Are you ready for some LOLs after a week of hard work?

Yeah, you are! No other answer is accepted. You are ready to LOL, I am ready to LOL with you, we are all ready to LOL! So stop messing around and be true to your wants and needs. You want to LOL, so you need memes. It's as simple as that. What did Socrates say? A LOL a day keeps two birds with a stone that burns the bridge… Or whatever. It's time for memes. You had a long week of hard work. Those 9 AM meetings were excruciating. That trainee of yours keeps making those small mistakes that you have reminded them a million times about. And you are trying to eat healthy, so that salad at lunch is mid and the lack of snacks back home is truly heartbreaking. So all you have are memes, really. Don't scroll through those scary headlines. Do that later, you're doing great. It's time to give that mind, body, and soul of yours some time for joy and laughter. 

When one orange cat isn't enough chaos, the universe sometimes provides a second.

Sometimes the right cat shows up at exactly the right time. One family recently learned that lesson after realizing their young orange cat, Peanut, could really use a friend closer to his own age. Stories like this are a big reason cat lovers enjoy browsing Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit, where unexpected feline arrivals often seem to solve problems nobody knew they had.

The family already had three cats at home, including Peanut and two adult female cats. While Peanut had settled in nicely, his endless supply of kitten energy was creating a bit of chaos. After several months, it became clear that he needed a playmate who could keep up with him.

That opportunity arrived when the man's wife came across a Facebook post about an orange cat that had reportedly been dumped near a local walking trail. With bad weather approaching, the couple headed out to look for him. Sure enough, they found the friendly orange cat exactly where he had been reported. Despite being on his own, he appeared healthy, affectionate, and eager for both treats and attention.

The cat, now named Cinna, is safely indoors and waiting for his vet appointment before being introduced to the rest of the household. For now, he's happy, comfortable, and making himself at home. The family is hopeful that Peanut and Cinna will become the best of friends, and it's easy to see why. Cinna may have found a home, but Peanut might have found exactly what he needed too.

Another Caturday is here, and with it comes the Caturday Meowgazine - where we put together the best cat content of the week! 

Caturday morning. Time to take a deep breath. You have made it all the way through the week. You are more or less sane. You finally have time today to do the things that truly matter. Also known as… doing nothing. That's what Caturday is for, people. Caturday is all about embracing cattitude. Be like a cat. Today is the day to do it. Nap all day, snack all day, smack some things off some tables, have random zoomies in the middle of the day, it's good for stress relief. But before all that, what you have to do first thing on Caturday morning is smile. And that's what the weekly Caturday meowgazine is for. 

We bring you this meowgazine every week first thing on Caturday morning. Here, we put together the very best cat content of the week - all the things that you missed while you were out there, working hard to do things and stay sane. We have the most viral cat tweets, the best cat memes, the softest and most wholesome cat stories. Everything that you need to start Caturday morning on the right paw. 

This company really thought that if they dragged a job candidate through multiple interviews and assignments, the candidate wouldn't care that the salary they offer is significantly lower than on the job posting.

It's a bizarre strategy, but it must be working for some companies if many still keep this up.

Here's how they do it: The company posts a job listing with a salary range that is appropriate for the role and the demands they're making, and they happily watch as the applications roll in. They interview hundreds of candidates, making them jump through hoops and go through countless interviews and assignments to prove their worth. They make people work so hard for a job they think they want.

Then comes the time to negotiate pay, which is when the company finally reveals the real salary they plan to offer to the one who "wins" the job, but that salary is significantly lower than what the company posted in that initial job posting. How can that be?

That is when the hiring manager starts jumping through hoops themselves in order to explain why they offer a salary that cannot compare to the one they proudly posted online. They say that the base pay doesn't include the benefits, and they add the health insurance and the unlimited snacks employees have in the office… They basically lie about every little detail to get the candidate to agree to something they never signed up for.

And after all these interviews and assignments, some employees might actually take the bait and accept the offer despite the insulting salary, exactly as the company planned in the first place.

Is that the case for the job candidate below? We wouldn't count on it. They shared on Reddit's r/jobs Subreddit how disappointed they were when this exact scenario happened to them, but they weren't quick to accept the job offer with the gaslighting base pay. They knew they could do so much better.

The CDS can find you at the most unexpected times and places, even inside your own house, meowing at you from within the walls.

One thing that we have learned over our time writing for ICHC is that not only is the CDS real but that it can catch you at any time in any place. Seriously, you will be going through the most normal day when suddenly, a cat will pop out of nowhere, and your life will change forever. We have heard so many stories. A story of a cat running up to a person and his dogs when they were on a walk and demanding to be adopted. We've heard of a person being handed a kitten through the drive-through window at a Starbucks and going home with it. We've even heard of a cat flying through someone's window directly into their lap. 

Honestly, we thought the latter was the craziest CDS story that we would ever hear, but we think that this one takes the cake. The story was originally shared on r/blackcats by a friend of the person who found the kitty meowing in their wall. But then the rescuer himself pitched in, telling their side of the story and giving us more amazing details about this adventure. 

Was it fair to expect one sibling to fix a mess they didn't create?

A girl reached out to the Reddit community in r/AITAH since she found herself in the middle of a big family conflict. Apparently, she has two siblings who are well known for breaking the rules in the house, especially the ones about curfew. One night, they went out (as usual), and the parents told her not to open the door for them when they came back.

Of course, later that night, she woke up multiple times because both siblings were blasting her phone with calls, begging her to open the door. But she obeyed her parents and didn't do it. Fast forward to the next morning, both were furious at her and accused her of betrayal.

I think we can empathize with the tight situation u/Artistic-Raisin5257 was in. I mean, having to choose between your siblings or your parents, it's a tough pill to swallow. I totally understand the parents' frustration and why they wanted to teach their other kids a lesson, but I truly believe that involving the other siblings is never the answer, because it creates that expected friction in their relationship.

This story represents the kind of family dispute where everyone is accusing each other. There is no right or wrong here: it doesn't even matter that the two rebel siblings like to sneak out. The issue is the distrust that was created among those three siblings. 

Are we always obliged to follow our loved ones' rules?

Our most meaningful rules might appear ridiculous to somebody else, but part of the art of learning how to love is respecting what our significant others deem important, even though it sounds ludicrous to us. There is a difference between agreeing with a person and respecting them, and respecting sometimes requires complying with preferences we find irrational. Sometimes love is an inconvenience we choose. We accommodate, compromise, and generally do things we wouldn't do if it weren't for our partners. That's my position anyway, but let's see what this Redditor has to say.

Would you search in the sticks for 20 minutes for a kitten you barely glimpsed from the freeway? A true cat lover would. 

After swerving around the trembling outline of a baby cat in the road, this kindhearted rescuer risked it all to save the baby's life. Sharing their heroic story on Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem sub, this person revealed that this was no ordinary kitten and no ordinary savior. The cat was abandoned by its mother, but found by a hooman with a severe cat allergy. The conundrum purrplexed even the most devoted cat lovers, but lucky for this 2-week-old kitty, the odds were looking good for their survival, a far cry from their reality 24-hours ago… 

A cat-nundrum presented itself that night: do you keep the helpless kitten that triggers your allergies? 

Permission is usually the part that comes before a $1,000 invoice.

After arranging expensive tree removal without a clear agreement, one neighbor discovered that sending a bill doesn't magically create consent. The internet had plenty to say about that business strategy.

It's a tough life out there as a shelter cat. You have to wait for a hooman to see you and your heart, and sometimes, that can take years. For Dr. Vincent "Fancypants" DeNozo, it took longer than it should have. But now, he has a family of his own and a pawrent that loves him!

Not only do black cats have the lowest adoption rate out of any cat breed and color, but former feral ones even less. If you saw a beautiful, clean-looking cat next to one that is full of scars and partially shaved from its fur being matted together, which one would you pick? Well, we know that you would probably pick the scraggly one, but most people would pick the pretty one. 

That's how Dr. Vincent "Fancypants" DeNozo from Reddit's r/Cats subreddit felt. He was brought into the shelter after living a rough life in a feral colony outside. He looked ruff, and as a result, he was passed over many times by potential pawrents looking to adopt. Until, one purrson formed a connection with him, saw how beautiful he was underneath, and came back three times to finally adopt him.

Now, Dr. Vincent "Fancypants" DeNozo loves his head scratches. He relishes in cuddles. He gets along with his new cat siblings and drools when he's happy. Dr. Vincent "Fancypants" DeNozo is finally living the good life, healing, and beginning his joyous journey to the indoor life slowly but surely. 

It just takes one purrson to change a cat's life - be that purrson. Adopt the scraggly-looking cat, they often love the hardest.

What's the politically correct way of taking revenge?

Sisters have a way of making us way angrier than anyone else when it comes to any random fight. A sibling is not only interacting with who you are today, a small comment that would feel harmless coming from a friend suddenly takes on a whole other dimension when it comes from family. For example, you can start to notice you always become smaller when you are talking to that specific family member, or embodying a role they used to give you in early family dynamics. I remember I used to always forget stuff at certain relatives houses because subconsciously, I think, I was still playing the character they gave me in my early adolescence (reckless, disorganised, distracted, etc.). This Redditor's post tells a story about that, and about the times we take petty revenge over these minor issues and make innocent people pay the price.

If cats are allowed to roll around, get the zoomies, and stare off into space when they get catnip, why can't we do the same with cat memes? Seems like a double standard to us.

Everyone has their vices. You have to in this day and age to get through the work week without expurriencing the soul-crushing effects of life itself. Some people go and exercise in the gym; some get a strangely specific hobby like making sourdough bread or writing their own fan fiction. We're not here to yuck anyone's yum, especially when ours is scrolling through the internet's endless supply of cat memes.

Cat memes are like catnip for us feline fans - they make our days better, brighter, and sillier. If it were socially acceptable, we'd also bounce off the walls and sprint in circles for a few minutes, but that's apparently "not office etiquette", so we refrain from doing that. 

But luckily, today is Caturday, and we're not in the office, so we can do whatever we want while enjoying our Caturday care package of feline funnies. Sprinkle them all over your soul to give your mood a few minutes of laughs and may your weekend be jolly and wholesome!

We don't want to work, just meow meow.

A lucky day for cat lovers worldwide - Caturday is here, and the weekend has officially started. No one needs to leave their cat behind and go to work (Blegh), or ignore their cat while they work from home (Boo), or just leave the house without their cat (Ptooi). First of all, it's the weekend, and you don't need to work, so leave this worry behind. And second thing, in the beautiful weather, you might as well go with your cat on a hike with a leash, or at least learn how to leash-train your cat. It's the purrfect time to start.

But we digress. In our defence, it's only because we're extra excited about Caturday.

So why should you be excited about Caturday as well? You see, that's officially the weekend, and you, dear cat pawrents, have all the time you want to spend with your cat. Cats are not really as aloof and distant as they seem, and they actually like the company of humans that they love. So go ahead and show your cat some love, we're waiting. It's okay, take your time. It's the weekend, there's no rush. Also, send them some extra love from us, tell your cat we love them very much.

If you told me being a 'owner' of a small business would cost me $14.000 thousand dollars, I would respond 'I am glad being a regular employee.'

A creative director who accepted equity instead of a raise is now learning that being a business owner sometimes means owing taxes on profits you've never actually seen, while someone else controls all the cash.

Cats just know.

Some people walk around in the world with the assumption that cats are emotionally detached, aloof, and independent to a fault. They could never be more wrong. Any person who has ever had a cat - as wild and silly as cats can be - knows that cats are affection-giving specialists with a care engine that runs on purrs. Cats aren't distant, they're just choose who they get close to. And when they do - cats really do show they care for their humans. Once you've been chosen by a cat, you've won a fluffy friend for life.

Since we're proudly and unapologetically cat people, we know that cats care. We see it with our own cats, who offer a comforting paw when we're sad, or snuggle next to us and purr when we're sick. But we also know it from the many wholesome stories of the online feline family, and specifically ours. We asked the lovely cat people over at the I Can Has Cheezburger Facebook a simple thing - to tell us about all the sweet and tender times their cats showed them that they care and displayed affection. Your stories are heart-melting, and we're practically a puddle by now.

They say 'eyes are the window to the soul', and these kitties have found a way to look at ours. 

Whether they're solving ancient mysteries or simply judging your life choices, these serious cats have one thing in common: zero interest in blinking first. Scroll through and try to hold their gaze, spoiler alert, you won't last long.

Should the diner have to pay for the birthday dessert, even though he warned the server multiple times?

We all have experienced that embarrassing moment in a restaurant where the birthday person receives a huge piece of cake with a candle, and then has the whole staff at the restaurant perform a serenade just for them. Well, now imagine that experience without it being your actual birthday. What would you do? We hope you'd respond the same way we would: just return the cake and move on. That's exactly what this diner did, although the restaurant kept performing the song and had the whole place applaud.

After telling the server it wasn't his birthday and that the piece of cake probably belonged to someone else, the server told him to just eat the cake since he had already blown out the candle, and it wasn't appropriate to serve it to other people. Fair enough. He and his family enjoyed what they thought was a free dessert. But, hold your horses, folks, because here comes the funny twist. That dinner bill ended up being $84, of which $48 was for the cake. 

Although I'd love to tell you how the story progressed, I'm gonna let you read it for yourself. The community in r/AmITheBadApple, of course, had something to say and delivered some comments and suggestions about what they would have done. u/practicalYoung8687 is still confused about how he responded to the mixup… let us know what you think!.

If your long-ago ex, who had been completely absent from your life for years, suddenly started interacting with you: Would you see it as simple curiosity? Nostalgia?

At this point, the theory that exes have a radar that alerts them of when we're doing fine should be studied. The thing that gets me the most about this Redditor's story is the timing: It's never when we're single, it's never when we are missing them, it's always right before our wedding (with somebody else).

Not to get all cuckoo with you here, but how is it that they can feel it? How can they sense that we forgot them and are happy with our lives? We definitely don't know everything about human senses and the subtle ways in which information travels. Maybe this guy had been keeping tabs on her through LinkedIn, though, and that's how he knew. Some people don't want us, but also don't want the best for us, and they WILL break no-contact right before our wedding with someone else who really does love us. Be prepared.

Before cats take over our homes, they start out small enough to fit in our hands.

Some kittens are so smol that a human hand looks enormous next to them. They can curl up in a palm, rest against a few fingers, and somehow still have room to spare. Looking at them almost doesn't seem real. It's hard to believe that these tiny furballs will eventually grow into full-sized cats capable of taking over an entire couch.

At that age, everything about them is miniature. Their paws are barely bigger than a fingertip. Their noses are tiny enough to boop with a single finger. Even their little tails seem impossibly small. A kitten that fits in the palm of a hand makes you appreciate just how tiny cats are when they first start out in the world.

These photos also put their rapid growth into perspective. A kitten that comfortably fits in one hand today may be climbing furniture, stealing seats, and demanding dinner in just a few short months. The palm-sized stage doesn't last long, which is part of what makes it so special to look back on.

Until then, they're content being tiny bundles of fluff that can be scooped up with one hand and carried around like precious cargo. Whether they're sleeping, stretching, or staring up with wide eyes, these little kittens are proof that some of the cutest moments come in the smallest packages.

Sometimes the best solution to a cat problem is more cats.

Most stories shared on Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit begin with a random cat showing up on someone's doorstep. Theo's story took a slightly different route. After spending months waiting for the CDS to send his cat a companion, his owner decided to give the system a little help and headed to a local PetSmart adoption event instead.

Theo was once part of a three-cat household, but after becoming the only feline in the home, he started showing signs that he might be missing some company. He frequently tried to sneak outside and explore, leading his owner to suspect that what he really wanted was another cat or two to share his days with.

One visit to the adoption event led to an unexpected bonus. Rather than coming home with a single cat, the family adopted a bonded mother-daughter pair. Vinny, who has since been renamed Lavinia, and her daughter Vida quickly settled into their new surroundings and wasted no time making themselves comfortable.

Theo may have been hoping for some feline companionship, but he probably wasn't expecting two sisters ready to shake up the household. According to their owner, Lavinia and Vida are already competing with him for the best spots on the bed and making their presence known. Fortunately, everyone appears to be settling in nicely.