I have a polydactyl cat with a thumb. She’d open it herself.

I WANT THAT CAT!

Thank you A Sad Pony! :D  
I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY! :D

That’s one smart cat, an one averagely dexterous human.

@Background Pony
 
Not quite per image. Per frame. GIF images can have ‘local color tables’, meaning each frame in the image has its own palette. But that takes up a lot of space since the tables aren’t compressed, so I doubt this sub-600K image has anything but a global color table. Having that Lyra and the cat video in the same table doesn’t really honor either’s colors.
 
And the ordered dithering employed in the image here (it’s also something Nonymous employs to great effect, I’ve noticed) can help create a pattern that the LZW compression algorithm compresses more easily.
 
You can read more about the perils of video to .gif handling here.

Smart cat.

@RIG  
Grayscale is enabled when you upload in grayscale gifs/images for some reason. You can turn it off. Also, I’m loving this new comment preview and reply system.

Blue or red tints usually caused by wrong color temperature settings in the camera.

The GIF format only supports 256 colours per image. If you don’t export correctly you get this.

And blue.
 
I was wondering that as well.

why the colors are so gray?

Bon Bon: Lyra, get off the TV/Computer and stop watching so much human porn!