Young’ins bound for boxhab

by Meg on January 21, 2008

[shaking head] it’s a shame to see such young, young, kittehs start off on the wrong foot. They’re obviously overdosing on boxes—TOGETHER!—at such a young age. Tsk.

Boxhabbound

You can’t even tell WHO IS WHO in there, Heather R.! And don’t even tell me that’s a Kleenex box.

// UPDATE — thanks to Vicky Mowrer and her Kittenex! //

{ 62 comments }

1 m 01.21.08 at 4:50 am

cuteee

2 pika23 01.21.08 at 4:55 am

you forgot to bleen!

oh yeah…i think the white one is in the box…

3 lemura 01.21.08 at 4:57 am

I dunno, Meg. Just like those anit-smoking ads, these boxhab info spots are really really really making me want to try boxes.

I mean, they LOOK happy and warm and cared for, right? I have yet to see the dark side.

I’m onna look fer a box.

4 me 01.21.08 at 5:03 am

I just want a box that dispenses kittens.

5 sensate 01.21.08 at 5:21 am

OMG, that is the awesomest thing ever. Kudos to whoever grabbed the camera for it.

6 luckycliff 01.21.08 at 5:22 am

they’re tired from watching football all day, poor things.

7 Subhangi 01.21.08 at 5:23 am

That’s one white and one clouded marmie IN the box, and the other two outside.

Thank Goodness there’s no cutehab…

8 chapon 01.21.08 at 5:27 am

Kitty pile!! Kitty pile! What I wouldn’t give to be on the bottom on that!

9 paulajeanne 01.21.08 at 5:30 am

Cuddle puddle! Cuddle puddle! Took me a bit to realize there were 4 in the pile, my mind kept adding up heads wrong!

10 DaytimeDeb 01.21.08 at 5:31 am

This has to be softer than 3-ply — but won’t help people with allegies too much when they go to blow their noses!

11 paulajeanne 01.21.08 at 5:32 am

Oh my, I had to go back and gaze again with a big grin on my face! Let’s see, the three on the bottom must be in the box, poor kitty on top couldn’t squish himself in! Overflow!

12 DaytimeDeb 01.21.08 at 5:36 am

paulajeanne, I don’t think the one on top really wants in the box…. See how he is holding down the tabby, and laying across the other two so they can’t get out of the box? He’s the box pusher. He’s the one the mama cats warned their kitties about.

13 Michael 01.21.08 at 5:39 am

I, too, got the count wrong at first, by mistaking the white kitty for tissues.

What this photo says to me is, we need a commission to address the tragic box shortage problem that causes 4 kitties to have to share a box. We need “boxes for kitties” collection bins at stores and malls so excess boxes can be contributed to kitty-box relief efforts.

If we all pull together, we can have it down to 3 kitties per box in no time.

Thank you for your support.

14 Edward 01.21.08 at 5:41 am

I really, really want to rub them all over my face. I’ll sneeze for a week but I don’t care. Kittens! In my face!

15 fish eye no miko 01.21.08 at 5:44 am

Ok, I count four heads but only one body. Is this like some cute, feline version of Cerberus…?

16 gizmo 01.21.08 at 5:46 am

Its a kitteh mosh pit!

17 mleiv 01.21.08 at 6:19 am

Eek! It’s Cerberus’ rival, the four-headed kitteh!

18 blair 01.21.08 at 6:31 am

they miss their mom from the inside out

19 berthaslave 01.21.08 at 6:53 am

In my own personal dictionary, this is the picture I find next to the definition of the word “heaven.”

20 Leah B. 01.21.08 at 7:19 am

what when you need to snorgle a kitten you just pull one out a box, but they still tend to grow up is there a refile box for big kittehs ??????

21 tesstricks 01.21.08 at 7:24 am

They learned it by watching you. :(

This boxhab thing is awesome.

22 hipcheck 01.21.08 at 8:32 am

I refuse to believe that this picture exists. It may throw my belief system into chaos…

23 bookmonstercats 01.21.08 at 9:47 am

I want them all, tissue-boxed up, natch, but if I can’t have them all, I want the giant-eared, flopping marmie with the opposable front legs.

24 Clare 01.21.08 at 12:45 pm

Wait, how many of those legs are actually attached to the marmalade kitten?

PLEASE tell me this pic is going in the calendar. :)

25 metsakins 01.21.08 at 1:39 pm

It’s the stuff on TV these days. I tell ya, when I was growin’ up there was none of these programs on TV. and QVC is the worst, all the stuff comes in boxes!

26 Kitteh 01.21.08 at 1:58 pm

-Steals the white kitteh, and the cloudeh Marmie- ..You dunno HOW badly I want my own cat, one that’ll snorgle with me at night. My sisters sleeps with her and i ish all alone.

27 confused.brit 01.21.08 at 2:15 pm

Kittypile!!!!

28 Lisa 01.21.08 at 2:31 pm

GAHHHH! I can’t stand it.

I wonder, though…was there a hissing, biting, kitty-slapping brawl going on right before this? I’d imagine competition for the prized box must be fierce, but it looks like they all conked out mid-fight. I’m sure hostilities will resume when one of them wakes up.

29 Mrs. Catlabash 01.21.08 at 3:36 pm

I am looking at that exact same Kleenex box right now, and mine does not have one seengle keetayhn inside! Foul, I say! I shall have words immediately with the Kleenex Corporation! Hrmph! Talk about false advertising.

a) That’s not even the jumbo-sized box.
b) I love how Ginger Kitty is convincing herself she’s actually in the box. Well, maybe she’s got her right arm in the box, can’t really tell.
c) How do they do that? Four kittehs in a 180-count box. Now if it were the 200-count, they’d fit purrfectly, of course, but the 180-count, silly kittehs, everyone knows that’s for 3 kittehs max.
d) Is that wired into their brains, the compulsion to squeeze into the most ridiculously tiny enclosure possible?

30 Nicolletta 01.21.08 at 4:09 pm

Pile ‘O Fluffy Kittehs! *dives in and snorgles*

31 catablob 01.21.08 at 4:22 pm

Yes, as noted by others this is a 4 headed kitten:
Furburrus the 4 headed kitten, destroyer of tissues, vanquisher of naps.

32 brinnann 01.21.08 at 4:37 pm

OMG, catablob: Furburrus = amazing!

[Seconded, Brinn... - Ed.]

33 Fegli 01.21.08 at 5:23 pm

Kitty pile!

Despite being 4 kitties put together, this kitty pile takes up a total floor surface space of five square inches.

Observe.

34 Mel 01.21.08 at 5:32 pm

This is officially the cutest thing EVAR! If I came across this Phenomenon of Cuteness in person, I may have fainted dead away.

35 Nancy Liedel - The Goat Rodeo 01.21.08 at 5:37 pm

I want in that box. I want to snorgle the adorableness!

36 liz 01.21.08 at 5:37 pm

easy-breezie kitten dispenser.
available at your local
K-Marche’.

37 A thinker 01.21.08 at 5:52 pm

There are TWO DISEMBODIED HEADS in there. I repeat, two disembodied heads. Perhaps a box addiction is more dangerous than we thought.

38 One Eyed Daruma 01.21.08 at 8:04 pm

First I thought “aww, two kittens in a kleenex box” Then I looked again and thought “Hey – there’s three!” Then…OMG…four?!?!?!? I’m almost afraid to look again.

39 mike d 01.21.08 at 9:33 pm

Quadratic Snorgleage.

40 Karen in Toronto 01.21.08 at 10:56 pm

My kittehs came from a deprived environment (1 – Mom didn’t know 6-month-old girls got pregnant; 2 – found under a dumpster in a puddle). So they don’t know this stuff. They do like the armchairs, though.

41 Pearl Ostroff 01.21.08 at 11:32 pm

That is so adorable. I think this picture is to blame.

After I saw it and pined for a kitten, a friend sent me pictures of kittens that had been left in a bag at a door. I succumbed. Maine Coons like my Riley.

42 Vicky Mowrer 01.22.08 at 12:19 am

Just wanted to let you all know.. those were my kittens. I certainly don’t mind sharing the photo with you all, although I wasn’t the sender inner. All of these kittens were Polys, as is their mom. The marmie and white showed his manx daddy trait with no tail and the downward slope.. the tortie had a 1/2 tail and is a beautiful cat.. the white one ended up with orange ears, tails, and a basket full of tricks, and the marmie on top is the biggest luv you’d ever want to meet. Any one wanting to see more of these guys please see me at http://pets.webshots.com/album/555286799UDrtvr . And yes, folks that IS a kleenex box…lol their most favorite toy. Thanks again for who ever sent this in for me… I’m so very glad to be part of this group.

43 Vicky Mowrer 01.22.08 at 12:24 am

Just wanted to let you all know.. those were my kittens. I certainly don’t mind sharing the photo with you all, although I wasn’t the sender inner. All of these kittens were Polys, as is their mom. The marmie and white showed his manx daddy trait with no tail and the downward slope.. the tortie had a 1/2 tail and is a beautiful cat.. the white one ended up with orange ears, tails, and a basket full of tricks, and the marmie on top is the biggest luv you’d ever want to meet. Any one wanting to see more of these guys please see me at http://pets.webshots.com/album/555286799UDrtvr . And yes, folks that IS a kleenex box…lol their most favorite toy. Thanks again for who ever sent this in for me… I’m so very glad to be part of this group.

44 catablob 01.22.08 at 12:38 am

Polys?
You mean, like Polydactyl?
OMG. How could you even leave the house or go to sleep for fear of missing one tiny moment of cute.

45 catablob 01.22.08 at 12:41 am

Holy McCRAPPULENCE!
People, do not click on that link, unless you are willing to be
completely undone with cuteness.

46 radiantblue 01.22.08 at 1:04 am

Whenever I have bad day.A Horrible day, All I have to do is come home, sit in front of my puter, click on Cute Overload and say Ohhhhhnnnn, how cute, adorable, precious. and before I know it I feel human again. I love this site. It is therapy for the masses. Keep it up.

47 Daphne Moss 01.22.08 at 1:19 am

I couldn’t agree more, RadiantBlue. This site reminds me that the world also contains wonderful critters and people … against all evidence to the contrary.

48 CheshireCat 01.22.08 at 7:20 am

OMG, this is just tooo moishe. If you could see me right now I’d have leetle hearts in my eyes instead of pupils.

49 Babs 01.22.08 at 3:55 pm

I cannot get over how very ORNJ that top kitteh is!

50 Molly FW 01.22.08 at 6:44 pm

That link to Vicky’s series of photos makes me think that Meg can finally retire. I think my empty cute hole has finally been filled poimanently!

51 caroline 01.22.08 at 7:37 pm

awwww! You folks must visit the link!
Baby Poly toes!

52 Gail 01.22.08 at 11:52 pm

More kittehs in different boxes on the link!!

Do these boxaholics need an intervention, Dr. Phil?

53 PENIX 01.23.08 at 12:04 am

Photoshopped.

54 Anne 01.23.08 at 2:23 am

The longer I look, the more kitties I see! Kleenex Kitties? Just don’t pull one out to sneeze on!!

55 marmosquirm 01.23.08 at 2:29 am

My kitties used to do the same thing when they were baby kitties! That’s so sweet, it reminds me of how tiny my babies were.

56 Renna 01.23.08 at 2:38 am

*PFFFIZZT* < ----That was my head sploding....
The cuteness of it all you see.

57 bananasforbunnies 01.23.08 at 4:49 am

Pearl,
How many kittens did you rescue?

58 jen 01.23.08 at 5:39 pm

aaahhhh. finally something soft and warm to dab the cuteness-induced tears from my eyes. sweeeeeet.

59 Pearl Ostroff 01.24.08 at 1:27 am

I am taking one of them. Her name is Cleopatra. The other also has a home. They are about 4 or 5 months old. My poor Riley, who is about 15, will have his naps disrupted.

60 me 01.24.08 at 1:29 am

I think they look like something from MC Escher. A confusing array of kittehs, and Too cute!

61 H 01.25.08 at 5:38 pm

vicky, i stumbled upon those adorablabble lumps of fluff and I had to share then with the cutemmunity. Thanks for having beatiful kittens.

62 Lizzie 02.26.08 at 7:04 pm

Aww!! Aren’t they just precious? haha! I love how the white and (disembodied) marmie ones have sort of zonked out in the box! Plus, I agree with lemura. I, also, have yet to see the dark side of “boxhab”!

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