So this year, my daughter gave me a very short list. So I bought her a few surprises, some came from Amazon, some did not. This was one of the Amazon surprises. I looked at it and thought she would totally fall in love with that face. To even my feline jaded heart it looks super cute. For her, she felt like the ears came looking very down, which made the cat look sad. I told her the one she got looked more sour and grumpy (the one shown online looks more pleading and wistful to me), but since she seems to love the snarky kitties, maybe that could be ok to? I gave her the option of returning it, because I could tell it wasn't pinging a 5 star toy on her happiness meter, but she said she wanted to keep it. So I think for her, it's a 4 star toy. I just don't want to ask her, because I know she'll feel torn and not want to say that to my face. The ears on ours are slightly more down then the one in the picture, and I think for her that's the thing that had her feeling it looked more sad. But my Jedi mind tricks seemed to have convinced her Ziggy's sarcastic and not sad, but she did give this one a new name. I am certain she likes it enough not to return it because when I asked her if she was sure she told me to stop pressuring her to return it, she totally wanted it. So, this one was a little bit of a misfire, but she still liked it enough to keep it. For ours, the seams appear fine so far as I can tell, there are no other deformities that I can find, and I totally like the pads on the paws, they are gray, and in this cloth that has a suede like texture, and I thought it gave the kitty more visual interest. And she mentioned that she likes the fact that the way it's shaped allowed it to ride on her shoulder, and we joked about how this kitty might be able to out-sour Catzilla and give him the stink eye every time he decided to drop his kitty poop grenades on our floor. If only that would really serve as a deterrent...so I dub this to be my favorite kind of kitty, the stuffed kind, that has the appearance of being snarky or sad without the actual physical evidence of it's displeasure showing up underfoot.
