furriness

The two then varied the size, color, eye position, and furriness of their fake faunae.

What the stars and the supporting cast have in common is the look—the top-to-tail furriness that, when the first trailer for “Cats” was released, caused millions of prospective viewers to cough up hair balls.

Programming in every rule needed would be time-consuming, and you’d have to define all sorts of difficult concepts along the way, like “furriness” and “pointiness.”

“This holiday season we will see this trend in all of its furriness,” says Maria Rugolo, an apparel industry analyst for NPD Group, in a company blog .

As one character says, when discussing valuing one trait over another in reproduction: “It’s one choice to breed carrots for our uses – especially leaving wild and variant gene pools intact. Is another to breed ourselves for some uses or imagined uses! For all we know, a new ice age comes and we might better breed for furriness than mathematical ability!”