I like that this is probably some Wikipedia editor's cat and they kept the picture because it was probably creative commons share/share alike licensed by the editor and thus free to use.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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Nope. It comes from Flickr around nine years before being uploaded to Commons. The Commons description "My cat loves styrofoam peanuts" is likely lifted verbatim from the Flickr post, as we tend to do this with other such descriptions.
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Cat's name was Cooper, by the way.
I am delighted to report that the image description on Commons is "My cat loves styrofoam peanuts"
(specifically that's the description of the original upload, not the cropped one on the article, but still)
Also it's geo-tagged to a specific house in Canada. I hope that was a choice made consciously
Daleks got nothing on this cat
"Your favorite jogging shoes are toast, Smartass!"
I prefer my cats this way.
I think this image is fake. I mean, obviously, the cat is not in the box...
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Nah, this is depicting animal abuse. Packing peanuts are typically contained in boxes, so this cat was evidently in a box at one point before being evicted into the cruel cold world by uncaring humans. Those mean, nasty humans even took a picture of this poor cat's suffering to point at and laugh with their friends. They probably even tried to claim the cat was in the wrong, because of some nonsense about the box containing fragile items to be shipped, typical.
LEAVE KITTY ALONE (IN THE BOX)!!!
Oh, the memory...I'm this old.
So if you leave the cat in the box and send it back, you'll get a refund?..
Schrodinger says "maybe"