[raldi]

Again, I think first-world children over the age of 3 have been exposed to plenty of drawings like that, and also, Google can recognize it as a cat anyway -- in fact, it even knows which cat; do an Image Search and you'll see, "Best guess for this image: garfield meme"

[taneq]

Your criteria were "looks enough like a cat to be recognized as one, but unlike any cat that a 3-year-old would have seen before".

Google doesn't recognize it as a feline, it recognizes it as Garfield.