Cats are the best nappers. 

Via green_eyed_cat

Unlike well-fed newborns and grandparents after 3 PM, cats can take a nap just about anywhere and at any time. Experts in their field of rest and relaxation, kitties can teach their humans a thing or two about unwinding. While cats have the easiest lives in the world, with no bills, no chores, and certainly no responsibilities, their stress-free existence inspires the world of cat lovers more than any feline could imagine. 

Alas, as their slow blinking eyes grow heavy and their gentle purrs turn to snores, the human soul explodes with serotonin from the sheer cuteness of it all. How could we resist? With a sigh and a smile, we would love nothing more than to curl up like a cinnamon roll next to our tabby cat kitties, take a load off, and explore the cat napping afternoon we've dreamed of since 2016. 

Give in to the eepy temptations and let your heart rest, because everyone deserves an afternoon nap, especially our feline friends. They've had a loooong day basking in the sun, chasing butterflies, and demanding a second breakfast; they've earned an alarm-free nap.

This kitten was feral, found a human she loved, and that human decided to find her a forever home somewhere else. Of course, that was unacceptable to the cat, and so she escaped, made her way back to her chosen human, and never left. 

Capturing a feral kitten is difficult enough. Getting a feral kitten to trust humans is much, much harder. So, if a feral cat finally chooses someone, that is the one person they chose. They did not choose humans in general. They only chose that one. Which is why what happened in this story happened. Of course, it's not easy to commit to having yet another cat, and we understand why this person decided to look for another forever home for this formerly feral kitty. But the kitty did not agree to being put somewhere else. 

We always tell people that if they can't keep the cat they rescued themselves, they should look for a different home for the cat. The one thing that we don't say is that… the cats also get a say in the matter. Sometimes, these new homes work out. Other times, the cats show their new owners exactly what they think about them in the sassiest ways possible, and get right back out. And this feral kitty knew exactly where she was going when she escaped. 

For over two years after rescuing this 6-month-old cat, everything was fine. And then, someone showed up and claimed that the cat is theirs. Everything about the situation was suspicious and a little scary, and apparently, there was a reason for it, because the whole thing was apparently a scam for money. 

When you rescue a stray cat, adopt it, care for it, bond with it, one of your worst dreams is someone showing up and claiming that the cat is theirs. Of course, you do your due diligence. You post 'lost cat' posters, you make posts online, you look for the owners before getting too attached. And you return the cat to their owners because it's the right thing to do, no matter how difficult it is. 

But you should not always give the cat back. If the cat was abandoned outside and required care, there was a reason for that. There was a story there. Sometimes, it really is an accident, and the owners looking for their cats are the happiest people in the world to get their cats back. Other times, something fishy might be going on, and you, as the new protector of this cat, have to do your due diligence in the other direction as well and make sure that the person you're giving the cat to is the right person. 

For an emotional reset in the middle of the day, there is only one thing that you should do, and that is obviously scroll through cat memes. 

Every once in a while, as we are going on about our day-to-day lives, as we are facing the usual (and some unusual) troubles, we find ourselves looking for a quick reset. Something that will make us smile. Something that will make us forget. Something that will distract us enough - but only a positive something - from the things that we don't want to think about. These days, the things that stress us out are many, and they are everywhere on social media. So, we find ourselves looking for that emotional reset even more than usual. It's a good thing that there are always funny cat memes on the internet. 

Seriously, if there is one thing that you can always find online, no matter what is happening in the world, it's hissterical cat memes. Because it is not just us who use them as that emotional reset button. People love cute and silly cat memes. It is something that puts a smile on people's faces literally always. And we are no different.  

There is something undeniably captivating about green-eyed cats, the way their gaze seems both calm and deeply mysterious at the same time. These felines do not just look at you, they study you, holding eye contact like they know more than they are letting on. Each stare feels intense, almost hypnotic, as if you have been momentarily pulled into their world. It is equal parts beautiful and slightly unsettling in the best way. Once you meet their eyes, looking away suddenly feels like the harder option

Sometimes all it takes is one moment outside for everything to change.

Some days are just off. Nothing is really wrong, but nothing feels right either. This rescuer didn't plan to sit outside for lunch, but the weather was nice, so it happened anyway. That's when the cat showed up. Just sitting there, watching. He was thin and a little rough looking, but calm.

He walked by, kept his distance, and that seemed like the end of it. But a few hours later, he was back, this time right up on the deck like he had made a decision. One can of food later and he was fully committed, eating like he had been waiting for this exact moment. Sneezing, clearly under the weather, but still gentle and friendly.

He curled up on the blanket and stayed overnight. By morning, with the rain and colder weather, leaving him outside didn't feel right. He moved into the garage, safe and out of the weather, while a vet appointment got set up.

Now he is still thin, still recovering, but already showing his purrsonality. Very affectionate, very happy to be there, like he knows he landed somewhere good. Mr. Bingley showed up at the right time and made himself at home.

For anyone who's struggled with melancholic days where you can't get out of bed, this story will be even more heartwarming. 

Sometimes people start their day on the wrong foot. They wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or they just can't muster the strength to start the day. It comes and goes, but if you know the feeling of how hard it can be to begin something or enjoy it, then you'll know how this shelter volunteer felt. He didn't want to get out of bed, but the day turned out better than he ever could have expected. He tries to find lightness even in fog or darkness, and though he felt low, he did try to see the light. He's a long-term volunteer at his local animal shelter, and he knew the shelter needed help for the adoption event. He calls himself the "quiet volunteer," meaning he just stays in the background. For some reason, people kept coming up to him on this specific day to ask about the kitties. Maybe they could tell he was going through something, and needed a purpose. 

Dealing with his feelings by showing up for others is an incredibly inspiring way to go about life. While he was there, he met a tiny kitten who didn't weigh more than 3 lbs, and she completely melted his heart. He knew he had to be the one to help him find his furrever home, and he did! He picked up the little guy and carried him around like a baby, quietly introducing him to all of the potential adopters who were roaming around the room looking at all of the adorable kitties. Then, just like that, he found the family that would adopt the little one furrever. A woman asked to hold him, and he immediately put his tiny paws on her face and pulled her in for a kiss. He smiled, and the woman and her husband said, "well, I think this cat has chosen you." She decided to let her husband hold him, and he did the same thing – the tiny kitten was pulling at the man's beard, trying to get a kiss. It has to be the most heartwarming sight and for this melancholy man, it was one of the best things he'd done to be able to witness this adoption is 7 years of volunteering. 

Even when you're down in the dumps, you can still change the world. 

If you thought that cats are smooth criminals who always get away with their crimes, then this collection of criminal cattos caught in the act will certainly change your mind.

Our dopey cat children are just that, dumb. Sure, sometimes they have some of the brightest and best ideas to have ever happened. But considering how rare it is for them to come upon such ideas, and how often we cat pawrents catch them in compromising positions. It seems only right to deem them to be dimwhitted. Which is a quality that is very much captured in this collection of criminal kitties caught on camera.

Each and everyone of these single brain celled cats has been captured in the middle of their criminal acts. Either undeterred by the presence of their pawrent or simply uninterested in their punishment. Leaving us cat lovers with a delightful collection of cat clawminality to enjoy, which is all the more enjoyable when it is not taking place between the walls of our own homes. 
 

Some people adopt a cat. But some people just live their lives, and cats keep appearing out of thin air, demanding to be adopted. That's the wholesome story of one woman who keeps adopting cats who keep coming to her door, and finding their forever home with her.

When people wish to adopt a cat, the Cat Distribution System always takes note. It might take them time to find you the right feline fit, and it might also take such a short time you'd be surprised. But when the CDS decides to send a cat your way, you'll know. And when it sends another… and another… and another… Well, you get the sense of it. Some people can't keep up, but the ones who do win a loving feline-filled family.

We're not saying that all people are in "danger" of becoming a Crazy Cat Lady just by accepting a floofy CDS delivery. But we're not saying that the road there can't be paved by the Cat Distribution System doing what it does best - distributing cats in need wherever their needs can be met. And apparently, this one lady's home was exactly where three beautiful cats found what they needed, one by one, in the course of eight months.

Do you think you could handle three adoptions in less than a year? We're not sure that just anyone could handle this amount of Cat™ entering their lives so quickly. But when the CDS know, they know… especially when it comes to what every human can handle. And this one adopted all the cats who came to her, hungry and meowing. And this third one prompted her to tell the amazing story of how all three cats found their forever home right where she lives.

There are two things purrfectly unnatural about cats: their number of lives, and their overwhelming cuteness.

Do you know where the phrase of cats having 9 lives comes from? We can tell you that it doesn't come from any one place, but a mixture of several parts of cats' history that made up this mythology. Firstly, cats are pawsitively resilient. They can fall from high places and often survive, they're agile, fast, and excellent at escaping danger, and can recover from injuries that harm other animals. We've seen our cat run headfirst into a glass door at full speed, shake itself off, and continue as if nothing happened. To be fair, though, the cat was orange, so there's not much to damage in that tiny little head of his anyway.

Secondly, as cats will never let us furget, cats were seen as sacred and god-like in ancient Egypt. This helped give them their supernatural mystique, making them all the more mythical in our hooman brains. And we can't not talk about cats being witches' familiars, and what witch doesn't want eternal life for her and her best four-legged friend?

Cats may not really have nine lives, but they do send us into a cuteness overload every time we see them. From their little head bonks of love to falling asleep in between our legs, to the slow blinks that say "I love you" without words, cats just make our lives worth living. No matter what kind of day you're having, as long as you have some wholesome feline posts, you can feel like you've got at least 8 more lives to enjoy all that awwdorableness. 

We're glad that cats are so sturdy because it means we can bask in their purrfect presence for just a little bit longer. Scroll down to see all the wholesomely cute kitties we found that are sure to make you feline fine by the end.

Sometimes, the right thing to do is actually the "wrong" thing.

The thought of stealing literally makes us sweat profusely. We've never even shoplifted anything because we know we would get caught for acting pawsitively suspicious. But, if we ever were faced with the option of letting a cat freeze and drink dirty water outside, or steal them from their "owners" and take them into our house, we wouldn't hesitate for a second.

After finding their neighbor's cat drinking from a dirty puddle outside, our hero below snuck over and took them inside. The cat seemed to really enjoy it, and the owners didn't even realize that their cat was gone. That was, until the cat needed to go to the vet, where they confessed to the vet that this was someone else's cat. The owners were notified, pawsitively furious, and threatened to call the police.

Lucky for them, they were all bark and no bite. A few weeks later, they claimed they found the cat as a stray, waited the appropriate time for it to be considered legally lost, and then adopted it for themselves. They never heard anything from the so-called "owners", no police showed up at their doorstep, they just ended up with a friendly cat companion to snuggle by their side.

We don't condone stealing, but this is a purrfect example of when you have to do the "wrong" thing to actually do the right thing. Is this how Batman feels every time he stops a crime?

See a cat, save a cat. 

Cat lovers see felines outside all the time, but oftentimes the jingle of a bell or the colorful glimpse of a kitty collar deters them from kissing that cat on the forehead on site and taking them home in a satchel. It takes everything in a cat lover's willpower to leave an outdoor kitten in their wake, even if they know the cat has a loving home awaiting their return. But when a cat seems like they're being left out in the cold (literally), the intrusive thoughts creep in. 

Purrhaps this cat needs a new pawrent, one that loves them to the mew'n and back. 

There's a reason that the Cat Distribution System seems to target the cat loving community with the lowest inhibitions. Cat lovers can't be expected to be rational when it comes to outdoor cats, because when a kitty repeatedly visits your window, meows on your fence, and slurps up the water left in the bowl for them outside, it really makes you wonder if they're getting the love and affection they deserve from their home base. 

This cat lover's better judgement took over after watching the comings and goings of the apartment complex's outdoor cat for several months. Over the course of the winter, and after constructing a well-inhabited outdoor kitty box on their balcony, this neighbor decided that the sweet, outdoor cat in their complex deserved better than their technical owner's care. Sure, they had a human being who brought them into this neighborhood, but this cat lover was determined to bring them out of the cold and into a warm, loving home.

Even if that meant staging a well-calculated catnapping. 

When this cat attempted to escape the vet, things went a little bit wrong. He got stuck and had to be rescued by firefighters. And the pictures that came out of that were so iconic that the internet instantly meme-d them. 

The cat side of the internet is… unexpected. Cats are constantly going viral online, that is something that everyone knows. But no one knows what a cat will go viral for. One thing that we do know is that the things cats go viral for are rarely serious things. People look at cats for levity, for distraction. So… cats go viral for being unphotogenic and hilariously attacking plants. Cats go viral for being "the worst cats" at the shelter and instantly get hundreds of adoption applications. Cats go viral for fake-limping and spooking out their owners. 

So really, it should not be surprising that, of all cats, this chunky cat attempting to escape going to the vet would go viral. We should not be surprised, and yet, we were. Because the pictures of the incident are simply too funny. One look, and we were cracking up. The virality was instant, and in our humble opinions, it was very well-deserved. 

In a single moment, this woman's life changed forever. She opened her door to throw out her trash, and out of nowhere, a pregnant cat came running straight into her house. 

When we say that cats choose their humans rather than the other way around, it's instances like this story that we point at. Of course, some people adopt their cats from shelters, and that is amazing. They walk in there with the express intention of adopting a feline, and sometimes, they are even lucky enough to get chosen by a kitty on the day that they want it to happen. 

For most of us, though, it does not work this way. Most of us get adopted at the most unexpected time and place possible. Cats follow us home and adopt us like that. Cats pop up out of nowhere, forcing us to rescue them from strange and scary situations, choosing us by forcing us to bond with them intensely and instantly. And some cats… some cats don't even wait around for you to leave your house. They see where you live, they know that it looks cozy and nice in there, and, as the kitty in this story proves, the second that the door opens, they run in and make themselves at home. 

It is a known fact that all orange cats have 1 brain cell… collectively. 

All cats are unique, that is true. White cats are clouds made of marshmallows floating around in our houses. Black cats are meowgical, and anyone who says otherwise has never met a black cat. Sphynx cats have shapeshifting abilities. Sometimes, they look like cats. Other times, they look like boiled chicken. And yes, the catmouflage does confuse you sometimes. Every kind of cat has sometimes. And then, there are orange cats. 

Ginger cats are at the top of the list of unique cats whose attributes people know about. Not everyone knows about the meowgical abilities of black cats or the shapeshifting abilities of sphynxes, but basically everyone in the online cat world knows that ginger cats… are different. They have their smart moments, of course. Every once in a while, they will dazzle you with their brilliance. Those times are the times that they are in control of The Brain Cell. The one brain cell that all orange cats share, it moves around between all of them. You can never prepare for when your cat will have that moment. It will always catch you by surprise. If the moment ever comes. But those are not the moments that we are interested in. We care about all the rest. Scroll down and let the hilarity ensue. 

The Cat Distribution System just upgraded this house to a three-cat household.

This person is officially on a first-name basis with the Cat Distribution System, and at this point they deserve a loyalty card. Three deliveries in eight months is not random. That is premium CDS service. Enter Gary, now Gary the Gray, who wandered onto the porch with a scratchy little meow and immediately meownifested his new life. 

He showed up skinny, chatty, and clearly ready to upgrade from mysterious outdoor fluff to full-time indoor baby. The fact that he is already ear tipped and neutered just feels like the CDS saying "we handled the paperwork, you're welcome." Add in toys, pets, and a vet appointment, and Gary truly landed on all four paws.

Even better, the resident orange chaos committee, Sir Charles of Biscuitville and Chester C. Chesterton, seem to be accepting their new gray coworker without too much drama. That alone deserves recognition. Orange cats usually operate on one shared braincell and pure vibes.

There is something really sweet about how this keeps happening. This rescuer help rehome cats, and somehow the universe keeps sending them back to them. A stray shows up on a random night and suddenly it is their house, their humans, their everything.

Gary did not just find a porch. He found his people, and now he is exactly where he belongs.

Whatever cats are dreaming about, it's clearly not boring. 

Cats fall asleep like they've got somewhere important to be. One second they're sitting there, the next they're completely out, fully asleep in seconds. Then the twitching starts. A little paw movement, a whisker flick, a tiny kick like something serious is happening.

Whatever they're dreaming about, it's clearly a full lineup. First up, food. Not regular food, but unlimited food. Full bowls that never empty, treats showing up exactly when they want them, no waiting, no effort. Just a constant, purrfect stream of snacks.

Then it shifts into full world domination. Walking around like every room belongs to them, every surface is theirs, every door magically open. No hoomans telling them no, no rules, just complete control of everything in sight.

It cycles like that for a while. Eat, take over the world, repeat. All while they're completely asleep on a couch, a chair, or some random spot they claimed earlier like it's prime real estate.

Then they wake up for a second, look around like nothing happened, and go right back to sleep like they've got unfinished business to get back to.

Whimsy is essential in this day and age. 

Cats have an otherworldly quality about them. They exist outside the rules of ordinary life in many ways. They're infectiously whimsy to say the lease, and everything from the way they look, think, feel, and behave makes them seem more like otherworldly creatures than domesticated pets. They're so magical, and it can be extraordinary to watch them. If you watch them for long enough, you start to notice their mystique. The way they burst into zoomies, chasing some invisible ghost or monster, or when they look sharply in one direction as if there's a spirit communicating with them. 

It's like they're from a dreamworld; their soft fur and purring sounds. Their loaf bodies and cutesy meows. It's no wonder we're all so obsessed with them. Their curiosity adds a sense of whimsy as well, it's like we're being enchanted by them. We do everything for them, all for a bit of their playful, whimsical, magical presence. They do everything for themselves; they choose when to be affectionate, when to disappear, and when to reappear as if they're a magician on show for us, showing us their talent. It's like they're living a parallel story alongside ours. Their little habits and behaviors are so playful, it feels like a touch of childhood. Their slow blink, kneading blankets, and their comfortable fur bodies. They exist in a liminal balance between ordinary and extraordinary. They remind us that childhood wonder is right in the palm of our hands. 

If you thought the Cat Distribution System was just about pairing hoomans with their soul cats, then this story stands to tell a tale that will open your eyes.

For the CDS is a powerhouse of cat connectivity that is all about getting cats to where they need to be. It does not rely on hoomans as the sole end point, and it does not solely bring cats and hoomans together. Instead, it uses its intricate methods to situate cats right where they are meant to be at the moment that they are meant to be there. Whether that be for a hooman in need of a feline friend to heal their heart or a litter of kittens who need a momma cat to comfort them.

The CDS gets the job done, and in this story it has done just that while also gifting the hooman who first helped this momma cat with a cute kitten of her own. So the next time you feel as though you might have been approached by the CDS, be prepared for literally anything to happen. 
 

When cat lovers get the rumblies in their tummies there is only one thing that can satisfy their hunger. And that is a collection of cute pics of cats stretched out like noodles, just waiting to be added to a Cat-su curry.

With all the trouble and toil that our cat children put us through, it is nice to remember that there are several moments when we give back just as good as we get from them. One such moment being when they stretch themselves out like noodles, allowing us to come along, pick them up and wave them around in the air like the fresh cut gelatinous noodles that they are.

Sure, they are not fans of us flailing them around in the air like we just do not care, but it gives us such joy to feel their squishy stringy bodies flailing around in a most unfeline like way that it makes up for all the clawminal things they will do to get back at us. So for all you hoomans working hard in the office we made this list to allow you to indulge in that gelatinous joy without displeasing too many cats.