Model Cat

Model cat

My Uncle Joe and Aunt Vivien bought me this mod­el cat from Taiwan. It looks so real that I thought it was stuffed at first glance. It’s life-sized, though on the small side, so appear­ing to be a kit­ten. You can only tell that it’s fake when you look clos­er at it’s nose (plas­tic, with­out the same tex­ture as a real cat’s nose) and ears (too much hair — I’m guess­ing mem­branes are too dif­fi­cult to fake). If I was­n’t a cat lover, I’d def­i­nite­ly be fooled.

I’m going to put it in the back win­dow of my car; I’ve been look­ing for a dec­o­ra­tion ever since I got my car a year ago, and this is per­fect. Hopefully no one will smash my win­dows in an attempt to save it.

5 comments

  1. Funny you should men­tion it…

    Once I was in a park­ing lot on a very hot day, and I saw a sleep­ing cat in the back of some­body’s car. The win­dows were all closed, and it was hot enough that an ani­mal in a car would be in dan­ger.

    Nobody was around, so I tapped on the win­dow to see if the “cat” was ok. No response. I seri­ous­ly con­sid­ered break­ing a win­dow or going into the mall and hav­ing them make an announce­ment to find the own­er of the car.

    I real­ized at the very last minute that the cat was fake. ^.^;

    They’re so real­is­tic!

    • I was think­ing about that if a cat was real­ly bak­ing in the sum­mer heat, or freez­ing in the win­ter, it would­n’t be sleep­ing so sound­ly and instead would be meow­ing loud­ly. I hope oth­er peo­ple will use this log­ic!

  2. They have these (or some­thing sim­i­lar) at the As Seen On TV store… NOT THAT I SHOP THERE!

    • I’ve seen those before too, but I find they look more like semi-real plush dolls than actu­al taxi­dermy mod­els. Funny how there’s this taboo about shop­ping at that store. I prob­a­bly would if there was some­thing I found use­ful there, but all the prod­ucts seem like cheap gim­micks to me.

  3. any idea what the name of the store is in tai­wan?!

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