. Quotes such as:

It was very educational to dissect the testicles, I never knew it would result in such lovely testicle fillets!

and

Gucci is photobombing in the foreground while shitZappa inspects the lovely vase I made from a fish-head. Nice huh?
posted by Iteki at 11:42 AM on November 6, 2013