From Bebe Bobble Head to Cat-o-pottomus

by Meg on July 30, 2007

Says sender-inner Julia: "I have something cute to share. It’s two pics of my kitteh Gnocchi. One is when he was a bebe bobble head and one was taken about a year ago after he blossomed into a catopottomus."

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LOL! You know we love Before ‘n’ Afters, here at C.O., Julia.

{ 89 comments }

1 Redzilla 07.30.07 at 1:36 am

New Deluxe Cat Dust Mop will make your kitchen floors bleen.

2 Megan 07.30.07 at 1:36 am

Sqquuuuuuueeeeeeel!

I love McFluffersons kitties, and Gnocchi is ridiculously poofy. Awesome.

3 carmen 07.30.07 at 1:38 am

weeehhh…love the cat-o-pottomus. :P

4 Suzy's Mom 07.30.07 at 1:43 am

Wow! First his head was bigger tahn his body. Now it’s the other way around. ;)

5 Suzy's Mom 07.30.07 at 1:43 am

Wow! First his head was bigger tahn his body. Now it’s the other way around. ;)

6 Suzy's Mom 07.30.07 at 1:43 am

Wow! First his head was bigger tahn his body. Now it’s the other way around. ;)

7 Wisefool 07.30.07 at 1:51 am

Catopottomus. Awesome.

8 rosie 07.30.07 at 2:00 am

O.M.G. ‘bebe bobble head” and “catopottomus” ?!?!?!?!??!
esplode.
officially esplode.

9 Helene 07.30.07 at 2:01 am

Look at that belly fluff. OMG. No wonder her floor is so shiny and spotless.

Lederhosen.

10 Kaya 07.30.07 at 2:02 am

Mmmm….Fluff….
*Rubs entire face on cat tummy…*

Feel the endorphin levels rising anyone?
Relaxe…Take it eeeeaaaasyyyy:)

11 Yitzysmommie 07.30.07 at 2:03 am

His true name: Catt-o-pottamus McFlooferson.
Two beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing them, Julia. I presume you do not need an electric blanket with him in the bed?

12 MaggieBelle 07.30.07 at 2:07 am

FLOOF!

13 Stacey E. 07.30.07 at 2:09 am

That’s about the most adorable thing I have ever seen. Loves it!!!

14 Shannon 07.30.07 at 2:11 am

bwa ha ha ha!!! Catt-o-pottamus !! Love it!

15 thepetmuseum 07.30.07 at 2:23 am

Gnocci, huh? Well he is a big ol love dumpling. Smoochable!

16 R. Moore 07.30.07 at 2:23 am

Wow. As much as I love the baby kitten, that tummy! So fluffy!

17 core 07.30.07 at 2:30 am

It’s yet another example of “If you have a big white belleh you must display it!” or in lolspeak, “I has a belleh!”

I love that the ear-to-head ratio does not change between the pics.

18 core 07.30.07 at 2:32 am

Oh, and after kitteh looks like he’s just stood up after doing “the snap” from _Legally Blonde_.

19 Andi 07.30.07 at 2:42 am

Ahn!!

I SWEAR, I did this “before and after post” about my dogs on my blog BEFORE I saw this before and after at CO. Swear. Adorable puppyness ahead.

http://deandi.com/adventure/node/460

20 Mo K 07.30.07 at 2:43 am

In the “all growed up” pic he reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the fat opera singer who sang “Figaro”, after getting his mouth sprayed with alum. Just don’t make him meow it anymore, and his head won’t get reeeealllly tiny!
%-)

21 Mo K 07.30.07 at 2:45 am

Awww…. Cute puppsers, Andi!!

22 Andi 07.30.07 at 2:52 am

Thanks Mo :)

23 kah 07.30.07 at 2:53 am

omg, what pretty eyes the kitty has. its like a uber fluffy pillow!!!!

24 peaseapea 07.30.07 at 2:53 am

Can I borrow him? I have shelves that need dusting!

25 Pearl Ostroff 07.30.07 at 2:58 am

I love his white tuxedo front in the kitten picture. Does he still have it. I’m glad other people have super-fluffy super cats.

26 Mandi 07.30.07 at 3:04 am

ZOMG! How cute! His head is so tiny! I have a fatty like this, but he’s grey!

27 caroline 07.30.07 at 3:06 am

I want to run my fingers through all that floof!

28 martha 07.30.07 at 3:11 am

Ummm…she’s obviously shrunken her chicken’s head with some kinda laser…why isn’t anyone else alarmed?

29 joodster 07.30.07 at 3:15 am

awwwwwwww…what a sweet babeh!

30 SlaveToThreeFelines 07.30.07 at 3:59 am

I have a before and after – on two pages. I’m a mean mom and had to have my Scarlett shaved. The constant dry heaving and hairballs was getting to be too much. I was concerned for her health.

http://home.comcast.net/~mandypsp/catz.html for the before.

http://home.comcast.net/~mandypsp/lioness.html for the after.

31 Tim 07.30.07 at 4:25 am

I really think CO should have higher res versions of the pics available. I want HIGH-RES cuteness for my 1920*1200 monitor, darnit.

32 Mike D 07.30.07 at 4:43 am

wow…compare this ballofur with these dudes:

http://deep6inc.com/images/lsd/lsd17-1.jpg

hit the hyperlink…i guarantee the goods.

33 tracyFlick 07.30.07 at 4:56 am

Animals and babies shamelessy get away in our society with being plumpersons. Hahaha. Lucky them. :)

34 tracyFlick 07.30.07 at 4:58 am

PS i love that the pout hasn’t changed, only progressed with greatness throughout the year.

35 Shelley Noble 07.30.07 at 5:22 am

Andi, your doggies iz so cute and good. It looks hot where you live!

36 The Honourable Gladys Anstruther 07.30.07 at 6:57 am

Floofy Mcfloofersons rule.

37 vasco 07.30.07 at 7:38 am

*

WOW!
THAT’S A
REAL
LOLCAT!

LOL

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http://href.hu/x/2sv1
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38 Gillian 07.30.07 at 7:42 am

Geh in mah belleh!

39 Leah B. 07.30.07 at 8:04 am

to freaking cute
the caption of this post is the highest of gold medal standards!!!!!!

^..^ to **..**

40 Michelle 07.30.07 at 8:56 am

Mike D: I love Louis Wain artwork. Weird/creepy/cute all at once.

Gnocchi? We can share. There’s enough to go around.

41 Koots 07.30.07 at 10:16 am

Oh my stinking goodness.

That just took cute to a whole new level.

42 A thinker 07.30.07 at 10:19 am

I can’t…stop…laughing…at this cat.

43 Subhangi 07.30.07 at 10:42 am

Catopottamus! SQUEEEEEEE!!! What an adorable description!

44 maymee 07.30.07 at 11:22 am

I love the bebe’s ears…they just look like extra floof.

45 James 07.30.07 at 11:36 am

Here’s another before/after pair: Grendel the Maine Coon

As an itty-bitty kitty:
http://flickr.com/photos/jnl/33137812/

As a huge fuzzy lump:
http://flickr.com/photos/jnl/60827906/

46 Metz 07.30.07 at 12:11 pm

OK who was the last to use the copier???
You left it on zoom 500%!!!!

47 Nicolletta 07.30.07 at 12:23 pm

Wow, McFluffersons has a full acre of tummy! *dives in and snorgles*

48 liz 07.30.07 at 1:20 pm

hair-style is still the same! HA! Love it!

49 jenna 07.30.07 at 1:24 pm

main coon na!! to cute!!

50 skippy 07.30.07 at 1:31 pm

i love how his face is exactly the same in both pics. i don’t think his head grew at all! so cute.

51 jennyjaco 07.30.07 at 1:34 pm

Lawl..love Afterkitty’s 8 o’clock – 5 o’clock splits. Maybe dinner is at quarter to six and he’s signalling? Early?

52 cubbybutt 07.30.07 at 2:16 pm

at any age, this kitteh is snorgelrific!

53 Hpotter 07.30.07 at 2:31 pm

Looks like he got hit by lightning

54 Theo 07.30.07 at 2:36 pm

Maybe the pix were taken when he was *just* out of the dryer.

(yes, I’m totally kitting.)

55 ceejoe 07.30.07 at 2:37 pm

James – your Grendel the Maine Coon is *gaw*jus* too!

56 Lioness 07.30.07 at 3:00 pm

Look at those big beautiful eyes. So sweet & innocent!

57 CheekyKitten 07.30.07 at 3:02 pm

REDONKKERLOUS.

58 Evyn 07.30.07 at 3:21 pm

My Maine Coon Toonces lays like that too, with his belly splayed out in an indecent manner..

59 jen 07.30.07 at 3:35 pm

omg i cant believe that is the same cat!!! what a fluffy floooflepuss! adorable!

60 MamaLana 07.30.07 at 3:36 pm

This kitty is a real Gnocchi! (Potato dumpling.) LOL

61 metsakins 07.30.07 at 3:48 pm

When I saw this picture I yelled to my cow orker,…

Quick its an emergency you gotta come in here!

62 Julia 07.30.07 at 4:00 pm

Yup, I am the proud owner. I love his new nickname! McFlooferson…hahahah! Thanks for the sweet comments.

63 Theo 07.30.07 at 4:11 pm

Julia — McFlooferson is fine, but it’s kind of a standard Cute-Overload-Ism… whereas, I *love* “Cattopotamus”.

(“Gnocchi” is excellent too.)
(Either as a cat name or served Alfredo, with leeks.)

64 Anne 07.30.07 at 5:19 pm

I agree – definitely SNORGLERIFIC!

65 Meg 07.30.07 at 5:20 pm

I thought my Dad was the only person who used the word Catopotamus

66 totalblammblamm 07.30.07 at 5:34 pm

This looks like one of those Russian dolls that opens up… perhaps you open the bigger one on the right only to find the smaller one on the left inside? So sweet!!

67 Furbabies 07.30.07 at 6:02 pm

Slavetothreefelines:
My kitty, Yankee, looks just like yours. He loves the feeling of being shaved, just not the actual shaving. And yes, much blood is lost during the process,mine!

68 Furbabies 07.30.07 at 6:05 pm

Oops, sorry, I forgot to mention the b-e-a-u-tiful kitty above. Love the furry belly action on the floor. Just want to bury my face in it!

69 lurkertype 07.30.07 at 6:28 pm

We lofs Cattopotamus Gnocchi!

His head seems to have stayed exactly the same size all his life and the rest of him grew around it.

Oooo, that tummy needs a good snorgle.

70 Metz 07.30.07 at 7:12 pm

I want to kees him on his leetle keeten leeps (and little kat leeps)…pinkie pie!

71 ILuvCuteOverload 07.30.07 at 7:41 pm

I own a very naughty, naughty cat-o-opotomus. He believes that he is the most handsome animal on earth. I need to send in some pictures of him!

72 lauralu 07.30.07 at 7:41 pm

AAWWW!! He gots curly hairs! SSQQQUUUUEEEEEE

73 catmom 07.30.07 at 7:47 pm

Hey–I actually *have* a cat named Catapotamus! You stole my kittie’s name! ;-)

74 TAJ 07.30.07 at 8:05 pm

Has no one else picked up on his Cindy Crawford (or should I say “Clawford”?)beauty mark???

75 humanitarian 07.30.07 at 8:19 pm

File this under “cute or sad” and honestly, it’s sad. Poor kitteh is suffering myriad health problems due to overfeeding. Please, extend her life by getting the weight off!

76 Theo 07.30.07 at 8:21 pm

Humanitarian — I know you mean well. But quit with the assuming. That cat? …mostly fur.

77 Jwlls 07.30.07 at 8:52 pm

Gnocchi, pronounced in English as (“no key”), is the Italian word for dumplings; in Italian, gnocchi is the plural of gnocco, which literally means “lump”.

I whole-heartedly agree.

78 miu 07.30.07 at 10:05 pm

Quick, close the windows! He is floating towards them!!!

79 miu 07.30.07 at 10:08 pm

Congrats to Julia: You have a beauuu-tiful kitty cat.

80 Noelegy 07.30.07 at 10:47 pm

I just have to say that I love the name “Gnocchi.”

81 Julia 07.30.07 at 11:55 pm

About the fattness. It is mostly fur. His brother is skinny and they both eat the same food. They don’t eat table scraps or human food. We just moved into a house that has stairs so hopefully he starts to tone the tocks.

82 Metz 07.31.07 at 12:02 am

pshahw, eee’s not fat a’tall!
Heeeeeeessss beeeeeuuuuutteeeeffulll!

83 Metz 07.31.07 at 12:03 am

We have sistah cats Summer & Autumn. Both short hairs Autumn is a torti and is VERY solid & larger than her sister Summer who is a marmie, skinney & petite. Just genetics at play IMHO

84 shohom67 07.31.07 at 12:28 am

http://www.flickr.com/groups/reallyhugecats/

Hi. I’m the administrator for a Flickr group called:
Really HUGE Cats. We’d love to have you (and anyone else that’s interested) join the group and post lots of pix of Gnocchi or any other big cat/kitten you may have!
Awesome picture! >^..^< Dan

85 Julia 07.31.07 at 1:12 am

Dan, I just found your group. I added 5 pics. (I’ve got my work PC with me. More HUGE pics in a few days.

86 Andréa 07.31.07 at 1:51 am

I could spend hours rubbing this puffer’s tum-tums! WAY TOO CUTE!

87 ThreeCatNight 07.31.07 at 4:42 pm

The Original Cat Swiffer!

88 Kristina L. 08.01.07 at 3:48 am

What a cutie! And I love the term “catopottomus”.

89 Brak_Silverbone 08.01.07 at 7:09 pm

I just can’t look at these photos without snickering! I don’t know what’s better–the slightly dumbfounded expression (in BOTH photos), the fluffitude, the splayed rear legs and giganto fluffy tail…

On second thought, I think it’s that li’l freckle just under his left eye. That just makes the whole darn thing perfect.

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