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The work week is a toughie, it drags on and on and is seriously lacking in the amount of face time we get to have with our cute cat kids. So to keep you meowtivated to finish the working day and get home to your rambunctious rascal we made this cute collection of cat memes.

While the studies are not conclusive at this point, there is a lot of evidence that speaks to the energizing and uplifting pawer of cat memes. Not only for the cat loving hooman, but for all hoomankind. There is something about laying one's eyes upon a regal feline and reading some words that contradict the cat's appearance that tickles the hooman soul and keeps us motivated to power through life.

So with these marvelous feline memes wielding such pawer, there comes great responsibility too, which we take upon ourselves here. That being the delivery of the purrfect cat meme to make you feel mentally invigorated and prepawed to take on the challenges of the day as and when they come. And we have not taken that responsibility lightly when carefully selecting the memes to be included in this meowtivating collection of cats. With that being said, we invite you to dive in and emerge from the waters rejuvenated and restored by the all mighty pawer of feline kind. 
 

From Florida to California, and the start of a new life of healing with a tiny kitten next to the mother and her son. 

Grief is a mysterious character. He shows up out of nowhere when we least expect it. It's not just about crossing the rainbow bridge, or a betrayal, or something specific. It takes many shapes and has to do with any type of loss, which life is always full of. In Reddit's r/cats, the unthinkable happens. A man's life is turned upside down when his father passes away. He has to relocate from Florida to California with his mother who just lost the love of her life. As we get older, these types of things may hit harder. When we marry, there's an expectation of growing old together, and when it doesn't happen it could be devastating. There's a lot of pressure put on the son now, but with the help of their furry new friend, things may get better quickly. 

They wanted a dog, but the cat distribution system had something else in mind. They found a tiny rescue kitten behind their house, and decided that it's the purrfect time to get a kitten. Pets can be so overwhelmingly healing, and it's important that they have each other (and the cat) now. Read the full story below, and try not to cry! 

Bonding with a feral cat is one of the most gratifying experiences ever. But what do you do with that cat when you have to move?

Anyone who has ever tried bonding with a feral cat knows that it is one heck of a task. They are distrustful and careful by nature. Humans can be unpredictable, and these cats know that. It takes a long time for a feral cat to trust a human. Might even take years. But when they do, it is so gratifying. Finally, even if we can't take them home, we're able to spoil these cats just a little bit, giving them treats and pets and the love we know they deserve. 

The couple who told their story on r/Feral_Cats have been feeding and bonding with their feral cat for seven whole years. They love this cat, and this cat loves them, but she is still at least semi-feral and living outside. Of course, life goes on. Things change. People grow. They reach different stages of life. And this couple decided that it was the right time to buy a home. In that home, they prepared a whole room for their semi-feral cat, and they were hopeful. They just didn't realize how difficult it would be to convince her to get into a carrier. 

It got to the point that the couple was regretting buying this home, saying that they should have simply stayed in the old one until the sweet kitty crossed the rainbow bridge. And after their family couldn't understand their struggle, they turned to the internet, and the internet… did not disappoint. When it comes to cats, the internet does not give up. And people gave this couple some interesting advice. Very creative. And just like that, the kitty is coming home with her humans. 

One message is all it takes for complete chaos to break loose.

Group chats have a funny way of getting completely out of paw. One message turns into ten, ten turns into a hundred, and before long nobody remembers what the original conversation was even about. If cats had their own group chat, it probably wouldn't look much different.

The first message would be important for about thirty seconds. Someone would announce breakfast, another cat would immediately change the subject, and before long the entire chat would be filled with blurry bird photos from the window. One orange cat would somehow send 47 messages in a row without saying anything useful, while the tuxedo cat would only respond with a single judgmental reaction before disappearing for the rest of the day.

Every cat group chat would have its regulars. One feline would insist on sharing daily loaf updates. Another would flood the chat with close-up toe bean photos nobody asked for. The neighborhood cat would randomly appear once a month, drop one mysterious "mrrp," refuse to explain, and vanish again. Someone would inevitably start hissteria over an empty food bowl, even though it had only been empty for twelve seconds.

Making plans wouldn't get any easier. Half the chat would vote for the sunny windowsill, the other half would campaign for the cardboard box, and one stubborn cat would ignore every message before showing up six hours late like nothing happened. The meeting would be postponed after someone spotted a bug on the ceiling anyway.

Maybe it's better that cats don't have phones. The notifications would never stop, nobody would stay on topic, and the group name would probably change three times before lunchtime.

We all know that cats have "selective hearing", but how can you tell if your cat is just really good at ignoring you or actually deaf?

Felines are famous for listening only when it suits them. They're the kings and queens of following directions that they invented themselves and ignoring all others. Demands like "Get off the counter!" or "You're not allowed up there!" simply pass through one ear and out the other. It's part of the joys of being a pawrent, realizing that your own power is limited. It's a humbling expurrience, truly. But then again, there are some cats that can't listen at all, and many of them are pure white cats with a recessive gene that predisposes them to blindness and deafness.

After adopting a pair of meowjestic Maine coons, our cat dad from Reddit's r/cats community is wondering if his new kitty's previous diagnosis is actually true. One of the pair, Yuki (the foofy, white cloud of a cat), was deaf, according to his previous pawrents. However, now that Yuki is in his new dad's house, he has seen him reacting to certain sounds. So, is Yuki truly deaf or just really good at ignoring whichever hoomans take care of him?

This is the question he asked the meowmbers of the cat community, and as we would expect them to, they came to his adorable aid.

There are benefits to a cat being deaf. You don't have to worry about them running for their lives whenever you vacuum, and the 4th of July will pass by like a nice, Summer breeze. However, if Yuki truly is deaf, he will have to find a way to communicate with him that is safe and understandable for both of them.

One ordinary drive home turned into the rescue of a lifetime.

Every now and then, Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit delivers a rescue story that feels too unbelievable to be real. Rusty's journey began on the Fourth of July with what looked like a tiny gray cloud tumbling out from underneath the car ahead. In a matter of seconds, one couple's drive to a family party became something they'll remember for the rest of their lives.

The first thought wasn't that it was a kitten. It looked more like a squirrel that had been hit and was rolling across the road. Then the little gray bundle stood up and ran for the shoulder. The couple managed to stop in time, pulled over immediately, and rushed to see if he had survived.

Somehow, he had. Aside from a small scrape on his lip, the kitten escaped without any broken bones or serious injuries. It's hard to believe after everything he had just been through, but he walked away with little more than a close call and a chance at a completely different life.

The couple named him Rusty, a nod to the Lithuanian words rasti ("to find") and rastas ("found"). It couldn't have been more fitting. They didn't leave home expecting to meet a kitten that day, and Rusty certainly didn't plan on finding his family in the middle of a busy road. Yet their paths crossed at exactly the right moment.

One decision to pull over changed everything. Rusty went from clinging to survival on the side of the road to being welcomed into a home where he'll never have to fend for himself again. The holiday plans may have changed, but it's safe to say this Fourth of July came with a much better story than anyone at the party was expecting.

Move over, upstanding citizens, cats on their hind legs are here to take over.

It seems like sometimes cats forget they are mammals, which mostly walk on four. Sure, you might know more than one insanely weird cat in your life, but for the most part - cats are just chill. Until they are not. And that's where their absolutely unhinged behaviors enter the chat. Cats can get very weird, very fast - and every cat pawrent with at least one cat knows exactly what we're talking about.

Every cat is a strange little creature in their own right, but some of their weird behaviors are shared across the board. Even the calmest of cats will get the 4 AM zoomies, you know? But zoomies are not where the collective cat weirdness ends. A lot of cats, for example, like to be held upside down. Most don't, but the ones who do probably share exactly one brain cell. Other cats, for another example, climb on the most unclimbable furniture. Just ask the nearest cat parent what the highest place they've ever found their cat in is - you'll get "above the curtain", "on top of the bathroom heater", or "literally in the ceiling", most likely.

And some cats just stand there. Not as in "standing doing nothing, staring at a blank wall" (although some cats do tend to do that), but as in "standing on their own two feet", even if they're technically paws. They just… stand there. For various cat reasons, we assume. Check the hilarious evidence for yourself. We think these will be some of the tallest cats you'll see, even if it's just a hind leg illusion.

No new cat will completely fill the hole left in your heart by your cat when it passes, but maybe saving a cat in need will help that hole start mending. 

A lot of cat owners could probably relate, but my worst fear right now, as I'm looking at my precious 11-year-old senior cat napping in the spare desk chair beside me as I'm typing this, is having her cross the rainbow bridge. And I know, logically, that 11 is not that old for a cat, that she might have many, many more happy and healthy years in front of her, but… Anytime would be too soon. Tomorrow will be too soon. Ten years from now would be too soon. She's my soul cat. My family. And I can't imagine anything filling the hole in my heart that she'll leave behind. But stories like today's, and like many others shared on r/CatDistributionSystem, give me a little bit of hope.

I want to continue helping cats forever. And right now, it's easy. Right now, with my soul cat beside me, I have no problem making room in my heart for a foster or a hungry stray cat. But when she'll be gone… how do you do it? I guess like this. I would like to believe that if I found a cat that needs help after she's gone, I'll have the ability to take them in and help them. I hope the desire to help, the happiness of helping a kitty in need, will be greater than the pain of the memory of losing my girl. It's hard to think about now, and I refuse to put cat-related negativity out into the universe, so I'll just say this: thank you to the people who already do what I would like to one day be able to do. Thank you. 

Cats are silly…it's time to embrace your own. 

Some days demand more from us, they're filled from morning till night with responsibilities that we'd rather not be doing. They're just a sequence of images that deplete us with their monotony. Some days might feel like that, which is why it's important to have an easy medicine to combat said days, and that medicine is silly, happy cat memes. The serious conversations, meetings, and productive organized plans can wait for a moment. Today is the day where tomfoolery breaches the threshold of your own silly capacity. Today is for tomfoolery. The kind of pawsitively packed tomfoolery is just the kind of thing cats are capable of. They're silly in ways that other animals can't be, because they take themselves so seriously. This dichotomy adds to the absurdity, which is the purrfect bereavement to boredom. 

They run, jump, hiss, and meow and they don't know we're laughing all the time at them. They think they've gotten us with their midnight zoomies, or their morning shouts for tuna, but we're the ones reaping the benefit of their chaos. Their behavior has us laughing, busting up with mirth, unable to control how much we're reeling in their silly craze. They're not always known to be happy animals, but they are. They're delightfully unpredictable, and their mischief is more like an entertaining art form. 

Much like trying to hold on to an eel, cats are a slippery bunch and the moment you think you have mastered a weird or annoying behavior of theirs, they will find a way to make a comeback. So today I am sharing some crafty cat hacks that will hopefully help you stay at least one step ahead of your clawminal cat child.

It is not often that I will delve into the pages of Reddit's r/CatTraining subreddit as I truly believe there is little hope for a single brain celled orange cat to ever learn tricks, but this time I found myself looking for help to stop my feline lunatic from consistently making my life miserable. At this point I am his feeder and cleaner and his demands for both keep growing with each clawminal event. So you can imagine my delight when I finally found a collection of pawrents who similarly have been struggling and came together to share their very best cat hacks.

Finally an answer to the troubles that have been keeping me up at night, I thought to myself. And I was indeed correct. The ideas that these pawrents have brought forth are nothing less than genius and cover a wide range of behaviors and corrections all the way from the pawrent who leaves trash on the floor for her cats to play with, to the hooman who learned to outright ignore his cat child's clawminality as it fostered a positive reaction from the cat as they received attention. So no matter what your kitty has done to disrespect our authority in the house, and no matter how dire the situation might feel, I believe you will find some solace and cat hacks to help you amongst this list.