New KittenHolder from REI

by Meg on July 6, 2006

Behold the latest in summer camping gear—the KittenHolder—cradles your kitten, right where you want him, during camping trips. Kittens stay fresh in the KittenHolder, ready at a moment’s notice for snorgling by the campfire.

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KittenHolder. Don’t go camping without it, Theressa L.

{ 86 comments }

1 christina s. 07.06.06 at 8:02 pm

oh – my husband and i definitly need to get one of these. we go camping every year and it would be perfect for our pups! (although, is the kitten included in the box, too?!) :)

2 Theo 07.06.06 at 8:03 pm

Such a sleepy little beverage.

3 Nickole 07.06.06 at 8:04 pm

Oh, good. I hate it when the kitten’s all dried out.

4 DLT 07.06.06 at 8:06 pm

aiiieeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:falls on floor:

5 Rafael 07.06.06 at 8:07 pm

Kitteh Holder(tm) never leave camp without it.

I’ll stop snoorgling whne I run out of kittehs!!!!

6 arbed 07.06.06 at 8:07 pm

awwww it should come with one of those horseshoe-shaped pillows too, for his little neck.

7 constance 07.06.06 at 8:07 pm

….

omfg.

8 connie 07.06.06 at 8:09 pm

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh….. look at the teensy paws…. i just died.

9 ariel 07.06.06 at 8:12 pm

perfect caption! sweet sleepy tip-head kitty. for minimum spillage!

10 Sabba 07.06.06 at 8:14 pm

…I have one of those chairs… ::eyes large, sleepy fifteen pound cat::… maybe not…

TIME TO GO BUY A TRAVEL-SIZED KITTEH.

11 Redzilla 07.06.06 at 8:21 pm

I think someone’s been over-snorgling that tie tie little kitteh. Perhaps the absent camper is a kitteholic–he or she has already been through a twelve-pack this morning…

12 Cait 07.06.06 at 8:31 pm

Hey! There’s cat hair in my drink!

13 punkpie 07.06.06 at 8:32 pm

I will wash his widdle nose first before snorgling… it looks like he was nosing in the dirt :-P

14 Aubrey 07.06.06 at 8:34 pm

Everyone take it slow…this is a sleeping drink.

15 Barthex 07.06.06 at 8:38 pm

OMG THAT KITTEN DOES NOT BELONG IN THERE! THIS IS NOT CUTE IT IS CRUEL. THAT KITTEN HAS ABSOLUTELY NO NECK SUPPORT RIGHT NOW AND LOOKS SEVERELY INCONVENIENCED. I’M CALLING SOCIAL SERVICES!!!!1111!

16 carbontetra 07.06.06 at 8:43 pm

The paws people! The perfect little fuzzy paws!!

17 Theo 07.06.06 at 8:50 pm

I’m-a gonna call… Ghostbusters.

18 Sarah-Jean 07.06.06 at 8:52 pm

Aaaaaaaaaaaww!! I could cry!

My GOD that is just so darn CUTE!!

How can anything be so cute??!!

19 makiono 07.06.06 at 8:53 pm

*meltage*

greeaat now that I’m a puddle… omg, could that kitten BE more photogenic?? his little head in the most perfectilicious pose… and OMG the pawz!!! the wiskers! the marmy stripeys! the… gah!!! *evaporates*

20 Redzilla 07.06.06 at 8:54 pm

This just in: Vladimir Putin (called Putka by his friends) snorgles young boy’s belly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5155448.stm
And people say we’re weird.

21 jaypo 07.06.06 at 8:54 pm

Meg, bestest comment ever! Kitteh needs a little harness with a handle so you can just pick up and *poit*

22 connie 07.06.06 at 8:55 pm

Redzilla – I read that story too, and just didn’t know what to say…

23 makiono 07.06.06 at 8:56 pm

wahahah redzilla, belly snorgle! aha.. but yeah, kinda odd to do that to a random child..

aha, i like the article, the boy “refuses to wash his stomach” and “want’s to be president one day”. Now that’s ambition

24 Kate 07.06.06 at 8:56 pm

Stop it! You’re killing me, Cute Overload! *dies from the cutalicious smoothness*

25 Lauri 07.06.06 at 8:57 pm

Aaaaaaaaack, Redzilla.

Just aaaaaaack. And, also, what the HECK???

Putka would be put on a list immediately here.

26 Beauregard 07.06.06 at 8:58 pm

LOL, “SEVERELY INCONVENIENCED”!!! Barthex, you slay me!
Seriously though peeps, this is simply insanity, especially the paws.

27 M- 07.06.06 at 9:01 pm

Ohhhhhh…. kitten puuurfection… the pose, the paws….

28 jaypo 07.06.06 at 9:01 pm

“‘There is nothing behind it’, Mr Putin told the BBC…” after peering deeply into his own navel.

29 zelda 07.06.06 at 9:01 pm

Sleepy kitteh! OMG… if anything would get me to camp in the wilderness, it would be this lil’ guy.

30 Jorden 07.06.06 at 9:02 pm

GAAAH!!!!
Too cute!

31 Merri 07.06.06 at 9:02 pm

This is BEYOND CUTE!! I yelled out “AWWW”, thank God no one else is in the office right now! What a sweet baby!

32 Aubrey 07.06.06 at 9:05 pm

Somehow this wasn’t how I imagined a Cat’s Cradle would look.

33 Julie 07.06.06 at 9:06 pm

If Putin JUST got off-line after a Cute Overload binge, I would understand.

34 Laura 07.06.06 at 9:07 pm

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Such a cuddly li’l kitten <3

35 Laurie C 07.06.06 at 9:07 pm

What’s “snorgle” in Russian?

36 Aubrey 07.06.06 at 9:10 pm

LC:
Maybe it’s “Stoli”? But that kit is such a nibbley bit – perhaps I’m thinking of something else.

37 jaypo 07.06.06 at 9:13 pm

Zhnufnye iz nozhticle.

38 jenn 07.06.06 at 9:14 pm

Two Questions: (1) Can a cat “baroo”? and (2) If the answer to (1) is yes, can one “baroo” and snooze at the same time?

These are the things that keep me up at night people.

39 jaypo 07.06.06 at 9:15 pm

Jenn,
1) only pooches baroo.
2) baroo + snooze = honkshu

40 Theo 07.06.06 at 9:20 pm

Fuzzy math, Jaypo?

41 Lauri 07.06.06 at 9:21 pm

I must say, I keep returning to the picture and that baby is really REALLY….well…CUTE.

And you can just tell by looking at him that he has a fantastic personality.

42 punk 07.06.06 at 9:22 pm

Little pincer paws, man. I think the cat’s actually an extra beverage cozy, for holding super teeny cups. And it’s very convenient to use — just hook a finger between its front legs and you can pull it out with a little pop! And a sleepy “mrrr?”.

43 Fritatta 07.06.06 at 9:26 pm

forsooth, I am slain…

::dies::

44 Robin 07.06.06 at 9:42 pm

If I buy the holder, does the kitty come with it?

45 A Fine Morsel 07.06.06 at 9:49 pm

He needs a really tiny beer can in between his paws…

46 Aubrey 07.06.06 at 10:03 pm

If your kits you won’t shoulder
You should buy this kitten-holder
Keeping kitty face and paws exposed,
Its wee body it also holds
You might reach for this holder expecting a beer
But wouldn’t you prefer having a kitteh near?

47 Chantelle 07.06.06 at 10:10 pm

Aww, he looks like he used up the last little bit of his energy turning to get his picture taken and just couldn’t stay awake any longer. Sweet little kitty :)

48 lazyj 07.06.06 at 10:13 pm

seriously now, how much of this are we expected to take?!?! i absolutely cannot stand how cutecutecutecute these posts are any longer!…as if the pics weren’t precious enough, Meg adds the cleverest of captions & just KILLS me……it’s just too too much……..(fades away, truly death by cute overload!)

49 J. Bo 07.06.06 at 10:32 pm

I’m not a cat person, and even I’M undone by the kitteh cuteness!

P.S. Redzilla, don’t you think Putin wasn’t so much kissing that kid’s belly as making that motorboat mouth-fart noise? If that’s so, it makes me kinda like the guy…

50 A thinker 07.06.06 at 10:42 pm

Um, yes. I need one. Stat. One kitten plus Kitten Holder, please.

51 AuntieMame 07.06.06 at 10:46 pm

“Putka” (how cute is that???) was just giving the kid a zerberts. I think it’s kinda sweet.

And if I had a KittenHolder (and a motorhome), I’d be tempted to go camping, too.

Or not…

52 J. Bo 07.06.06 at 10:55 pm

AHA! “Zerbert”! I didn’t realize there was a word for that noise/action.

Thanks, AM!

53 aurora 07.06.06 at 11:10 pm

It’s so cute it almost makes me want to go camping.. ALMOST. :P Kittens are awesome. I want to live in a big house and be independently weathly so I can have a bunch of cats and just play with them all day… Yeah.. I’m the crazy cat lady.

54 *tara 07.06.06 at 11:35 pm

yeah i doubt my 15lb marmalade would really go for that. can i supersize the kitten holder, please? i’ll pay the extra charge.

55 Nan 07.06.06 at 11:39 pm

I would snorgle that kitten until it came out my nose.

56 Lauri 07.06.06 at 11:48 pm

I agree that there’s nothing wrong with zerberts! But, this is the country where a kindergartner got sent home for kissing a fellow kindergartner on the cheek!!!
No zerberts allowed in the US of A!

57 Susan 07.06.06 at 11:57 pm

Nan, that is one of the best comments I’ve ever seen on CO.

58 Fish Eye no Miko 07.07.06 at 12:07 am

“Kittens stay fresh in the KittenHolder”

Ohm I necd one of those, my kittens keep getting stale… )-:
^_~

59 Fish Eye no Miko 07.07.06 at 12:08 am

“Ohm I necd one of those”

I is a gud speler…
~_~

60 betty 07.07.06 at 12:10 am

**sigh** :THUD:

Whew! Now that I got that over with…If my dogs would let me, I’d have a little marmalade kitteh snuggled up under my chin right now.

And you know, if Putka was lining up boy bellies to snorgle in his bedroom and got caught, then I’d have a problem with it. But he was out in the open, in front of adults if not the boys parents even, so I’m sure it’s innocent enough. I nibble random baby toes…in public…

61 AmyH 07.07.06 at 12:27 am

Snorgling – is this perhaps a new trend in geopolitical affairs? Send Putka to North Korea and this whole missle thing will be over with one good snorgle on Kim Jong Il’s tummy. All he really wants is some wuvin’…

62 E. Collison 07.07.06 at 12:32 am

I want the Bunny Snorgle™ model.

l_l
*¡*
( )
” “

63 Theo 07.07.06 at 12:34 am
64 BenPanced 07.07.06 at 1:18 am

Kitteh seepy-pie. Go night-night.

*snrtz*
*snrtz*

65 lauowolf 07.07.06 at 1:53 am

Poor baby.
Whatever he did to get his nose so dirty just tired him all out.
Luckily they had this handy kitten holder, so he doesn’t get dusty all over when he sleeps.

66 Redzilla 07.07.06 at 2:14 am

Yes, AmyH–brilliant! Let’s hold six-party snorgling for Kim Jong-Il.

67 Meg 07.07.06 at 2:18 am

Should this be our next T-shirt? “baroo + snooze = honkshu” (per Jaypo!)

68 Fritatta 07.07.06 at 2:39 am

Meg–YES! I’m in!

69 Theo 07.07.06 at 3:03 am

Er, Meg… I think there’s still quite a number of folks (myself included) who still await a T with the yin-yang kittens rendered upon it.
[arches one eyebrow]

Need me to knock something together, maybe? In the same style as the World Peace Hamster?

70 Christine 07.07.06 at 3:15 am

Oh. My. Goodness.
Where can I get one?!

71 DH 07.07.06 at 3:43 am

I …. can’t … take … one … more … cute … oh … dear glorious heaven, NO!!!!

… )))brain oozing from ears(((

72 ka9q's wife 07.07.06 at 5:39 am

Theo has no one ever told you the four gypsy laws?
*in bad eastern european accent*

Number 1 gypsy law….don’t go there.

number 2 gypsy law…if you must go there. Don’t take me with you.

number 3 Gyspy law, very very important law…don’t visualize.

Number 4 gypsy law….the most important gypsy law…if you must visualize, only in claymation, and it squeaks.

73 ka9q's wife 07.07.06 at 5:42 am

I am going camping next month for three weeks. I am sure i need one of these for those nights around the fire.
As for Putka, He is my new hero. If i spoke more Russian I would move there and vote for him.

74 hrh.squeak 07.07.06 at 6:57 am

“Now I snuggle down to sleep
In KittenHolder, fresh to keep
If you should snorgle, I may wake
But sleepy sounds is all I’ll make!”

75 hrh.squeak 07.07.06 at 6:59 am

ps Yay! to Putka! A zerbert in every pot(belly)!

76 Ms. Pants 07.07.06 at 1:48 pm

Dear REI,
I’m writing about my newly purchased KittenHolder. The packaging states that the KittenHolder will keep my kitten fresh and ready for a snorgle at a moment’s notice. I’m afraid I might be doing something incorrectly. You see, when attempting to place my kitten in the KittenHolder, I found it difficult to get more than his hind paw in the allotted space. Attempting to stuff all 20 pounds of him into the KittenHolder proved impossible and I’m afraid I did not fare any better with my 13 pound kitten.

Is this perhaps an example of user error? Should I coat the kittens in butter before attempting it again?

Perhaps the KittenHolder should come with a sizing chart? Or maybe with its own designated KittenHolder-sized kitten?

I will hold off on anymore attempts until I hear back from you. I have to wait for the stitches to come out anyway.

Sincerely,
Ms. Pants

77 Theo 07.07.06 at 2:02 pm

Ka9q’s Schmoop — “if you must visualize, only in claymation, and it squeaks.”
LOL. LMAO. Prancing sweet-potato rofflecopters.

Ms. Pants — I will look up an industrial-strength hammock for you, but right now I must run to a meeting…

78 equus 07.07.06 at 2:32 pm

Thees keety ees deevine! AHA! *falls over*

79 gridskipper 07.07.06 at 3:05 pm

can anyone else still see the photo!? it seems to have disappeared!

80 Sabba 07.07.06 at 3:13 pm

Ms. Pants, that made my morning.

81 lauowolf 07.07.06 at 3:18 pm

No…
He’s still there.
I woke up this morning and thought maybe I’d just dreamed it all.
(“and you were there, and you were there, too….”)

But there really IS a kitten in a kitten-holder up there.

Gotta go by REI and see what they are up to these days, cos I’ve got my dividend to spend, and this sure beats out freeze-dried spaghetti.

82 you guys r silly 07.07.06 at 3:31 pm

Ms.Pants:
If the Kitteh Holder Chair was advertised as
*CATisfaction Guaranteed*
maybe you could get your
*MEOWney*
back…
&:o?

83 Kirakira-Tenshi 07.07.06 at 3:39 pm

OMG*SNORGLE* !!!!!! KITTEHS! KITTEHS GA DAISUKI! GIMME I WANT ONE! pretty fu, come here, I need to snorgle you….

….what amazes me is how tiny his (or her) ittty bitty body must be to fit into tht thing.

84 Theo 07.08.06 at 4:51 pm
85 constintina 07.08.06 at 10:18 pm

That’s just rediculous. That can’t exist. It’s too much of the wonderfulness at once. Love.

86 angie b. 07.08.06 at 10:37 pm

omg…i can’t take it…this is TOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!

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