Open Post: Hosted By The Eerily Real-Looking Cat Backpack
Happy Caturday! Have you always wanted to have a cat hang off your back but not have all the baggage that comes with it (e.g., scratching your face off, feline yowls of anger)? Have I got news for you! Just pop on over to Japan, slam down $1000, and this realistic cat backpack can be yours. Terrify your neighbors with this handcrafted bag that can hold your notebook, phone, wallet, and that new brain medication you were just prescribed!
The bag is a creation by Miho Katsumi, a Japanese housewife with undeniable skill. After sharing her work on Twitter, the post of the uncanny valley cat backpack went viral, receiving over 11,000 retweets and 38,000 likes. via Insider:
In Japan, people on Twitter have been going nuts over a series of plush backpacks that look just like real-life cats.
On April 15, Katsumi posted four photos to Twitter of the cat bag posed outdoors. One of the photos featured the cat clutching a toy fish; another displayed the bag with its zipper open. “The weather was good today and I was able to shoot outside,” Katsumi wrote. To date, the post has been retweeted more than 11,000 times.
The comments on the tweet lit up with people saying they thought the bag was a real cat, with many expressing their interest in buying a piece.
“Who else thought this was a real cat at first,” Twitter user @emlynx commented.
But cat lovers keen to get their hands on Katsumi’s creations will have to wait: She got so many orders last year that she’s not accepting new orders until further notice.
Here’s a closer look at the cat backpack that blew up Cat Twitter:
今日は天気も良くお外で撮影出来ました🌸オーダー主様にもオッケーを無事頂けたので旅立ちの準備をして参ります😭✨ pic.twitter.com/7CJfH5e02U
— 猫制作pico (@picopoco08) April 15, 2021
And since you can’t buy any of her stuff, you can satisfy your needs by checking out Miho’s Instagram to marvel (or recoil) at her handiwork.
I gotta hand it to Miho. The amount of effort it takes to create something like that is wild. I tried knitting a few weeks ago and managed to make a scarf that looks like individual strings of yarn clumped together. If you squint hard, it kind of looks like a hairball a cat coughed up! Watch out, Miho. I’m coming for your gig!
Pic: Twitter