24 Big-Eared Oriental Shorthair Kittens Serving Satellite-Dish Ears Tuned to Your Every Thought

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jun 10, 2026 2:15 PM EDT

Kittens are purrfect as they are. But itty bitty kittens with giant exaggerated features? Capture our hearts in a second.

Kittens have one special ability. They can make even the biggest cat hater swoon uncontrollably. These itty bitty kitties with their huge eyes look at your face for one second, and instantly, every thought other than "kitten" melts away. They have the ability to meownipulate humans without even trying. Of course, we, as people who write about cats every single day, think that we have developed a kind of resistance to their cuteness. We are able to function enough to make listicles about them, scrolling through endless adorable pictures.

But… we also know that we are lying to ourselves. Sure, we may be resilient when it comes to pictures of kittens online, but real life kittens still meownipulate the heck out of us. And even pictures… if it's a unique kitten, with some unexpected feature that we weren't mentally ready to see, will have us stopping in our tracks. That's what the oriental shorthair kitten that went viral this week did. It made us stop. And it basically forced us into writing this listicle, because we could not stop thinking about that picture for even one second.

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This picture went viral over the week, and is there anyone here who is surprised? Nope. No one is. Because we didn't even see the numbers when we scrolled past this picture for the first time. All we saw were ears. And as we went to click share on the post that this picture came from, we saw that it had already gone viral, and we understood exactly why and contributed to said virality.
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The virality of the first post is what inspired us to make this listicle. Suddenly, all we could think about was oriental shorthair kittens. It was taking up all the space in our brains and in our hearts. It's lucky, really, that we work for a place that allows us to write listicles like this, because if not this, then every single person who follows us on our personal accounts would have been bombarded with pictures of oriental shorthair kittens all day long.
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