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THE CATWALK — Fashion shows are known for their fancy clothes, unique designs, trance music, models and, of course, a catwalk.
I never understood why it was called a catwalk, but through hours of intense researching, I finally found the answer. (And by hours, I mean seconds, and by answers, I mean a Wikipedia entry.) It states that the walkway gained the name for the cat-like way the models walk down the ramp to show off the clothing designs. I didn't know that was how a cat walked, but I guess it makes sense.
With all of that background, now imagine you showed up to a place that was full of cats and they had this ramp called the humanwalk. As a human, wouldn't you feel the right or even an obligation to get up onto that humanwalk and take a stroll? I know I would, and if you said "no," then you're lying.
That's exactly the way this cat in Istanbul felt, probably. During this fashion show, a cat hopped up onto the catwalk and became the most literal thing the internet has seen in some time. The cat continues to do cat things and then strolls down the ramp to show the models how a cat really walks.
I have to give a shoutout to the models who ignored the feline and just kept on with their jobs, and I've got to give it to the cat who was a cat through and through and could not care less about what anyone thought.
