Colonel Meow

{{Short description|American Himalayan-Persian crossbread cat (2011-2014)}}

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| othername = The Colonel

| species = Felis catus

| breed = Himalayan–Persian

| gender = Male

| birth_date = {{Birth date|2011|10|11}}

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|01|29|2011|10|11}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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| known = His scowl and long hair

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| owner = Anne Avey

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Colonel Meow (October 11, 2011 – January 29, 2014){{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4A9ji851Rc|title=R.I.P. COLONEL MEOW, YOU WILL BE MISSED|work=Youtube|date=January 30, 2014|accessdate=January 30, 2014}} was an American Himalayan–Persian crossbreed cat, who temporarily held the 2014 Guinness world record{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-fur-on-a-cat|title= Longest fur on a cat|date= November 9, 2013|work= Guinness World Records}} for the longest fur on a cat (nine inches or about 23 cm).{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2013/8/colonel-meow-the-cat-with-the-longest-fur-50832/ |title=Colonel Meow, the cat with the longest fur, makes it into new Guinness World Records™ 2014 Book |publisher=Guinness World Records |date=2013-08-28 |accessdate=2014-07-31}} He became an Internet celebrity when his owners posted pictures of his scowling face to Facebook and Instagram.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/tech/social-media/apparently-this-matters-rip-colonel-meow/|title= Apparently This Matters: Colonel Meow is dead

|website= CNN.com|date= February 1, 2014}} He was lovingly known by his hundreds of thousands of followers as an "adorable fearsome dictator", a "prodigious Scotch drinker" and "the angriest cat in the world".