@Colonel Jack O'Neill: They don't exactly make it easy to get your app into their store. I wouldn't be surprised if they reject more apps than they approve.

Heck, they'll reject updates to an existing app which can make trying to fix something difficult.

@Areyouagoodlittleconsumer:
Well, almost 34% of households have at least one cat: [www.humanesociety.org] But there's nothing to prove that the other 66% of households have a problem with cats.

There's plenty of animals on Cute Overload that have photos I find adorable that I would never allow in my house.

@Areyouagoodlittleconsumer: Hating dumb animals is a little...odd. Being bothered by pictures of animals really isn't worth the bother at all. My advice is to ignore - if they start using goatse variants instead of cats, we'll revisit.

@diasdiem: This made me laugh, greatly. Give yourself a pat on the back. If you have no arms, ask a stranger.

People identify me with hamsters, but I'm more of a dog person.

This app needs to come out on the andriod. I did find one that purrs when you pet the cat, but I want to paint with cats too.

:P

And having a website with no personality would be boring given the scope, and turn a off to many.

As usual people on these pages can't read or comprehend, or get crazy over nothing. I'm not objecting to the use of cat pictures at any time, I just think using them 40% or more is weird given the scope and a turn off to many.

If you use images of people, you have to get permission from the person in the image. Running a blog that posts 26 times a day, that's 26 images of people. Even if you had friends who were keen to be in pictures, you're going to be seeing the same people over and over again.

If you use stock imagery, you have to pay for that.

When writing a not-for-profit blog about the bad parts of the consumer landscape, people could get offended if race is used the wrong way, or if someone's' image was used in a way they don't agree with, etc...

Taking pictures of cats in relevant situations is a fun/funny way of getting around all of this.

Just for you here is a little video tribute to cat-lover-psychos everywhere:

[bit.ly]

(seriously, go search for 'fart' in the app store, it'll blow your mind how many results you get back.)

@bunnyblues: This is far and away the best comment in this thread.

They seem to be doing all right.

(From above, a Meow is heard)

fdjahkjhkjkhfdkj gahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

You must be tons of fun at parties.

Just realize not everyone is a cat nut and finds it cute. Most people in fact, I'd wager really aren't fond of cats.

If you want to go have catconsumerist.com somewhere else, knock yourselves out, but you again might consider getting away from the cat addiction in your themes on the main site.

@MercuryPDX: +1 for MIB refrence.

Don't flashy thing me.

Where is the road kill application?

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An original purchaser of the classic book "Flattened Fauna".

Caveat: Must allow dogs.

@KTK1990: darn no edit button.

Essentially that way above is what the app is doing. Putting a cat image ontop of another layer, and resizing it and moving it around.

I have never tried this (I own photoshop), but GIMP might be able to do that for you. GIMP is free, photoshop costs $$$.

@shadow67:

or that we have only 10K apps, but offer them in 10 different languages so it counts as 100K.

Wouldn't using any picture on the internet be considered "fair use". You are not making any money from them.

Photoshop would be easier.

Just get some free cat images, photoshop the cats out, add an invisible background and save the image.

Then for the consumerist article, get any photo you want, put the cat in as another layer, resize (if needed) and place the image properly, and then save it, and upload.

For your cat images, make sure to save them as .psd or .png. .psd's are best, png's can be viewed out of photoshop, and save transparency.

yeah to the so called 100k apps on apple store... how useful... shud have know "there is an app for everything"

@Laura Northrup: I'm waiting for DogPaint, PuppyPaint or even DachshundPaint myself.

Seriously. What is cuter than a dachshund puppy? Nothing I tell you! Nothing!

I hate cats but I can meow like them and stop most dead in their tracks but I still hate them.