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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Marshall

Does your cat look like Hitler?


Felix was feline like a Reich berk ... picture from the Cats That Look Like Hitler website

Some of the most loved videos on YouTube are also some of the most hated, namely those that feature pets doing preposterously cute things - bulldogs skateboarding, cats flushing toilets - you know the sort of thing.

Well an antidote of sorts has appeared in the form of a photographic blog that asks readers to send in pictures of cats that resemble Adolf Hitler. Titled Cats That look Like Hitler, the moggies are known as kitlers and you, the reader, have a chance to vote on which of these unfortunate animals most closely resembles the worlds most famous mass-murderer.

It is of course in appallingly bad taste, but that does not stop it being extremely funny. In its wake others have attempted to found sites devoted to animals who bare a passing resemblance to other dictators, but with only limited success. Perhaps this is why some of the most famously dictatorial screen villains, Blofeld and Vito Corleone to name but two, were cat, rather than dog, lovers?

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