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What I don't like about it is that it always returns the same image (not a random one) for a given size.

Add ?image=n to the end of the URL for fine-grained catte selection. I've definitely got some favorites that I'd rather see more of at any size :3

http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=1 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=4 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=5 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=6 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=9 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=12 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=13 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=14 http://placekitten.com/452/450?image=15

Yeah, they seem to be static images stored on the server, rather than generated dynamically via, say, Google Search. Personally I would have gone via that route. Have the word "kitten" and the pixel size as parameters, and serve a random photo out of the first 50 results.

This would mean no caching, so your computer would have to download the image every time, even if it was the same as one you'd already seen.

Unless you're only using these images for client demos, it can be very slow and frustrating waiting for them to load every time you refresh while trying to do html, css or js tweaks.

Also, licensing.

I like http://pugholder.com

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