In Dear Kitten, a BuzzFeed viral ad campaign for Little Friskies brand cat food, an older cat explains the facts of life to a new kitten, combining Cute Kitten with Cats Are Snarkers.This commercial for Pampers diapers may contain a lot of adorable animal babies, but the different feline cubs shown surely attract the most attention and adoration, and it's likely no accident it ends with a lion cub.This advert for Chocolate Digestive Biscuits.You can still see her silhouette on boxcars. In 1972, when the C&O merged with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland Railway, Chessie became the mascot for the entire Chessie System. The railway added two kittens (Nip and Tuck) and a husband ( Peake the tomcat). She was introduced in 1933 to promote the railway's overnight trains, and soon took over C&O advertising. Chessie, the mascot of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.This advertisement for Sauza Tequila, in which a fireman (who has just rescued a kitten from a burning building) teaches you how to make a margarita.They also tend to appear on the packages of said products (especially for food that's specifically designed for kittens). Every advert for cat-related products, such as cat litter (one UK advert involved a white kitten searching the house for the litter tray with a child-like voice over) and cat food.This Bouygues Telecom commercial with live kittens as office workers.In fact, when a dog is chasing an adult cat, the dog is usually portrayed as the hero but when a dog is chasing a kitten, the dog is often the villain. (Except when Cute Is Evil, in which case they go hand-in-hand.) In most cases, though, kittens are portrayed as more friendly and likable than adult cats, hence the contrasting tropes of Right-Hand Cat and If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!. See also The Internet Is for Cats.Ĭompare Cool Cat, Fun Size, Mega Neko, Precious Puppy, Big Friendly Dog, Kindhearted Cat Lover, Cuteness Proximity, Bunnies for Cuteness, Panthera Awesome, Great White Feline, and High Koala-ty Cuteness.Ĭontrast with Cats Are Mean, Hair-Raising Hare and Mister Muffykins. Examples on this page should be limited to works where this is deliberately used with kittens or cats, not simply "this work includes a kitten," or "this work includes a cute little animal."Ĭat Girl can be a Sister Trope if you're creative enough. Kittens increase the cuteness factor exponentially. Want to lighten a mood that's gone Darker and Edgier? Add a kitten or two. Want to show that someone is a softy despite their crusty exterior? Have them rescue a kitten! Want to indicate that they're evil instead? Torturing or killing a kitten will do it. For this reason, they are often used by creators to arouse those feelings toward a character as well. Kittens seem to provoke an automatic pleasure/protective/affection reaction in many (if not most) people. admit it, how long did you spend looking at the example picture before you started reading this article? Looking at the picture with automatic Bambi eyes setting in, with brain geared to "Such wee small biddy kitties? Whosa cute kitty? Sleepy kitty."
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