# Can house cats really get this big? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 22, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209 "2000-09-22T22:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/1 "2000-09-22T22:30:15Z")
Check this out: > **[Webshots - Wallpaper / Screen Savers](https://webshots.com/weekly)** > > Webshots, the best in Wallpaper, Desktop Backgrounds, and Screen Savers since 1995. I think it may be a digitally enhanced photo (the guy’s fingers look too long), but I don’t know much about cats. Can house cats really get this big? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/2 "2000-09-22T22:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > **. . . I think it may be a digitally enhanced photo . . .** The guy holding the cat is digitally enhanced; the photo is digitally stupided. I’d have to say that’s one of the most obviously faked photos I’ve ever seen. No, housecats don’t get that big. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/3 "2000-09-22T23:06:38Z")
I wonder if they pasted a picture of a cat’s head onto the photo of a dog’s body. Our Norman cat weighs about 22 pounds, and he is nowhere near that size. A friend of mine had a cat who weighed thirty pounds. That cat was obese, not large. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/4 "2000-09-22T23:13:42Z")
I can think of more interesting thread descriptions you might have used… but anyway as lissener indicated this is fake and such a bad fake the “artist” should have his copy of Photoshop deleted from his PC. ---
**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/5 "2000-09-22T23:14:50Z")
(link removed by moderator) Don’t go there! I’m warning you! (edited to remove link) [Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 09-22-2000 at 06:27 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Don](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e95f7d/32.png) [@Engineer\_Don](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Don)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/6 "2000-09-22T23:22:51Z")
You bastard. I thought it was going to be a poorly faked big cat again. (I sent my brother that picture after his colonoscopy, and he spit spagetti all over his keyboard and monitor.) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/7 "2000-09-22T23:26:55Z")
**Kyberneticist** , in my desire to help people follow your advice of “Don’t go there!”, I removed the link, which I deemed to be inappropriate. Please don’t post items of this kind. * * * moderator, “[Comments on Cecil’s Columns](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1)” forum ---
**Author:** ![LazarusLong42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LazarusLong42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LazarusLong42)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/8 "2000-09-22T23:34:08Z")
Actually, I don’t think it’s digital at all; I think that’s a stuffed cat. (No, not a real stuffed cat; a stuffed animal. Sheesh. :)) LL ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/9 "2000-09-22T23:38:43Z")
LL, that would mean that you think it’s indistinguishable from a non-faked photo, which, this not being the Pit, I can’t respond to. Just look at the guy’s fingers. Talk about digitally enhanced (second time I’ve flogged that pun–will no one recognize its subtle brilliance?). ---
**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/10 "2000-09-23T00:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > **Kyberneticist** , in my desire to help people follow your advice of “Don’t go there!”, I removed the link, which I deemed to be inappropriate. Please don’t post items of this kind. For future reference, what if I give links of a non- **G** that might bring down the wrath of the moderators out in a form like this: [http://foo.bar](http://foo.bar) became **\uggc://sbb.one\** Would that be all right? With a suitable warning as to what the content might be? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/11 "2000-09-23T00:13:15Z")
Show of hands, here… Does anyone underaged here know what “rot-13” means? Really, though, I think that giving any instructions more specific than “use a search engine” on how to find inappropriate material is out of the question for this board. If you really want to let folks know about an inappropriate site, let them know, and interested folks can e-mail you. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/12 "2000-09-23T00:15:01Z")
Thanks, Chronos; I’m 37 and I have no idea what rot-13 means. And I know what a _lot_ of stuff means. ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/13 "2000-09-23T00:20:20Z")
that would be _rotate 13_ eg, each letter switched to the 13th position after it, rotating back around to A after Z. See the example above. ---
**Author:** ![Kvallulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kvallulf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kvallulf)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/14 "2000-09-23T00:22:23Z")
That’s a cats head on a dogs body. The body just looks wrong for a cat, there are curves where there shouldn’t be and it doesnt bend the right way. I have a big white cat at home, he is as long as my leg ( I’m 6’) and weighs about 25-30 pounds, and when I pick him up he bends more. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/15 "2000-09-23T00:29:13Z")
When I was a kid, some neighbours of ours had a cat that big. They called it “Fido”. So it is possible. ---
**Author:** ![Kieras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kieras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kieras)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/16 "2000-09-23T01:48:52Z")
haha that photo is most definitely “enhanced” as you said. Look a little closer if the man was holding something that large there would be some kind of strain look or something in his face ya think? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/17 "2000-09-23T01:54:33Z")
It’s fake. However, if Misty keeps eating like she currently is… And my dear departed Fluffy (only last month…☹ it’s a wonder she wasn’t twice the size of that photo! Good GOD that cat could pack it away! ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/18 "2000-09-23T02:40:20Z")
lissener–now I get it. Cute. ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/19 "2000-09-23T03:03:08Z")
That picture scares me, but it looks like they pasted the picture of the cat on there. If it were real I know I’d want one though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![theuglytruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@theuglytruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theuglytruth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209/20 "2000-09-23T03:35:23Z")
The photo is clearly a joke. No cat will lay in your fully outstreched arms like that. I don’t know whao came up with this, but if you are going to pereptrate a fraud . . DO BETTER NEXT TIME!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-house-cats-really-get-this-big/34209.md?page=2)