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Cat Shaming
Hilarious full-color photos featuring felines and misdemeanors . . .
You can't take away your cat's allowance when he ruins something valuable. You can't give her a time-out if she goes outside the litter box. (Most of her day is a time-out anyway.) So what's the next best thing? Cat Shaming!
Cat Shaming is a hilarious collection of photos from owners who express their frustration when their furry best friend does something bad. Millions of cat owners can relate to the antics of these felines with plenty of pictures of shamed--but nevertheless adorable and innocent-looking--kitties.
You can't take away your cat's allowance when he ruins something valuable. You can't give her a time-out if she goes outside the litter box. (Most of her day is a time-out anyway.) So what's the next best thing? Cat Shaming!
Cat Shaming is a hilarious collection of photos from owners who express their frustration when their furry best friend does something bad. Millions of cat owners can relate to the antics of these felines with plenty of pictures of shamed--but nevertheless adorable and innocent-looking--kitties.
194 pages, ebook
Published May 3, 2016
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September 4, 2018
now with bad maggie behavior at the end!
unfortunately, Cat Shaming does not live up to the bigtime laffs of its predecessor, Dog Shaming. and it's partly down to concept and partly down to content.
on the concept side, this was destined to be a failure simply due to the nature of the beast. show me a cat who feels shame and i will unzip it to reveal that it's really a dog in a cat costume. cats aren't pack animals, they have no biological imperative to consider the needs of others in their social group; they do exactly what they want and never look back
does this look like a creature with any relationship to 'shame?'
at least the dogs pretended to be ashamed.
this little buddy comes the closest, but i'm pretty sure he's just being sarcastic.
as for the content side of things - it's a little slapdash. many of the photos are blurry, off-center, poorly lit; one of the signs is even misspelled. in some, you can barely see the cat
we want catface!!! give us the catface!
and many of the signs and photos are pixilated which makes the whole thing seem cheap.
for the most part, it's all variations on the same few themes:
'i threw up here'
'i pooped here'
'i scratched/chewed this'
'i am fat'
it's just less...fun overall, which is unfathomable, since cats > dogs.
having said that, there are some standouts:
i kind of want to own this cat, to see this show every single night. i have so many stuffed animals to drown!
hahaahaha sorry, that's awful, but what a dick. that's what grandma gets for having that yappy little sweater-dog.
see what i mean? that's just straight-up dickish behavior. 'oh, were you gonna eat that? my bad. shhhh, grooming now.'
absolutely no reason for a cat to step into a pie except to be malicious. they might not be familiar with 'shame,' but they are well-versed in 'ruining it for everyone.'
that's no idle threat. she'll do it a million times and laugh each time the human throws up their hands in horror but nonetheless gets down on their knees to extract poopy ribbon. while the cat calmly plots further acts of sabotage and displays of dominance.
lesson here - don't yell at your cat. they do not like it.
the recurrence of this situation implied by the verb tenses is what kills me. don't throw out those signs!
this is how my dad has acquired many of his cats.
there are some situations that are very familiar to me, again with zero shame ever:
and in the 'can you blame them?' category:
it's cheese!
it's a unicorn!!
it's beer!!
it's cheese again!
tomorrow i will shame maggie and document it here.
or i would have, except it's the first night since i can remember that she didn't do the thing she does every single night now. almost like she knew....
okay, so after that one night off, she returned to her terrible antics. every night, before bed, i have to go through a series of rituals - move the cardboard bed she scratches, move the bags she scratches, make sure sean's notebook is tucked away, etc etc. but her new new thing is at 4 am every morning, she jumps on my computer desk and types utter gibberish into my notepad doc and puts her butt on the capslock so in the morning when i am trying to log in, it messes with my case-sensitive password and every morning i forget this and and infuriated that i can't log in until i remember. and that's fine, but there's also this:
every morning she gets her little claws into this one specific drawer and yanks it out so all the thumbtacks go clattering all over the desk. she doesn't try to get into the drawers with less weapony contents, like the paper clips or the rubber bands - just the one with the thumbtacks because she wants them to go onto the floor to wound me. because she is wicked mean.
come to my blog!
unfortunately, Cat Shaming does not live up to the bigtime laffs of its predecessor, Dog Shaming. and it's partly down to concept and partly down to content.
on the concept side, this was destined to be a failure simply due to the nature of the beast. show me a cat who feels shame and i will unzip it to reveal that it's really a dog in a cat costume. cats aren't pack animals, they have no biological imperative to consider the needs of others in their social group; they do exactly what they want and never look back
does this look like a creature with any relationship to 'shame?'
at least the dogs pretended to be ashamed.
this little buddy comes the closest, but i'm pretty sure he's just being sarcastic.
as for the content side of things - it's a little slapdash. many of the photos are blurry, off-center, poorly lit; one of the signs is even misspelled. in some, you can barely see the cat
we want catface!!! give us the catface!
and many of the signs and photos are pixilated which makes the whole thing seem cheap.
for the most part, it's all variations on the same few themes:
'i threw up here'
'i pooped here'
'i scratched/chewed this'
'i am fat'
it's just less...fun overall, which is unfathomable, since cats > dogs.
having said that, there are some standouts:
i kind of want to own this cat, to see this show every single night. i have so many stuffed animals to drown!
hahaahaha sorry, that's awful, but what a dick. that's what grandma gets for having that yappy little sweater-dog.
see what i mean? that's just straight-up dickish behavior. 'oh, were you gonna eat that? my bad. shhhh, grooming now.'
absolutely no reason for a cat to step into a pie except to be malicious. they might not be familiar with 'shame,' but they are well-versed in 'ruining it for everyone.'
that's no idle threat. she'll do it a million times and laugh each time the human throws up their hands in horror but nonetheless gets down on their knees to extract poopy ribbon. while the cat calmly plots further acts of sabotage and displays of dominance.
lesson here - don't yell at your cat. they do not like it.
the recurrence of this situation implied by the verb tenses is what kills me. don't throw out those signs!
this is how my dad has acquired many of his cats.
there are some situations that are very familiar to me, again with zero shame ever:
and in the 'can you blame them?' category:
it's cheese!
it's a unicorn!!
it's beer!!
it's cheese again!
tomorrow i will shame maggie and document it here.
or i would have, except it's the first night since i can remember that she didn't do the thing she does every single night now. almost like she knew....
okay, so after that one night off, she returned to her terrible antics. every night, before bed, i have to go through a series of rituals - move the cardboard bed she scratches, move the bags she scratches, make sure sean's notebook is tucked away, etc etc. but her new new thing is at 4 am every morning, she jumps on my computer desk and types utter gibberish into my notepad doc and puts her butt on the capslock so in the morning when i am trying to log in, it messes with my case-sensitive password and every morning i forget this and and infuriated that i can't log in until i remember. and that's fine, but there's also this:
every morning she gets her little claws into this one specific drawer and yanks it out so all the thumbtacks go clattering all over the desk. she doesn't try to get into the drawers with less weapony contents, like the paper clips or the rubber bands - just the one with the thumbtacks because she wants them to go onto the floor to wound me. because she is wicked mean.
come to my blog!
June 19, 2018
This made me appreciate my precious Otis so much. He does nothing compared to what these cats do. I am a lucky woman.
March 1, 2019
A little too much peeing, pooping and (eating) barf, plus some of the comments are not exactly 'child-proof', but all in all an interesting take on cats misbehaving. I am sure, there are many more occasions of cats misbehaving - as in a bit more variety ... after all, cats are cats and, yes, they tend not to apologize for doing so. And, yes, we still love them dearly. :)
Some of the descriptions are well-written, some made me laugh out loud and then there is of course the fact of beautiful kitty pictures ...
Some of the descriptions are well-written, some made me laugh out loud and then there is of course the fact of beautiful kitty pictures ...
June 12, 2016
This is very cute. But, I would recommend reading it in the book edition. With the kindle edition, the shaming notes are very hard to read in some cases. But, I do recommend the book, its funny in places but also very gross in others. But, anyone who is owned by a cat, knows a lot of their traits but still love them anyway.
June 29, 2018
This was so funny! I love cats and reading about their little adventures always cheers me up. The best part was that some of the cats have this little smirk like haha yeah I did it and so WHAT. It brings me so much joy :')
December 10, 2020
Let's get this out right now: The title is an oxymoron. Everyone knows you cannot Shame a cat, because cats feel no shame. And, having lived with cats much of my adult life, I should know. Still, hilarious and just what I needed tonight.
May 30, 2016
After reading this book so e of the things my Jazzy does are not so bad.
August 18, 2016
Why am I laughing this hard when my cats do most of this stuff!
November 14, 2016
Hilarious! Gives me urges to take a picture of my cat like this!
August 5, 2017
Hilarious. A fun book to sit down and flip through. Makes you appreciate your own cat! ;)
June 6, 2019
Hilarious pictures. Makes me feel better about my monster cat😊
September 17, 2020
Exactly the feel good time I needed right now.
November 28, 2021
Super cute cat memes in book form. Only deducted a point because some of the images are low res making the test hard to read.
January 14, 2022
I had no idea that cats could cause so much trouble!
January 29, 2022
Hilarious! This is what I mean when I say a “frivolous read.”
May 26, 2023
I am a cat who is not ashamed about my behavior!! In the seven years that I have owned my human I have vomited once - I believe this is a world record for cats. My human is well trained. She no longer leaves the rolls of paper towels out even though the white shag rug I created in the bathroom was rather attractive in my opinion. She also has a cover over the toilet paper roll ever since I practiced origami. She even takes me in the bathroom when she is taking a shower and there are fireworks being exploded in the neighborhood. She may not do this again, however, since I did not regard simply being in that room sufficiently protective and jumped under her shower chair mid cleanse. She mumbled something about this is another fine mess we are involved in Ollie. This did not compute since my name is Abigail. She finally extracted me from beneath the chair without getting me wet - an accomplishment which I greatly appreciated. She has learned to feed me my breakfast tuna by hand because I was simply pushing it all to the side of the bowl. All in all my human is quite wonderful and I am not ashamed of her at all. Abby Tabby on behalf of Kristi
August 30, 2025
This book is hilarious! I loved the collection of cats and the signs describing their "wrong doings".
Here are a few of my favorites since they reminded me of my cat, Merlin:
"I love to beg for food at 5 AM even though my plate is full."
"I pretend to be loveable so I can bite when you pet me."
"I'm not a dog, but I beg like one."
"I climb onto the table and steal other people's food."
Here are a few more that are missing from the book:
"I love to chew and rip apart cardboard boxes and spit out the pieces."
"I love to eat grass, then vomit on my human's carpet."
My only complaint is that not all the signs are easy to read - such as the cursive and color markers. Also, the numerous cats that vomit, hump, and poop outside the litter box because I have owned four cats and never would encountered that issue. Otherwise, I would definitely recommend this book to all adult cat lovers.
Here are a few of my favorites since they reminded me of my cat, Merlin:
"I love to beg for food at 5 AM even though my plate is full."
"I pretend to be loveable so I can bite when you pet me."
"I'm not a dog, but I beg like one."
"I climb onto the table and steal other people's food."
Here are a few more that are missing from the book:
"I love to chew and rip apart cardboard boxes and spit out the pieces."
"I love to eat grass, then vomit on my human's carpet."
My only complaint is that not all the signs are easy to read - such as the cursive and color markers. Also, the numerous cats that vomit, hump, and poop outside the litter box because I have owned four cats and never would encountered that issue. Otherwise, I would definitely recommend this book to all adult cat lovers.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 30, 2017
As a cat owner, I was actually a little disappointed with this book. There was a LOT of repeat cat traits - "I eat to fast and barf up my food than eat it." "I eat everything in the house and cost my owners a lot of money in surgery" "I hump all blankets/stuffed animals in the house" "I whine for food at 4/5am and walk on my humans" so that was kind of lame. I would have liked to see a wider range of strange cat traits instead of very normal, basic cat traits. The cats in the book were cute though.
December 15, 2017
Wow. There are a lot of people raising unpleasant little turd cats. I maintain that this is not the norm, because I've never had cats do things that these cats do. Sure, we have to hide hair ties and spaghetti strap tanks from Strawberry because he loves to eat them. But that's about it. I think there are people with either really bad cat luck or who have no ability to raise a good cat. We have four, and they are, for the most part, delightful. There is a lot of eating, barfing, eating barf, meanness, idiocy, and pooping in bad places. What the devil?
May 27, 2017
This was just okay. I got a few chuckles, but not many.
I've never liked the usage of the "F Bomb," but at one time, the word was printed so little that it carried more shock value and emphasis. Now, it's become a new cliche. I wish people realized just how stupid they sound when they use it, especially over something as petty as a cat pooping on the rug.
I've never liked the usage of the "F Bomb," but at one time, the word was printed so little that it carried more shock value and emphasis. Now, it's become a new cliche. I wish people realized just how stupid they sound when they use it, especially over something as petty as a cat pooping on the rug.
December 10, 2021
My cat has done several of the things (thankfully not the ones involving humping and poop) referenced in Andrade's Cat Shaming and I love her despite that fact. That's what makes these posts so relatable.
November 1, 2022
Cute but redundant. I would have liked to have seen more variety rather than a focus on bodily functions. My childhood cat ripped open and ate hidden bags of powdered donuts so I know there’s a wider spectrum of hilarious out there!
January 29, 2018
All are amusing a few are laugh out loud funny.
February 16, 2018
I only read it to kill 20 minutes. I think l murdered 20 minutes.
March 13, 2018
cute but reminds me yet again why I don't want a cat.
December 25, 2018
Funny. Why would someone have a cat. All they seem to do is puke, poop and pee in inconvenient places.
March 13, 2017
Cat Shaming fell flat for me. It seemed like something thrown together in haste to capitalize on a momentarily popular meme. The formatting of the ebook version I read was a tad hinky and I imagine the photos would've looked better viewed on a website where most of them probably originated.
June 24, 2016
It was kind of cute, a lot like "Dog Shaming"....
July 29, 2016
Funny stuff (but not for kids)
August 6, 2016
Just not that funny.
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