Last year my friend Cyriak and I made an animation together called ‘Meow’ which was all about a zombie kitten apocalypse (and an excuse to draw some horrible yet cute zombie kittens having a bit of a boogie to one of Cyriak’s music tracks!)
Fast forward to today and a message plopped into Cyriak’s Youtube inbox along with the following photo -
Bell and her little cousin go Trick or Treating!
I had a quick look and then it registered that this child was dressed as one of the zombie cats from our video!
The rather unfortunate dangly-eyed zombie cat!
The girl beneath the costume is five year old Bell, who is a fan of Meow and wanted to dress up as a zombie cat this Halloween – good for her! Luckily she has a super-talented Mum and Grandma who set about making a fantastic costume for her! The head was crafted by Dawn Weast (mum) whilst Suzy Gruber (grandma) took care of the main (bloody) body of the costume – from neck right down to the claws!
'Meow Meow!' - Zombie Cat costume by Dawn Weast & Suzy Gruber
I can’t tell you how much I grinned when I saw these photographs! I’ve seen Bell without her zombie cat head and she’s the sweetest little girl ever. I think if there was an Adorrible blog award Bell would have to win it for being so cute yet choosing to dress as a zombie cat!
You look awesome Bell, and I hear you got lots of sweets when you went Trick or Treating – well done! I hope people weren’t too scared of you! Your costume is just perfect, exactly how I imagined a real life zombie cat to be when I drew them for the animation! I bet you can dance just as good as them too.
Good work Dawn, Suzy, Matt and of course Bell and thanks for sharing your photographs with us and allowing us to show everybody.
Now I wonder if this costume comes in adult size…. 
How adorrible indeed!
Bella looked adorable in her zombie kitten apocalypse costume.
this would be perfect for a costume wedding i am attending in september… how did you make the head? please, i hope you still get notified when people post
Hey Katie, wow I want to see the photos from a wedding where guests are dressing as zombie cats – sounds fun!
Unfortunately I can’t help much because I didn’t make this fantastic costume, it was made by the mum & gran of the little girl wearing it and the photo sent to us by her dad.
Apparently it was her first go at making something like this, and the head was completely hand sewn! I can’t even tell from looking at it how she may have constructed it… if I was going to have an attempt I’d possibly start by using something inflatable like a big beach ball and covering it in paper mache to get a fairly light hollow shell that your head can fit inside? After that I’d have to call my own mum to help cover it in fabric, because I can’t sew
If you manage to make something I would love to see it. Good luck and have fun at the wedding!
[...] featuring zombie cats called Meow. Dawn Weast and Suzy Gruber were inspired by the video and made a Zombie Cat costume for Weast’s 5-year-old daughter Bell. The handmade costume is a dead ringer for one of the [...]