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Video: People at a cat video festival look like you'd expect them to

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Updated: July 22, 2014 at 04:59 PM

Wouldn't it be a purrrfect get if the Internet Cat Video Festival came to Tampa Bay?

Apparently the festival has become the cat's meow for fans of feline internet films. Begun last year by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the traveling festival features a 73-minute homage to cat antics and culture.

Sadly, the festival doesn't appear to be headed to this area anytime soon, but you can lobby to bring it here at this site: walkerart.org/internet-cat-video-festival.

Come here, kitty, kitty, kitty ...

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