Once a kid and a purrfect "raccoon" bond with one another, there is no way back. The parents must cave and adopt. 

Cats have a special bond with kids, we swear. They know, somehow, that these humans are different, that they are more fragile, that they require more patience. Sure, not every cat would be the purrfect babysitter, but a lot of them are. A lot of them see these tiny humans, and for some reason, bond with them faster and harder than any other human. 

Maybe it's the kids' innocence that they are attracted to. Maybe they understand that these tiny humans are more likely to adopt them than other humans. Because that is what seems to happen more often than not. The kids bring a kitten home, and the parents are left with no choice but to fall in love with said kitten. Today's story is another piece of proof of that. This kid didn't even know that he was bonding with a cat. He thought the kitty was a raccoon. And that raccoon stole his heart. And in the words of his mom: "He's since been corrected and pressured me into adopting it". She's not saying that grumpily either, she's just as in love with the kitty as her boy. 

Divorce is hard on everyone - and that includes the cats. 

Adopting a cat together is, in theory, a really great and wholesome idea. A way to bond over something mutual. A "baby" to raise together. Lots of couples do it when they are in love and happy and everything seems great. And if everything works out, then perfect. The kitty has two loving pawrents instead of just one. But it doesn't always work out. Sometimes, breakups happen. And those breakups happen to the cats too. 

When you split up your family - and that is what you become when you adopt a cat together - you cannot split the cat between the two parents. It's not a child. It can't do weekends in one house and weekdays in the other. Cats need stability, and cat people generally understand that. So that raises the question - who gets to keep the cat? 

In every case like this that we have seen so far, there is always a custody battle. Both owners want the cat, both owners are bonded with the cat, and to an extent, even if the cat is bonded to one owner more than the other, it's still bonded to both of them. What we have never seen is a case like the one today. Despite being one of the friendliest, cuddliest, sweetest cats that we have ever seen, neither of his owners wanted him. This cat was actually abandoned after his owners divorced, and honestly, we don't get it. We don't understand why they would adopt a cat in the first place if neither of them really wanted him. It's a good thing that actual good people exist in this world. 

The woman who decided to rescue this cat saved his life. Because he was lost. He didn't understand why he was abandoned by everyone, why he was left alone to fend for himself. All he wanted was a hug. And this woman gave that to him and more. He is now in a home where he is actually loved, unlike where he was before. So maybe we should say thank you to his previous owners. He's in a much better home now. 

If you're a cat lover in need of a break from life, you've come to the right place. Welcome to your hilarious hiatus.

Life just feels like a lot right now, right? Between the state of the world, gas prices, plastic filling the ocean, and influencers taking over public spaces, it just makes us want to hide in our homes with our cats and never leave. We basically just described a "purr-trovert", which you probably are if you're feeling the same way we are. And yet, life goes on, and despite the fact that it feels like we're one major disaster away from the world ending, we must keep on keeping on. How else are we going to afford our cats' furrvorite treats?

What we need is a little break. Not much, just a month-long beach vacation with nothing but fun in the sun and a drink in our hands. Is that too much to ask? Well, we can't send you on an all-expenses-paid vacation, unfortunately. We can't even afford that for ourselves. But, what we can do is give you something that will help you furget all the shenanigans going on in the world right now and give you the gift of laughter. 

We've collected some of the funniest feline posts that are circulating the internet right now so you can take a giggle break and expurrience something pawsitive to purrsist against the negativity in the air. It's not much, but it's the thought that counts, right? Who knows, it might be just what you need to turn your day around. You might be surprised how far one simple smile and some comical cats can take you.

Isn't it a shame that Caturday only comes once a week?

It's not fair, is it? You work all week, grinding away at the office from Monday to Friday. Then, you run around from soccer practices to clarinet recitals in the evenings, only to get to the best day of the week (Caturday)… and then it's over in the blink of an eye. We're officially voting for a 3-day weekend. Who's with us? 

Here at the I Can Has Cheezburger offices, we're always looking for ways to fill your week with more cute kitties. We know how stressful and hectic your weekdays are, so much so that you might have even missed all of the fantastic felines that graced your feed on Caturday. But, never fear - I Can Has Cheezburger is here! We went back and collected all the cutest kittens, fluffiest felines, and cattiest of cat posts so you can bring Caturday with you no matter what day it is. That's why we're calling this our "cute Caturday cat pic recap," so even if you missed Caturday completely you don't have to miss out completely.

In fact, it's better this way. We weeded out all the average posts to bring you the best of the best, the most wholesome and heartwarming kitties, all in one place. You only need five minutes to turn your day around and fill it with pawsitivity. All you have to do is scroll down below!

If cats could talk, half of it would be gossip.

Some cats chase toys. Some keep tabs on everybody's business. One little disagreement over a food bowl can turn into a feud that lasts all afternoon. A stolen nap spot becomes a personal attack. Someone hears the treat bag crinkle in another room, and suddenly rumors start moving fast.

Cat gossip feels like it would be fueled almost entirely by overreactions. One suspicious hallway meeting leads to speculation. One missing toy sparks accusations. Before long there is whispering by the scratching post, silent judgment from across the room, and at least one cat refusing to let something go.

The pettiness is what sells it. Tiny dramas get treated like major scandals. Old grudges stay alive. Small misunderstandings keep getting revisited. It is easy to imagine one cat bringing up something from three weeks ago just to stir things up again.

These memes tap into that perfectly. Cats already carry themselves with the confidence of creatures who think they know more than everyone else. Of course they would spread rumors, trade updates, and act shocked by information they probably started. Give cats a little boredom and a little attitude, and the gossip practically writes itself.

Sometimes the cat distribution system shows up at work. 

Rafael sounds like a cat who made his own adoption plan. In the middle of a noisy worksite, with crews digging and machines going, he was just lying there watching it all like it was no big deal. Then instead of running off when someone approached him, he kept following along and made it pretty clear he wanted attention.

One minute he was hanging around a substation, the next he was in an office trailer, and by that night he was headed home. It happened so naturally it almost sounds like Rafael had already decided how it was going to go. Even naming him after where he was found makes it feel like it all fit.

It also sounds like he settled into home life right away. He gets along with the dogs, likes to play, comes when called, and seems to have a huge personality. Not every cat adjusts that easily, which makes it even better.

There's something great about a cat showing up in such a random place and turning into one of the best cats they've ever had. It feels like Rafael knew exactly what he was doing.

No two cats are born alike, and for those of us who have cats who hate being touched, it can be quite the hollow feeling to know that there are cats who can cuddle. So we figured we would try to fill the hole in your soul with some of the sweetest moments from the lives of pawrents who've peaked.

Peak cat pawrenthood is a truly special thing that only a very few feline pawrents will ever reach. It requires a whole host of different variables to come together purrfectly so that you can truly enjoy the full cat child experience. We are talking purrs, cuddles, hugs, and sleeping together. The most sought after signs that you have reached peak cat pawrenthood.

And seeing as most of us cat loving pawrents will never be so lucky as to have cat children who show their love for us in these cute and comforting ways, we will have to make do with the magic of seeing these moments through the screens of our favorite devices. So prepaw yourself to see scenes that you could only dream of recreating with your cat child at home and let them fill the emptiness you have been feeling inside. Because even if you happen to be pawrent to a spicy cat, you too deserve the fulfillment of feline love.  
 

Raising a cat is not a joke, even though it provides endless hilarious moments.

When you have a cat child for the first time, your life changes forever. It's a kind of responsibility that is hard to describe to anyone who has never raised a cat before. It's the realization that we're now responsible for a life so precious, so smol, so gentle. It's being a pawrent. Having this small life in our hands is a contract for life - at least for all the cat's nine lives - to make sure all the needs of this floofy creature are answered. The need for food and shelter, sure, but also those of love, affection, and familial connection.

All this sweetness of caring for a cat child is not just wholesome and heartwarming - it also provides some of life's most hilarious moments. And it's all thanks to your cat, who entered your life either by adoption or by just deciding, "I live here now, you're a cat pawrent." - which is hilarious in and of itself. Some of the funniest feline moments happen in the middle of the night, for example, when the zoomie hour starts. They run all over your furniture, parkour all over the ceiling, and yell at blank walls for no reason. Hissterical.

But despite the cackle-worthy cat moments, raising a cat is no joke. It's a lifelong mission, full of fluffter and laughter, love and clawmedy, cuddles and snuggles. And many snacks, that's for sure.

Not all cats are fast to be adopted, but sometimes it's their choice.

Some cats have it really rough when it comes to their adoption. Mostly because people don't find them "appealing" enough in the shelter, or that they prefer a certain breed and don't consider the cat shelter at all. Some just keep waiting and waiting for the meowsterious Cat Distribution System to deliver them a kitty to their doorstep. But some people actually do get a CDS delivery right to their doorstep, but it's the cat who's taking their sweet time with the decision to be adopted. Because, honestly, it's always the cat that decides.

We all know cats are the true decision makers when it comes to the human-feline relationship status. So even with the Cat Distribution System drive to get adopted installed in them (you know, this "adopt me right meow, hooman!" software in the cat hardware), they might still call the shots and wait. Why? Every cat and their own Very Cat reasons, we guess. But that's okay, as long as every cat is eventually delivered to their purromised forever home - as every cat should.

But what about these two sweet strays down here? Well, they have an even more special story that's still going on. And it's even sweeter than usual. This bonded cat couple first took care of their kittens, making sure they arrived inside the home that took care of them as strays visiting the porch. They're not the first cat parents who took care of the kittens first, but it's such a rare and wholesome sight that we have to share it with you all here. And the cat couple? Oh, they're definitely getting adopted as well.

Even through blind darkness, rain and the effervescent glow of street lights blurring his vision on a highway, this man saw two copper penny eyes glowing at him, and he stopped the car. 

 He lives in a rural, desolate town, the kind that you have to drive through baren nothingness just to get from home to a grocery store. It was a dark and stormy night, he could barely see the speed signs off the road, but he was bedazzled by an orange beauty. On top of her mother who sadly passed over the rainbow bridge was a little orange kitten. He politely scooped her up and took her home. 

Nearly midweek moodiness is inevitable, but not when you have meow-tiful meowers in feline form. Their whiskers are like a swinging pendulum, mesmerizing us with whimsical joy. 

Graceful like dripping dew off a blooming flower, the sky's eyes askew as the clouds block their vision with lambent halations eerie and isolated, a cat's whiskers pop out from behind a tree. Like a tiny philosopher, agog to explore the wonders of the earth, cats have an inherent curiosity akin to a wide-eyed child nascently experiencing the cycles of life. The fingers of your hand cast themselves out to touch and feel if what you're seeing is real. The unique enchantment of a cat's stare is esoteric and mystical, and they have a knack for mesmerizing us with their whimsy whiskered faces. 

Cats move through our homes like an illusion, a shadow slinking around and you never know where they're going to be next. Meow-tiful cats are like electrons that poof in and out of our existence, but they still hold an immense sense of love, joy, and softness for us to behold. Their sentiments hold us like a hug, their meowtiful beauty mesmerizes us into a state of hypnotized adoration, which is why we are so devoted to them. So enjoy this whiskerful collection of cats. 

Kittens may grow larger, smarter, or more cunning, but they'll never outgrow the special kitten meowments that make cats so charming.

Meowing from underneath a bush, a kitten's cries can never be ignored, nor can they be mistaken. The pathetic mews are the mighty roar of the kitten's soul, and as they scream into the void, they summon some fatefully lucky human to do their bidding. Alas, once a compassionate, kind, and likely cat-obsessive feline catches an earful from a kitten, their lives are forever changed. 

At long last, the Cat Distribution System grants a patient cat lover a feline. 

Adorable, cherished, and mighty feisty, kittens come into every cat lover's life without warning. Kittens don't send out eVite invitations of their arrival; they just appear as if by magic into the lives of future cat-loving servants. Demanding attention and respect immediately, kittens use their fragile demeanor to rustle up some well-earned human pity, usually clocking overtime hours at the Wee Baby factory (this is where little cry babies are made). Although kittens must eat every two hours, bottle-fed of course, they are still insatiably hungry for one crucial ingredient to their feline lives: Love. 

Kittens can never get enough love, can they?

Joke's on them, we'll sit through the whole timer and try to pet that floofy orange chonker.

We all know by now that social media is addictive. It's literally designed to keep you interested for as long as pawssible, pushing those buttons in your brain that flood your system with dopamine to keep you scrolling until you can't anymore. Everyone has varying degrees of screen-tolerance, though. Our husband, fur example, can scroll for hours on end without a second thought. We get overwhelmed after a few minutes and have to put our phones down, but we think that most people struggle to break away from the dreaded "doom scroll".

There are various ways to get yourself to stop, like setting timers beforehand or using various apps that promise to interrupt you after a certain amount of time. But we're going to be honest, none of them really work for us. After a few times, we just end up uninstalling them because our desire to scroll is too strong. Until now.

A Japanese developer ZOKUZOKU built a viral Google Chrome extension that sends a chonky orange cat onto your screen if you scroll through social media for too long. The cat comes with a timer for you to get up and take a break, because you can't do anything with that immovable cat on your screen. 

If the goal was to get us to get up and go away, they shouldn't have made the cat so awwdorable. Now we just have another reason to stare at the screen…. but that doesn't mean we won't be downloading it.

Some noses are just born to be booped. And by "some", we mean all cats.

The unfurtunate reality of the world is that, no matter how much we don't want to, we have to wake up and go to work on Monday meowrning. If not, we'll be fired, and then we won't be able to afford our cat's lavish lifestyle. They have very expensive hobbies, and we know how impurrtant their mental stimulation is to their overall health. And so, as our alarm goes off at 7 AM today, we begrudingly get out of bed, put on our work outfit for the day (the one that's least covered in cat hair), and get out the door.

But, as we're about to leave, our kitties come up to us and give us some head bonks, purractically begging us not to go. We tell them that we must go so that we can afford their Fancy Feast and Friskies, but we're not sure they understand, so, we give their awwdorable noses a purrfect boop to let them know we love them.

And then, it pawsitively dawned on us. All we need to have a good day is to boop some kitty snoots, and before you know it, we're smiling. For cat lovers like us, it's ameowzing how you can find little mini moments of joy from the most mundane expurriences. Your cats are a gift, and never furget that. They can bring you joy in your lowest meowments, so boop some feline noses and go get 'em today. You got this!

The work week starts when the office cats clock in.

Monday means the cats are clocking in and kicking off the work week. Fresh week, fresh workload, lots of very impurrtant business to handle. Some look ready to get started right away. Others have the face of someone already thinking about lunch. Strong Monday energy all around.

Cats fit work mode a little too well. They've got the serious expressions, the focus, the "please hold my calls" attitude. Easy to imagine them reviewing reports, handling emails, and settling in for a full day at the office. Some have clear manager energy. Some feel like they just started this morning and are trying to look busy.

The start of the week has its own rhythm. New to-do list, new deadlines, and a whole crew of felines showing up ready to put in a shift. One looks ready to run the meeting. Another seems deep in thought over something probably not urgent at all. Everybody appears employed.

It makes Monday look much better. More pawsitive, more organized, and probably a lot furrier. If the cats are kicking off the work week, the office looks fully staffed and surprisingly motivated. Not a bad group to have on the schedule.

It doesn't take long for kittens to take over your whole heart. 

For a first-time cat pawrent, this feels very real. Two kittens came home a couple months ago and now they're clearly the best part of this person's day, even with blinds getting chewed and late-night wrestling. That's part of the deal.

Peppermint sounds like he won this pawrent over fast. The naps, slow blinks, all the snuggling, even being the one eating the blinds. Calling him a soul cat says a lot. Panda has his own sweet story too, going from hiding under the bed to greeting his person in the morning and coming over when called. That kind of change feels big.

What makes it sweet is hearing a cat pawrent realize all those old ideas about cats not being loving just aren't true. The bond is there, just in cat ways. Once you have it, you get it.

It also feels very familiar how fast this happened. First it's "I adopted two kittens," then it's "I miss them when I'm at work." That's how it goes.

Two kittens showed up and this pawrent is fully in love. Hard not to be.

Move over, Florida Man, the Florida Feline is taking over the internet now.

We appreciate memes of all years and ages, and the Florida Man had a very successful run. It came about in the first half of the previous decade, describing the irrational, ridiculous, and downright maniacal actions of some men in Florida (and some women, of course). It makes sense that such hilarious stories would happen in Florida, the land where alligators in the backyard and Disney World live together happily ever after. It's crazy down there. But it's time to retire the Florida Man meme - just as all the American retirees go to Florida (see what we did there?). It's time for the Florida Feline to take its place.

We're not sure when this replacement happened, but it's making its way very clearly - with this one Florida Feline paving the way to many more funny cat adoption stories to come from the USA's land downunder. Just imagine the internet taken by storm with titles such as "Florida Feline Sneaks Into Grocery Bag, Ends Up Moving in With Shopper", or "Florida Feline Found 'Working' at Office for 3 Weeks Before HR Officially Hires (and Adopts) Him", and maybe "Florida Feline Climbs Into Suitcase, Accidentally Goes on Vacation and Finds Forever Home", and just one more "Florida Feline Joins Neighborhood BBQ Uninvited, Leaves With Full Belly and New Family".

We guess that the Cat Distribution System just works differently in hot and humid weather. Or perhaps it's the already kooky atmosphere of this state. Either way, it gives us cats who are willing to journey overseas just to get adopted, in a true Florida Man news title fashion. Honestly, we care about the bottom line of this cat having their forever home secured - but the way over there also matters.

A woman sees a kitten in danger, and it's imminent. A dog holds the tiny thing in its mouth, but the woman snatches her out in time to save her. 

Stories like these sound unbelievable. After saving her, she rode home in a beanie and slept the whole way. She ate some food and purred loudly when being pet. The woman is immediately enamored and enticed, their love will continue on. After the vet appointment everything will be settled, but read the full story below for all the details about what happened. 

In and out of fosters, from East coast to West coast, this kitty really went through it all. But the cat distribution system has a way of evening the karma score, and gifted a kind woman this kitten. 

Believing in fate is not only common, it can be critical in times of trouble, in times of pain, and also in times of miraculous beauty that leaves you speechless. Octavia is a kitten who's from the east coast originally. She survived a hurricane as a kitten, and was transferred to Fort Collins, Colorado with other animals when the shelters and rescues got destroyed there. She was in a rescue for 2 years! She had been through so much, and it showed. She wasn't a cuddly, happy-go-lucky cat, so many potential adopters saw past her. She was shy and skittish and needed someone with time and patience to adapt to, and she found her. A woman ended up choosing this sweetheart, and the tiny cat is slowly allowing her to pet her. She meows for food and water and finally for pets. This woman fully believes that the cat was meant for her, and it's just heartwarming to read about. Enjoy the story below, and remember that fate doesn't have to be based in something tangible, it could be a beautiful moment of luck. 

The only thing that might help heal your broken heart after your senior cat crosses the rainbow bridge is a teeny weeny kitten who's looking for love. 

As someone who has never actually lost a cat, the thought is absolutely terrifying. Our cats are seniors by now. We pretend that we don't see it on them, we live in denial on purpose, but we do see it. We see the changes, their pace slowing, their need for extra heat and comfort, their closeness to us increasing with time as well. Cats growing old is something that is not supposed to happen, in our minds. It's not allowed. It couldn't be. 

But it happens. Cats get older the same way that we do, as much as we might hate that. Of course, just like the person in this story, once it happens to us, we don't know how we will recover. But maybe this person found the solution. A broken heart of a person who has lost a cat will never be mended fully, at least we don't think so. The hole would be too big to fill. But maybe a teeny weeny kitten who's looking for love might help fill it just a tiny bit.