In a world full of AI images, this one made us pause. But no, she's a real kitten. 

Of course, we have seen all kinds of unique and beautiful cats in our time on the internet. We've come across cats that look like monkeys, and we've seen cats with unique spotted coats, and cats have gone viral for having extra toe beans. We've seen cats so unique that we have thought that we had seen it all. And when we first scrolled by these viral pictures of Dorito, we really did scroll by them. This is a cat that looks way too much like an AI cat. We didn't even pause to give the kitty a chance. But then we saw her go viral on another platform. And another one. So, we had to stop for a second. 

Meet Dorito, one of the coolest, most unique cats that we have ever seen, and we are not even kidding. Dorito is a survivor. These eyes are not normal for cats. They are a result of her surviving a rare medical condition. Her vision is a little impaired, but she is surrounded with love and people who care about her, so despite her vision, she is living her best life. 

These bosses realized too late that they hired the wrong person for the job… only to then fire that worker ASAP. 

Sometimes, workplaces hire the wrong person for the job, and then they're faced with a choice. Maybe that person is avoiding phone calls, or maybe they're consistently taking random days off, or perhaps they're just turning in poor-quality work. The powers that be, mainly management and HR, have to put their heads together and decide — is it worth it to keep this person onboard and put resources into training them? Or should they just tell this person it's the end of the line, and that they're fired? 

Losing your cat is hard. But for a cat to lose its owner could be even harder. 

It doesn't even have to be a rainbow bridge situation. Sometimes, life just happens. For this cat, his loving elderly owner, who loved him with her whole heart, who took care of him, giving him everything he could ever need, simply couldn't take care of him any longer. She didn't abandon her cat. She had to move to an assisted home, and he, sadly, couldn't come with her. She did the best that she could, leaving him to the new residents in her old home, people who had cats, understood cats, who should, by all accounts, have been good to her cat. Except that they weren't. 

These new owners neglected the cat right away. It barely took a few days before they decided that he couldn't be in their - his - home full-time. They left the cat out in freezing temperatures, and he would cry for help, and "nobody cares at all". That's what their neighbor said. Except that wasn't entirely true. Because the neighbor cared. The neighbor, who knew about the situation, and who wanted to do something about it actually went and did it. 

Americana has its charms, and for the foreign mind that's spent a lifetime watching American movies, many of these whimsical tropes were nothing but on-screen magic, until, of course, they realized that it wasn't just fiction: That's just America, babyyy.

Okay, America has a bad rep sometimes, but some enchanting and charming things don't exist anywhere else. 

As a born and bred Amurican myself, raised in the deserts of the Southwest and coastal beach towns of Southern California, I've been steeped in Americana since day one. Frontiersmanship was ingrained in my soul, the call of freedom echoed in my mind, and baseless confidence steeled into my bones; naturally, it's the American way. While there are many things I'd love to change about this country, there are even more small charms that I wouldn't trade for the world. When the diner server calls you "Hon," or when an old cowboy runs to the other side of his dually truck to open the car door for his woman, my heartstrings are tugged, and my mood is magically lifted.

It wasn't until I met and married a foreigner, a Frenchman, that a lot of the simpler Americana moments became obvious. 

To him, America is a movie set come to life, reflecting the films and the TV he watched with dubs or subs since his own childhood, but to me, America was just how it was; nothing to it, right? As I've grown older (and hopefully wiser??!), I realized that there IS something to it. Ice cold lemonade on a wraparound porch and fireflies at twilight are more magical than you'd think. Yellow school buses are as cartoonish as the tumbleweeds bustling across the 8-lane freeways. The prom king and queen will always be royalty, and cowboys really do be wearing 10-gallon hats. 

So despite the vastness, the diversity, and the strange ways of the local Walmart, America has proven to be the wild, wild west that it's portrayed in films. The ground spouts misty fog in Manhattan, and bartenders have heart-to-heart conversations with strangers every night, and that's a part of our charm. Culturally, the outside perspective of Americana is fascinating because it's the smaller moments that define Americans just as much as the loud moments, but it's the quiet confidence, the smiling sweetness, and the good ol' boy mentality that make them who they are. 

Chime in with the tourists and take a gander at what Americans look like from the outside, because the answers from travelers online may surprise you in ways that are both wholesome and heartwarming at the same time, making your average American mind expand and appreciate this country for all its worth.

If there is one thing that we need right now, it is a carefully curated, steady supply of cat memes. 

We don't know if you have noticed, but things are pretty crazy out there right meow. Everywhere you look, there is drama, there is confusion, there are just- things that we don't want to see. You log onto any social media platform, and you are bombarded with these things, forced to see them whether you want to or not. It's a real problem. Or so you would think. Because this problem actually has a very simple solution. Don't. Don't log onto these social media platforms when you're not feeling ready. Just turn on a website like ICHC and find all the hilarious cat memes that you are looking for. 

Because really, the one thing that we actually want to find on social media platforms are funny cat memes. It's unfortunate that they are so heavily surrounded by all the other things. But that's true only for us. We have to sift through all the madness to find the purrfect cat memes that we are looking for. You… all that you have to do is come here, and you will find all the uplifting, pawsitive and silly memes that you could ever need, free of everything else. 

Scare away your inevitable Sunday scaries with these funny memes!

The Sunday scaries now hit many of us before it's even Sunday! Some say that is simply called anxiety, but that's just semantics. Whatever you wanna call it, you need the meme. Serotonin to make you feel better and dopamine as a reward, memes can help you get both! So let's stop messing around and get to the laughs. We're not talking about doom scrolling, we're talking about the good old-fashioned meme listicle below. 

Everyone's first professional environment shapes their perspective on work.

For a small subset of individuals, their introduction to workplace culture is a smooth and successful one. Some folks might have even felt valued, respected, and fairly compensated. 

The rest of us, however, likely experienced a lack of respect and maybe even a lack of compensation entirely. I wish I could say that what this marketing intern experienced during the first weeks of her time at this agency was abnormal. The truth is that most of us have experienced some version of this unfair treatment.

Everyone's first professional environment shapes their perspective on work.

For a small subset of individuals, their introduction to workplace culture is a smooth and successful one. Some folks might have even felt valued, respected, and fairly compensated. 

The rest of us, however, likely experienced a lack of respect and maybe even a lack of compensation entirely. I wish I could say that what this marketing intern experienced during the first weeks of her time at this agency was abnormal. The truth is that most of us have experienced some version of this unfair treatment.

A ten-year friendship started with a stray who refused to take no for an answer. 

Almost ten years ago, a tiny stray cat basically adopted her human first. Sabriel started showing up every evening, skinny and impossibly small, the kind of little creature you can't stop worrying about. A few days later her rescuer appeared and asked if anyone wanted to adopt a cat. It turned out to be the same cat who'd been visiting. At that point it felt less like a decision and more like Sabriel had already filed the paperwork herself.

Her rescuer explained that Sabriel and her kittens had come from a bad situation. The kittens had homes, but mama cat was stuck living outside. One rainy afternoon made everything clear. Seeing her curled up in straw, cold and trying to stay dry, was enough to settle it. Sabriel came home and started her next chapter.

Since then she's been there for every version of life that followed. New homes, new jobs, changing routines, and the quiet growing pains that come with time. Through all of it, she stayed steady. The tiny stray who once showed up hungry turned into a constant source of comfort, padding around like she'd always belonged there. Nearly a decade later she's older, healthy, and still going strong, proof that sometimes the best family members are the ones who choose you first.

A love life? No, thank you! How about a comedy routine instead? These dating app fails will make you laugh more than your ex ever did. 

Another Valentine's Day, another year of hearing horror stories from your couple friends. Yeah, that's a hard pass! Dating isn't a walk in the park either, but at least it has the lore. These funny dating app fails will keep you laughing while staying single pringle this romantic holiday, and you're happy about it! 

The Valentine's Day mascot is officially a cat with a heart on its fur.

Some cats look like they came predecorated for Valentine's Day. A tiny heart tucked into their fur feels less like a coincidence and more like intentional design. The second you notice it, the cat stops being a regular cat and becomes a walking holiday decoration. Every cuddle suddenly feels themed. Every nap looks staged for a Valentine photo shoot.

Those heart markings turn normal moments into something extra soft. A cat curling up beside you is already comforting, but when that little heart patch presses against your arm, it feels like the holiday signed off on the moment. They have no idea they're carrying built-in Valentine branding. They're just there to nap and purr, completely unaware they are representing the entire aesthetic.

Cats like that don't need costumes or props. They are already dressed for the occasion. While people buy cards and flowers, these cats are walking around with permanent decorations stitched into their coats. They exist in a constant state of festive readiness.

At that point it feels obvious they are the unofficial mascots of Valentine's Day. No training required. No ceremony needed. Just a sleepy cat with a tiny heart patch sitting there, doing nothing, and somehow embodying the whole holiday better than anything else in the room.

Dry January has been over, and it's time to cheers to February with brews and memes. 

Are you a fancy pantsy brewery brews kind of person or a cheap goes-down-like-water kinda drinker? We're love them both! Depends on our mood, really. And currently, after a very snowy and stressful January, we are fully ready to enjoy FeBREWuary to the fullest. We might be too old to play staff wizard with our beer cans, but we're going to be cheersing with the homies whenever we get a chance. No more avoiding people and pretending like we're going to start our "healthy" New Year's resolution. Time to be 100% yourself and enjoy the little things. Because if can't enjoy the little things, like an ice cold brew, then what can you enjoy? Seriously, it's kind of all we've got these days…

Oh, but we'll always have memes! The memes online, in your heart, and piling up in your DMs from your besties. That's a true friend right there! One who can get a pint or two with you and then still be able to send you 1,000 relevant memes afterwards. That's the kind of friends we are and the kind of friends we are closest with. Is their really anything better than drinking and meme with the besties??

Cat's Cradle isn't just a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut or a string game – it's also a list of hissterical cat memes! 

Cats are everywhere and everything – from the name of a famous novel, a finger game of string shapes, to an internet sensation. Cat's Cradle as a novel was first published in 1963. It's sort of a science fiction anthem of classic literature, where dark humor and philosophy blend with truth, technology, and meaning, all before the world of artificial intelligence. The harsh themes juxtapose the light tone of the detached narrator. People in the novel are careless, easily distracted, and prone to self-deception. Apocalypse can arrive alongside absurdity. And just like the novel's absurdity, the list of absurd cat memes below mirrors that lightness, silliness, and pawsitivity in spite of everything going on in the world. 

Feeling down and out isn't a problem when you have the privilege of cat memes to cheer you right back up. Whether you're out of a breakup, fired from your job, or simply feeling the cold winter blues, you have every right to try and lift those shaken spirits with the spirit of cat memes. Let their innocence guide you, their joy teach you, and their catness give you a different purrspective on life. 

If you need a very silly show to watch while second-screening and half paying attention, may I recommend Ryan Murphy's show All Fair? And when you need an interesting show to actually pay attention to, would you believe that I'm also going to recommend you a Ryan Murphy show called The Beauty? 

These shows are on different levels of acclaim, but they have a theme in common — Murphy's shows are delving into the workplace with a type of super silly imagination that is lacking from today's procedurals. 

Look, if you want your workplace TV shows serious and solemn, there are a metric ton to choose from on any streaming service or channel. Medical? The Pitt. Restaurant? The Bear, of course. Office? Severance. These shows are all highly critically acclaimed, but sometimes serious is not what we want. Sometimes these shows are downright stressful, or they remind us of workplace experiences that we don't want to relive (I'm thinking about The Bear for both critiques here!). Sometimes, you just want to watch junk-food TV, and that's where the goofiness of Ryan Murphy's shows come in.

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Cats and robots don't really get along – except when the cat sits on top of it! 

This cat saw a family he wanted, and he went for it. This cat was snooping around the family since before Christmas. They took him in, TNR'd him, and to their surprise he came back. He wandered around looking for their attention, and on Christmas day they finally took him in. Now that he's a steady member of their home, they decided to buy him lots of toys. Seeing him playing around with catnip, stuffed animals, and even robot cleaners. It's heartwarming to see that the cat got his furrever home. 

We should all appreciate (most) teachers, and most of us do. That is, as long as they act like teachers, the ones that are authority figures, not reality TV judges for pre‑teens.

A middle schooler in a gifted magnet program gets roped into a group project that ends up landing almost entirely on her shoulders. She organizes the work spells out tasks for her teammates and keeps nagging them to contribute.  One girl does a handful of images another throws in a few sources and the rest of the heavy lifting becomes her full‑time gig.

If ever you need to prove to a dog lover that cats can easily put a dog in their place, and heck, even manipulate them into doing their bidding, then look no further than this scandalous story.

For us cat lovers, it is not a massive surprise to hear that another cat has managed to convince a dog into doing their evil bidding for them. It is part and parcel of the contract that we sign when we sign up to love cats for life lest we wish to feel the sharp point of their claws around our necks.

But what is especially surprising about the cat from this story is that they have managed to turn a multi-pound pup who usually strikes fear into the hearts of those who wrong him, into a puddle of fur that can be manipulated with the twist of a paw. We are talking about true evil genius cat smarts, and we are not sure how we feel about it… what if they use their powers against us hoomans one day… what if they already have and we just do not now it, like this dog…
 

After baking dozens and dozens of cookies, this Mom wasn't thrilled that her husband suddenly wanted his own batch. 

Valentine's Day can be so cute if you have kids! 

Many parents love to do arts and crafts with their kids to create homemade decorations. Others do a bunch of baking and let the children decorate cupcakes or cookies. 

Some parents also let their kids pick out those packs of Valentine's Day cards, which sometimes come with lollipops or other candies to attach onto them, which they can then give to all their classmates. It's a very sweet time of year, all puns intended!

This Mom of 4 young children is also a teacher, and she has really overbooked herself. She accidentally agreed to make cookies for all 4 kids' classes, plus a bake sale. Suffice it to say her kitchen is a one-woman bakery right now!

However, her husband wandered into the kitchen and kind of cluelessly started badgering her with questions. And uh, it didn't go smoothly for him from there on.

We waltz into this Valentine's Day with full-on feline cattitude, and we don't care what others think.

It's not that we don't have any special humans to celebrate this Valentine's Day with. It's that we defy this day with the cattitude of an orange cat operating on the force of a single brain cell. We defy the sickeningly sweet smooching couples everywhere we go. We defy the outrageous prices of every product that a design team slapped a heart on and decided it's a "Valentine's Day special". We defy the notion that this is not a regular day, like any other day of the week. And this defiance requires maximum cattitude energy.

If you feel the same, don't worry about today - we got you. We have everything prepurred. And by that, we mean that we have all the cattitude pixelated and ready to be shipped to fellow feline fans worldwide. We have the stuff. We have the feline funnies filled with cattitude, with cat sass, with the LOLs and MEOWs a cat person might need to survive the day - and especially this specific one. So grab your grumpy cat, maybe your Valentine's-defying human partner, and enjoy the clawmedy presented below. No romance required.