Adorable Cat With Furious Facial Expression Took It Upon Himself To Watch Over The Watermelons
Pearl is not your average farm cat, and that is exactly why people cannot stop staring at him. With a face that looks permanently furious, he has spent the past six years keeping watch over his owner’s watermelon stall in Thailand.
The owner says Pearl takes the job seriously, guarding the fruit like a tiny, judgmental supervisor. Even so, the cat is also described as sweet, which makes his intense expression even funnier.
Now Pearl’s glare is doing more than protecting watermelons, it is turning him into the main attraction.
Before touching watermelons, you must be approved by Pearl the cat.
What a face.
The cat on his way to the farm.
People just love grumpy-looking cats. The grumpier, the better. But there may be a reasonable explanation for why people on the internet like cats so much. Sam Ford, digital strategy director at Peppercorn and a research associate with the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, indicates that they enable us to participate in an activity that is part of human nature.
“Juxtaposing surprising meanings over cat images, a la the LOLcats phenomenon, allows us to project our thoughts onto the mysterious countenance of felines,” he says. “Not only do we project our thoughts, but we can also instantly relate to many feline facial expressions. Just like them, we too can go from plain grumpy to super excited in a minute.”
That explanation fits Pearl a little too well.
And speaking of cats who look angry no matter what, Merlin still wins hearts even when you try to cheer him up.
Pearl doesn’t like his meal…
Pearl as supervisor
And here is how people responded:
People online were completely sold on Pearl’s expression.
Want more grumpy faces, check out the “catographer” sharing mean-looking portraits.
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