"Fifteen centimeters — a tick under six inches — is barely an inch more than the height of a 12-ounce soda can, or a couple of cupcakes one atop the other. It is also roughly the height of the smallest living house cat on record — but not for long, if Guinness World Records smiles upon a Napa woman and her rug-hugging feline. The possible new queen of the tiny cats is the aptly named Lilieput, a sock of black and mocha fur who spends her days around the ankles of her owner, Christel Young. Napping on her owner’s living room carpet or nuzzling one of her three feline housemates, the kitten-size, 9-year-old Munchkin is in most ways the typical four-footed companion, except for unusually short forelegs that lend her a waddling gait. Thursday afternoon, Young, a 34-year Napa resident, brought her to be measured by a veterinarian before three witnesses and a video camera, in an event intended to win the animal fame as the world’s smallest domestic cat. Two years ago, Guinness World Records, the record-keeping authority for various achievements, serious and silly, recognized Fizz Girl, another Munchkin breed owned by Tiffani Kjeldergaard of San Diego, as the tiniest feline alive at 15.24 centimeters from front paw pad to front shoulder. According to her owner, Lilieput may be 2 centimeters closer to the ground — and small enough to appear in Guinness’s next annual book of superlatives if its judges accept the measurement. On Thursday, a Napa veterinarian, Dr. Randy R. Lung, unofficially recorded the cat’s height at 13.4 centimeters — the average of three measurements on the same day, as Guinness World Records requires for the category; the agency still must verify the short stature." - Anne Bouey

I think this article needs more illustrative examples of stuff that makes up approximately six inches in one dimension or another :) - Eivind

That would have been a good idea, Eivind. :) - Anne Bouey

In another age someone would have *dropped pants* about here :) - Eivind

Eivind. - Anne Bouey

:D - Eivind