Cat looks like a bunny

[muhammadmuzzammil1998]

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/ I am a cat and  \
\ I meow          /
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  (\__/)||
  (•ㅅ•)||
  /    \っ

But still, will redesign the cat to have one more hand and a tail. :)

Open to ideas! 🐱 🐰

[muhammadmuzzammil1998]

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< Testing cat 123 >
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  (\__/)||
_ (•ㅅ•)||
 \/o   \っ

[chillidoor]

It looks like there are already some established ASCII cat emojis (of course there would be, haha). https://cutekaomoji.com/animals/cats/

I think that using something similar to one of those would stop any bunny/cat confusion.

Perhaps something like this?

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| Kitty says meow |
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  /\______/\   ||
 (=＾• ⋏ •＾=)っ||

[muhammadmuzzammil1998]

Of course, there would exist such a thing 😂 So much potential!
But sadly, most of them aren't supported in the terminal 😞 so it would have to also work on just the ASCII characters.

The one you gave would look like this in ASCII only:

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| Kitty says meow |
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  /\_____/\  ||
 (=^* > *^=)>||

ASCII only of #3 (comment)

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< I am in ascii only mode >
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   (\__/) ||
_  (*/\*) ||
  \/o   \ >

Also, the length of cat matters, right now it requires 9 characters in total for it to look like the cat is holding a board. catsay suffixes empty whitespace to make message at least 9 characters long so the handle is positioned in the right manner.
Otherwise it would look like this with a short message:

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< Hi >
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  (\__/)||
_ (•ㅅ•)||
 \/o   \っ

[muhammadmuzzammil1998]

But this gives me an idea of having custom cats which users can set. 🎉