Why Paint Cats is a humorous book written by New Zealand author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch.

Some readers were concerned at the dangers of applying paint to cats, but the book's depictions are digitally manipulated.

[1] Critical reception for the book has been mixed to positive, with the SF site calling it "luscious, funny, and really, truly amazing".

[2] Publishers Weekly wrote that the book was "amusing as a novelty item" and that it was "so weird that it's sort of irresistible.

[4] The Los Angeles Times wrote that Silver's writing was "tongue-in-cheek scholarly, complete with footnotes and a bibliography".