Comments on: For Kitty’s Beeach https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:27:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Tom L https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533838 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:27:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533838 It is two things, chiefly:
1) The angle of the eye causes the white to show, which ever so slightly anthropomorphizes they expression in the eyes;
2) The dark smear on the muzzle (which may or may not have been digitally added), clearly mimicking a smile.

(atheist scientist mode off)

That, and it’s a cuddly, soft, fuzzy widdle baby. Awwwwwww… 🙂

]]> By: Rob W https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533837 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:26:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533837 @ppnl — you think this was photoshopped? Go out and see some real puppies; they are *crazy* cute. The “cute-response” features are incredibly exaggerated. Why go to the work of photoshopping when all you need is a camera and a bunch of puppies? See dailypuppy.com or somesuch for examples of amateur photos.

Human newborns have nothing on most animals’ little ones.

]]> By: llewelly https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533836 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:41:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533836 Wow. That is the ugliest puppy I have ever seen. Poor thing.

It looks like some deranged photoshopist hybridized a cat and a dog.

]]> By: ppnl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533835 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:12:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533835 I’m guessing the head has been made larger, the eyes are made larger and the features of the face have been softened. Cuteness is a biological response.

]]> By: Spiv https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533834 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:29:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533834 Don’t kid yourself guys: everyone knows atheists don’t have feelings and are therefore unable to distinguish cute from evil. Nice try, Mr. Laden. We’re on to you.

]]> By: Kitty'sBitch https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533833 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:54:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533833 Aaaaaawwwwwwwww
Thanks Greg, I needed that.

]]> By: dominich https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533832 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:04:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/06/for-kittys-beeach/#comment-533832 Cute in the same way that the airbrushed models on magazine covers are beautiful.

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