For the eighth consecutive year, Animal Planet will host The Puppy Bowl at 3PM (Eastern Time) on Super Bowl Sunday. The halftime show will star kittens from a shelter. See a series of adorable photographs taken during the taping of the halftime show at Buzzfeed. The kittens are all up for adoption. Link

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A litter of six Bengal kittens and their mother watch Japanese skater Daisuke Takahashi perform on television. And try to catch him. I was surprised by this, as my cats prefer nature documentaries to sports.  -via Buzzfeed

Kittens can make anything better, from artwork to home videos, and if the record companies had any marketing savvy they would have used kittens on as many album covers as possible! Aym Visuals decided to show the world how kittens can be used to replace all sorts of people and objects to make the music world a cuter place.

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I wonder if they’re looking at a laser beam, someone playing ping pong or what.

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Bouncy kittens all around, and this dog remains ever calm and serene. -via Arbroath

A kitty in the UK was hit by a car and brought to an animal shelter, but released to the area she was found shortly after, since vets realized she had just had a litter of kittens. Right after she was released, she started howling and the person who brought her back followed her to her litter of kittens, who were severely dehydrated. Thanks to the cat’s quick thinking and the attentiveness of the RSPCA inspector, her kittens were saved and the whole family made a speedy recovery.

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This French telecom ad features lots of kittens! I don’t know what they are saying, but I love the fish vending machine. -via Everlasting Blort

You know it’s true -kittens will play with anything you leave within their reach. So put your light sabers away! -Thanks, Zach!

I absolutely adore Miss C’s recent Mental Floss post profiling criminal cats. This little guy is my favorite, as Frankie is all about stealing these leopard toys:

Frankie the tomcat likes toys of all kinds, but he has an obsession with plush leopards…The cat collected 15 copies of the same small plush leopard, which his owner Julie Bishop believes is made to be a cat toy.

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The Animal Humane Society put words in the kitties’ mouths to make you go “awww” and adopt a feline friend. Link -via Best week Ever

The world’s simplest ad campaign -show your product with cute kittens. It just might work! -via Arbroath

Q: How hard is it to get a cat into a bowl?

A: That sounds like a skit for a Japanese variety show!

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An entire litter of easily-distracted kittens nevertheless give their best in an effort to rid their home of nasty shadows. -via Cynical-C

Activate your cute overload compensators. At the bottom of his pile of sleeping, purring kittens is …another kitten!

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The bomb squad quickly suited up and headed to the scene to defuse the situation. Once they arrived on scene, specialists found a box slightly stirring. There was no “tick-tock,” but a different familiar sound. Meow.

A quick examination by the experts determined the box’s contents was about to explode – with cute and cuddliness. Inside were two kittens, which the bomb squad manual states is more dangerous to a ball of yarn than to an office building.

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Remember the “surprised kitty” video (below) that made it around the Internet a few months ago? It shows a kitten playing with a human in fairly superior kitten cuteness. YouTube user CapnPeteStraw offers this parody, featuring an adorable baby Darth Vader. (via GearFuse)

Nothing hits the spot like a kitten masseuse! These two are named Chloe and Bugsy, filmed when they were orphans at the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA). Link -via Laughing Squid

Kittens are living in the old playhouse of DarkElfMairead. They recently ventured out onto the playhouse slide, with predictable results.  Their mama was not amused.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.

The baby bobcats — two females named Midnight and Rain, plus a male, Storm — will be fed by Bobbi for up to four weeks, Big Cat Rescue president Jamie Veronica said.

The kittens were given those names because “we drove through a midnight rain storm to get them,” Veronica said.

A hunter brought the kittens to a veterinary clinic in Alabama earlier this month, Baskin said. Vets said they think the hunter shot the kittens’ mother. It is legal in many states, including Florida, to hunt bobcats for sport, Baskin said.

“He walked in with a shotgun in one hand and a bag of kittens in the other,” she said.

The bobcats will be sheltered for about 18 months and then returned to the wild. Link

There’s also video and a news story of how Bobbi came to be involved. Link -via Arbroath

Not even the saltiest sailor nor most hardened Marine can resist the charms of a cat. So popular were cats on ships that they were often considered part of the crew and issued thier own bunks and uniforms. See this fascinating collection of historic photos demonstrating the affection the U.S. sea services have had for cats over the years. Pictured are the crewmen of the USS Texas, circa 1900.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Treliske.

What goes together better than neuroscience and LOLcats? It doesn’t matter, because they are together in this handy study guide, complete with a sparkly title and lots of sweet sugary cuteness along the synapses. Link -via Metafilter

He’s still got two good years to go if he wants to be the oldest living cat ever though, as the current record stands at 29.

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Update: He’s got at least a good 98 years to go before he catches up to the world’s oldest living animal, Jonathan the tortoise. If you click the link, you’ll see a great picture of Jonathan from 1900, when he was already around 75.

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