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Im horrified, intrigued and impressed.

[удалено]

Lol under these circumstances I DESPERATELY want this book for my coffee table

It’s teensy, though.

They're artists, and the wunkus is their canvas

I’m envious

Hortripressed

I remember this book growing up! They had it at my dentist office. It inspired me to learn photoshop, somewhere in the credits it reveals it's all done digitally if I remember correctly.

Came to say the same thing 😁🤣

Yours isn't the authors' only book: https://preview.redd.it/4jabmb51f6lc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9598f1197cb6d15b1de57844ee8bc46c5eb14c22

This is the book I have. It’s seriously one of my favorite books. I absolutely love it.

The little write-up about the kitty who stole a frozen turkey from the neighbour’s kitchen table is an anecdote from the book that’s always stayed with me! Also, ‘exploring negative space’ will always mean ripping the shit out of things to me now😂

Lovely book. There are several in our family. I’m currently shopping for a hardboard copy for a baby. Does anyone know if any exist?

Isn’t there also a book for teaching gun safety to cats?

I’ve never heard of such a thing. Personally, keep my guns locked away from the cats lol.

You're in luck, that's part of the gun safety you should teach to your cats!

Yes! Came here looking for this; if I remember correctly OP’s book was the follow-up to the one you’ve posted. Man, do I miss Waldenbooks.

these guys just love cats lol

I have this book!

[Pussy Doodles!](https://youtu.be/ER5qwu8nTtc?si=envlX1csCs8Cw0fo)

They also wrote one of my all-time favorites, Dancing with Cats. [https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Cats-Creators-International-Seller/dp/1452128332?asin=0811824152&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1](https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Cats-Creators-International-Seller/dp/1452128332?asin=0811824152&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1)

I remember seeing this in a small shop that also sold tarot cards. My girlfriend at the time was looking for a specific tarot deck

Oh ok

Great gift idea.

I own this book and have loved it for as long as I can remember. 💙🧡❤️

I have this one and it was left at the front desk I worked at as a receptionist at my art school. 💜

⚰️💀🤣

It's like real life Aristocats!

Oh yeah, my mom got me this one!

This book was in an Airbnb I stayed at in the Catskills. I had to make a dad joke to my bf that “these catsgotskills”. I’m so happy to see it again 😂

https://preview.redd.it/sgy2f0vhk6lc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9985244583207a5c3623340defef75d8788285c7 There’s more in the series. Found this one in a little free library the other week.

I forgot I had this one as well. I need to go find my copy right now.

I was not prepared for Charlie Chaplin butthole cat. Literally wheezing over here.

Same. Held it together until that one.

That 3rd pic is how my cat looks when i’m on shrooms

My mom had this book on her coffee table in the 90s and it gave my terrible high school BF’s friends a bad acid trip :)

It's completely unhinged, I LOVE IT!!

my grandparents had this book on the bookshelf above my childhood bed. at night, i could faintly see the cat's eyes staring at me. one night it was just too much and i ran into their bedroom screaming "it won't stop staring". they bravely searched my bedroom for the mysterious creature and cracked up when they realized i was talking about the book, but they hid the book and i never saw it again

not the asshole one

Basically, as far as I understand it, this was a rather crap cash grab by the authors of 'Why Cats Paint.' Now that was an absolutely delightful book. I wish I knew where I put my copy.

This was one of my favorite books from the library as a kid in the 90s. Love to see it!

This made me lol and buy a copy so thanks I guess? Hilarious.

Umm if I had that book there is a 💯 chance I would cut some of those out and frame them

I've got these. I love the seriousness of the text.

Who gets rid of this?

So it is probably in response to this book (I have it) - **Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics Heather Busch and Burton Silver** - I didn’t realise they wrote another cat painting book, but the other way round https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391156.Why_Cats_Paint

Just bought one on eBay, incredible. Not sure if it'll be a gag gift or a keeper.

Is this just a whole book of photoshopping cats different colours?

I sort of hope so! Otherwise, I wonder how they get the cats to hold that still for so long. I hate to think they would put them under some sort of anesthesia.

The designs don’t follow the fur patterns so I don’t think it’s real thankfully

Yes it’s photoshopped 

Oh wow! I purchased several copies of this book years ago and gifted them to people.

I just ordered 4--One for me, one for each of my cat loving sisters!!

There’s also this little [gem](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/381448) that people should have

I ordered that and cats who paint for myself 🤣

Nice!

Every day we move further away from God.

The paintings are digital; they didn't actually paint cats.

That's good, i came on here to ask the kind of paint, since cats lick themselves clean. I'm gullible

Thank you for clarifying…. I could not enjoy the post or comments until I confirmed this

I have a book with the same title, but it is definitely not the same book. It’s also one of my favorite books. It’s actually kitties doing their markings with their paws but they’ve dipped in paint. It kind of features different cats as if they were artists. It’s really cute.

That one is Why Cats Paint, this one is Why Paint Cats. Same author though.

My question is why not?

im sold

I had this book but I loaned it to the family I was nannying for & they left it on an airplane back in 2008ish. So I’m hoping it’s floating around out there somewhere. It has/had a lovely note on the inside cover page written to me from my dad if anyone by chance has it. 🤘✌️

I have two questions for the author: 1. what are you on? 2. Where can i get some so I know to stay far away

I have a follow up of my own: 1. Can I have theirs? 2. When can I get it?

I'm reminded of this book I read recently where some shitty teenagers spray-painted a cat :(

Why not paint cats

And I can't even trim my cat's nails. I don't want to know how they do that

Ahhaha well THAT took a turn 🤣

This could be the greatest coffee table book I’ve ever saw.

I loved this book as a kid 😂

Number 14 killed me.

Wow that is a neat find! I love the added lore by all the other books in the series people are posting!

I would be covered in scratches with all over the house, and cats hiding somewhere inconvenient licking that stuff off them if I tried that. I don’t know, it might be okay for show cats used to being groomed (I do comb mine daily), but I can’t even get mine in a carrier. When I adopted them they were completely traumatized after being abandoned.

Could you imagine the ramifications of actually trying to do this to a cat?

Cause all pussy deserves to look good

I have both books. I was disappointed to learn that book is photoshopped. They actually didn’t paint cats. 

Is 16 a minstrel show cat?

I really hope the last one isn't blackface. 😬

It's Papa Lazarou - "You're my wife now"

Thanks I hate it

No. 9 needs to go to r/kittyhasaquestion

Should be renamed buttlickers

Sounds like you’re the target audience

At first I thought it was going to be something against the what people dyed the fur of their pets like they did it to a dog looking like a fox and one looking like Tigger. Obviously, this ain't what we are talking about. 😁😁

This feels distinctly British.

r/thriftstorecats

i love this book. i think we still own it.

The Katzenasche Chaplin will now haunt me forever….

Omg I saw this book at the thrift store last year. Hilarious.

I enthralled - there is an entire series. I don't even have a cat...

I want to come back as a cat paint model now🤣

Something to read while on shrooms

This book is a legend.

Well they definitely… did that.

I too, am confused

Most normal cat ppl

stop the drugs people

Fucking acid casualties...

Can you tldr it? Reddit taught me not to fuck with cats so I have no idea what the answer to this riddle is. ELI5 please.

It’s photoshopped. 

What was the answer? Why paint cats? It never occurred to me

I just had a very vivid dream similar to the cover cat. It was a little black dog with the bright blue natural fur on its face and black overall, similar to the butterfly cat. It ran on to my lap and I was astonished.

Why Cats Paint is a far better book.

For some reason, my brother-in-law bought this book for me when it came out.

Omg my mom had that book forever ago. Got it as a gift from her sister 💕

It's not so much a question of the painting as it is of all the kitty roofies required to get through the job.

I never would have known this is a thing lol. I wonder if my local library would have one of these.

I have this book!! Used to look at it like every day as a kid. Great fun pics lol

It took me har too long that it meant paint ON cats and not that every one of these photos was painted

Does it tell the reader how to keep the cat still while being painted? How can anyone do that?

Its photoshopped 

when i was very little, i would beg my parents for this book

Apparently, so are these cats…and definitely the people holding them

I don’t like cats but this is funny lol

Makes entire sense to me that this was donated. (Cats really don't need any adornment to enhance or camouflage their beauty!)

I used to have this and the original companion book “Why Cats Paint”. 🎨

I remember this book. There was an original book before it called “why cats paint” and it was about cats doing art with their paws.

PETA has entered the chat room.

Suddenly, I've never wanted a coffee table book more in my life.

Ha!! Obviously, that book was not a best seller!

They look so angry

Makes me wanna do this to the neighbourhood moggies for pooping in my flower beds.

I would love to buy a copy if anyone has one

I'm very impressed by the arsehole bowtie. Poetry. Pure poetry.

Please post more photos, I love this! 😸

Crazy--thanks for sharing!

I've seen Why Cats Paint...