She was a cat, she said meow, could we make it any more obvious?

We've seen a lot of cats with celebrity names in our time, but every once in a while, the universe really commits to the bit. Meet Avril Lavigne: a roughly 2-year-old domestic shorthair at Surrey Animal Resource Centre, and quite possibly the most appropriately named shelter cat on the planet. Just look at that eyeliner. The dramatic stare. The effortlessly unimpressed expression. This is not just Avril Lavigne the cat. This is Avril Lavigne in her Let Go era (arguably her best era, if you ask us). 

Naturally, the internet noticed.

According to the shelter, Avril is incredibly sweet with humans and loves attention, affection, and admiration from her fans (as most cats do). In other words, she's ready for her Girlfriend era… provided that girlfriend, boyfriend, or pawrent understands one very important thing: other cats can kindly sk8 away.

Avril wants to be the only feline headliner in her home. No opening acts or surprise duets. No complicated multi-cat household dynamics. Dogs are still an unknown, and the shelter recommends a home with cat-savvy kids ages 12 and up. We have to admire a woman who knows exactly what she wants.

We're happy to report… drum roll, please… that this tiny pop-punk purring princess is about to get her Happy Ending - someone submitted an application form for her after looking into those purrfectly lined eyes and said, "I'm With You."

If they don't adopt her, then good news! She might just be your cat soon, but we hope that doesn't happen… because there's no need to make things so complicated.

This isn't your average campfire ghost story.

On a foggy Sunday meowrning, everything was quiet and the water was still. Not a mouse stirred anywhere in sight, and one other thing was noticeably missing…

Hoomans.

Washington authorities boarded an abandoned ship floating off the coast of a beach this weekend, and found a colony of cats on board. It took them time to understand how many were on board, as the ship was by no means small and there were many cracks and crevices for the kitties to hide in. With many hiding underneath the floorboards, their early estimation jumped from 10 to more than 30. After spending hours corralling all of them into safe containers, we're pawsitively happy to report that all 31 cats and kittens were rescued from the boat.

But how did they get there in the first place? And why?

Even the homeless aren't free from the shackles of the cat distribution system. 

You'd think being homeless would let you off the hook for some things. You don't even have a home, so you're pretty much exempt from any responsibility of life. So then why would the cat distribution system gift you of all people with a kitten lost in the heat of summer? This homeless man knew that he doesn't have the means to take care of a kitten, and he also couldn't stand to see the kitten suffer in the heat in the middle of summer. He promptly rescues the kitten from the streets and brings him to AC, and in this case it's a nearby CVS. He tells the workers the story, and they decide who is going to take the kitten. One kind human steps up to the challenge and says he'll take the kitten home as his own. After a vet visit and 2 weeks, he and the kitten are inseparable. The little guy is 9 weeks old, just a baby! It's miraculous to see that even without having much in the world, someone was kind enough to want to help a kitten in need. 

Living with a cat means never being completely sure whether you're about to get a cuddle or a warning swipe.

There are days when your feline bestie wants nothing more than to be attached to you. They climb into your lap, shove their head under your hand, and start purring before you've even begun the belly rubs. Personal space disappears, leaving you trapped under a warm pile of fur for the foreseeable future. Moving is obviously not an option. You have been chosen.

Then the spice kicks in.

Suddenly, the same cat who demanded seventeen minutes of uninterrupted affection yesterday is deeply offended that you dared to touch them today. You reach out for one innocent little pet and get a look that clearly says you've crossed a line. Try for a cuddle, and you're negotiating with four paws, a rapidly flicking tail, and enough cattitude to make you reconsider your choices.

Cat pawrents learn to appreciate affection whenever it's offered. When your cat voluntarily curls up beside you, you cancel whatever plans involved getting off the couch. When they climb onto your chest at 3 a.m., you accept that breathing comfortably is no longer important. And when they don't want cuddles? Well, sometimes you still attempt one quick hug before accepting defeat.

That's the sweet and spicy experience of loving a cat. Affection happens on their terms, at their preferred time, for an amount of time known only to them. One minute you're their favorite person in the entire world. The next, your hand has apparently committed an unforgivable crime by attempting pet number six.

Yet cat pawrents keep coming back for more. Those surprise cuddles and tiny head bumps are worth every rejected hug. Besides, figuring out whether today's mood is sweet or spicy is half the fun.

Are we dreaming, or is Monday much lighter with a cat involved?

There's no mistaking the fact that cats make our mere human existence better by simply existing by our sides. If a cat's human is feeling tired after a long day at work, the cat's energy of greeting them excitedly at the door brings them their energy back. Then, playtime commences, so that means the tired human turns from low-evergy groggy creature into a high-energy feather toy flailing warrior. And if a cat pawrent is sad, their cat will gently approach, slowly walk until they reach them, and perch themselves on their lap, purring. This is bound to bring happiness to anyone's heart.

Cats have such great influence over us, and we mean it in the best way possible. So even when a Monday comes around, the fact that we have a cat near us, doing their own cat thing, already provides a great way to deal with Monday, one meow at a time. When the thoughts of your work piling up for the week are creeping in, let the cat's purrs creep instead. If the thought of another meeting that could've easily been an email clouds your mind, let your cat's meows be the sunshine in your thoughts instead. And if you fear the big bad Monday, remember your cat. It'll already make you feel better.

And that's why we insisted on bringing all these cat memes here today, of all days. We're not about to keep them for ourselves, because being a cat person is all about sharing the sweet cat content online with other cat people - especially if it helps them deal with Monday better. So, here we are, fellow cat people - enjoy these meowing memes and make your Monday better.

So you've been a cat person for a while now (to say the least), and you keep hearing "CDS this" and "CDS that", but you've wondered what the Cat Distribution System is anyway?

Well, fellow feline fans, if you've ever wanted answers, you've found the right place. We're here to explain in detail what the Cat Distribution System is, how it works, and what it does - all while using this one adopted kittey as an example. Because learning by example is the best way to comprehend such amorphous concepts as the meowsterious CDS.

Simply put, the Cat Distribution System makes "cat deliveries". But unlike your typical Uber Eats, it's not by order. The CDS has a very profound way of looking into a cat's and a person's souls and determining whether that said person can give the cat in need their forever home - whether by adoption or by being an important foster step on their way to find their family. And yes, even a foster is a great help.

But what are/is the CDS exactly? That's a more difficult question to answer. It's a sort of body of action, an institution of discovery, a group for saving cats… but no one actually knows what or who they are. So this is the only question we'll leave here unanswered. But let us move on to the adorable adoptee below, and what his adoption story can teach us about the mysteries of the CDS.

Sometimes, it's the person you least expect who ends up adopting the tiniest kitten. 

The beauty of cats is that they can and they do win over everyone. Yes, everyone. People who say that they hate cats have never actually spent real time with one. They've never given cats a chance. They just believe the stereotypes - that cats are aloof, that cats don't care about their humans, that cats bite and scratch and only tolerate you because you feed them. Whereas every person who has ever owned a cat can tell you that cats are so affectionate toward their humans, it's incredible. Cats, of course, have never cared what people think about them or say about them. They can sense who is going to be purrfect for them even before that person senses it themselves. 

This is why we have so many stories of people who hate cats adopting cats, and people who have never wanted pets at all falling in love with cats, and people who are allergic to cats finding the one cat they're willing to fight the allergies for. Even the grumpiest, most stoic and unexpected people will get adopted by a cat. And that cat will melt their exterior like it's butter. Which is what happened in today's story. When a customer walked into a "no pets allowed" store with a rescued kitten hidden in her shirt and got caught, what do you think happened? The obvious, of course. The "grumpy old man" employee in the store, who everyone expected to kick the lady with the kitten out, not only did he not do that, he is also the one who ended up taking that kitten from the lady and bringing the kitten home. Melted. Like butter. Because he could not withstand the cuteness of that purrfect itty bitty kitty. 

Sometimes, the CDS gives the wrong delivery address to the kittens. 

Listen, the CDS is real, and it works. That is a fact. We can't imagine anyone arguing with us. How else do you explain all the stories? How do you explain a kitten flying in through the window into a man's lap and his first question being "what do I need to get to raise it"? How do you explain kittens following their owners home on some of their most important days? My cat followed me home on Independence Day and never had another day of independence in her life. My husband's cat followed him directly to his house on his birthday. The CDS knows which cats need help and which homes to deliver them to. And it always works. A bad adoption is not the work of the CDS. It does not count. But sometimes, even the CDS is faced with employee error, and the kitten in today's story was accidentally given the wrong address. 

When a kitten is ready to get off the streets and into a forever home, there is nothing stopping it. The kitten will literally chase its chosen humans if it has to. And that is what this kitten thought he was doing. He was given an address, spotted "his humans," and started running. Except… they started running too. In the opposite direction. And so, okay, it's easy for us to say that it's their loss for running away, because Gus is one of the cutest kittens that we have seen in a while, but Gus couldn't have felt that way when he was running toward what he thought was his forever home, and his forever home was running from him. He just didn't know that his actual rescuer was sitting in the drive-through, watching the whole thing. 

Another Monday is here, and it's time to start the week with a fresh batch of purrfect cat Tweets! 

If there is one thing that the internet continues to be good at, it's cat stuff. The world could be on fire, we could be on the brink of disaster, zombies could invade, and still, the internet will continue producing cat memes. Because we need cat content. Cats rule the internet for a reason, and that is because we want them to, because the world, and especially the internet, could never be the same without them. And one place on the internet where they continue to rule with an iron paw, no matter how many changes the platform goes through, is Twitter. Or X, whatever. 

Our feeds might be full of the worst news we have ever seen and spoilers of everything that we want to see, but amongst all those things, all the things that you wish to avoid, is something meowgical. Viral cat content everywhere if you just look close enough. But of course, when there is so much that you don't want to see online, then you may not want to look quite that closely. And that is what we are here for. 

Each and every week, we bring you a new, carefully curated collection of the most viral cat tweets of the week. So you don't have to go looking. So you don't have to search through the wasteland. We do the work for you. We put together the cutest, the funniest, the most wholesome and even the slightly controversial cat tweets of the week into this one collection. Zero effort on your part. All you need to do is wake up, get on ICHC, scroll away and enjoy every bit of purrfect cat content that you might have missed on Twitter this week. 

The myriad of ways in which our feline friends are gotten rid off seems to have no end and yet endless creativity with the latest cat to catch a case of homelessness finding their way to the streets via a parking lot push out of the car. Thankfully, they were not without a home as there was a loving cat pawrent on the scene who saw the whole thing go do.

Cats really do get the short end of the stick far more than they deserve to. What have they ever done to use hoomans that we did not have coming to us? Sure, some people end up with scratches, litter box contents strewn across the floor and 3 am wake up calls that start to seep into their nightmares. But these acts of revenge are just that, responses to things that hoomans have done to them. So it really grinds our gears when we hear about a cat being thrown out of their home for no good reason like in this story.

But as is often said every wrong has a right and this wrong had a right waiting right there in the very same parking lot watching the whole harrowing event happen in real time. Of course this pawrent could not just sit around and let a cat child crawl into the undergrowth to fend for themselves, and so she stepped in to bring the kitty home to rest and recover. But as time went on, things turned sour between the newcomer and one of the incumbent cat children causing quite the conundrum…
 

Meownday is just a phenomenon that will not quit. Possibly a more inconvenient truth than the rising temperatures, it returns each and every week to deliver a double dose of disappointment that the weekend has ended and the work week begun, driving us deeper into our despair. But today we hold our heads up high and have a good old giggle at these witty kitty memes, making the misery of Monday melt away.

It is a well known fact by now both amongst feline fans and lovers of animal memes in general that a cat meme has the pawtential to not only raise one's spirits but entirely make them furget about the worries and woes that have been plaguing them. This is all thanks to the fact that cats seem to live in this parallel reality that exists alongside our own. It is almost completely the same, other than the fact that in the feline's reality they write the rules, and when those rules do not totally align with those of our own reality, hilarity ensues.

And it is in that distilled hilarity that we find the funny feline pawer that heals us and helps us let go of the things that are weighing us down. So take a meowment fur yourself and get ready to indulge in some judgement cats who could out judge your boss any day of the week, some struggling cattos feeling the weight of the world just as you are, and of course who could furget about electrician catto who has shockingly high waisted pants. 
 

Summer has a new fashion icon, and it has whiskers.

Put a pair of sunglasses on a cat, and suddenly it looks like it owns the beach, the pool, and probably the house too. It's almost unfair how effortlessly felines pull off a look that most of us could never dream of wearing. One tiny pair of shades, one perfectly timed stare, and they've somehow become the coolest creature in the neighborhood.

Cats already have the attitude to match the outfit. They walk into every room like they're the guest of honor, claim the best sunny spot without asking, and expect everyone else to work around their schedule. Add sunglasses, and it feels like they're silently judging everyone who forgot to bring SPF.

Every picture somehow has its own purrsonality. One cat looks like it's enjoying a luxury vacation after a long week of napping. Another looks ready to spend the afternoon lounging by the pool while ignoring every text and responsibility. A single head tilt can turn an ordinary photo into one that belongs on the cover of a summer magazine.

The funniest part isn't even the sunglasses. It's how naturally cats wear the confidence that comes with them. They don't smile for the camera or strike dramatic poses. They simply exist, and somehow that's enough to make every picture look effortlessly stylish.

There isn't a summer accessory that suits cats better. Beach hats come and go. Bandanas have their moment. Tiny Hawaiian shirts get a few laughs. Sunglasses, though, never miss. They somehow match every fur color, every expression, and every level of cattitude.

By the time you've scrolled through a handful of these fashionable felines, you'll probably find yourself wondering why sunglasses weren't invented for cats in the first place. They wear them like they've been doing it their whole lives, and the rest of us are just lucky enough to watch the runway show.

The Cat Distribution System has never been very interested in waiting for the "right time."

This family thought they had everything planned out. They were moving next month, wanted to help their current cat settle into a new home before introducing a companion, and figured they'd start filling out adoption applications after the move. It made perfect sense. Then a tiny kitten came running down the highway and completely changed the plan.

The rescue wasn't exactly easy. The frightened little kitten darted through traffic while her future family chased after her in flip-flops, hoping they could reach her before another car did. By the time they finally scooped her up, she was scratched, filthy, and completely exhausted. Less than 20 minutes later, she was already at the vet getting the care she needed.

The veterinarian asked the question every rescuer dreams of hearing.

"Do you plan on keeping her?"

Looking at Styx now, it's hard to believe she's the same kitten. The scared highway runner has been replaced by a happy kitten with a round little belly, a loud purr, and a family that's completely wrapped around her tiny paw. She'll even have another cat waiting to help her settle into the new house.

Plans have a funny way of changing when a cat gets involved. People spend weeks scrolling through adoption listings, debating names, and deciding when the timing feels right. Then a kitten shows up out of nowhere and makes the decision for them. Suddenly, the moving checklist gets a little longer, another food bowl appears on the shopping list, and someone starts picking out toys instead of filling out adoption paperwork.

Styx may not have arrived the way anyone expected, but it's hard to imagine a better welcome-home gift for a family about to start a brand-new chapter together.

Cats always have an opinion, and they make sure you hear them out. 

Cats are our babies. Just because they don't have our DNA doesn't mean that they are not. In practice, that is exactly what they are. They are their own little independent creatures with their own independent desires, and yet, we are the ones making the final calls. When my cat needed to be put on a diet, she was put on a diet, no matter how much she protested. When my cat spooks me into taking her to the vet, she can yell all she wants, but we're going. When my cat screams at the closed door of my bathroom when I'm showering… fine, I let her in. We, as pawrents, have to choose our battles. 

They may be tiny, but our cats always have big opinions. Whether we agree with their opinions or not, one thing is for sure, and that is that our cats will let us know what they are. Loud and clear. And although most times, our cats really don't have the final say, sometimes, like the kitty in today's story, they do what they want anyway. 

When this owner rehomed their cat, they did it with the best intentions. They were having trouble financially, and they thought that their cat would do better in a more stable home. They found the best replacement home they could, then they moved, and weeks of heartbreak and staring at cat pictures passed before they heard a meow in front of their new home. Mind you, the cat didn't know this new home, didn't know the way. Half an hour from his old home, and he found his previous owners anyway. And you know what? He knew better. He preferred to be with them, even if it meant slightly less fancy cat trees. 

Our cats know when we need them the most. 

One thing that people who don't have cats truly don't understand is that our cats know when we truly need them. They're no different than dogs in that way. They know us so well, our cats can sense when we are sad, when we're in pain, or when we're going through all kinds of changes. My cat, for the first 10 years of her life, was not a very cuddly one. She would sometimes cuddle with me at night or in the winter when she was cold, but without fail, whenever I cried, she was by my side. Because she knew, and she knows, and although sometimes she chooses to ignore my crying (which is a funny part of cat ownership too), she does know when I actually need her. That's true for all of them. Cats know when we need them the most. 

If you haven't heard of medical alert cats before, it's because there are fewer of them, as opposed to medical alert dogs. It's possible to train cats, but it is much harder. Cats are very individual. They are not bred for the purpose of helping humans. It's rare to have a trained medical alert cat, even though it is possible, which probably explains why, when we asked you guys - our audience - to tell us stories about your medical alert cats, a good chunk of the stories that we got were of untrained cats who simply learned to recognize when their humans needed help. And they save lives this way. They know when we need them, they are worried about us, and they alert us that something is wrong - without ever needing to be taught to alert. To us, that is something uniquely amazing about cats. 

When the AC is freezing, cat memes are here to warm your soul. 

I don't know about you, but I… am a winter person. Oh, winter, the best time of the year. Rain outside knocking on the windows gently, my cat wrapped up in blankets all day long, hot cocoa and hot coffee always the purrfect complement to anything that there is to eat. Oh, I could fantasize about winter every day. Especially right now. I admit, there was a moment this winter when I said, out loud: "I miss summer," but I take it back. The universe can have summer back. This summer has been too long, too hot, and everyone has been way overcompensating with the ACs. It's hot outside, and freezing inside, and just like during winter, there is one thing that keeps me warm no matter what - cat memes. 

Even when the AC is at full force, blasting cold into the room, freezing everything in its path…  even when you tell your co-workers that you're about to lose fingers to frostbite, and they tell you to bring another jacket because one of them is cold… even then, heartwarming cat memes are here to keep my soul warm. And okay, it's friggin' cold inside, thanks, we know. But at the very least, these adorable cats are here to distract us from the cold and help us focus on our work just enough to make the workday pass a little bit faster. Hey, you do the best with what you have, and it really does help. Cats are always the best distraction from the real world. And the rest of the time that you have on your hands, well, you can spend that doing what I do -fantasizing about winter coming back and bringing balance back into the universe. 

Would you take a trip across the world to visit an exceptionally friendly orange cat? We would.

I've never been to Australia, and I have very little desire to go there. Why? Because of the spiders. And the snakes. And because of every other crazy animal that wants to eat me for breakfast. But, there was one thing that could have convinced me to fly across many oceans to visit, and that was this friendly orange cat in Sydney. Someone added him as a "tourist attraction" to Google Maps, and he amassed a 4.9-star rating. One purrson rated him less than 5 stars, and whoever you are, you better watch out. We're telling Santa to put you on the naughty list.

He became a very popular spot and was loved by all the locals as well as the tourists who stopped by to give him some head scritches. But then… disaster happened. Overnight, he was removed from Google Maps, and his nearly purrfect rating was gone. Needless to say, the cat community was outraged. They threw their paws up in the air because they did care and demanded his return. 

Our pleas were not heard, but all hope is not lost. There is strength in numbers, so if you all join our cause, we can hopefully get him reestablished as the local icon that he is. If anyone deserves it, he does, and with our power combined, he might just become Sydney's highest-rated attraction. The time is now! 

It's never easy to see your cat grow old, but it's different when you never see them young and youthful either. 

It takes a certain type of person to want to adopt a senior pet. There's mostly wear and tear, and you don't have their best years. But for some, they'd rather have those years then nothing at all. In this story, this guy met Momo back in January 2012. He was being fed daily as a stray cat at an apartment complex in Metro Detroit by a nice stranger. It was a harsh winter, with snow and winds, and the person feeding Momo wanted to give him a proper home. He started posting on Facebook groups urgently seeking a home for him because he was moving to Georgia in a week. So this guy sees the posts and offers to take him and get him fixed, and at least foster him until he has a real home. It turns out that Momo was already fixed, and had spent most of his life living outside. He was able to catch Momo and take him in as his own. He originally thought Momo had a cat dad, but it wasn't true. 

He did the right thing and took Momo home in a large crate in the basement to keep him away from the other cats. He would go there and pet him, and it ended up being Momo's furrever home. Since Momo was already a senior cat, he really thought he was doing to lose him one summer when he started showing signs that he was quickly aging. But then suddenly, he pulled through and was the same Momo as he was before. In the last three months though, Momo has slowed down quite a bit and his owner is now reliving their time together. He knows that he made a risk when he took in a senior cat, but he also is so grateful for the time they've gotten together. It's not every day you meet a sweet cat who you can call your own. This story is one of bravery and wholesomeness, enjoy it like the owner enjoyed Momo. 

The cat distribution system strikes when you least expect it! 

Like when you're sitting by the poolside on vacation with your family in Puerto Rico. They were minding their own business at the hotel, when this void kitten was hanging out next to them. She was really friendly towards them and was there for half an hour. The following evening, they went back and saw her again. They decided to call a local rescue, and the rescue told them that they'd drop off a carrier at the hotel so that the couple could take the kitten home. They caught the kitten themselves with a can of wet food and waited for someone from the rescue to take her. They got her to the vet and gave her everything she needed there. Then it was easy: just buy her a plane ticket back home! She's a year old now, and has a brother. Something really quirky about her is that her tail is freakishly long. Read the full story below, and remember that the cat distribution system doesn't care whether you're on family vacation, in the middle of a crisis, or living your best life. Enjoy! 

No cat is left behind!

I love a daring cat rescue story on any day of the week. Not all adopted cats get their heroic tale, but others, like Baby the cat, could probably tell with her purrs and meows about how she was rescued from raging dogs of a neighbor, chased into a rusty shed. I hate hearing about cats chased by dogs - like, control your hecking dogs, dog owners. No cat deserves to be chased by a potential predator like that. Cats deserve love, comfort, and a forever home. I'd say "change mind", but on this matter - you can't.

Look. I'm not saying that all dogs do that. My cat met plenty of dogs who came to visit us with their humans, who just wanted to be her friends. One Shih Tzu even brought her his favorite toy over and over again. It's not the dogs' fault that my cat is afraid of them, regardless. But you just can't deny that sometimes, sometimes, dogs pose a real danger to cats. And this is what I don't like seeing. But luckily for this one cat below, Baby, she was rescued. And after two whole years, this cat is thriving. I always love seeing a cat thriving in their forever home.