What's up pussycat? Kitten who has taken internet by storm thanks to her startled expression

[jpak]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/whats-up-pussycat-kitten-who-11611027

A cat dubbed Curious Zelda is taking the internet by storm thanks to her permanently shocked expression.

The rescue kitten - who lives with owner Matt Taghioff in Beckenham, Kent - has amassed thousands of followers who enjoy her startled look.

Matt, 31, rescued Zelda three years ago where her ad said "don't be put off by my spooked expression".

The customer service manager said he was convinced to start a page for his pet's fans after conversation with friends and family always returned to her "amazing" look.

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. She looks like she is constantly witnessing a miracle.

[pandr32]

3. Hilarious!

[SkyDaddy7]

5. ...Or

Rollin on a really good hit of molly! LOL!

[flying rabbit]

2. "Wait, is that guy really the president?" nt

[SunSeeker]

35. LOL

[Freedomofspeech]

4. That is how I looked the morning of November 9th, 2016...

And to this day.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Yup. That's what my mirror shows as well.

[Freedomofspeech]

9. And it gets more horrifying everyday.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Same with me

Ever since I woke up at 3am on election night and turned on the news...

[CTyankee]

19. Same here. I just stumbled back to bed after I saw the words "president elect Trump"...

I think I actually had a little slug of wine, it was so awful.

Every day is a political nightmare since then.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. I had just had dental surgery that day, so I crashed on the couch to watch the returns

When I woke up and saw Trump standing there with his entire extended family, I thought it must be a very bad dream. I'm still hoping it is...

[CTyankee]

21. I went on DU immediately and found it was sadly so true.

I think DU was in a state of shock...

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I think we still are.

I still find it difficult to imagine.

[CTyankee]

23. So many people in shock and not quite realizing what has happened to us...

I know my family members are trying to deal with this horror in the best way they can. It's a day by day thing now...

[Rhiannon12866]

24. It's a day-by-day thing now for all of us

So much hard-to-believe news happens each and every day that it's hard to keep up!

[TexasTowelie]

26. Nothing was happening on DU that night

because we were hacked during the late afternoon.

[CTyankee]

27. Yep, you are right. I had to go to another website, perhaps the NYT, to see the bad

news. It was a shock.

Thanks for correcting my memory...I think I'm going senile...

[RobinA]

30. I Was On

Fivethirtyeight watching the little gauge that was Trump's probability of winning go up, up, up every time I looked at it. And going, "but there's still Congress..." Nooooooooo

[secondwind]

28. Wasnt DU hacked? I remember missing DU very much after the election.

[CTyankee]

29. Yup. My bad. See above...

I don't recall where I saw that Trump had won. It was too terrifying...

[spooky3]

6. Aww, she had a bad plastic surgery experience

Don’t worry, honey; things will settle into place soon!

Love, the late great Joan Rivers

[sl8]

8. It looks like her pupils are permanently dilated.

What might cause that?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. No, they seem to be perfectly normal. She just has big round eyes.

Lots more photos here: https://www.boredpanda.com/curious-zelda-cat-tweets/

[sl8]

14. Ah, very good, thanks.

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Her pupils do look quite normal in those pics.

[Beartracks]

18. LOL at "the struggle"! n/t

[IronLionZion]

11. Can she see? It looks like she's got damaged eyes

if they are permanently dilated like that then bright lights have got to be painful

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. She's fine. See post #12.

[rocktivity]

15. They could be sitting on a gold mine

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...Grumpy Cat is an American cat internet celebrity. She is known for her permanently "grumpy" facial appearance, which is caused by an underbite and feline dwarfism...

Grumpy Cat has appeared on NBC News's Today, ABC News's Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, Anderson Live, VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live, The Soup and FOX's American Idol...

In September 2013, it was announced that Grumpy Cat would become the Official Spokescat of Friskies...

Grumpy Cat appears in Lil Bub & Friendz, a documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival...it was announced that Lifetime would be producing a film about Grumpy Cat, entitled Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever, which debuted on November 29, 2014...

Complete with a web site: https://www.grumpycats.com/

rocktivity

[RobinA]

31. Ahhhh...

I don't think we should be laughing at that poor cat's problem.

[rocktivity]

32. I guess GrumpyCat's owners have decided that laughing at her is okay

as long as those people are paying...


rocktivty

[mainer]

16. Hyperthyroid?

Exopthalmos?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. No, just big round eyes. Pupils are normal, see post #12.

[Motley13]

25. My cat stares at me all the time with huge round eyes, I know she is trying

to understand everything I am thinking & saying. A lot of cats won't look into your eyes for very long

[RKP5637]

34. Mine too, like now WTF are you doing. Sit down and hold me! n/t

[haele]

33. We have a solid black little furball we named Goblin just because she has eyes like that...

When dialated to indicate she's in Goblin mode, of course. Of course, her long body, huge ears, and aggressively curious nature also had a lot to do with her name.
She's an indoor cat, and we only have one really sunny room in the house - the living room. So when she's just hanging around the living room or looking at birds out the big windows when it's a sunny day, her eyes look normal. But in every other room, or at night, her eyes are almost solid black with a thin green line of iris around them.

Haele

[bdamomma]

36. wow,

you got to love cats huh? seems very alert and ready for anything.