12 Stock Art Cats Who Didn't Make the Cover Cut

Fri., July 26, 2013

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"Funny kitten" was ready to pounce, but we think she's better suited for work as an intern.

In our quest to build the purrfect cat cover for our feature on BuzzFeed's animal empire, we scoured the Web looking for the perfect stock art kitten to greet our readers from newsstands. And if you've spent any time online, you should know: That's a lot of kittens.

Here are 12 of our favorites who didn't make the cut, complete with their stock art titles.

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