Cats in avatars!
By coffeeshot
@coffeeshot (3783)
Australia
October 20, 2008 9:02pm CST
Is it just me or does it seem like about 40% of the avatars here on mylot are of people's cats?! It's a great thing, I might add. I enjoy looking at everyone's cats..usually the pictures are taken when the cat is in a funny position or is being cute. Has anyone else noticed the abundance of mylot cat avatars?
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24 responses
@lilfret (81)
• United States
21 Oct 08
cats r so cool i luv them they deserve to be everyones thingy thing avatar thing! see let me tell u a story, all about how, my life got flipped turns upside down; just take a second and sit right there, and ill tell you how i became the prince of a town called bellair
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@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
22 Oct 08
Ok fresh prince, what's that got to do with cat avatars?
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@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
21 Oct 08
I've actually seen a lot of dogs in avatars to be honest! Especially Collie dogs, it was really weird in a discussion there was not one but two collie dogs in avatars who had responded, I even made a comment on it! I love collie dogs, always remind me of Lassie, now I am not a dog person but someone did comment that my interest in dogs was actually quite high on the stats which I never bother to read or recognize! I am more of a cat person ironically, weird eh, I see more dogs than cats on Mylot.
@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
23 Oct 08
Maybe you've added more dog avatar people as friends!
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@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
22 Oct 08
She actually looks like she's posing! What is her name? She looks like a cool cat!
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@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
22 Oct 08
Yes! Well I have one less now the one on the right.. The black lab mix
my momma dog Tesla- I had to put her down in June. but I still have 4 and
we have 2 others in the house. Plus a house full of cats too:-) (they just didn't make it to my avatar pic lol) Thank you.
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@LilPixelle (828)
• United States
22 Oct 08
I actuallyd ont notice that XD but I do like how people do that when they do XD lol Ive even done it for my myspace :P Cats are cute, humans arent necasarily cute, Its kinda nice to think that people will look at your avatar and go "AWwwwww" Instead of them begining to roll on the floor screaming asking for someone to gouge out their eyes (yeah not a pretty picture there) anyway its cool when people do that :P
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@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
23 Oct 08
Hang on, who's rolling on the floor asking you to gouge out their eyes?!
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@ElicBxn (63747)
• United States
21 Oct 08
I've noticed quite a few that are taken from online pix, that's fine, if they aren't copyrighted.
my pix I took myself is of Oliver and Rygel, Oliver was only about 3 months old when the pix was taken, he's MUCH bigger now! And MUCH more fluffy!
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@austere (2812)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
well, i can see dogs there too!hehe but definitely, there are a lot of avatars that are member's pets..hehe they look really cute and adorable.. i am not so into cats before, but when i see the persian chubby cats of the other members, that really looks like garfield.. i was so envious and would really want to get one for myself!:) we have 2 dogs and a bird at home.. i'll ask my mom if we still have a room for a pet cat!:)
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Dogs, too. I've noticed a lot of dogs. And flowers. But I really like your rainbow colored animated avatar. Maybe that is because my self-portrait avatar has rainbow colored-hair. It is hard to see that the Halloween avatar I'm using this month is a cat, but it shows up better on my profile. Happy Halloween!
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@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
21 Oct 08
i have noticed there are many cats and cat questions on mylot. this place is a cat place. i like most animals, cat, dogs, rabbits, fish, birds, etc.
i was just at Target today, and i saw cute clothes for pets there. cute doggy coats, sweaters and costumes. i bought an elf costume for my cat to create a christmas card. it was cheap at $2.50; if i still had my 3 late shihtzus, i would have bought those 3 down feather coats--they had them in 3 different colors and 2.50 each.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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21 Oct 08
Hi coffeeshot,
Yes I have noticed that and they are so sweet, it is nice to see that there are so many cat lovers here on Mlot and I'm one of them, I have two cats of my own and I love seeing all the others cats here, cute.
Tamara
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Hi coffeeshot! I sure did notice how everyone on mylot
seems to be cat lovers! I think it's wonderful to be
surrounded by so many catlovers because I am a cat lover
too! It makes me feel so good to know that I am surrounded
by people who love cats as much as I do. So I am happy
to see that everywhere I look there are cats and more
cats! Even more than dogs which is unusual and I love
dogs too! Actually I love animals! But cats are my very
favorites! I have 2 of my own and wish I could have tons
more, but my 2 won't let me bring anymore home because
they want mommy all to theirselves!
@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
21 Oct 08
I can't see well enough to tell what is in a lot of people's avatars. I just use my flags as my avatar. They match my screenname. I have published a lot of cat pictures on a lot of websites in the past. My husband and I are really really big cat people. We absolutely love our cats.
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
21 Oct 08
I've noticed this too coffeeshot.
Like some of the others on here, I had a couple of cat avatars for a little while, before I started using my current avatar. But since there were so many cat avatars on here I decided to use something a little more original. Though who knows, maybe I'll go back to using a cat avatar again one day.
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@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
21 Oct 08
I just love cats...they can be so adorable when you have built up a relationship with them. I did notice quite a number of members here with cat avatars, but I don't think there are about 40% of members with cat avatars. With almost 150K members, 40% will translate to nearly 60K members but I don't think there are that many cat avatars here. I might just use one if I had a cat as a pet, but I don't. I do have many cat friends though downstairs from where I live.
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@littleowl (7157)
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23 Oct 08
Hi coffee' no I haven't noticed that guess I am not oberservant enough to see things like that...at least I know my avatar is one of two owls!! littleowl
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@amanda333 (739)
• France
21 Oct 08
mines my dog haha, i have cats also but my dog is the favourite, he's my baby. Although my husband prefers the cats haha
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@amanda333 (739)
• France
22 Oct 08
thankyou coffeeshot...the children put this christmas tinsel around the dog, and does'nt he look proud ha
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
22 Oct 08
Yes, I've seen a lot of Cat Aviatars here. One of them is my friend "Kitten", and I find it cute as well. Somehow it also reflects the personality of the User. It means the person is a lover of cat! I wonder why cats are so good looking in photos. They are lovable in photos but not in real life. I don't like to hold real cat... I'm afraid they'd scratch me and also I don't like their hairs coming into my nose.