Quote Originally Posted by moosmom
Catty1,

I have the book Why Paint Cats and found it very amusing. And you're right, the cats are dyed on their fur, not their skin. My favorite picture is the one with Charlie Chaplin on the cats butt.
Actually, the cats were not "painted" at all...

I'm happy to report that there is no cause for anger or alarm. Though the cats are real, the paint jobs are not. Most if not all of the lovingly Photoshopped images came from a tongue-in-cheek volume entitled Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics (Ten Speed Press, 2002), written by New Zealanders Burton Silver and Heather Busch, the same pair responsible for the equally deadpan Why Cats Paint (1994) and Dancing with Cats (1999).
Painted Cats