Post Your Best Cat Loaf

[tinydestroyer]

Double loaf:

Single loaves:

Loaf in training:

 

[mama africa]

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

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EvilLoaf SnowshoeLoaf:

 

[tabbytom]

 

[Mer.kitten]

A loaf complaining that its dinnertime & im taking pics, not filling bowls.

 

[golondrina]

Sombra loafing next to the computer

on the computer

 

[Ghoulofnagoya]

Levi did his first cat loaf pose and I was so happy. He prefers to lie down stretched out. So this was a nice change of pace.

 

[WinterBlue]

I also particularly love how this photo highlights Tyrion's eyes.

 

[Katie M]

Charlie seems to have learned quite a bit of basic cat behavior from Selene. He never loafed until she came.

 

[golondrina]

Katie M I love the way black cats's fur shine. Charlie is a lovely kitten.

 

[Katie M]

Katie M I love the way black cats's fur shine. Charlie is a lovely kitten.

Thank you

 

[mama africa]

Outdoor cat loaf

 

[golondrina]

Missy loafing but very attentive.

 

[mama africa]

loafing but very attentive

Watching lizards…@golondrina

 

[Royalty]

Me baking a kitty loaf

 

[Royalty]

Zeus baking a kitty loaf

 

[golondrina]

I didn't know that "to loaf" meant anything else than "to lounge around in an idle way or to spend time idly" Is "baking a loaf" an American version of this verb? Please excuse my ignorance, English is not my first language.

 

[Katie M]

I didn't know that "to loaf" meant anything else than "to lounge around in an idle way or to spend time idly" Is "baking a loaf" an American version of this verb? Please excuse my ignorance, English is not my first language.

We call this loafing because when a cat sits like that with its paws tucked in, it looks like a loaf of bread

 

[golondrina]

Thank you Katie M but I was questioning the use of "loafing" as meaning "baking" as given in post 196 in this tread by Royalty. In other words does "to loaf" also means "to bake"?

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

Thank you Katie M but I was questioning the use of "loafing" as meaning "baking" as given in post 196 in this tread by Royalty. In other words does "to loaf" also means "to bake"?

golondrina - No, it doesn't. The original "catloaf" meme began on the USENET Newsgroup rec.pets.cats in the early 1990s when the ability to post images came about. It was picked up by ICHC at the end of 2007 - the meme suggesting that cats with their front paws tucked in looked exactly like traditional meatloaves:

As the meme made the rounds, it morphed in the same way The Whisper Game changes something that's said and repeated, and the "loaf," became a loaf of bread in a much later meme:

There was a recent Twitter post using the original photo - or one very similar to it:

declaring Mondays Meatloaf Mondays, in the same fashion as ICHC spawned, "Caturday," and "Cat Tongue Tuesday."
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