The Babysitter

by Meg on September 13, 2007

The bebeh won’t stop crying! What do I do!? Maybe Lunchabuhls will help…

HALP!

Babyandsnickers

This is such a weird photo I hadta post eet, Melissa B.!

{ 56 comments }

1 lurkingsmirk 09.13.07 at 4:27 pm

photoshopped?

2 lurkingsmirk 09.13.07 at 4:29 pm

Oh yah, bleen time bleener! =D

3 fifi 09.13.07 at 4:30 pm

no it’s not shopped: mama’s hiding in a box, as outside the window and far away on a blanket her kitten languishes…this is a picture of maternal panic! my baby’s crazy I’ll toss it out the window of my house/box and pretend it wasn’t me…cat needs some serious support with the parenting

4 Laurie C 09.13.07 at 4:31 pm

Not shopped – cardboard box. This reminds me of an ICHC photo of a momcat sitting up with kittens all around her captioned “What I do now?”

5 luvinmalssomuch 09.13.07 at 4:32 pm

Oh kill my heart why don’t you. So adorably precious I could just cry for the want of this babeee.

6 Sara 09.13.07 at 4:36 pm

Mama wants to know: Who pinched the baby?

7 liz 09.13.07 at 4:37 pm

beautiful mama kitteh.
and even more gorgeous babie kitteh. the photo is a little strange, kind of makes me dizzy to look at it, cant figure out the staging.

8 snusnu 09.13.07 at 4:37 pm

Oh, the bebeh! The curled paw over the face, signifying distress, the clutched toy, the unheard mew…I must comfort it!

9 Allie and Jojo-s Mom 09.13.07 at 4:39 pm

No, no, no. The Caption shuld reads “Shhhh…. De baby is sheeeeping.”

10 Theo 09.13.07 at 4:44 pm

LurkSmirk? …double flunk.

11 Annie 09.13.07 at 4:54 pm

Baby in a box.
Momma is all shhhh baby is sleeping

12 mrs fonebone 09.13.07 at 4:54 pm

A and J’s Mom is right–she is watching her behbeh sleep and then hears noises–looks back–ready to shush!

13 Subhangi 09.13.07 at 5:15 pm

Someone please tell me that toy in that wee kitteh’s arms is not real.

[ S P L O D E ]

14 little gator 09.13.07 at 5:17 pm

as mehitable said:

“wotthehell did i do to deserve all these kititns”

15 Jwlls 09.13.07 at 5:33 pm

Laurie C!! You must post the link! You can’t talk about it, then not post the link! *looks back a sleepy babeh kitteh and melts*

16 fluidstatic 09.13.07 at 5:35 pm

AWWWNNNH.

de wittle toy. de wittle beebeh. de wittle tirewd-sad kitty faice.

now you’ve done it. I’m stuck baby-talking for the next week. My husband will hate me for it.

17 NYgirly 09.13.07 at 5:48 pm

the baby kitteh’s paw curled up by her face is too freakin’ cute!

and, oh? what’s that stuffed aminal?

i tink it’s a baby blue velour stuffed mouse wif gangly legs gasping under baby kitteh’s arm
–too much! ^^

18 NYgirly 09.13.07 at 5:49 pm

momma kitteh is ‘watching TV’ and telling us this here is her fave channel KTN-TV

19 CheekyKitten 09.13.07 at 6:10 pm

Oh for…My kitteh Weasel had that exact same stuffed mousie when she was a baby. His name was Mortimer.

20 Wbirdie 09.13.07 at 6:21 pm

Awwwww!:)

Look out for mama, she’ll knock you out!

21 you guys r silly 09.13.07 at 6:21 pm

This pic is confuzzling me.
Something’s not quite right about it. The microscopic size of the wee baby is TOO small in comparison to the short distance it appears to be from normal sized kitteh.
It’s like normal kitteh is looking through some kind of portal into another dimension – a KEWT-as-all-get-out dimension, but still. . . it’s bugging me. . .
I want to shrink myself down and hop in my little transporter and travel to that baby’s dimension so I can snorgle heeem…

22 Melissa 09.13.07 at 6:28 pm

Haha, these are two of my cats. The big one is actually a boy, and the baby is just 2 weeks old and was abandoned by it’s mother. And yes, the toy is real- it’s a stuffed catnip mouse.

23 Bengal Mom 09.13.07 at 6:34 pm

You Guys R Silly – the disproportion can be explained by the fact that the camera lens is most likely at it’s widest angle setting to take this photo. That will distort the apparent distance between the objects.

24 Juniper Jupiter 09.13.07 at 6:45 pm

I’m interpreting the pic as the momma guarding over the kitteh in the separate room and looking over her shoulder at the camera and saying, “You come near me or my baby, you paparazzi, and you’re gonna eat that camera through your nose!”

25 Katie 09.13.07 at 6:47 pm

Anyone can photoshop cuteness, but not everyone can capture that special “kodak” moment of cuteness. Cuteoverload I’m highly disappointed that you would post fake cuteness!!

26 Cerise 09.13.07 at 6:51 pm

Ahn. The little one’s all: “De lights! Somebuddeh hit de lights!”

Very cool pic. [rolls eyes at Katie]

27 Thursday's Child 09.13.07 at 6:58 pm

Weird. I have no idea what’s going on in that pic. But I like tuxedo cats, so I’m good. :)

28 fish eye no miko 09.13.07 at 7:06 pm

Bengal Mom said: “You Guys R Silly – the disproportion can be explained by the fact that the camera lens is most likely at it’s widest angle setting to take this photo. That will distort the apparent distance between the objects.”

Exactly. Movies have been doing this for decades; it’s a technique called “forced perspective”. As an example, look at the scenes in LotR where Elijah Wood (as Frodo) and Sir Ian McKellen (as Gandalf) are in the same scene, yet Frodo is much smaller than Gandalf. A lot of that is forced perspective.

29 Kar 09.13.07 at 7:07 pm

This looks like a Surreal piece of art.

I’m expecting a psychadelic blipvert next.

30 Babs 09.13.07 at 7:17 pm

Oh laws. The bebeh wif its widdle toy. Oh laws. Where’s my C.O.X.C.U.?!

31 One Eyed Daruma 09.13.07 at 7:19 pm

It looks like poppa is having kitten thoughts…like in a cartoon.

32 chanpon 09.13.07 at 7:38 pm

The tuxedo is cute enough, until you see the teeny baby! And then you see the blue toy! All together = the 11s on the cute-o-meter.

33 Chris B. 09.13.07 at 7:43 pm

That baby kitty just screams for a closeup of that widdle paw over his eye….

34 Yitzysmommie 09.13.07 at 7:45 pm

YM runs past all the peeps, reaches in through the cardboard box hole, gently takes bebbeh kittayn with toy & puts him/her in her substantial Grandma Rack to warm & snuggle kittayn ala Schmoop. YM then sneaks quietly out with honk shuing/purring kitten.

35 Fee 09.13.07 at 7:45 pm

The toy! The nose! The teensy curled paw! Mom’s complete expression of “omg, where did this come from?” It’s all too perfect.

Oh yes, it’s called an optical illusion nuffs. It’s perfectly natural and it existed long before Photoshop. Sheesh.

36 Kate 09.13.07 at 8:18 pm

I love it! That baby kitten should be called a cute-en from now on.

37 Tsitsi 09.13.07 at 8:35 pm

Here’s the ICHC momcat Laurie C was talking about:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/07/25/what-i-do-now/

38 hey-h 09.13.07 at 8:55 pm

I’m assuming you have some kind of filter on this site that blocks the really bad words from comments. Couldn’t you add “photoshopped” to that list? ‘Cause really, I’m happy if I never again click through to the comments to find people insisting that they are photograph experts and the picture isn’t real.

39 Theresa 09.13.07 at 9:00 pm

Where did you get my Dante? He’s been here all the time.

40 Laurie C 09.13.07 at 9:03 pm

Tsitsi, thanks for finding it. If I went to ICHC looking for it, the site would have sucked me in and I would never have surfaced again.

41 jb 09.13.07 at 10:14 pm

It’s for real – you can see the same bedspread under the grown cat through another hole in the lidless er, potato chip box (?). Grown cat is “hiding” in this box – as they will do – looking at the baby. The photographer is on the same side of the box as the grown cat, so both are surreptitiously peeping at the baby, like a parent peeping at a sleeping child through a cracked bedroom door.

42 hmmmm 09.13.07 at 11:44 pm

Its like the cat is watching the baby on cat-tv and pointing it out to her feline companions “thats my bebeh, isn’t she beautiful”.

This is so gorgeous.

43 sweetpea 09.14.07 at 1:27 am

The sweetness is unbelievable: that baby, that paw, that toy snuggle. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

44 lauowolf 09.14.07 at 2:18 am

Unkka cat is a good boy.

45 oaklandcat 09.14.07 at 5:02 am

The kitten looks like it’s in the big cat’s thought bubble.

46 Erin 09.14.07 at 5:05 am

What is it with you and Lunchables, Meg? Can someone help me out? ;)

They’re icky, unhealthy and bad for the environment.

Right? Or no?

47 oaklandcat 09.14.07 at 5:20 am

I think Meg’s fascinated with them because they’re so… redonkulous.

48 Tugs 09.14.07 at 6:33 am

oaklandcat – I thought “thought bubble” too when I saw this.

I think that catnip mouse is made by Hartz. I bought a green one for one of my cats on his 21st birthday.

49 Charlie 09.14.07 at 11:14 am

amg tis the cutest love the tiny teddy and the big male cat is like amg mums gone out whad do i do!!!

tugs i hope that was a typo otherwise O.O at the ancient cat 21 years???!?

50 Ellen 09.14.07 at 3:28 pm

Am I the only one who counts more than 4 legs on that mouse? I thought it was a little, stuffed, fuzzy, alien toy. Actually, I want a blue, fuzzy, alien toy for my kitties.

51 ka9q's wife 09.14.07 at 4:56 pm

Am I the only person who looked at this and saw Skinner box?

Or have I been reading too many books about operant(sp??) conditioning lately?

52 ka9q's wife 09.14.07 at 4:56 pm

btw too many has been one so far.

53 Tugs 09.14.07 at 5:04 pm

Charlie – It was not a typo. I have heard of cats living to 30 years old. My kitty did not make it beyond 21 though because he had kidney failure. :(

54 oaklandcat 09.15.07 at 9:44 am

Schrodinger’s cat found a loophole.

55 Aurora 09.19.07 at 3:19 pm

Cute photo,love the angle

56 Theo 09.19.07 at 3:21 pm

OaklandCat with the quantum luuuuv! ;)

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