# Huge cat photo real? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 9, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586 "2003-09-09T19:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/1 "2003-09-09T19:11:47Z")
Do you think this is real? [http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2003/09/09/1062902042282.html](http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2003/09/09/1062902042282.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/2 "2003-09-09T19:17:20Z")
There are a number of cats this big, a large percentage of which seem to become Internet stars. Seems some people have nothing better to do than overfeed their pets and post pictures. Pretty sick stuff. It’s unfortunately real. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/3 "2003-09-09T19:33:37Z")
That lady has a monster pussy, no? What? I thought it was going to be [this](http://www.snopes.com/photos/bigcat.asp) picture. The picture in the OP doesn’t _look_ like a photoshop, but then that’s the whole point of photoshop, isn’t it? But the head is the right size; if it were just an enlarged picture of a fat cat, I’d expect the head to appear bigger, but then that might also have been cleverly tweaked, oh I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/4 "2003-09-09T19:36:25Z")
Most people who post here know about Snopes, me included. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/5 "2003-09-09T19:42:22Z")
Amateur photoshopper here, and that pic looks doctored. From the tongue look down the entire length of the body, a little off center left. That whole section looks like it’s been expanded. it’s just a few pixels off being as crisp as the rest of the cat. my WAG is it’s a fake. very good one at that. ---
**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/6 "2003-09-09T19:52:40Z")
Thanks for the response, Phlos! It’s very helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Slugworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Slugworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slugworth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/7 "2003-09-09T20:49:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > \*\*Amateur photoshopper here, and that pic looks doctored. From the tongue look down the entire length of the body, a little off center left. That whole section looks like it’s been expanded. it’s just a few pixels off being as crisp as the rest of the cat. > > my WAG is it’s a fake. very good one at that. \*\* I don’t imagine that it’s a fake at all. The area that would have had to have been expanded still has the texture of hair, and you can see individual swirls of hair every here and there. The pattern of the coat remains intact, etc. The fur is convincingly 3-dimensional, with tufts clearly recognizable. Can’t really use pixellation as an argument for it being fake - The jpg compression was done poorly - Just look at her hands. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/8 "2003-09-09T22:19:48Z")
It’s not likely to be a fake. There are lots of real pics of morbidly obese, overfed cats that are at least that big all over the net. We’ve had several threads on this very topic over the past few years with some SDMB posting pics of their big pussy. It might be worth a search. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/9 "2003-09-09T22:23:03Z")
I hear **Auntie Em** has quite a large one… at least… I _think_ I’m remembering that correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/10 "2003-09-09T22:43:12Z")
FYI: The world’s biggest pussy is [Russian](http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2003/02/19/43511.html) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/11 "2003-09-10T00:36:33Z")
[Look near the bottom of this page for the record cats and some pics](http://www.messybeast.com/freak-cats.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/12 "2003-09-10T01:43:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin \* > \*\*FYI: The world’s biggest pussy is [Russian](http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2003/02/19/43511.html) :eek: \*\* Yeah, except that that’s not a Siamese. It’s a Tabby. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/13 "2003-09-10T02:03:34Z")
You expect \*\* The Pravda \*\* to tell the truth?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/14 "2003-09-10T21:39:04Z")
The photo has now been acknowledged as a hoax by the newspaper and the person who sent it in. Don’t believe everything you see, folks. ---
**Author:** ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-cat-photo-real/200586/15 "2003-09-10T21:40:59Z")
Sorry, I thought the link would be the same as what’s in my first post; apparently it’s not. [http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2003/09/10/1062902101901.html](http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2003/09/10/1062902101901.html)