Undercooked, Slightly Crispy Or Fully Baked: Cats Whose Color Didn't Quite Finish Developing Before They Were Pulled Out Of The Oven

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jan 14, 2024 10:00 AM EST

One of our favorite things about cats is how each and every one of them is so adorably unique. Yes, you have your classic voids - black cats, easy to stumble over, beautiful. You have your stunning ghosts - the snow-white cats who just look magical. You have your ginger beauties - a single braincell for all, and they choose to use it to entertain us. But even within those cat-egories, each and every single cat is slightly different.

One cat will have a spot there. Another cat will have a strip of white here. Another cat will have 17 pink toes and one unexpectedly black toe for no reason. And we love those little things, the things that make our cat one of a kind. But we've always wondered why… why the sudden change in color, and today, twitter is bringing you its theory.

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We do not know for a fact that this is accurate… but it sounds right lol. This is pretty much what we imagined whenever we thought about our cats' weird color patterns. Somewhere, at some point during their development, the makers ran out of paint, so they had to distribute the paint they had in the best way that they could, and if that meant skipping a bean, then so be it.
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And from this day onward, we will be referring to cats who are not purrfectly colored within the lines as "undercooked cats". We don't care which questions this kind of title brings up. We know the meaning, and you know the meaning, and that's all that matters.
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