So "people have been trying to catch this handsome fellow to clean him off but so far have been unsuccessful," yet they have several clear, high-quality, professional-looking photos of him?

Also, there's paint on several parts of his head and faced his tongue could not have possibly reached. The story, at the very least, is complete bullshit, and I'm pretty sure the pics are photoshopped too (applying a tint to a certain object in photoshop is an extremely easy thing to do).

Nah man, that cats a shiny