yeah it's probably celebs just designing/decorating the kittyrobots and then auctioned off. they did something similar here with statues in the Twin Cities a while back for a couple years of the Peanuts characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, etc.) because the creator was from here. each summer they were created and decorated by artists, then placed all over town then were auctioned off at the end of the summer. the first year it was Snoopy, then Charlie Brown, and so on.
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http://arts.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/...03/charlie.jpg
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