That’s who I thought the cat was at first. I thought “wow, what an uncanny find!”, and then noticed the real cat wasn’t a second picture added to the first.
I was just going to say, “Hey! I’ve got 6 cats!”, but she beat me too! lol!
It would be an interesting portrait though…..Johnny Depp and a blur of felines, fur and claws! LOL! 4 of them tolerate each other and the other 2, one rules the front yard and the other the backyard. They hate everyone else…..
I have a very grumpy-looking 19-year-old cat who looks uncannily like a feline Walter Matthau. And his brother is practically the cat version of Jack Lemmon. A double (quadruple?) portrait would be kind of awesome.
Matthau-cat also reminds me of Richard Nixon, which creates all kinds of amusing possibilities…
Now that I think about it, I really, really want a painting of all eight of my living cats, the five deceased ones, and the one that got stolen and is still MIA (so 14 in all).
And the celebrities I want them painted with? Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. With space left on the canvas to include additional cats in the years to come.
At least you’re adopting / fostering strays and abandoned cats. If the Duggar’s were fostering kids instead of popping them out like crazy, people would likely find them less revolting.
yes, I liked your comment, because young Daniel is now of a legal age, that we older women can say, “Yeah, I’d hit that!” BUT have you seen how hot Neville turned out?! Wow…..
If I still had my baby incubator, I would so offer Ricky Gervais free range of my body, just so I could have his babies. I LOVE his sense of humor. He’s fantastic!
I have the t-shirt, and got a signed Spock card to go with it. The card is way cooler that the shirt, but I don’t know if he’s offering that deal any more.
My cat just died today. Had to put her to sleep, actually. I’ve been searching for an appropriate memorial that isn’t carbon in a jug for a cat whose nickname was “cuddle slut.”
I’m thinking a picture of her with Marilyn Monroe.
I’m so sorry for your loss. My cat was put down last April. He would’ve been 11 years old, five days later and I’d had him since he was six weeks. I was there for the whole thing, and I feel your pain.
Cuddle Slut sounds like it describes an awesome cat. Artie was my Purr Bucket.
We always said if our home was broken into and we were murdered in our sleep, the first cat to react would be Que trying to get pets from the murderers. You have to respect that kind of single-minded dedication.
Yes, Que was an awesome cat. She never met a person she didn’t love, or hands that weren’t clearly intended to pet her.
My deepest condolences. We had to put our Gigi to sleep just a couple of months ago – one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. She was a crabby little lady who yelled at us whenever we got back from vacation. I miss her every day.
Thank you. It’s like there are two of me – one who feels fine and is in complete denial, and another who feels terrible and is replaying “Greatest Hits of your Failures as a Pet Owner.”
Also, Fat Jealous Losers are seriously consoling me.
I’m so sorry for your loss! *hugs* I know that feeling well, reliving everything you could have done better or more often, but didn’t think mattered at the time. I lost my Baby back in February. I’d had her 19 years and had a multitude of nicknames for her. The one that comes to mind right now is Snuggle Beast.
SO sad! As George Carlin once wisely said, “buying a pet is like purchasing a small tragedy.”
That said, I wouldn’t give up a day with my little guy! Take comfort in knowing that you gave one feline the ultimate good life, and he was lucky and grateful to know you!
I hope she was grateful to know me and I know she was lucky – in San Antonio, no-kill shelters weren’t even a thing (there was one, with a three week waiting list at minimum) and captured animals were almost certainly dead within 48 hours. So any rescue cat in that town beat very, very long odds.
I know I was grateful and lucky to have known her. I did nothing to deserve such an unreservedly affectionate and good-tempered companion. When it hurts less, I’m going to make a list of all the qualities that I could learn from her and the way she lived, and died.
That’s a beautiful thing. I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve experienced putting a cat down (was actually a friend’s cat that I fostered for 4 years while she was out of the country) and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. He was 18. Was one of the sweetest cats in the world. He had been sick off and on for a year or two and was finally well enough to travel to PA to go back to his real mom. He was awesome the first day, then just shut down. We took him to the vet together – he had lost 5 pounds in a month! You couldn’t really tell because of his fur and such. We were both there at the end – two 38 year old women sobbing like babies. I have two cats now and would have so many more if my boyfriend wasn’t such a jerk about it.
Que had allergy symptoms for a few months, but in the last month got much worse. She had squamous cell carcinoma in her mouth, left sinus, left eye and probably around her brain. Due to a mix-up with the vet, we didn’t get the diagnosis until last Friday, despite her having emergency surgery with biopsy almost 3 weeks before that.
She went from drippy nose to 1/4 of her teeth falling out in just 5 days. In the last week, you could actually *see* the cancer growing every day. But she was still running around, playing, eating unassisted and purring. When she stopped trying to eat, I knew she was ready to go.
My husband works from home, so he was with us, and her best friend kitty was on the bed, too. So she got to die in peace, at home, surrounded by friends. I hope I get that too, when it’s my time.
But oh my God, the tears. I’ve lost weight from crying. Like, a few pounds.
Thank you all. It means a lot to me, especially because I know you all appreciate that humor doesn’t die just because someone you love has – so I don’t feel like someone is going to be shocked if I crack a joke.
WHY?!?!? Maria Schetcher is my HERO. Without her, I wouldn’t have known there’s a difference between Brazilians and paralegals.
I would LURVE a portrait of Mrs. S. and my favorite pet. Well, if I ever had a pet that lasted more than 72 hours. Who knew pets needed water so often? What are they? PLANTS?
If they were there, it would be really satisfying to go the fish stand next door and then deposit said fish in various unreachable places around the store, air vents, etc… You would need your invisibility cloak, of course. Or when caught, you could tell the cops you thought you had it on.
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May 23, 2012 at 6:26 pm
I wonder if they’d charge extra for two pets…but David Bowie (maybe in his Ziggy Stardust days) riding one of my giant guinea pigs with one of my tiny little Pekin chickens on his shoulder would look awesome above my dining room table…
David Bowie as Jareth? On the throne just before/during “Magic Dance”, specifically. Snap a photo of your cat batting at string and ask her to work it in as dancing with one of the goblins.
For the first time ever I actually want to own something that has been posted on Regretsy. Fortunately,a lack of disposable cash to spend crazily is in short supply and the possibilities are too endless. Bobby Knight and my Dog? The late Sen. Estes Kefauver and my cat?
How could you not be! “George is quiet, loves science, especially quantum theory, and feels that doctors should be more forthcoming with health advice despite the influence of the pharmaceutical companies.”
If David Bowie wasn’t in the description…….oh well I don’t need to buy food this week. I’ll just renew myself by absorbing awesome from my Bowie/Fatboy/Pickle portrait. I’ll let you guess which ones are the cats.
My husband and I are now trying to decide on three celebrities worthy of being depicted with our fantastic fur children. Nathan Fillion? Sheldon Cooper? Robert Downey Jr.? Hugh Laurie?
You really should match interspecies characteristics. Which would require that I decide whether my pug should be featured with Marlee Matlin or Steve-O from Jackass. Tie breaker question : which of them is NOT housebroken?
I want a picture of my Siamese mix cat on Spock’s lap and he should also have the “Holy Crap – I’m on muthafuckin Spock’s muthafuckin lap expression on his face.
I want one of my two black cats, one perched on each shoulder of Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, but with an eyepatch and maybe a floppy hat. (Because Charm and Strange narrowly missed being called Hugin and Munin.)
I did. But only the longest-lived quarks, because superstitious.
I like to imagine a universe made up of an unimaginable number of very tiny cats, held together by their need to groom each other. It helps me sleep at night.
It’s the culmination of weeks of study of philosophy and physics. (I’d have put in more time, but I was distracted by the subliminal purring of the cosmos.)
You can use my cat. You’ll have to give her subcutaneous fluids three times a week, but most of the time she puts up with that without inflicting injury.
If I had the money, I would totally have my sister’s cat put in a portrait with Darth Vader. It would be epic. But, I don’t really like my sister 250 bucks worth haha
As a ferret mom and a friend of this dude: Bruce Campbell.
Otherwise, given what a hopeless fangirl I am, I’d probably want the current Doctor trying to round up my little weirdos in the TARDIS, very possibly while one is dismantling shit with the sonic screwdriver. I’d want all sixteen of the ferrets I’ve had represented, too, just to make sure the wild-eyed look she’d have to paint for Matt Smith would be completely merited.
Ben Cumberbatch holding my ferrets would probably send me into vapors. As would a painting of the same, come to think of it.
Obsessive Whovian that I am, I did think of Tom Baker offering a monster jelly babies with three fuzzies peeping out of his scarf, but even that doesn’t seem quite madcap enough.
Wait.. wait…
Captain Jack, in his ship, flying the bomb into the sun with martini in hand, and my weezils frolicking on the dashboard. Barrowman might just get the role for that portrayal of ferrety stubborn disregard for personal safety in pursuit of A Mission.
Captain Jack! John Barrowman! Either one works perfectly here. Cheeky, charming, relentlessly confident, completely shameless, so enthusiastic, and oh-so-much-fun: he’s a divine choice, what with almost being a ferret himself.
I’d probably have at least one of the little guys trying to steal his Time Agent wristband right off his wrist. For verisimilitude and all.
I hadn’t even thought of the other Captain Jack. Oooh, now I’m torn again. Ferret stealing Barrowman-Jack’s wristband? Ferret stealing Depp-Jack’s earring? Too many possibilities now!
I have a pet tortoise. People are always asking me how old he is. If I had one of these portraits I could just point at the wall and say “here he is with Charles Darwin, you tell me”.
Yes. That would do nicely.
Bwhahaha! Did you guys see this? *If you prefer your celebrity represent a specific era or role, I will happily accommodate. I will represent almost everybody, but draw the line at Celine Dion portraits.
Also, why is the Bruce Willis one so good, but the pen and ink ones aren’t that great? I thought Michael Cera was Alfred E. Newman at first.
My late Siamese looked like Robert Carlyle, according to several people. (Although as a kitten someone mistook him also for Rupert Grint, but that was crazy talk). Can I finally be healed with a portrait?
Mine are obvious. They are named Hannibal (Lecter), Ferguson (Craig), and Satan. I wonder if I could work them all into one picture? Oh yeah, must include the dearly missed Chiquita, too.
The box stretches to accomodate large packages. This is not uncommon among boxes lucky enough to get large packages. Most of the time the packages are rumored to be large, but in the end disappointing, or satisfying if you like it in the end.
My favorite cat, JC, that I lost three years ago, was named after Jim Creeggan of the Barenaked Ladies… I told my husband when I saw this that he’s going to have to buy me one with JC and Jim Creeggan in it… he seemed less than pleased.
Do you think my fiance would be cool with me spending all of our money if I explained to him that we need a portrait of Neil Patrick Harris and our english bulldog?
Okay, so I have two cats. One is named Hannibal Lecter (the vet sort of named her, she is a very grumpy alley cat I rescued) and the other “little” (read: chubbers) lady is named Buffalo Bill (to sort of round out the Silence of the Lambs serial killer team). Hannie and Buffy for short (so if they run away people don’t look at their collars and, well, run away).
I cannot tell you how much I am quivering with desire for a quadruple portrait with my cats and their respective namesakes.
This is going in the bookmarks folder for things I WILL HAVE RAWR when college isn’t DEVOURING OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM every penny I have (with fava beans and a nice chianti).
Sadly, I do not have the money. But if I did, I’d have to decide between Weird Al Yankovic and Ron Jeremy as the celebs. Al because, well, obviously. And Ron Jeremy because, well, what kind of FJL would have a pic of her cats painted with Ron Jeremy? Makes me grin an evil grin just thinking about where to hang it…
And, on a completely different and irrelevant note, a million years ago when my husband and I first got together, I found a commercial cross-stitch kit with a kitty that was a dead ringer for his cat at the time. I stitched it, and we still call it, “the Murphy picture”. Really should frame and hang it one of these days.
Oh. My. God. My boyfriend’s 30th birthday is coming up this summer and Ive been trying to figure out something awesome as a present. I had been toying with the idea of commissioning a replica of the painted paddle with a picture of a rabbit smoking a pipe on it from the movie The Edge, but this might be way, way better. My boyfriend’s love of his cat is only surpassed by his love of Patrick Stewart. (I come in somewhere after the two of them.)
I have two cats. One is named Winston after Winston Churchill, and the other is named Tony after Tony Blair. Tony would have been named Margaret if he were female. I think I need to scrounge up $250 and make this happen.
How much do you think it would cost for a portrait of the late Eleanor Roosevelt Rigby, a fine feline who lived with me for 19 years, to be painted into the Rubber Soul album cover? Because that would be fucking awesome.
Alright, I’m saving up now and getting my black cat Lucy done with Judge Judy. And ASAP. And I will 100% post the results when I receive them. I am not joking in any way, shape or form. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DAYS OF MY LIFE SO FAR
May 23, 2012 at 6:17 pm
This is the reason art was invented.
May 23, 2012 at 6:18 pm
May 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm
The tribbles have gotten way more detailed in the remastered Star Trek episodes.
May 23, 2012 at 8:26 pm
petition to change the sigil of house stark to level 4 cat =)
May 23, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Whatever happened with the phone call to Brace?
May 24, 2012 at 10:40 am
I need to know this now! The cat knows!
May 23, 2012 at 8:03 pm
I’m an artist, and I agree with this comment.
May 24, 2012 at 11:19 pm
I wonder if this lady would do a picture of Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory with Schrodinger’s cat.
May 23, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Just use level 4 cat! Spock..and level 4 cat! It would be glorious!
May 23, 2012 at 6:24 pm
That’s who I thought the cat was at first. I thought “wow, what an uncanny find!”, and then noticed the real cat wasn’t a second picture added to the first.
May 23, 2012 at 6:25 pm
On second though…I want a picture of April and all 5 of my cats, on her head along with the flip flop. My glittery tears are staining my shirt.
May 23, 2012 at 6:38 pm
No, that picture of April, but with a crying glitter eagle roosting on her saluting arm!!!
May 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Ohhhh that would be amazeballs too.
May 24, 2012 at 4:08 pm
you guys are making me want to art
May 23, 2012 at 6:26 pm
This is a whole new level.
May 23, 2012 at 11:13 pm
May 24, 2012 at 12:23 am
Perfect.
May 24, 2012 at 8:57 am
By which you mean, “purrfect”?
(sorry, had to)
May 24, 2012 at 12:25 am
T-shirts!
May 23, 2012 at 11:55 pm
“I find this to be highly illogical”
May 25, 2012 at 7:46 am
May 23, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Do you think they could put TWO cats in one painting? Not that I’m a crazy cat lady…. but.. my friend who has two cats might want to know. >.>
May 23, 2012 at 7:38 pm
GIRRRL, I GOT 4.
May 23, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Pffft…amateurs! I’ve got 5 and that’s just indoors.
May 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm
I’ve got eight. And I’m about to start fostering for the humane society…
May 23, 2012 at 8:32 pm
You win, dammit!
May 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm
I was just going to say, “Hey! I’ve got 6 cats!”, but she beat me too! lol!
It would be an interesting portrait though…..Johnny Depp and a blur of felines, fur and claws! LOL! 4 of them tolerate each other and the other 2, one rules the front yard and the other the backyard. They hate everyone else…..
May 24, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Um, my female had 6 kittens a few weeks ago. And I have 3 males, for a grand total of 10 cats in my 4 room apartment. What do I win?
May 24, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Febreeze
May 23, 2012 at 8:45 pm
I have a very grumpy-looking 19-year-old cat who looks uncannily like a feline Walter Matthau. And his brother is practically the cat version of Jack Lemmon. A double (quadruple?) portrait would be kind of awesome.
Matthau-cat also reminds me of Richard Nixon, which creates all kinds of amusing possibilities…
May 23, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Now that I think about it, I really, really want a painting of all eight of my living cats, the five deceased ones, and the one that got stolen and is still MIA (so 14 in all).
And the celebrities I want them painted with? Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. With space left on the canvas to include additional cats in the years to come.
Hey, it’s only fitting, right?
May 24, 2012 at 6:58 am
At least you’re adopting / fostering strays and abandoned cats. If the Duggar’s were fostering kids instead of popping them out like crazy, people would likely find them less revolting.
May 24, 2012 at 6:15 pm
I was thinking the same thing.
*hangs head in shame*
May 25, 2012 at 3:16 am
Tiger Woods and 287 cats
May 23, 2012 at 6:19 pm
ACK! Galactically AWESOME!……..I need one of Scotty with a rabbit……WHy? why the F not?
May 23, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I’ve got a cat you can have. She’s very fluffy and solid black. Cheap!
May 23, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I have a big fat ginger cat that looks a lot like the one on the painting, but I can only lend him. I bet he’d like to go to California.
May 23, 2012 at 6:20 pm
This is the kind of stuff Etsy should be full of.
May 23, 2012 at 6:21 pm
I think this picture of my cat would fit right in to any picture of Spock, don’t you?
What? Too much?
May 23, 2012 at 6:33 pm
As a kid my parents had a cat that would give you that look…seconds before he would shred your arm.
May 23, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it!
May 23, 2012 at 10:12 pm
This cat needs Gene Simmons.
May 23, 2012 at 6:21 pm
the look on that cats face is so sugary sweet and sad I might cry!
May 23, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Awe…My cats Free & Groovy would look awesome in this painting!
Very cool!
May 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I need a painting of Michael Clarke Duncan with my mom’s boxer. I always tell her that’s whose voice I imagine coming out of Zeke.
May 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I have a cat, but I do not have $250. How much are kidneys worth these days?
May 23, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Hold your horses, er cats, watercolors are only $60!
May 23, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Horses! OMG! I must have a portrait of Daniel Radcliffe riding my sisters paint! Preferably topless, and bottomless.
May 23, 2012 at 10:21 pm
yes, I liked your comment, because young Daniel is now of a legal age, that we older women can say, “Yeah, I’d hit that!” BUT have you seen how hot Neville turned out?! Wow…..
May 24, 2012 at 11:31 am
And he was such an awkward looking kid! He’s grown up to be just indecently good looking!
But c’mon y’all, you KNOW it’s all about Ron. To quote Tim Minchin: “all the ladies agree it’s a fact. Once you’ve gone ginge, you can’t go back!”
May 23, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Insert Harry Potter wand joke here:
May 24, 2012 at 8:22 am
or leave off the word “joke”?
May 24, 2012 at 6:24 am
Holy shit, thanks for the heads up. Off to get a pictue of my cat with Stephen Merchant
Though if I could get Ricky Gervais in there too, that would be even more amazeballs.
May 24, 2012 at 6:33 am
*picture
I haven’t had my caffeine yet. I’ll get right on that.
May 28, 2012 at 8:15 am
If I still had my baby incubator, I would so offer Ricky Gervais free range of my body, just so I could have his babies. I LOVE his sense of humor. He’s fantastic!
May 23, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Depends…how do they taste?
May 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Leonard Nemoi actually has an Etsy shop. He sells T- shirts. I would rather have the T-shirt.
May 23, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Derp- Nemoy
May 23, 2012 at 6:35 pm
You wouldn’t have a link to said shop, perchance?
May 23, 2012 at 6:37 pm
Oh, wait. Google rescued me. Seems that he’s moved away from Etsy, and is now here: http://www.shopllap.com
Love how he’s breaking an Etsy rule by telling people where to find his new site. >.<
May 23, 2012 at 8:09 pm
I love him in so many ways.
May 24, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Double derp! – Nimoy. (sorry)
May 23, 2012 at 6:40 pm
I have the t-shirt, and got a signed Spock card to go with it. The card is way cooler that the shirt, but I don’t know if he’s offering that deal any more.
May 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm
This is awesome! Wish I had 250 to spare…and cats that would hold still…and a celebrity I actually liked…but this is REALLY awesome!!!
May 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I need one of George Carlin and my late cat Artie. Then, the healing can begin.
May 23, 2012 at 6:44 pm
My cat just died today. Had to put her to sleep, actually. I’ve been searching for an appropriate memorial that isn’t carbon in a jug for a cat whose nickname was “cuddle slut.”
I’m thinking a picture of her with Marilyn Monroe.
May 23, 2012 at 7:09 pm
You get my entire ration of human contact for the day in the form of virtual hugs.
May 23, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Thank you.
May 23, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I’m so sorry for your loss. My cat was put down last April. He would’ve been 11 years old, five days later and I’d had him since he was six weeks. I was there for the whole thing, and I feel your pain.
Cuddle Slut sounds like it describes an awesome cat. Artie was my Purr Bucket.
May 23, 2012 at 7:36 pm
We always said if our home was broken into and we were murdered in our sleep, the first cat to react would be Que trying to get pets from the murderers. You have to respect that kind of single-minded dedication.
Yes, Que was an awesome cat. She never met a person she didn’t love, or hands that weren’t clearly intended to pet her.
May 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm
My deepest condolences. We had to put our Gigi to sleep just a couple of months ago – one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. She was a crabby little lady who yelled at us whenever we got back from vacation. I miss her every day.
May 23, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Thank you. It’s like there are two of me – one who feels fine and is in complete denial, and another who feels terrible and is replaying “Greatest Hits of your Failures as a Pet Owner.”
Also, Fat Jealous Losers are seriously consoling me.
May 23, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I’m so sorry for your loss! *hugs* I know that feeling well, reliving everything you could have done better or more often, but didn’t think mattered at the time. I lost my Baby back in February. I’d had her 19 years and had a multitude of nicknames for her. The one that comes to mind right now is Snuggle Beast.
May 24, 2012 at 12:02 am
Picture all the moments you shared together and how much joy you added to each others lives…
May 24, 2012 at 1:31 am
You did everything the best you could, and that’s all that matters. She loved you no matter what. I’m so sorry for your loss.
May 24, 2012 at 11:33 am
I’m so sorry for your loss
**hugs**
May 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Thank you. I’m sorry if I made you cry. It seems to be going around…
May 24, 2012 at 11:35 am
SO sad! As George Carlin once wisely said, “buying a pet is like purchasing a small tragedy.”
That said, I wouldn’t give up a day with my little guy! Take comfort in knowing that you gave one feline the ultimate good life, and he was lucky and grateful to know you!
May 24, 2012 at 1:22 pm
I hope she was grateful to know me and I know she was lucky – in San Antonio, no-kill shelters weren’t even a thing (there was one, with a three week waiting list at minimum) and captured animals were almost certainly dead within 48 hours. So any rescue cat in that town beat very, very long odds.
I know I was grateful and lucky to have known her. I did nothing to deserve such an unreservedly affectionate and good-tempered companion. When it hurts less, I’m going to make a list of all the qualities that I could learn from her and the way she lived, and died.
May 24, 2012 at 6:43 am
This might just be happening. Que was grey, but come on… how perfect is this?
May 24, 2012 at 7:48 am
That’s a beautiful thing. I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve experienced putting a cat down (was actually a friend’s cat that I fostered for 4 years while she was out of the country) and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. He was 18. Was one of the sweetest cats in the world. He had been sick off and on for a year or two and was finally well enough to travel to PA to go back to his real mom. He was awesome the first day, then just shut down. We took him to the vet together – he had lost 5 pounds in a month! You couldn’t really tell because of his fur and such. We were both there at the end – two 38 year old women sobbing like babies. I have two cats now and would have so many more if my boyfriend wasn’t such a jerk about it.
May 24, 2012 at 8:45 am
Que had allergy symptoms for a few months, but in the last month got much worse. She had squamous cell carcinoma in her mouth, left sinus, left eye and probably around her brain. Due to a mix-up with the vet, we didn’t get the diagnosis until last Friday, despite her having emergency surgery with biopsy almost 3 weeks before that.
She went from drippy nose to 1/4 of her teeth falling out in just 5 days. In the last week, you could actually *see* the cancer growing every day. But she was still running around, playing, eating unassisted and purring. When she stopped trying to eat, I knew she was ready to go.
My husband works from home, so he was with us, and her best friend kitty was on the bed, too. So she got to die in peace, at home, surrounded by friends. I hope I get that too, when it’s my time.
But oh my God, the tears. I’ve lost weight from crying. Like, a few pounds.
May 24, 2012 at 11:35 am
I’m crying too now :’(
May 24, 2012 at 7:43 pm
I am so sorry for your loss. Now I’m crying too, so you’re not alone
May 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Thank you all. It means a lot to me, especially because I know you all appreciate that humor doesn’t die just because someone you love has – so I don’t feel like someone is going to be shocked if I crack a joke.
May 23, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Aww, they have the same ears!
May 23, 2012 at 6:23 pm
P.S. I found myself driving past ECOLOGICA in Malibu today….Building looks like it has no tenants. Gave them the finger……
May 23, 2012 at 6:51 pm
[the following in a nasally voice]
WHY?!?!? Maria Schetcher is my HERO. Without her, I wouldn’t have known there’s a difference between Brazilians and paralegals.
I would LURVE a portrait of Mrs. S. and my favorite pet. Well, if I ever had a pet that lasted more than 72 hours. Who knew pets needed water so often? What are they? PLANTS?
May 23, 2012 at 8:10 pm
If they were there, it would be really satisfying to go the fish stand next door and then deposit said fish in various unreachable places around the store, air vents, etc… You would need your invisibility cloak, of course. Or when caught, you could tell the cops you thought you had it on.
May 23, 2012 at 8:53 pm
I wonder if they have a bathroom… they must, right? Leave ‘em an upperdecker…
May 23, 2012 at 6:23 pm
I want one of Wil Wheaton and basement cat!
May 23, 2012 at 6:23 pm
P.S. I found myself driving past ECOLOGICA in Malibu today….Building looks like it has no tenants. Gave them the finger……
May 23, 2012 at 6:24 pm
I don’t know if I have ever been this excited about anything before – ever in my little life.
May 23, 2012 at 6:25 pm
I wish I had $250 right now.
I want to meet this artist. I’m thinking my mom’s giant cat Moose placed in to a scene originally starring Godzilla.
May 23, 2012 at 6:26 pm
You have plenty of flounce cats…
May 23, 2012 at 6:37 pm
That cat is flouncing across the galaxy!
May 23, 2012 at 6:26 pm
I wonder if they’d charge extra for two pets…but David Bowie (maybe in his Ziggy Stardust days) riding one of my giant guinea pigs with one of my tiny little Pekin chickens on his shoulder would look awesome above my dining room table…
May 23, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Yes, I know it’s not in colour but I leave that up to artist interpretation. Here, I give you Ziggy in his little known Pig Years:
May 23, 2012 at 8:06 pm
You know, Diamond Dogs was originally called Diamond Guinea Pigs.
May 23, 2012 at 8:11 pm
I, for one, am glad it never took off. Glass Guinea Pigs just didn’t have the same commercial appeal…
May 24, 2012 at 4:13 am
But they are so sanitary.
May 24, 2012 at 12:25 am
Piggy Stardust & the Hamsters from Mars?
May 23, 2012 at 6:28 pm
The cat in one of the listing pictures looks like it’s about to spray the painting.
May 23, 2012 at 6:28 pm
She also does watercolors for $65 (including shipping)
I just bought one for my orange and white long haired cat. Any suggestions?
May 23, 2012 at 6:43 pm
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May 23, 2012 at 6:43 pm
David Bowie as Jareth? On the throne just before/during “Magic Dance”, specifically. Snap a photo of your cat batting at string and ask her to work it in as dancing with one of the goblins.
May 23, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Cat with Severus Snape.
May 23, 2012 at 9:00 pm
YES.
May 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm
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May 23, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Could I mix it up and get my own mug with a celebrity pet, like Rintintin or Oscar the cat? Or would that confuse them to the point of assploding?
May 23, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Imagine a giant cat sitting in a human-like pose, holding you on his lap.
May 24, 2012 at 7:02 am
No that would be a big pussy!
May 24, 2012 at 8:20 am
Ohh, good idea! Milo and Otis!
May 23, 2012 at 6:31 pm
For the first time ever I actually want to own something that has been posted on Regretsy. Fortunately,a lack of disposable cash to spend crazily is in short supply and the possibilities are too endless. Bobby Knight and my Dog? The late Sen. Estes Kefauver and my cat?
May 23, 2012 at 6:38 pm
I feel your pain.
May 23, 2012 at 6:31 pm
While not quite on the same standard as Spock with a cat, if I had an extra $500, I would SO have one of these done for my cat: http://www.heathermattoon.com/catsinclothes/catalog/product/view/id/44
She also has an etsy shop. And she does dogs, too.
May 24, 2012 at 7:15 am
I’m 98% sure I’m in love with George. http://www.etsy.com/listing/100163171/framed-fine-art-print-harold-cats-in
May 24, 2012 at 10:04 am
How could you not be! “George is quiet, loves science, especially quantum theory, and feels that doctors should be more forthcoming with health advice despite the influence of the pharmaceutical companies.”
May 24, 2012 at 12:01 pm
I’ve had her shop favorited for a while. Someday, I will have a well-dressed cat portrait of my own. Someday.
May 23, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Or just slap on some cat ears & whiskers, & you could have a portrait of yourself as Spock’s pet…
May 23, 2012 at 6:31 pm
If David Bowie wasn’t in the description…….oh well I don’t need to buy food this week. I’ll just renew myself by absorbing awesome from my Bowie/Fatboy/Pickle portrait. I’ll let you guess which ones are the cats.
May 24, 2012 at 1:34 am
Thought those were pet names for your vibrator. My mistake!
May 23, 2012 at 6:34 pm
I’ve got a cat but I don’t have $250. Sooooooo close!
May 23, 2012 at 6:35 pm
My husband and I are now trying to decide on three celebrities worthy of being depicted with our fantastic fur children. Nathan Fillion? Sheldon Cooper? Robert Downey Jr.? Hugh Laurie?
May 23, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Definitely Sheldon Cooper. Then you could have a loop of “Soft Kitty” play whenever someone walks by it.
May 23, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Doesn’t somebody have to be sick?
May 23, 2012 at 10:35 pm
But weird and twisted is a KIND of sick, isn’t it?
May 23, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Sheldon Cooper and Soft Kitty?
May 24, 2012 at 12:08 am
Watching Sheldon and Amy Farrah Fowler play doctor Star Trek style was HOT!!
May 23, 2012 at 6:36 pm
I’m not a MJ fan but her portrait of MJ with the Siamese Fighting Fish is pure gold.
May 23, 2012 at 6:37 pm
I am overwhelmed by how desperately I want to do this. I want a painting of my corgi with Iron Man.
May 23, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Fantastic. Corgis are my husband’s… not Kryptonite exactly, but equivalent mineral that makes strong men squee.
May 24, 2012 at 10:24 am
So my Corgi mix is the living embodiment of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. I think I need his portrait painted with Conan…
Oh, and that’s a rawhide in his mouth. I did not give my dog a cigar.
May 23, 2012 at 6:42 pm
You really should match interspecies characteristics. Which would require that I decide whether my pug should be featured with Marlee Matlin or Steve-O from Jackass. Tie breaker question : which of them is NOT housebroken?
May 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Marlee Matlin, o’course. I’ve never known her to break a house.
May 23, 2012 at 7:38 pm
‘I’ll just go with Whoopi. She’s already announced to the world that she’s incontinent and proud.
May 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I want a picture of my Siamese mix cat on Spock’s lap and he should also have the “Holy Crap – I’m on muthafuckin Spock’s muthafuckin lap expression on his face.
May 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I want one of my two black cats, one perched on each shoulder of Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, but with an eyepatch and maybe a floppy hat. (Because Charm and Strange narrowly missed being called Hugin and Munin.)
May 23, 2012 at 7:04 pm
You named your cats after quark flavours(pardon my french).
I think I love you.
Also Absolutely you should do this!
May 23, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I did. But only the longest-lived quarks, because superstitious.
I like to imagine a universe made up of an unimaginable number of very tiny cats, held together by their need to groom each other. It helps me sleep at night.
May 23, 2012 at 8:52 pm
C&R, I made need to quote you on this, because it is the most awesome explanation of the universe ever.
May 24, 2012 at 6:22 am
Eeeeee! Quote away; I’m very glad you like it.
May 23, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I second Lemon Bombs.
Matter of fact, consider this stolen *ahem* quoted on my FB already. (properly attributed, of course)
May 24, 2012 at 6:27 am
Awwww, you guys! *bows solemnly*
It’s the culmination of weeks of study of philosophy and physics. (I’d have put in more time, but I was distracted by the subliminal purring of the cosmos.)
May 23, 2012 at 6:49 pm
You can use my cat. You’ll have to give her subcutaneous fluids three times a week, but most of the time she puts up with that without inflicting injury.
May 23, 2012 at 6:52 pm
I’m thinking Tura Satana and my two black and white kittens Otis and Clyde. Or maybe just Otis in this pose, with Tura small
http://media-cache-ec0.pinterest.com/upload/32721534762851012_0UTrSiHS_f.jpg
May 23, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Can’t I just get a painting of ME sitting in celebrities’ laps? My kid really doesn’t need all that tuition money, does she?
May 23, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Does a leashed BDSM slave count as a pet?
May 23, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Only if they’re also a furry.
May 23, 2012 at 7:09 pm
If I had the money, I would totally have my sister’s cat put in a portrait with Darth Vader. It would be epic. But, I don’t really like my sister 250 bucks worth
haha
May 23, 2012 at 7:11 pm
What I wouldn’t give to have Captain Picard with my hairless cat.
May 24, 2012 at 11:46 am
“hairless cat” is a euphemism, isn’t it? You just want Picard to pet your pussy.
May 23, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Okay, I’m seriously considering a watercolor to memorialize my former ferrets.
Problem one: I’m not sure I have any photos of them without motion blur.
Problem two: I can’t think of a celebrity cool enough to be posed with three ferrets.
May 23, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Colin Farrell?
May 23, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Will Ferrell? He’s as crazy as every ferret I’ve ever had!!
May 23, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Larry Linville, aka Frank “Ferret Face” Burns.
May 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm
William Shatner.
May 23, 2012 at 7:53 pm
As a ferret mom and a friend of this dude: Bruce Campbell.
Otherwise, given what a hopeless fangirl I am, I’d probably want the current Doctor trying to round up my little weirdos in the TARDIS, very possibly while one is dismantling shit with the sonic screwdriver. I’d want all sixteen of the ferrets I’ve had represented, too, just to make sure the wild-eyed look she’d have to paint for Matt Smith would be completely merited.
Ben Cumberbatch holding my ferrets would probably send me into vapors. As would a painting of the same, come to think of it.
May 23, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Obsessive Whovian that I am, I did think of Tom Baker offering a monster jelly babies with three fuzzies peeping out of his scarf, but even that doesn’t seem quite madcap enough.
Wait.. wait…
Captain Jack, in his ship, flying the bomb into the sun with martini in hand, and my weezils frolicking on the dashboard. Barrowman might just get the role for that portrayal of ferrety stubborn disregard for personal safety in pursuit of A Mission.
May 23, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Captain Jack! John Barrowman! Either one works perfectly here. Cheeky, charming, relentlessly confident, completely shameless, so enthusiastic, and oh-so-much-fun: he’s a divine choice, what with almost being a ferret himself.
I’d probably have at least one of the little guys trying to steal his Time Agent wristband right off his wrist. For verisimilitude and all.
May 24, 2012 at 6:29 am
I hadn’t even thought of the other Captain Jack. Oooh, now I’m torn again. Ferret stealing Barrowman-Jack’s wristband? Ferret stealing Depp-Jack’s earring? Too many possibilities now!
May 24, 2012 at 12:14 am
Watch for John Barrowman this fall in his new american series “Gilded Lillies!”
May 23, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Craigy Ferguson!!!! He’s daft for the ferrets!
May 23, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Is he? How did I not know this! Go, Craig!
May 23, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Two words: Christopher Walken.
You’re welcome.
May 24, 2012 at 1:03 am
May 24, 2012 at 4:14 am
MOUSEHUNT!
May 24, 2012 at 12:11 am
Joel McHale, Mankini and Ferrets!!!
May 24, 2012 at 7:50 am
Craig Ferguson, of course!
May 23, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I want a portrait of my cat in Zachary Quinto’s lap. Or better yet, me in his lap.
May 23, 2012 at 7:22 pm
May 24, 2012 at 12:15 am
too bad he wouldn’t do that to Katy Perry’s pussy cat
May 24, 2012 at 12:29 am
If he tried this kind of pussy first, no wonder he was put off.
May 23, 2012 at 7:22 pm
May 23, 2012 at 7:24 pm
May 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm
I can’t leave enough thumbs up for this image. That is incredible.
May 23, 2012 at 7:36 pm
“Jesus loves the little kitties…all the kitties of the world…” Yeah, I had lots of Sunday Schoolin’.
May 24, 2012 at 12:17 am
Jesus looks a lot like John Ritter
May 23, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Someone just left this on Facebook:
May 23, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Make it so Number 1.
May 24, 2012 at 12:18 am
“You’ve got the bridge Number One – I have to go number two”
May 23, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Their expressions match.
May 24, 2012 at 12:31 am
Ah! I did not mean to thumb myself!
May 23, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Meme me up!
May 23, 2012 at 11:05 pm
William Catner thinks: “Hmm… interesting…”
May 23, 2012 at 7:37 pm
That is utterly magnificent.
May 23, 2012 at 7:42 pm
I have a pet tortoise. People are always asking me how old he is. If I had one of these portraits I could just point at the wall and say “here he is with Charles Darwin, you tell me”.
Yes. That would do nicely.
May 23, 2012 at 7:46 pm
I could not resist. And now I will have nightmares.
May 23, 2012 at 7:54 pm
As will we all.
May 24, 2012 at 12:32 am
3:31am ET: nightmare achieved. Fucking toothy celebrity.
May 24, 2012 at 4:16 am
Holy shit, he really is kinda scary, I never saw it before.
May 23, 2012 at 7:47 pm
May 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm
That is going to be one epic lick.
May 23, 2012 at 7:54 pm
If Spiderman furries wrre’t a thing, they are bound to be now.
May 23, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Rule 34…
May 23, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Bwhahaha! Did you guys see this?
*If you prefer your celebrity represent a specific era or role, I will happily accommodate. I will represent almost everybody, but draw the line at Celine Dion portraits.
Also, why is the Bruce Willis one so good, but the pen and ink ones aren’t that great? I thought Michael Cera was Alfred E. Newman at first.
May 23, 2012 at 8:36 pm
“draw the line at Celine Dion portraits”
That’s awesome.
May 23, 2012 at 7:55 pm
What if our pets are comic book fans?
May 23, 2012 at 7:58 pm
I think I need a painting of Lorenzo Lamas with my pet giant mutated squid.
May 23, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Does this work?
May 23, 2012 at 8:07 pm
It’s my mom’s birthday today, and I have such an urge to overdraw my account to get her Birman painted with Rowan Atkinson…
May 23, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Ask and ye shall receive!
May 23, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Fixed.
May 23, 2012 at 8:16 pm
I hope I remember this when I get more money.
May 23, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Here’s a portrait I commissioned of my cat:
. The artist, Cheryl Joan Sellers, does great work.
May 23, 2012 at 8:24 pm
You cat to be kitten me!
Really wish I had $250 right meow.
May 23, 2012 at 8:28 pm
D’oh! Here’s the image:
May 23, 2012 at 8:50 pm
I love this!!!
May 23, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I want Krycek from The X-Files covered in my old pet rats, OR Lex Luthor from Smallville being smothered by my father’s abnormally large cat.
Not in the budget, though, but still… want.
May 23, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Regretsians Munke & MouthyMavensMusings made me this awesome portrait of my three beasties.
May 23, 2012 at 9:22 pm
is it weird that I think people would actually buy this with their child painted on his lap? hilarious
May 23, 2012 at 9:30 pm
May 23, 2012 at 10:33 pm
I want a Borg cat with Data.
May 24, 2012 at 12:52 am
May 24, 2012 at 7:46 am
Not. Enough. Thumbs.
May 24, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I don’t think even the Borg have enough power to assimilate a cat that is fed and ready for a nap.
May 23, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Throw that first painting on velvet and we’d buy it. Fact! Wish we would of known to work cats in to our product shots rather than our first choice…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mixedspecies/3756759504/
May 23, 2012 at 11:52 pm
“I know this might sound odd… but my pet tortoise has always wanted to make out with Jack LaLanne…”
May 24, 2012 at 1:23 am
My late Siamese looked like Robert Carlyle, according to several people. (Although as a kitten someone mistook him also for Rupert Grint, but that was crazy talk). Can I finally be healed with a portrait?
May 24, 2012 at 2:07 am
Mine are obvious. They are named Hannibal (Lecter), Ferguson (Craig), and Satan. I wonder if I could work them all into one picture? Oh yeah, must include the dearly missed Chiquita, too.
May 24, 2012 at 2:43 am
If only I had put a siamese CAT in there instead of…ah well.
May 24, 2012 at 4:27 am
Ohh jeeze would my cat would look ever so smashing with spock. I think they share a good resemblance.
THEM CHEEK BONES
May 24, 2012 at 10:45 am
Pointy ears, too!
May 24, 2012 at 4:31 am
Can the Regretsy P.O. box accept 9×12 cardstock?
Because I totally don’t have a sinister plan to purchase one of these listings or anything.
It’s 4:30 in the morning. I’m very impressionable at this hour.
May 24, 2012 at 6:57 am
The box stretches to accomodate large packages. This is not uncommon among boxes lucky enough to get large packages. Most of the time the packages are rumored to be large, but in the end disappointing, or satisfying if you like it in the end.
May 24, 2012 at 5:30 am
I’m thinking a picture of Richard Simmons with a pet gibbon maybe doing some exercise together, now all I have to do is buy a pet gibbon!
May 24, 2012 at 5:54 am
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May 24, 2012 at 7:00 am
My favorite cat, JC, that I lost three years ago, was named after Jim Creeggan of the Barenaked Ladies… I told my husband when I saw this that he’s going to have to buy me one with JC and Jim Creeggan in it… he seemed less than pleased.
May 24, 2012 at 7:22 am
Do you think my fiance would be cool with me spending all of our money if I explained to him that we need a portrait of Neil Patrick Harris and our english bulldog?
May 24, 2012 at 7:22 am
Okay, so I have two cats. One is named Hannibal Lecter (the vet sort of named her, she is a very grumpy alley cat I rescued) and the other “little” (read: chubbers) lady is named Buffalo Bill (to sort of round out the Silence of the Lambs serial killer team). Hannie and Buffy for short (so if they run away people don’t look at their collars and, well, run away).
I cannot tell you how much I am quivering with desire for a quadruple portrait with my cats and their respective namesakes.
This is going in the bookmarks folder for things I WILL HAVE RAWR when college isn’t DEVOURING OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM every penny I have (with fava beans and a nice chianti).
May 24, 2012 at 7:51 am
My custom celebrity portrait with pet is complete.
May 24, 2012 at 4:26 pm
She: “Would you like to pet my pussy?”
He: “Sure… but you’ll have to move the cat, first.”
[rimshot!]
May 24, 2012 at 7:55 am
Sadly, I do not have the money. But if I did, I’d have to decide between Weird Al Yankovic and Ron Jeremy as the celebs. Al because, well, obviously. And Ron Jeremy because, well, what kind of FJL would have a pic of her cats painted with Ron Jeremy? Makes me grin an evil grin just thinking about where to hang it…
And, on a completely different and irrelevant note, a million years ago when my husband and I first got together, I found a commercial cross-stitch kit with a kitty that was a dead ringer for his cat at the time. I stitched it, and we still call it, “the Murphy picture”. Really should frame and hang it one of these days.
May 24, 2012 at 7:56 am
One of the many basquillions of things I love about you FJLs is that not a single commenter has said, “Holy shit, 250 bucks for that?!”
It’s as if we all know and respect what an artist/crafter does and are willing to pay accordingly.
May 24, 2012 at 9:23 am
Well I say, “Only $250 for that? Fuck Yeah!”
The only question I have is what celeb would I get?
May 24, 2012 at 4:29 pm
It really depends on the item. We bitch about high prices all the time when it’s $2500 for feathers and shit glued to a headband.
We have a refined sense of value, is what I’m saying.
May 24, 2012 at 7:57 am
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating, Lemon_Bombs is the absolute best! That is all.
May 24, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Awwwww….
May 24, 2012 at 9:06 am
Oh. My. God. My boyfriend’s 30th birthday is coming up this summer and Ive been trying to figure out something awesome as a present. I had been toying with the idea of commissioning a replica of the painted paddle with a picture of a rabbit smoking a pipe on it from the movie The Edge, but this might be way, way better. My boyfriend’s love of his cat is only surpassed by his love of Patrick Stewart. (I come in somewhere after the two of them.)
May 24, 2012 at 10:41 am
As someone with a beloved cat and an intense crush on Mr. Spock…WANT.
May 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm
HOT
May 24, 2012 at 1:14 pm
I have two cats. One is named Winston after Winston Churchill, and the other is named Tony after Tony Blair. Tony would have been named Margaret if he were female. I think I need to scrounge up $250 and make this happen.
May 24, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Cat sex changes only cost $250?
May 24, 2012 at 6:19 pm
The Buster is interested in a portrait with Jon Hamm. Jon would have to wear his tuxedo, so both he and The Buster would match.
May 24, 2012 at 6:23 pm
How much do you think it would cost for a portrait of the late Eleanor Roosevelt Rigby, a fine feline who lived with me for 19 years, to be painted into the Rubber Soul album cover? Because that would be fucking awesome.
May 24, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Alright, I’m saving up now and getting my black cat Lucy done with Judge Judy. And ASAP. And I will 100% post the results when I receive them. I am not joking in any way, shape or form. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DAYS OF MY LIFE SO FAR
May 31, 2012 at 8:41 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/93108124/custom-pet-celebrity-portrait-dog
Michael Cera and a pug! *love*