One brave kitten picked the right yard to ask for help.

The Cat Distribution System has a funny way of finding people, and this rescue started with a security camera catching three tiny kittens searching for food without their mom anywhere in sight. All three stayed cautious, but one little explorer was noticeably bolder than the rest, even if she never let anyone get close enough to catch her. Fans of Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit know these surprise feline encounters happen all the time, but they never get any less heartwarming.

A few weeks later, that same adventurous kitten looked completely different. She was wobbling when she walked, barely moving, and clearly running out of energy. Her rescuer knew there wasn't time to wait for another opportunity, managed to scoop her up, and headed straight to the vet.

The visit came with the best possible news. She wasn't dealing with an illness, only the effects of being dangerously underweight after spending too long trying to survive outside. Now she's getting food every few hours, filling out little by little, and spending plenty of time tucked inside an old hoodie that's been turned into the perfect dad pouch. Safe, warm, and full has become her new normal.

Meanwhile, the mission isn't over. Humane traps are ready in hopes of bringing her two siblings inside as well. Thankfully, both of them appear to be in better condition than their sister was just days earlier, making it feel like there's still plenty of time to get this little family the happy ending they deserve.

One kitten is already sleeping peacefully with a full belly instead of searching for her next meal. Hopefully, it won't be long before her brother and sister get to find out what that feels like too.

The notification comes from inside the house

This could qualify as a horror story. It would be a good A24 film. A man gets smart-fridge notifications in the middle of the night while everyone is sound asleep. In this case, discovering a snack-eating ghost would've been a better outcome than what really happened. Infidelities are not solved via an exorcism. I'm surprised to know how many cheaters are found like this, via smart appliances. I suppose it's because they can't lie, they have a memory, and we use them all the time.

Is there anybody out there thinking about the exhausted customer service employees who have to work during holidays?

A good amount of hotel guests and restaurant clients couldn't care less about the people serving them. They think they're entitled to anything they want, when they want it, and how they want it. They forget that they're not the center of the universe and people are just trying to do their jobs right. 

Redditor u/LCupidx works at a hotel and has experience managing entitled people, especially during a holiday weekend like the 4th of July. Guests not wanting to respect the check-out times, others complaining about the management rules, and such, all the while working on approximately three hours of sleep. The last straw was an entitled guy at 4:30 am demanding she give him an even later check-out than noon. Our receptionist here said that was not up to her, and the guy just started yelling, at 4:30 am I remind you, saying that he worked for the government and for Facebook. It doesn't matter where you work: hotel rules are hotel rules. 

I deeply admire people working in customer service, they have to deal with the craziest humans out there, and all without batting an eyelash. How did they get to master so much patience? That is beyond my understanding. If it were me, I would have called security the second the guy started yelling. Or just told him to go you-know-where, but then they would fire me. Let's just say there's a reason I'm working here, at home, behind a computer desk and writing all of these crazy stories for you to read and not in customer service. 

We'll do well by remembering that these people are working for our benefit, but that's not the same as working for us. They provide a service, one that we need, but that's not the same as catering to our whims, especially when that service has specific guidelines to follow. So, let's all be better and start treating them with respect, kindness, and dare I say, empathy? 

All cats deserve a human who loves them, but not all humans deserve to have a cat.

I've heard "Your pet is like your child" many times in the past. And I'm not denying the similarities for a second - especially as someone who's a mother to both a cat child and a baby child. But there's one major difference between having a child and having a pet (and no, I don't mean the biological one - my baby is not biologically mine… she's still 100% my daughter) - you can always find a stray cat, dog, or just go into any shelter and adopt a pet on the spot. Adopting a pet can be done on a whim.

I did it once, bringing a stray kitten back home because he looked just like my cat, and it activated me emotionally. But my actual cat did not take it well, to say the least. But not for one second did I think to stop caring for her to the point that she just leaves, just because a new pet has arrived. Unlike u/sojuicy's neighbor, who literally left his cat, Leopold, to fend for himself when his new girlfriend's dog chased him out of his very own home. That's a man not deserving a cat at all, if you ask me.

One thing that is the same, in my opinion, between pet adoption and having a child - when you take on the role of a parent or a pawrent, you also take on 100% responsibility. And it just seems that this is something that Leopold's legal owner is too busy to comprehend. Too busy with his girlfriend and her dog. The cat spends all his time next door, with the person who shares how much he loves Leopold and wants to officially re-adopt him, and the neighbor seems indifferent to the situation.

Invisible labor: what you do but nobody seems to notice.

In every family, there is always someone who does everything for everyone without expecting anything in return. The one that plans and hosts everyone's birthday, the one that always stays after a gathering helping you clean, the one that never forgets a special day. This may seem like simple things that don't need some major effort to be done, but the fact that there is only one person who cares enough to do it explains everything. Nobody does it, nobody cares, nobody even notices. Is invisible labor. And what makes it worse is the expectations that come with it. You can't ever stop doing it because it causes fights, and everyone starts treating you badly because you ruined it, when in reality, you didn't ruin everything. Everyone else did by not cooperating. 
 

This shows the entitlement these people have. They expect everything to be perfect, as if you were some kind of servant that HAS to do everything for them. While they don't even offer to stay after a little gathering that you hosted to help you clean out. This not only shows how ungrateful they are, but also how much you do, how much labor that becomes visible only when you stop doing it. And if someone else starts doing it, then now they are praised for it for taking the initiative when you ruined everything. 
 

This Reddit story is just another example of inconsiderate family members who prioritize themselves and nothing else. People who act as if you owe them something, as if your job was to do twice what they do, without expecting a thank you or even complaining. It's not your job. Don't offer to do everything, because if not, someday you will already be stuck with so many tasks and nobody is going to even tilt an eye to ask if you need help. You cannot get this burden because it condemns you to a life of pleasing people just because you are afraid to speak up for yourself. Do what you want, and the rest is for somebody else to figure out. 
 

You know that feeling when you are halfway through your day at the office, and you think to yourself, "Great, only 4 hours and 40 years left until retirement"? Yeah, that's us.

My dad retired at 65 years old. My mom is still working, but owns her own business and loves what she does, so she'll probably work until we have to force her to stop. That's just who she is. Purrsonally, I would like to retire at 60 years old, but I know that there's a better chance of my cat learning how to fly before that happens. In this economy, I'll be lucky if I can retire by 75. Don't even get me started on our kids' generation.

So, if we're going to be stuck in the corporate world for another 40+ years, we might as well make it as fun as pawssible by bringing our favorite thing in the whole world with us - cats. Unfurtunately, our work won't let us bring our cat into the office, but we can bring the next best thing, which is obviously feline funnies (AKA cat memes). Every meeting is slightly more bearable when sneaking a peek at a tiny kitten gasping at an even tinier snail, or giggling at an orange cat with a milk mustache. 

The good news is that cat memes will still be around until we're retiring, if we have anything to do about it. So, as we continue on the daily grind, at least we know that we'll have a good laugh every day. Just that might make it bearable…. maybe.

Are people no longer interested in having friends?

Friendships are something most people want, yet not as many people make an effort to find and maintain them. It's a tough subject because socially, we assume it's something people should naturally know how to do, and I'm starting to think many people fail at it because it doesn't come as naturally to everyone. Should we implement friendship-making workshops in basic education? This Redditor wonders whether people no longer care about friendship or they just don't care about him. Could be both, but let's find out for ourselves.

Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaal!

Usually, feline fam, the last thing you'll find us talking about here on I Can Has Cheezburger is sports. But that's because sports and cats almost never go together. Notice how we said "almost never", because there are some rare occasions when the two worlds coincide. Like, the Olympics, fur example. Every year that there are the Olympics, we always find some of the best original cat memes we've seen in a long time, so we actually have to pay attention to them. 

There may not be the Olympics this year, but if you haven't heard about it yet, the FIFA World Cup is happening in the United States. Everyone is all of a sudden obsessed with soccer (or football, for all those Europeans), but we still couldn't be bothered. That is, until we found this hissterical post from Cats With Jobs' X account. Now, all of a sudden, we're interested in soccer because one stray cat decided to crash the game and hang out in a goalie's net. If they were trying out for the role, they probably wouldn't get a contract because all they wanted to do was play with the water bottles and chill on the turf.

Only after the opposing team scored a goal did the kitty pounce into action, which is typical for cat behavior - only move when it's absolutely necessary. The goalie eventually shooed them off the turf, but any cat owner knows that you can't stop a cat from doing what they want to, and by golly, they really wanted to hang out under that netting. 

Did the cat help them win? Absolutely not. But did the match gain a few extra viewers simply because of the adorable feline? Yes, and it was worth it.

Are you guys normal, or do you also have a wicked sense of humor? 

Telling a well-timed joke is an art not many people learn to master until well into adulthood. Those of us with a peculiar sense of humor understand pretty fast that there are jokes that should never be said out loud, at least not in wholesome company. Sarcasm is relegated to the intimate social circles, and those gloomy jokes are for our besties' ears only. Sometimes we don't even tell them to our families. Especially if it's about a delicate subject. 

Reddit user u/KDragonDeluxe told an ill-timed joke in front of her parents. She says she's always been a sarcastic person and tends to tell jokes about things she's sure will never happen. Oh, poor innocent girl. Anyway, she went to her parents' house with her boyfriend and brother once and the environment was already kind of tense for some reason. So she joked about it to her parents, saying, "What, are you guys getting a divorce?" And, low and behold, they were… Talk about bad timing!

I don't think that hearing your parents are getting a divorce gets any easier when you're an adult. My parents are luckily still together and very much in love, and I'm pretty grown up, but my whole world would definitely come down if they suddenly decided to split up. For them, it must have been like that. Even harder, since they found out about it through a bad joke. 

I only hope those siblings and their parents are emotionally okay. Hopefully she  learned from that experience. If it were me, no more sarcastic jokes unless I know for a fact that what I'm about to say is 100% not happening. 

There's always the possibility that everybody got over it quickly, the divorce was amiable, and now all of that is a funny memory. That's the version I'm choosing to believe in, and I'm quite sure it is what happened. Otherwise, the Redditor would never have told the story, right? 

Do you have a neighbor who runs their business out of their home? If not, consider yourself lucky…

It doesn't matter what kind of business they run, it will always be a disturbance to those around them. They are either extremely loud, super noisy, or allow their customers to do whatever they want around the neighborhood. Usually, it is a combination of all three.

When someone invites their customers or clients into their business, which happens to be their home, they are bound to disturb the other residents as well, which is exactly what happens in the story below. The business owner didn't care that the many people coming to her house were a bother to others, and she didn't intend to bring the disturbance to a stop. At least that was until her next-door neighbor had had enough of her inconsiderate behavior.

As a yoga instructor, this woman has many clients coming to her house. Every lesson she gives involves at least a few people, and she probably gives some lessons every single day. That means that dozens of people come to her house on a daily basis. That also means that many cars find their way to the neighborhood, and every person who drives up expects to find a parking spot available.

That is where the next-door neighbor comes into the story. Despite the road being wide enough and the neighborhood pretty empty, the yoga instructor's clients kept parking their cars on the neighbor's front lawn. They didn't even try to avoid it; they viecles would be parked entirely on the front lawn when the neighbor arrived home.

Having had enough of the damage caused by complete strangers, the neighbor decided to confront the drivers and the yoga instructor and demand the stop. They even resorted to turning on their sprinklers on the parked cars to make a point. Did it help? You'll have to keep reading to find out…

If you want to stay over at someone's home, there's a basic rule: don't disrespect the person who lives there. That shouldn't be controversial. In fact, that is the bare minimum you expect.

The boyfriend's boundary makes so much sense. He has been living with his girlfriend for almost three years in an apartment they both pay for, which means the place is his home too. And his home is not a place his girlfriend can offer to any family member without his consent, regardless of how they treat him. 

The problem isn't that the girlfriend's sister needs help. The problem is that she has repeatedly disrespected her boyfriend in public, and now she expects to access his home anyway, as if nothing had happened. 

But what makes the situation even worse is that the girlfriend defends her sister instead of her boyfriend. She justifies her sister, saying she's "just like that" and that "she teases him because he's family". Making negative comments about his physical appearance and even saying he "at least makes money" is not harmless teasing. It is humiliating. And it is uncomfortable. 

So the boyfriend set a reasonable boundary when refusing to have his girlfriend's sister stay at his home. No one wants to be around someone who disrespects them and humiliates them. Just imagine spending an entire day and night together. 

If the sister wants to stay with them, the least she can do is apologize first. And then she should promise to stop making those kinds of comments. Even then, he wouldn't be obligated to say yes. 

Another week, another collection of the most viral and purrfect cat Twitter hits!

Here comes Monday again, along with all the things that it brings. A new week, a fresh start, an opportunity to take life by the reins and do things that we have always wanted to do and never done. Monday brings that, or… more realistically, Monday brings on another week of chaos that we do not feel equipped to handle. Not really. When we wake up on Monday morning, the first thing we do is look at our cats and mourn. Once again, instead of staying home and cuddling with our cats, we're leaving them alone. And maybe they are happy about the opportunity to cause chaos without interruption, but we are not. But we have to do it. We have to go out and make money so that our cats stay spoiled like they are, and that means that for our mental health, we have to turn to the next best thing. 

Every single week, first thing on Monday, we bring you a brand new collection of the best cat Tweets that Twitter has to offer. The cutest, the silliest, the spiciest, each more viral than the last. It will, of course, never replace the feeling of your fluffy cat in your arms, and yes, you will still think about your cats as you're sitting in the office, but it's the closest we can get. A dose of cat cuteness from the depths of the Twittersphere, without any of the chaos that usually surrounds it. Without the panic, without the drama. Only cats and nothing but cats. Now, you have something to do on your break other than doomscrolling on your phone. Five minutes of good cat content during a difficult Monday, and the day will feel at least a little less impawssible. 

Why would a boss think that an employee who was mistreated, overworked, and underpaid would leave a positive review about the job?

Bosses who have zero respect for employees are common. Bosses that overwork their employees are predictable. But bosses that expect a positive review after all that- that is shocking! The nerve that you have to pretend that an employee you forced to work over their job title for the same salary leaves a nice and extremely positive review after quitting because of the horrible work environment. It doesn't even make sense. Why would you pretend that? Why would a boss think they have the right to demand a positive review of a former employee who left because of them? In what world did he think that was possible?

In this Reddit story, we are presented once again with malicious compliance in its full splendor. Complaining about what your boss, or in this case, former boss, asked only to create a bigger problem. This boss not only has an incredible nerve, but he also believes he still has some kind of power over a former employee, and he even thinks he has to ask for a favor from an employee that he mistreated during their time in the company. If you have to beg for reviews for people to want to work with you when we are in a job crisis, that is because your company values are especially questionable and your work environment is unbearable. The fact that, as a manager, you know that you are doing something wrong, but instead of fixing it, you believe that the best solution is to beg former employees to leave a positive review, as well as writing a bunch of fake ones so people believe it is an amazing place to work.

If you are a manager looking for amazing reviews to make the job opening that your company has go away. Stop pretending that former employees will do anything for you. Instead, start making actual changes to the work environment. That will not only boost productivity as employees are in better conditions, but also it will get the word out that your company is a nice place to work. No more false reviews. Just make the changes and stick to them so that working there isn't the worst thing. 
 

In heatwaves like the ones we're having now, we are not the only ones who suffer. 

It has been an extra hot summer so far. Maybe it's bad luck, maybe the gates of the underworld have finally opened to punish us for our weird Twitter feed, maybe we're just noticing it more because more people are complaining. Either way, it's hot. And our cats are feeling it too. I see it even at home. My cat, who's one of those cats who love to sunbathe so much that she'll scream at me every morning, exactly five minutes after breakfast, to open the balcony for her so she can chill in her favorite sunspot - even she barely manages to spend five minutes outside before coming back in and chilling in the cool sink. Sleeping under blankets - another one of her favorite activities - is something she's not even considering if the AC isn't on. It has been too much heat for her very fluffy body. 

But it's not just house cats who are feeling the heat. Stray cats are feeling it even more. To an extent, they know what they are doing. They know all the shady spots around. Our building cats all gather near the entrance to the building, waiting for me or one of the other neighbors to open the door for them so they can chill inside… But what if you are a house cat who just so happened to escape during a heatwave? That's the question @benmyfriend1 on X answered this week. It's bad enough for a house cat to escape into a completely unknown territory, where they don't get spoiled with food, shelter and love every second of the day. When the heat hits, and there's no available water around… the only thing left to do, apparently, is give up and hope that someone kind will save you. 

Breakup logistics are basically the Hunger Games of adulthood, except instead of a bow and arrow you're armed with a calculator, and everyone still ends up drained and empty over rent.Dividing assets after breaking up with someone is basically a small war, except here, instead of arguing over who keeps the good couch, the woman formerly known as girlfriend is arguing over who keeps the lease that's about to financially waterboard them.

Amongst the chaos and calamity of day to day life there are hidden many things that have much more to them than the eye can see. One of those things are our cat childs'  eyes. Two round orbs full of features and fine details that make even the most imaginative painting look banal by comparison. So we invite you to stop what you are doing and indulge in a hypnotic moment to quiet your mind.

Chaos surrounds us in this life, whether it be the constant onslaught of information from our phones, the madness of the modern office or even just the pace of life, we hoomans are always on the look out for something that can help us stop for a moment and appreciate the moment we are in. Many seekers of such quiet turn to yoga or meditation but we wanted to give our cat loving readers something feline themed so that you could enjoy both the awwplifting energy of the cats you love so much as well as a calming and cleansing quietening of your mind.

Which is how we came to this collection of especially mesmerizing cat eyes. Even as pawrents to feline kids we very rarely get to take in the out of this world features of our felines' eyes. Namely because they tend to prefer to look at things that are not us or they are asleep. So we wanted to give you the opportunity to see just how incredibly gorgeous our cat childs' eyes truly are and how soothing it can be to gaze into them and let the world melt away behind you.
 

The age old question of how to get a cat to stop doing something you do not want them to do is back again. This time we are taking a specific look at how pawrents have put in place protections against their crazy cat kids clambering up on their kitchen counters. So let's dive in and see how these hacks have held up.

Some might say that Reddit's r/CatTraining subreddit is an example of trying to plug a hole in a dam with your finger. The fix works while you are there giving it your all but the moment you step away all heck breaks loose. But nonetheless cat pawrents still try to do their best to train their cats, even if the effects are only felt when their pawrents are around. And thanks to their insights we were able to make this helpful list of tricks to keeping cats off your counter.

Now, there are more than a few ways that the pawrents in this list have approached the problem. For some it is a training issue, meaning they advocate for the use of consistent commands and cues so that the cat child learns to properly understand they are being told what to do and not randomly yelled at. For some it is a reactive situation, these pawrents have given up training and believe that the only solution is to react when the event pops up. While others have chosen more practical options such as doors and baking paper. We invite you to settle into a comfy chair and have a notepad ready to jot down some of your preferred plans of action to try on your counter surfing cat at home.
 

Weddings are getting weirder and weirder

It's interesting to me that a ceremony that's so ancient starts being updated by TikTok trends and millions of very strange new cultural practices. Where it gets very weird to me is when the most important thing in a celebration is the aesthetic part, not the part where you share an experience with the ones you love and they welcome the new era you are entering. This wedding guest survived a last-minute change announced via the wedding's website and caused drama by unknowingly wearing a banned color. Have we gone too far with the wedding-tok?

A "promotion" with no raise is just your job slapping a shinier name tag on the same paycheck and hoping you're too flattered to check the mathIt's like getting upgraded to "Premium Economy" but you're still stuck in the same seat, same legroom, same bag of stale pretzels, just now with better vocabulary to describe your misery.

How many ways can you prove that your cat is actually a cat?

Our feline friends just have the darnedest ways of getting themselves into sticky situations, and then leaving it up to us hoomans to get them out of it. And believe you me, I've seen a lot of absolutely absurd cat stories in my time writing for I Can Has Cheezburger, like when this wife found out her husband was role-playing as a cat for years online. This story, from Reddit's r/cats community (and X), might just take the cake for "most ridiculous cat story of all time". 

Felix Martinez got a summons to show up for court duty. The problem is, Felix Martinez is a cat. Somehow, there was a clerical error in the county's data and the summons got sent to Felix, and not his pawrent. The pawrent then spent 6 weeks trying to convince the court that Felix could not attend jury duty, all for very real reasons:

Felix has paws.
Felix does not understand human language.
Felix cannot comprehend legal proceedings.
Felix has no means of transportation, except for his hooman.

All of these reasons were rejected, including a medical note from Felix's vet proving his exemption. So, what was this pawrent left to do except show up on the court day with Felix in a carrier?

This goes a bit farther than your average "cat got stuck behind the wall" story, but it's hilarious all the same. It does, also, purrfectly point out just a few of the faults in our legal system, because if you can't prove your cat can't show up for jury duty because he's a cat, then how are you supposed to prove anything else?

Just another average day on the internet, if you ask me. What a purrfectly great day to be alive!