Doraemon in Cornwall? How a Tabby Cat Came Home Bright Blue After Crashing a Gender Reveal Party

Doraemon in Cornwall? How a Tabby Cat Came Home Bright Blue After Crashing a Gender Reveal Party

On the evening of July 1, Sophie Jenkin was watching an England World Cup match at her home in Heamoor, near Penzance in Cornwall, when her two-year-old tabby cat walked in looking like she had just stepped out of a cartoon. Wilbur — usually a soft mix of grey, black and white — was glowing a vivid, almost fluorescent blue from her shoulders to the tip of her tail. Only her face remained completely normal. Sophie’s first reaction was pure alarm. “I thought: ‘Oh my god, someone’s thrown paint at her,’” she later told The Guardian. For a few tense minutes the family worried that local children might have targeted the cat with real paint. The idea of someone deliberately harming a pet was upsetting enough that Sophie immediately posted a photo on a local Facebook page with a half-joking, half-worried question: “Does anyone know what’s happened to my cat?” The answer arrived faster than expected, and it was far funnier than anyone could have predicted. The Uninvited Guest at the Gender Reveal …