It's Friday night, and we're ready to start the weekend early and spend it all just as a cat would.

Cats and weekends are two concepts that go very well together. Think of how your weekend starts: if you're one of the Friday night party goers, it's likely that you have a cat in the middle of a nightly zoomies session as your spirit animal dwelling within you. It's that unrelenting 4 AM energy burst that let's your can think they can parkour on the ceiling, and that every piece of furniture is their arch nemesis (you know, just because). If that's the cat living inside you, we're sure you're going to pawrty all night long.

After a Friday full of party-going, it's time to recover. A Saturday cat is a classic cat - lying down, chilling, napping eleventy times a day, and really not giving a fluff when you wake up. It's the sleepy cat that takes "self care" to the meowximum. This is peak cat energy. Modeling your Saturday after the classic cat behavior you know from your own cat is actually not a bad idea. We hope it restores all that spent energy from Friday night, because now we have to finish strong on Sunday.

Sunday is the best opportunity to finish the weekend with a good taste in your mouth - metaphorically or physically (or both). Like an adventurous cat on a leash, walking around the world and seeing what it has to offer, you can breathe the weekend air. Go on a hike, go to the park, enjoy the time you have left from this weekend, and get ready to start another week.

She thought she was competing for the job, the company thought she was HR paperwork.

Job hunting is already miserable enough without companies turning the hiring process into elaborate corporate theater. Most people can handle rejection. It's not nice, obviously, but it's part of applying for jobs. Sometimes another candidate is more qualified, sometimes the timing is wrong, sometimes the hiring manager decides they want someone with "more leadership experience," which could mean literally anything. That's life. What people don't expect is finding out they were never actually being considered in the first place. That's what makes this story so infuriating.

This woman went through four rounds of interviews for a senior analyst position. Four. That's not a quick introductory phone call and a polite rejection email afterward. That's hours of preparation, scheduling around work, taking time off, mentally investing in the opportunity, and making it far enough into the process to believe the company was genuinely interested. 

There was even a presentation involved. A presentation! At that point you're basically halfway employed emotionally.

Are you feeling pawsitively stressed out recently?

Lately, we've felt less like a hooman being and more like a giant ball of knotted muscles. Well, less muscles and more flubber, but you get our point. It's been a tough (couple of) years, and we just can't seem to catch a break. Luckily, we have our kitties to keep us happy and healthy, but some days it's just not enough. No amount of sweet treats, massages, or stolen mid-day naps are unfortunately enough to prrroperly unwind. Because life doesn't stop, even when you really want it to. Unless you're Dr. Strange, and in that case, can you just give us a few extra hours every day, please?

So, as time keeps marching on, we've had to develop a few techniques to help calm our brains down and relax our bodies. We've tried everything from meowditation to long walks, but there's only one thing that truly works for us: scrolling through cute cats on the internet. You might think we would get bored of that eventually, but that's where you'd be wrong - there are always new kitties to look at and awwww over. We take 10 minutes every Friday to enjoy a small break of heartwarming felines to embrace the tranquility of soft whiskers and paw purrfection.

We're not going to sit here and pretend to be some sort of self-help guru, but if you love cats as much as we do, then we think it might just work for you, too. If fluffy faces, cutie-patootie kitties, silly snoozers, and awwdorable cat babies are what you're in the mewd for, then congratulations, you're in the purrfect place. 

Some people should have a position of power over others, because there is no way of knowing what they would do with it…

Have you ever walked into a doctor's office and had to talk to a secretary who you could just tell didn't want to be there and didn't care one bit about you or your problems?

The issue with people like that is that once they hit a certain breaking point, it doesn't stop at 'not caring' about the people they service everyday. At some point, they go from indifferent to spiteful, and their boredom with their job becomes an excuse to mess with others, with complete disregard for how it affects their lives.

That is how we imagine the University admin below feels, if her actions are anything to go by. It's not just that she doesn't care about the students or their issues; it seems like she is actively trying to make their lives more difficult by inventing rules that don't exist. That is why she decided to mess with this group of students and tell them they have to switch classes because she made up a rule about how they couldn't participate in the one they chose…

Is this friendship of 15 years suddenly over? 

It's become a running joke in recent years: weddings and their various parties are becoming more and more intricate, time consuming, and expensive. These days, you can expect to watch a friend become engaged, and then a flurry of future invites and requests for payments will flood your inbox. 

These newly-engaged lovebirds mean well: they want the people they love most to celebrate them. But the costs of a bach weekend, bridal shower, pre-wedding dinner, the ceremony itself, the reception, gifts, and a honeymoon fund are just way too much for some friend groups to handle without fractures forming. 

Do you have any idea how wild feline genetics truly are?

All cats are beautiful, that is a fact. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can dive into the tuna steak of this article - rare and unique cats. Cat genetics are truly wild. They're like little furry mosaics made out of two different genetic "instruction sets". 

We're going to try and keep it as pawsitively simple as pawssible without it sounding like a biology class: female cats have two X-chromosomes, and randomly, one can decide to "turn off". Stay with us. Some cells use Mom's version, some use Dad's. The result? Different patches of fur literally following different DNA instructions - this is how we get Calico and Tortoiseshell cats! Isn't it fascinating?? Maybe it is just for us cat nerds.

If you weren't interested in that, then we're going straight for the bullseye - chimera cats. A chimera cat happens when two purrfect little embryos fuse together early in development, meaning one cat can contain two separate sets of DNA from what would have been two kittens. Not metaphorically. Literally. Two genetic blueprints merged into one extremely dramatic loaf. These cats sometimes have perfectly split faces, like half orange, half black, because each side of the body may come from different cell lines. There's no way you read that and didn't go "huh" at the end. If you didn't, you're one smarty-pants. Congratulations.

This is the only pawssible explanation we can think of for this meowsterious stray spotted by a feline fanatic online. It literally looks like it's two different cats, a short-haired gray tabby and a long-haired rusty black cat, fused into one. In all of our years as self-proclaimed cat expurrts and feline aficionados, we've never seen a cat quite like this. 

Just goes to show you that, even at our jaded, elder millennial age, there are still things in this world that can surprise you.

In 2020 and the years immediately thereafter, workers were sold the idea that flexible work and working from home were the future. Certain "global-events-that-shall-remain-nameless" had forced employers, who were faced with the alternative of not having a workforce, to acknowledge that their employees—who only ever had needed a laptop and an internet connection—were in fact able to do their jobs from home… despite years of insisting otherwise. 

Fast forward a few years from there until 2025, and suddenly those lessons were forgotten. "Return to Office" became the new norm as aging managers, desperate to get away from their families and escape back into the office like they had their entire lives, began coming up with justifications of why employees were suddenly incapable of doing their jobs from the comfort of their homes any longer, despite having now done so for years.

As with any case, there are, of course, some practical arguments for this. There are certainly some strings of conversation and continuity that can only take place in the office. There's a familiarity, a closeness, that can only be fostered when spending more time together than you do with your family. 

But when has "water cooler talk" ever led to a new idea that has taken the company in a bold new direction? But, let's be honest, are we really saying that the pinnacle of "office culture" is basically a form of Stockholm syndrome? Some idea that sheer proximity is enough to spark new ideas?

If anything, it just contributes to the long list of ongoing office distractions that are the reason why there is an increase in productivity when workforces turn to working predominantly from home. 

If your first thought is to ask, "How did a cat get stuck in the grills of a 20-story apartment building?", then you're seriously underestimating how curious cats can be.

Cat rescue stories are our bread and butter here at I Can Has Cheezburger. Or, more appropriately, our tuna and Churus. We've covered everything from cats being stuck in walls to people thinking they've rescued a normal house cat, when the fluffy kitty actually turns out to be a giant Norweigan forest feline. Each and every rescue story fills our hearts with joy because it means that one more cat gets to live to see another day. Not all of them get adopted, but we have full faith in the Cat Distribution system. When it's their time to be paired with their purrfect hooman, the CDS will find a way to make it happen.

Today's rescue starts high above the ground… 20 stories above, to be exact. Somehow, a stray cat got a little too curious and got stuck in the grills on the outside of the apartment building's architecture. After being stuck for hours, one renter alerted the authorities, who promptly arrived to start the rescue. More than 12 hours later, they were able to rappel down and rescue the poor little guy, who is now safe, and more impurrtantly, back on the ground where he belongs. 

A big thank you to Blue Cross Rescues for helping this curious kitty get down safely. After all of their hard work, we expect the CDS to work overtime to find this feisty feline a home soon. Hopefully on the ground floor. Maybe the first, but that's about as high as we hope he ever goes for the rest of his 9 lives.

Buying a salvage car and finding someone's old wallet hidden inside it is the kind of thing that should be simple and straightforward, and yet immediately becomes a philosophical exercise in how no good deed goes unpunished in the current era.Doing the right thing used to be simple, but somewhere between salvage auctions and Facebook searches it became a liability assessment.

From rags to riches, just as any one brain cell orange deserves! 

An orange cat was left outside to wander the neighborhood. A property manager saw her and thought to make a notice about it, rightfully so. He also put a box and food out, and then the woman heard the meowing. The woman nor her partner saw anything, and then it happened. While walking her dog, she saw the skinny little thing. She felt that the cat wasn't getting enough food and went to get more food. The orange followed her around, and eventually let her pick her up. The couple was initially going to keep her outside until they could seal in a vet appointment since they had a dog and cat already, but the cat didn't let them make that decision. They made the home ready for the orange cat after assuming she was dumped by the former or current tenant. She can now use the litter box and she's very social. She's good with the other cat, and curious but weary about the dog. 

After the vet appointment, it was cleared that she's in good health, and the couple couldn't be happier about getting this little orange kitty. 

What are your usual Friday night plans? 

Friday night is special for basically everyone with a normal 9-5 job. We all look forward to the weekend. Whether we're 20 years old and living with our parents, a millennial just trying to make sense of the world, or a working parent who is way overdue for a treat yourself vacation, we all love Friday. Friday is the weekend, and it's the first breath of fresh air after a long work week. Feisty felines are not only adorable, but they're a purrfect way to decompress from everything, and spend Friday night in a safe chaos. 

There's something symbolic about Friday night. It marks the transition from obligation to freedom, even if only temporarily. People leave offices, classrooms, and busy routines with the feeling that they've earned a break. You can see it everywhere: in crowded restaurants, glowing city streets, cozy living rooms, and group chats suddenly full of plans. A Friday night shouldn't be too stressful; it should be the purrfect convalescing balance of cozy, comfort, fun, feisty, and chaotic. 

Apparently, in this office, the trick to getting promoted has nothing to do with actually doing the work.

This employee may have been a bit naive when she assumed that hard work and dedication alone would grant her the promotion she wanted ever since she first got hired. She wanted to believe that after three years at the company, her work could speak for itself. She wouldn't have to remind everyone how good she is at her job, nor would she have to prove herself any more than she already does.

Well, this all changed when she and a coworker on her team had their annual performance reviews. The coworker had not been working at the company nearly as long as the employee had, and yet, it was the coworker who was praised for "exceeding expectations," whereas the employee was not nearly as praised by upper management.

Why is that, you may be asking? Well, it turns out that the useless weekly email the coworker sends every Friday afternoon, summarizing what all the actual hard workers on the team have accomplished, was actually… pretty useful in the eyes of their boss.

When a car dealership decides a signed contract is just a rough draft, you know you are in for a ride.

This life is so outlandish, so unreal that it can be tough to know how to behave. That is why we need the guidance of our elders to show us the way, much like our feisty feline did at the beginning of this story.

Not all cat adoptions are purrfect, there we said it. As we all know, cats are excellent liars and with little to no effort are more than capable of putting together a sweet and sensitive appearance, only to go full goblin mode the moment they enter your home. And this is where we meet the cat in question. Freshly added to the home of his furever family under the impression that he is to be the sweetest boy, only to quickly find out that his sweet boy gets his kicks from taking down young girls.

An act which cannot be tolerated as much as cats like to think that they control us and keep us in line, it is the opposite that is true and if these hoomans did not step in to sort things out we do not know what could have happened here. Sop strap in for a wild ride of cat pawrenthood and all the madness that comes with it. 
 

Before takeoff, please make sure your seat is in the upright position, your tray table is closed and locked, and no cats are sitting in your exhaust pipe. 

It seems like every time we get into our car, and before we actually start driving, we should do a quick check to ensure there are no cats hidden somewhere you can't see. 

Apparently, some cats find the undercarriage of cars comforting and warm, so they will climb up there and get comfortable while the cars are parked. The problem is, they don't always know when it's time to climb back out, so many felines find themselves stuck up there while a clueless hooman uses the car on a casual drive.

So, if you can, maybe do a swift check before you hit that gas pedal, because you can never know if today is the day a stray cat has chosen your car as it's safehaven.

When the little kitten below found herself traveling 60mph while sitting in a random car's undercarriage, she immediately started meowing and trying to inform the driver that she was down there. Despite hearing her call for help, the driver could not find the source and kept driving all the way home without knowing of the small feline in their car.

It was only hours after that, when the family was sitting down for dinner, that they all heard the kitten's cry for help again and managed to find her hiding in the garage…

Three weeks of free childcare, cleaning, cooking, and helping with a newborn somehow still was not enough to stop one sister from treating her brother and his wife like unpaid employees who kept failing invisible performance reviews. By the second week, even making their own groceries and cooking their own meals had apparently become part of the problem.

Somewhere between "I'll just throw something together real quick" and staring silently at a pan of completely unrecognizable food, these people realized they had accidentally transformed a simple cooking session into the kind of kitchen disaster that permanently changes your relationship with recipes forever

Good things happen when you pspsps into the void.

The universe often informs cat lovers of when they are to become cat owners, but when you pspsps in the wind, sometimes you can speed up the process. 

This skeptical cat enthusiast didn't believe in the power of cat coercion, spending a lifetime believing that felines were whimsical, magical, and ornery beings that couldn't be swayed by the mere powers of humanity. While they were totally right (about the whimsy and cat meowgic), this hooman missed a crucial detail when formulating their expectations around cats. 

Kitties can't resist a pspsps. 

While it's not entirely sure why cats are so drawn to the sound, it works just the same. Cats hear a pspsps, and they come running from all angles, and if you're lucky, you'll score the catch of the day in the cat department, just like this well-welcomed cat lover did when they became rightful cat servants to a newfound stray.

Derek wasn't accustomed to experiencing any kind of fallout after mismanaging his team, but when a clever employee started keeping a diligent (and meticulous) paper trail regarding his orders, consequences came falling from the sky like a cartoon grand piano.  

This call center employee was tired of taking the fall in company meetings when he was just following his manager's orders. So, like any witty and slightly petty worker would do, they started keeping an email thread paper trail covering all of their team meetings. All verbal instructions and opinionated pivots were cataloged in these emails: timestamped, sent out, and kept in this employee's pocket in the event of an emergency. 

Well, an emergency finally came when the big bosses came to town to shakedown the department. 

Without the manager to back up the workforce, they came down hard on all of the employees, stating that they weren't following protocol, they were neglecting company rules, and slacking on their tasks. But, in actuality, they were just following orders… Derek's orders to be precise. Conjuring a paper trail like an HR-approved magician, this employee pulled up a 14-email thread of all of the verbal instructions that led to their department's "downfall," leading to the inevitable and justified end of Derek's career as their manager. 

Leadership is a funny thing. Just because you're given authority over others doesn't mean you're better than them, smarter than them, or more capable, it simply means that you have a gold Sheriff's badge and a kiss on the forehead from the C-level bosses. In reality, it's the leaders who get down in the trenches with their employees, fighting side-by-side with them, falling on their swords, and screaming motivational speeches from the front line. Pardon the Braveheart reference, but William Wallace said it best when he claimed, "Men don't follow titles. They follow courage!"

So to all of the employees out there with yellow-bellied, cowardly managers at the helm of their department, don't be afraid to start keeping a record of their wrongs, because you never know when it'll come in handy to cover you (and your coworkers) from incoming onslaught from above.

Cats rescue us from a bad mew'd on a daily basis. 

Just when cat lovers think that their day is just another unsalvageable round-trip journey to Bummer Town, an adorable feline steps in to turn the tide. Like a powerful meowfrodesiac, cats hypnotize the cat lover's brain, turning frowns into smiles, silence into purrs, and empty hands into pet machines. Cats have that effect on us. 

Purrhaps it's the cuteness of their faces or the smolness of their toe beans, but cats bring an unexpected and mysterious wave of happiness into every meowment, shining like the sun on our shaded faces and lighting the way forward. To sound anything less than profound, cats are happiness embodied.