Give em the ol' razzle dazzle! 

When life seems overwhelming, when it feels like too much, like the weight of the world is pressing on you and you can't get up or seem to do anything, then there's only one thing to do….and that's to give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle by scrolling cat memes. The phrase became widely known through stage and film musicals, especially from the famous song, "Razzle Dazzle" in the musical Chicago. To give the glitter and guts with a bold and brazen confidence, dramatic flair, and extra delight to distract yourself (or the audience) from whatever it is you want distracting from. There's something so real about it, and so true. Life is full of distractions here and there, and when you can exhale into them is when you know you really needed the space from heaviness. 

The ol' razzle dazzle is just like cat memes. There's a certain dissociative charm about it, there's a show, something distracting, something colorful and entertaining that you can't take your eyes off of. It's about a spectacle, flair, and a touch of theatrical mischief. When someone brings the razzle dazzle, they're not just doing something well, they're doing it with style. Just like these precious and wholesome cat memes do everything with style, enjoy their razzle dazzle as you celebrate life. 

Monday is a tough day at the best of times, so we wanted to help elevate your mood with this collection of majestic cats covered in rainbows. What more do you need to make your Monday magical?

Well, likely a lot more we will cop to that. But nonetheless the addition of some delightful felines cannot hurt your efforts to make the most of your monday can they? And with this collection of rainbow colored cats you will get to experience the majesty and mysticism that comes along with the combination of cats and rainbows. It is hard to say what it is, and why it is that cats look so much more attractive and magical when covered with those multi-colored lights, but some scientist somewhere likely has a reason.

So we will choose to believe in whatever reason that might be and focus on how heartwarming and uplifting it is to see our sweet cats covered in the gentle glow of the rainbow. It is just one small step that we can all take to make our Monday just that little bit more bearable. 
 

Would you know what to do if you hear meows coming from your ceiling? Well, if not then this story will give you the low down on how one couple made a miraculous rescue and added four paws to their fur family in the process.

It is hard to imagine, but if you have ever had a rat or rodent running around your ceiling cavity we can imagine the sensation is similar, albeit a little different. In both cases you want the creature to get out of the ceiling, but in one case you want to keep and cuddle the creature and in the other you hope they have taken the long sleep before you come face to face.

Either way, this was the conundrum put before this cat loving couple when the Cat Distribution System decided to bestow upon them a cat. As we all know the CDS likes to work its magic in a myriad of mysterious ways but this tale of kitten adoption is quite the unique one. Who knows perhaps this couple liked solving escape rooms and that is why the CDS delivered their kitten like this. Regardless of reason, with a bunch of patience this couple became pawrents for the second time and the rest is history.

 

Monday has officially arrived, and frankly, it deserves a collective hiss.

If your current mood is less "rise and shine" and more "stay and whine", you are purrfectly in sync with the legendary spirit of the world's favorite grump. There is a specific cathartic joy in embracing your inner sourpuss when the alarm clock dares to interrupt a perfectly good dream about a silent office. We are channeling that classic "I had fun once, it was awful" energy to navigate the morning commute with a permanent, judgmental squint that all cats are capable of.

Being a cat pawrent on a Monday means realizing your feline friend is living your dream life: staying home, nappingwhenever they want, and ignoring every single notification (or, the bliss of not knowing what a notification even is). Whether you're feeling hissterical about your inbox or just clawfully tired of being a functional adult, it's time to channel your inner grumpiness. Let's face this Monday with a flick of the tail and a firm "no."

The most predictable thing about cats is that they're purrfectly unpredictable.

The beautiful thing about cats is that us as pawrents get to see a side of them that not many other people see. Sure, there are some social cats that love when people come over, but many prefer their house to be filled with as few of hoomans as possible. That means that most others don't get to see how pawsitively quirky our cats really are.

When we try to tell people about all the crazy things they do, they don't believe us! This is because every time they come over, our cats run to hide and come out for some food or a sip of water. They could never imagine them running and jumping from the couch to the table, climbing and screaming from the top of their cat tree, and trying to eat things out of the frying pan as we're cooking. Those are things that we, their hoomans, only get to expurrience.

We love our cats more than life itself, but we won't lie to you and tell you that they're normal. Our black cat is obsessed with beets and our orange cat will stare at the wall with his tongue out in a tiny, adorable blep, for hours. We still can't figure out why. But these hissterical quirks make our cats purrfectly unique and make us fall in love with them over and over again. 

We know our cats aren't the only ones who are full of strange purrsonalities, which is why we've decided that cats are nature's quirkiest creatures. We scoured the internet to find some of the most awwdorable posts proving this fact, and we think you might just understand what we're talking about by the end.

From princess of the desert to queen of the living room, this tiny black kitten grew up in a safe and loving home thanks to her heroic hooman who rescued her from a roundabout in the Middle East.

Imagine being a tiny kitten and a giant, burly man comes up to you. You would probably be frightened, but after he showed you some kindness, you might start warming up to him. You might even start hanging around his base, snuggling with him, and eventually, claim him as your hooman. That's what we would do, anyway.

After finding you (the smol void kitty) on the inside lane of a three-lane roundabout and spending two years together while deployed in the Middle East, the manly Marine had to make a choice: leave you behind, or take you with him. What do you think he did? You're obviously deeply ingrained in his big heart, so he decides to take you with him! Yippee!

Many planes and 7,000 miles later, you're both safely back in the USA and are ready to awwfficially start your lives together. You'll grow even closer, loving to ride on his massive shoulders, and you'll even become friends with another cat he will adopt later. You will make his homecoming really feel like home, when for so many veterans, it feels foreign. You will give him a sense of purrpose, a feeling of family, and those are things that he will furrever be grateful to you for. 

Your journey will be a unique one, from the harsh desert to a cushy, cozy home, but you're exactly where you're supposed to be - by his side, making him smile, purring the night away.

Another Monday, another purrfect collection of viral cat tweets! 

Honestly, this is the one thing that we actually want to wake up to on Monday morning. Monday is the worst day. Even during the simplest weeks, Monday is hard. But these are not simple weeks. These are weeks during which going online carries a certain level of danger. There are things out there that we don't always want to see. But cats - cats are something that we always want to see on the internet. In fact, they are one of the reasons why we haven't gone offline completely yet. We simply cannot miss all the viral cat memes. 

And one place where you can always find an endless supply of hilarious cat memes going viral is, of course, twitter. No matter what is going on in the world, you can trust that, on twitter, stories, memes, and pictures of cats will be going viral. The problem is that they are constantly surrounded by the other stuff - the things that we don't want to see. That is why we are here. That is why every single week, here at ICHC, we bring you the most viral cat tweets of the week - in one place, without all the fodder that is usually around them. 

Cats? Outdoors? Did I read that right?

Yes, you absolutely did. Although cats are known for being lavish, soft-pawed, indoor critters, there is a spark of adventure in every feline. You may have witnessed this predatory, survivalist energy before in your own cat, while playing with the feather toy or cracking open a fresh tin can of wet food. They have it in 'em to be voracious beings of supurrior might and strength! 

Behold the glory of house cats turned outdoorsy with this collection of harness-clad kitties who are geared up and ready for adventure.

Bird TV clearly has a very loyal viewer.

Watching a cat watch birds on TV is way funnier than the actual program. The moment birds appear on the screen, the cat shows up and sits directly in front of the television like it has been waiting all day for the show to start.

From there it becomes a full performance. The cat follows every bird across the screen with slow, dramatic head turns. One bird flies to the left, the cat looks left. Another bird hops across the bottom of the screen and the cat leans forward like it's about to solve the problem.

Every now and then a paw reaches up and taps the TV. Not a full attack, just a quick test, like maybe this time the bird will cooperate. It never does. The bird keeps flying and the cat keeps trying to figure out how television works.

Meanwhile the humans on the couch are trying to watch the same show, but it's hard to focus because the cat has turned the whole thing into a live reaction video. At some point everyone stops watching the birds and just watches the cat.

The TV keeps playing, the birds keep flying, and the cat stays glued to the screen like it has a very important responsibility. By the end of it, the birds are just background entertainment. The real show is the cat trying to catch a flat screen television.

Looking for a black cat didn't require a trip to the shelter after all.

A few months ago, this rescuer came up with a simple plan. Adopt a black cat. The only thing left was waiting for the right moment to go to a shelter and find one. But life had other ideas. While visiting family, a small meowing sound from the garage led to a surprising discovery. Peeking through the window revealed a black kitten darting around outside.

The kitten that first appeared turned out to be from an older litter and wasn't interested in being caught. But the search led to a neighbor's cat who had recently had a new batch of kittens. When the owner heard about the wish for a black cat, they happily offered one of the newborn babies. Just like that, a tiny kitten was placed into waiting hands.

There was no big plan, no supplies ready at home. The little kitten rode back in an Uber tucked safely inside a cardboard box. Dinner that night required borrowing a bit of cat food from a neighbor until a proper shopping trip could happen the next day. It was a slightly chaotic start, but a very sweet one.

A week later, a small package arrived in the mail. Inside were black cat stickers that had been ordered earlier and completely forgotten about. Now there was something even better in the house. Not just stickers, but a real tiny black kitten.

Who needs eggs and milk when you spot a little black kitten on your way to the grocery store?

This mom is the coolest. She tells her son she's going to buy some groceries, and it's supposed to be a quick trip. 3 hours later, he starts to wonder what happened and if he should be worried. She walks in holding a little blue-eyed void kitten! She spotted him and got immersed and distracted with him instead of wanting to get the groceries. She saw him sitting alone by a fence, she watched and waited to see if anything would happen but when no one claimed him, she took it on her own initiative to pick him up herself. She actually went all the way to the vet first before stopping home because she wasn't sure if he was okay. Her son is overjoyed at her arrival with the cat instead of groceries. Who needs bread and cheese when there's cats? Read the full story below for all the adorable and wholesome details. 

Being wholesome isn't just for cats – it's also something you can thoroughly enjoy from the comfort of your own home! 

Meow meow kitty kitty meow meow. Wholesome things are the best things. When life gets too hard, too tough, too traumatizingly difficult, when you feel like the cosmos are laughing at you and all you can do is laugh back, then it's meme time. Memes get us through our darkest hours with their strange liminal space between something deeply human and touching on the human condition, and something equally silly and ridiculous. There's something amazing and confusing about memes because they're deep and also superficial. They really straddle the line between existential crisis and silly detachment from real life tragedies. The best part about them is that they let us escape in the most wholesome and funny way. They transcend earthly delights to something higher up, and cat memes are the purrfect memes. 

They're purrfect because they're exactly like memes themselves. They straddle that liminal space between two opposing forces. Two opposites are at a crossroads with memes. They are the split between something so cute, wholesome, innocent, and adorable, and something sort of evil, malicious, naughty, mischievous, and silly. There's a pleasant humor to them, and they get us through our darkest days. 

Being a cat pawrent is more than just owning a cat at home. It's really like having a medicine that lives with you in the form of a cute furball. So when you're feeling overwhelmed with life's tumults, with the pain of day-to-day existence, monotonous work schedules, existential crises, global issues and economic collapse, you know you always have cats and cat memes to get you through it. And just remember, we're all in the same boat, you're not alone. Cats don't have the cognizance to understand what's really going on, so you can detach too. 

All cats deserve a happy ending.

Even if it takes years of your time, not giving up on a cat always yields fluffy fruits - purrs, affection, slow blinks, and lots of love. And it's always worth it. Winning the love of a cat, especially when the cat might be shy, reserved, or simply skittish, always feels like the sweetest thing. Because cats don't give away their trust that easily. Especially if the cat in question went through some hardships that made them shell-up - but when a cat comes out of their shell, it's like witnessing a beautiful flower blossom in the height of spring.

This one cat, adorable Babycakes, went through a lifetime of difficulties. For years, the only one who took her seriously was a next-door neighbor with full hands and a fuller house. But even these conditions never stopped her from being a safe place for Babycakes. And as mentioned, it paid off. Finally, after more than a decade in the yard, the cat trust allowed her to come inside and enjoy the indoor princess life. Sometimes, the Cat Distribution System might send you a cat who's not ready - but at some point in time, they will be. You just need to be patient.

Get ready for the week like your cat would.

Sunday evening is officially the calm before the claw, that eerie silence where the only sound is your cat judging your life choices from atop the fridge. Meowntally preparing for Monday requires a very specific, feline-inspired strategy: if you simply close your eyes and pretend the sun isn't rising, the emails can't find you. We are taking a leaf out of the purrfessional handbook and deciding that productivity is a myth invented by people who don't own heated blankets.

Being a cat pawparent means accepting that your Meownday motivation is currently trapped under a sleeping kitty who has decided your lap is a permanent residence. Whether you're channeling the hissterical energy of a kitten discovering a cucumber or the claws-out cattitude of a senior cat denied a second breakfast, it's time to furtify your spirit. Let's face the coming week with the unearned confidence of a creature that knocks expensive vases over just to hear the thud. Stay pawsitive!

Three cheers for the four-legged hero of our story, Goose!

It makes us sad that people resort to abandonment when they can't deal with their pets, instead of choosing many of the responsible courses of action that are purrfectly pawssible. You could make a post on Facebook, seeing if anyone wants to adopt them, or even give them to an animal shelter so that they have a chance of finding a new family and being adopted again. What you absolutely should not do, is put all four of your unwanted cats in a pink cage, zip tie it shut so they can't get out, and then abandon that cage in the forest.

While on a hike with his mom, Goose, the golden retriever, alerted his mom to something strange off the trail. He led her to the bottom of a ditch, where she found the metal cage that housed our four soon-to-be rescue cats: Ginger, Sporty, Baby, and Posh (we hope you appreciate their names as much as we do). With no way to get out, these cats would have been in big trouble if it hadn't been for Goose and his purrfectly astute nose!

After giving them some food, Daisy, Goose's mom, contacted animal control, which transported the kitties to a nearby shelter for treatment. With two of them being Siamese cats, we're sure that they'll be adopted into a family that loves them in no time. 

"Get a cat", they said. "They're low maintenance", they said. "You'll hardly even notice they're there" - yeah, right.

The biggest lie anyone can tell you about owning a cat is that it's boring. The second biggest lie is that they're less work than a dog. They're just a different kind of work, and we can certainly say that our lives with our cats are the farthest thing from boring. Unless you call yelling for your cat to get off the kitchen counter from two rooms away because you heard a clink of their tiny, purrfect paws stepping on the ceramic case where we store our bread.

Sure, you don't have to take cats out three times a day to use the bathroom and get out energy, but you do have to deal with them climbing your shower curtain, and sometimes even your wall. You also have to deal with them waking you up at 3 AM because they decide that your face is the purrfect place to sleep, despite having at least three beds scattered throughout the house (that have never been used once). You may not have to train your cats, but you do have to deal with your cats training you. Did we succeed in getting our cats to get off the counter when we tell them, or did they train us to give them a treat every time they get on, and then off, the kitchen counter?

Don't misunderstand us - our cats are the greatest gift. We love them more than life itself and we wouldn't trade them for the world, but they're not easy. They will change your life, for better and for worse, but mostly for the better. Just get used to midnight snuggles, cleaning litter boxes, and a tiny gremlin that never stops attacking your feet as you walk by. And if you don't believe us, we've got 24 funny feline photos below that demonstrate exactly that. 

Every once in a while, a cat's true soulmate… is a dog. 

Yes, we know that this is hard to believe. People are so fervent about cats and dogs hating each other that they don't understand that, sometimes, the opposite is true. Cats and dogs can be best friends under the right circumstances. If a cat and a dog grow up together, they will learn to understand each other over time. If a dog is extra patient or a cat is extra energetic, their energies might match even without them growing together and learning to understand the differences in each other's behaviors. 

And sometimes, it's fate. Sometimes a cat and a dog are soulmates - two souls separated somewhere throughout history, waiting to get back to one another. And once they are there, they do not let go. This is what happened in this story. This doggo saved this kitty from a fire. He brought her home, weak and in need of help and love, and did not leave her side. And she didn't want him to. And now, 8 months down the line, they are still connected at the hip. They still don't leave each other's sides for long. Because they are two parts of the same whole. 

Cat memes are the best form of free therapy. 

We are firm believers that everyone could use going to professional therapy at some point in their lives. We've all been through things, and it could never hurt to discuss those things with someone who might actually be able to help with them. Of course, that doesn't mean that we don't appreciate other forms of therapy. Self-help books, journaling or creative writing, meditation, and other ways of dealing with stress are great. But our favorite form of alternative therapy is… laughing at cat memes. 

Funny cat memes are free, extremely accessible, and they always - without fail - make us smile. Scrolling through some silly cat memes first thing when we wake up, before we even get out of bed, is the easiest way for us to smile. Regardless of what is going on in the world or in our purrsonal lives, cat memes are there for us - pure, comforting, and never-ending. It doesn't matter how many you have seen, there are always more out there, being created each and every day, by cat-loving people like you guys. And even the ones that we have already seen before still manage to make us smile, and that is pretty pawsome. 

Every slow Saturday deserves a few good cat memes.

Some Saturdays move at a slower pace. The to-do list can wait, the day is wide open, and the internet becomes a place to wander for a bit. That's where these feel good cat memes come in.

Cats bring a certain energy to the timeline. They live however they want, whenever they want. One minute they're completely still, the next they're darting across the room like they remembered something important. They stretch, they stare, they claim the warmest seat in the house like it was reserved for them all along.

Cat life is full of those little moments that people recognize right away. The cattitude, the curiosity, the quiet confidence of an animal that knows the whole place belongs to it. Even when they're doing absolutely nothing, they somehow make it entertaining.

These feel good cat memes collect that everyday cat energy in one place. A little bit cozy, a little bit chaotic, and very on brand for the tiny creatures that run the internet.

Sometimes all it takes is a handful of cats doing their thing to make the day feel a little lighter.

Some strays are just waiting for someone to notice how loving they really are.

This sweet boy was originally found outside with no one claiming him, even though he was far too friendly and affectionate to have lived his whole life as a stray. His past is a bit of a mystery. Whoever had him before clearly missed out on an incredible cat. At first, the plan was to follow the usual TNR process, which is why he has the clipped ear. But once people spent a little time with him, it quickly became clear that this cat was not meant to return to life on the streets. He was simply too gentle and loving.

He settled in beautifully at home and what really stood out was his personality. This is the kind of cat who seems to have an endless supply of affection. He loves being snuggled and pet, happily soaking up attention whenever it's offered.

He even has some charming dog-like habits. His tail wags when he's excited, and he loves pressing his forehead against his person's forehead or gently touching noses like a little greeting. On top of that, he's clever too. With a bit of clicker training, he's already proving to be a quick learner.

His past may always remain a mystery, but one thing is certain. This sweet, affectionate boy now has a future full of warmth, safety, and the love he clearly deserves.