Longcat

Field data

Habitat

A Japanese imageboard, then 4chan’s random board

First observed

2004

Diet

Whatever a long cat eats

Call

A stretch, then silence

Composition

Cat, 1. Length, considerable.

Conservation status

Least concern

Field notes

The real cat, Shiro, was a rescue in Japan who lived to eighteen. The name Longcat only stuck once the photo crossed into English-language boards.

At the printer

Print it in one continuous piece with no joints, the length is the entire point.