Does your cat end up all tangled up in weird positions as well? 

Mine does, and apparently so do a lot of other people's cats too! It's not weird to see them sitting or napping in the most uncomfortable places. We just stand there, baffled, thinking: "how did it get there?" "Is that even comfortable?" "How does it reach those angles?" Now, why do they do that? We have no idea. Maybe they just get bored of their own bodies and want to spice things up a bit and try to see how much they can stretch, twist, and tangle. In the meantime, us hoomans just stand here, being unable to touch our own toes. There's no flexibility here; our cats took all that was available. We're just worried that they might hurt themselves at some point, but that hasn't happened yet, so we can't get paranoid. Besides, they always fall on their feet. That's got to count for something. 

Cats seem to behave like liquids sometimes. They forget they have bones and muscles and just act like they are made of little more than Jell-O. They manage to fit into places they definitely shouldn't fit, and it's both scary and amazing. We sure would take advantage of that skill when we have to take the subway for work, and it's as packed as a can of sardines. As always, we have to admit that we're actually just jealous of them and their feline skills. 

There was actually a scientist who thought this was really interesting and did a whole investigation on cats and their liquid behavior. He confirmed it: cats act like liquids and are able to adapt to the form or whatever bowl they're trying to fit into. The man even won awards for it. Really, he fulfilled our lifelong dream: to get famous and win awards just for talking about cats. 

Let's face it, most of us are not getting close to winning any kind of award any time soon. But what we are close to doing is having a jolly good laugh! These photos are perfect for laughing and getting surprised at all cats' ability to bend and stretch in the weirdest of angles. 

Sometimes, it pays off to be a little chonky.

Cats are pretty resilient creatures, so in most weather circumstances they can get by, but dehydration and hunger can be the scariest when a cat is lost outside. Elsa, our 6-year-old cat below, escaped during her pawrent's move to a new house. Her hooman came back and searched for her for days, but couldn't find her. Weeks later, she got a call from the new tenant asking if she lost a cat - Elsa was hiding there, not making a sound, for 3 weeks! With only the toilet for access to water, she was able to survive, but Elsa didn't eat for 3 weeks.

Luckily, Elsa was a bit chonky before she got lost, and that probably saved her life. Upon her safe return home, her pawrent took her to the vet, where he said something surprising: she was still a little overweight! We like to think Elsa just forced herself onto a crash diet or a water fast for 3 weeks.

The impurrtant thing is that Elsa was found, is now safely snuggling with her pawrent in their new house, and Elsa is healthy. She will also be going on a real diet, with the vet's help, soon. Until then, we're thankful that Elsa was chonky, and if she can be a little chonky, then maybe we can too and not judge ourselves too harshly for it.

It takes all kinds of people to rescue cats. More often than not having a deep love of felines and the willingness to do whatever it takes is more than enough to perform a cat rescue. But as was in the case of this feline rescue, someone with a very special skill set was needed to perform the precarious rescue.

For you see this was a classic cat stuck in a tree situation. Well, classic might be diminishing the depth of the drama in this story seeing as this cat was not merely a few tens of feet of the ground but almost 100ft up in the air. A height that even the harvest of firemen is not capable of scaling and that is where our rescuer @canopycatrescue on tiktok comes in. They are veterans in scaling tall trees and saving cats, and their expertise and talents were instrumental in getting this cat back to their family. Expertise that they likely picked up from their main line of work as tree surgeons.

It is not an uncommon situation that a cat gets stuck in a tree. And being the kind of creatures who enjoy doubling down on bad decisions you can imagine that when going back down did not look like a good idea to the cat, it decided that going a bit further up would be better. That is until she ran out of the tree to climb and found herself helpless and hopeless. This story just goes to show that you never know what kind of random skill might just save the day when you least expect it. 
 

It is not often that we hear a cat rescue story that begins with a neighborhood cat, most likely because most of the time they do not require rescuing. But when one feline found itself struggling to eat and getting skinnier and skinnier one cat loving hooman simply could not stand by and let him waste away.

We have to say that this is quite the departure from our regular cat rescue stories, if that can even be a 'regular' thing. But in most cases cats are found in vulnerable pawsitions either injured, trapped or dumped and they rather willingly come along with the hooman who has come to help them. However, in this story the cat was a neighborhood catto, known to everyone, fed by many and adored throughout the street.

But when this poor cat started to struggle with eating and eventually walking it was only one resident who stepped up to save him. Not that he was willing to come along quietly, after all he is a child of the streets, but soon enough he gave up the fight and admitted defeat. And it is lucky she did because had he spent a few more weeks on the streets his story could be a whole lot different. So we thank this caring cat rescuer for her hard work and iron will to save a cat from themselves and to ensure that a sweet soul who had brought her joy throughout the years receives the same courtesy from her.

 

A woman spotted a lost kitten stuck beneath a bridge and thought, "This looks like a job for the firefighters." And it was. Firefighters got there and used an eleven-foot ladder to help the kitten down.

A firefighter climbed toward the ledge while the people below waited and hoped the cat wasn't hurt. "The cat distribution system selected us!!" the woman was happy to explain on her socials. The setting was a very dangerous spot for the kitten to get down safely alone. He clearly needed help. Imagine the kitten seeing the concrete walls, a steep drop, and realizing he had almost no room to move. I would have done the same thing he did: stay in place, unmoved, and wait for someone to help. Luckily, a person spotted him and asked for proper assistance. 

When the kitten is brought down from the bridge, the danger is finally over, but the recovery is the one thing that's left. According to the woman, Sheila, the little cat was dehydrated and starving, which suggests he may have been trapped for quite some time. He was even shaking when brought to safety. Even so, he appeared otherwise healthy and was soon receiving warmth and food. And of course, all the snuggles he could handle. 

The final cat pictures show a different scene from the opening. The exhausted kitten is curled up comfortably, resting under a blanket, as he much deserved. For the first time in an unknown number of hours, the kitten could sleep without fear of falling or being forgotten. Sheila wrote that the next thing they'll do is visit the vet. This is another sweet example of the cat distribution system in action. For some reason, Sheila spotted the kitty and not any other person. And for some reason, she was the right person at the right time, because she spotted the kitten and saved him. They were meant to be! 

Who moves in with their boyfriend after two months?

Just because you love your partner doesn't mean that it's time to live with them. Moving in together is a big commitment, and if you do it too early, it will probably end pretty badly. A lot of young couples don't move in together until they're married, which definitely has its downsides. I don't think you really know your partner until you've lived with them full-time. Just because someone is a good boyfriend doesn't mean that they are a good roommate, and you want your future husband to be a good roommate and a good (former) boyfriend.

There is really nothing wrong with living with a roommate for the first couple of years of your relationship. It might be kind of difficult to feel like you're ever truly alone if your roommate is always at home when you're at home with your partner, but having a roommate who you're not dating feels a lot more secure than sharing a lease with somebody who you're dating. Your roommate is less likely to stop paying rent because you and her had a falling out. If you and your boyfriend are both on the same lease and you break up, he could walk out, block you, stop paying rent, and you'd still be responsible for paying the rent and utilities on y'all's shared place. If you have a nice landlord who takes pity on you, there's a chance you could break the lease, but that's a big IF.

The young woman in this story has had a roommate for the past year, but now that her roommate has a brand new boyfriend, things are going awry. The roommate wants her boyfriend to move into the apartment and wants her roommate out of the house as soon as possible. What would you do if you found yourself in a situation like this?

Cats are naturally mischievous.  

Sometimes there's nothing more precious to us than our pets. They give us so much love without even trying, and it's easy to take them for granted. Sometimes it takes a scare, a shake up like the one here in the story to come to terms with full appreciation for them. In the story here, a couple has a sweet girl, Captain. She goes missing one day and doesn't return. It's been over a month, and they've already grieved the loss of their angel. But then one day the husband hears meowing in the distance, only to see little Captain running at full speed towards him. In a miraculous shift, their sweet girl was home safe and sound. They are going to give her extra treats now that she's back. It must have been absolutely terrifying for the pawrents to think that their girl was gone. Having an outdoor cat runs the risk of them getting lost or hurt and not returning. But thankfully, that's not what happened in the story here. Here's to a story with a happy ending. 

Toxic people have no place in our lives, even if they're family. 

A young woman shared her story of dealing with family members who don't deserve to be called family. They all come from her dad's side of the family, and they enforce a weird hierarchy on everybody. Some members of the family are at the "top," and others are at the "bottom." They've used that for years to treat each other badly, speak behind each other's backs, and meddle in issues that are none of their business. They've treated her father like a scapegoat his entire life and used his personal issues with his daughter against them. His daughter had had enough at one point and sent them a message that said everything she thought about them. Suffice it to say that the tone was as mean and disrespectful as theirs had been her entire life. They called her parents to complain instead of taking it out with her, so she grabbed the phone and started arguing with her aunt and then her cousin. Their arguments were ridiculous and made no sense, so she ended the conversation afterwards. She told her dad that if he wanted to have a relationship with them, it was his right, but she didn't want to see them anymore. 

Not because someone is family does it mean that we have to let them treat us poorly or let them walk all over us. Respect goes both ways; it's something that is earned and kept through being a decent and fair human being. Hierarchies don't exist inside a family, and if they think that they should be revered for being older, we're sorry, but they were born in the wrong century. Things work differently now. They don't get to make their relatives feel like trash and expect them to bow their heads and abide by anything they say. They need a good lesson in humility and what family actually means. This girl is brave, and probably she'll be the reason why her father finally frees himself from his sibling's toxic attitude. Everybody deserves to feel at home with their family, not like they're in a never-ending war. 

Ahh, sleep. The time away from our grounded, day-to-day realities. 

The time for our candy-colored clown they call the sandman to tiptoe to our room while we doze in and out of consciousness, vacillating between worlds until we land in our sleeping states for the night. A soporific scroll to lull ourselves before we cozy up into our covers, hiding from the world, opening up to REM sleep to dream a little dream or two. Dreams are fascinating. They really are windows to our thoughts, feelings, desires. Different philosophers and psychologists will have differing opinions on the meaning behind dreams. Freud, for example, believes that every dream is a deep wish. 

We're not the only ones to dream at night. Our pets dream too! Have you ever seen your four-legged sweetie kicking their paws and squinting their eyes while deep in sleep? They're having a dream. I wonder what their subconscious brings to them as they doze away to cat-dreamland. When you're in a sleepy, staid torpor of listless lulled energy, drifting between the pendulum swing of wakefulness and slumber, there's nothing better that will send you into a dreamy sleep than a simple cat scroll of wholesome and hilarious memes before bed. We can all be grateful for certain aspects of society and culture today, because one of the most valuable things to worship right now is sleeping. Think of our grandparent's generation, waking up at 5 in the morning to do manual labor as a child, and the fact that everyone thought that was normal and even prideful. These days, we can all take a step back from strenuous and unnecessary work for a little bit more leisure time. 

More leisure time = more cat memes. More cat memes = more happiness. More happiness = better quality of life. So when you think about scrolling, there should never be associations of guilt or facile enjoyment, there can be feelings of real pleasure. So enjoy these sleeping kitties while you lull yourself to slumber. 

When you can't relax even in your own home

Parents introducing us to their new partners is almost always uncomfortable. Everyone tries to act nicely, but it's very hard to get along on the first day. And for everyone dating someone with a son or daughter, this post is also relevant to avoid some things that are far from ideal.

I think that when we're nervous about somebody accepting us, we tend to be far too nice, even to the point that it's ridiculous, and that kind of hospitality, when it's inside your own house, the one you're used to being in since you were little- can make anyone uncomfortable. It is absolutely tiring to have someone asking you if you need anything or telling you instructions about how to behave in the house.

Plus, if you are the partner of someone who has kids, don't act like a stepmother or stepdad right away because it's not your place to assume that role; when it happens, it's more like something that's given to you with time and trust. Either way, you're never going to have that role with a 30-year-old, like in this story, so you can use some common sense and you'll be fine.

In my opinion, this girlfriend was very nervous and started acting ridiculously, or she literally didn't know whether the daughter knew the house, and she started acting like it was hers because she stayed there very often, and that's definitely more on the father's side of responsibility.

Adopting two kittens can be chaotic enough. Adopting four… turns the chaos into something beautiful. 

Losing a cat is one of the hardest things that any cat owner can go through. We are so close to them, so bonded. They are part of our family just like any other member is. When you lose them, nothing will ever fill that void. No one cat will fill that exact shape. But we still love cats, and if a cat shows up on our doorstep in need of help, we cannot turn them away. That is our duty as cat people. No cat left behind. 

Still, adopting a cat after a loss is something that you need to be ready for. You need to know that no one cat will replace what you have lost. No one cat will fill the void, make you forget, or distract you from the emotional pain. But maybe four… Maybe adopting not one, not two, not three, but four kittens will start filling that void. They will still never replace your cat. They will never be the same as the cat that you have lost. But we will say this… having four wiggly, loud, squeaky kittens running around your home and causing chaos will bring enough joy into your home to alleviate some of the pain, whether you want them to or not. They will not give you an option. 

Sometimes hearing a sound can change the direction of your day. Imagine you're walking on the street, and you hear a faint meow of a kitten coming from nearby. You start searching for it, and then you find a vulnerable kitty under a bush.

This is what happened to a passerby who heard the lost kitten and stopped to investigate. The animal was so young that leaving it behind wasn't an option. He was covered in dirt, and he really needed a bath and a proper bowl of food. As the rescuer explains in the video, the cat looked like it wouldn't survive on its own, so they took the kitten home. 

That decision changed everything. There was no plan to adopt an animal that day, but the animal who needed a home just appeared nearby and suddenly he had a new family. They named him Kiki and gave him the care his little body desperately needed. After every meal, every gentle touch, and every moment of attention and love, the kitty started feeling safe and began to grow. Little by little, the uncertainty of the roadside life began to disappear. As there was no more uncertainty in his life, the cat grew into a big, happy cat. Being able to see this process is so heartwarming. Kiki is even said to be "very well behaved." Even a calm bath time becomes another sign of how much trust has developed between the kitten and the person who stopped to help. 

Animal rescues begin with a stressful moment, but their real meaning is revealed in everything that follows. The sweetest part of the story is that someone heard a meow, paid attention, and decided to show compassion. And for Kiki, that brief pause and moment of compassion meant a whole new life with food, shelter, care, and the possibility of growing up in a house surrounded by love.

Is it ever ethical to take the job of the manager who got you your role in the first place?

Good managers can be a rare breed, so it is important to count your blessings when you experience one. While it may be unwise to think of them as your friend, they make an employee's working life significantly easier if they are doing their job properly. They are the type who you don't always fully appreciate at the time, but if somebody bad replaces them, you can bet that you will feel the difference. 

Just because a boss is competent in their role doesn't mean that they will stick around forever, whether that is because they have decided to transition or the company has decided that they are no longer needed. As an employee, it is important to be ready for this change, which can be destabilizing. You never know what might come next at work, and it might even get to a point where you are expected to fill their role. While this can sometimes be an honor and a welcome next step, there are times when this may be more of a dilemma than you want it to be.

Quiet quitting is the new 'I give up' after not getting what you wanted?

Quiet quitting seems to be just doing your job instead of putting your everything into every task and doing free extra hours every day. It seems to just be the "I give up" for the core employees that do everything around the office but get tired of getting disrespected and disregarded by managers. Is for the employees who deserved a promotion but instead only got to see everyone else get it, even when they didn't deserve it. It is the outcome of the unfairness of the office dynamic in which bosses favor people they like instead of the people who deserve it.

Show a cat kindness once, and you will win their heart for eternity. 

It is a well-known fact that cats domesticated themselves. We didn't need to do a thing. No convincing was necessary. Cats are as adorable as they are. We, humans, are as weak as we are when it comes to small and cute things. This plus that means that we were doting on cats and pspsps'ing at them likely since the dawn of time. Cats didn't need to get domesticated to get our love and care. All they needed was to walk into our homes as they are. That is because cats recognize human kindness. Or maybe they recognize good servers. Either way, sometimes it's enough to feed a stray cat once for that cat to keep coming back to you for eternity. 

For georginarg, it took more than one feeding to win over this stray cat. It took patience and understanding. But once this adorable skinny kitty was won over, there was no going back. She recognized this human and their home as a safe place to come back to, and to that safe place, this itty bitty cat brought her even smaller and itty bittier kitties. Hey, momma cats need help sometimes too, and if you are offering that help, they are more than happy to take them. This kitty went from a skitty stray cat to yet another cat who has domesticated themselves. And she is going to enjoy being spoiled and loved for the rest of her life. 

A viral story about a 28-year-old woman being forced to leave a home she inherited has highlighted the problems with age-restricted living communities in a modern housing market where seniors and retirees aren't downsizing, as they normally would, and young people struggle to make the step into real estate ownership

55+ senior communities and similar age-restricted living communities present a unique problem to young would-be homeowners. As does the social dynamic surrounding them. All of this is pushed to a head by the modern state of the housing market. 

Can a cat cat even harder when they let their inner soul cat shine?

All cat people ask themselves, "Are we actually cats in disguise?" Because honestly, we always feel like there's a smol cat in our soul that controls our every move. A little like in the movie Ratatouille, but less with a rat on the head and more with a cat in the soul. Think of how much cat-like you've become since raising a cat yourself - like cat vibes that have been dormant and have awakened, little by little, since you see a cat every single day of your life, doing their cat thing, and just generally existing next to you. That's that inner soul cat we're talking about.

But that's something we can wonder about between ourselves, because we're human. We have language skills and theinternet, to share ideas quickly across vast distances. But you have actual cats - and we're not talking about the ones in your home. We talk about the wild felines of nature, the big cats who are still wild animals in all their being. These are big bois, but somehow, they're all still cats. So we can't help but wonder - do they have the same smol soul cat within them, stirring their life in the cat way?

Last time we checked, tigers don't speak, cheetahs don't write, and bobcats don't understand a word we say. We can't really ask them. Well, we can, technically, but we'll never get an answer. Definitely not like cat people wondering together whether their lives are controlled by an inner soul cat. But we can have evidence. And the best animalistic evidence we can think of comes, of course, in the shape of memes. So we're going a little off the trail today and bringing you cat memes, but the big edition. Lions, leopards, and even smaller but wilder versions of cats. And let us tell you - they're all very, very, very cat.

How convenient to skip the gardening and show up just in time to claim the harvest…

Gardening is not only a hobby, but a talent. Not everyone is into it, and that's totally fine! Some people prefer building and creating beautiful gardens because greens and plants are energizing to them, while others might choose to exercise or whatever other activity they prefer. However, unlike other hobbies, gardening requires a lot of time and patience because the results are not seen until much later, so the people who are involved in gardening know this and learn to wait. 

The Reddit user u/Creative-Acadia4201shared that she and her coworker Jenny had been taking care of the office garden all by themselves. There were petitions in the past from other employees who wanted to remove it and do something else with the spot, but they were strong and promised to take care of it, so every week they had a gardening session. Slowly but surely, the garden started to bloom, and they even had some fruit and vegetables planted.

Three years later, Jenny was not able to go to the office for a while, and the OP had to take care of her mother, so she asked for someone to water the garden until one of them came back. Someone volunteered but told them that he would be taking the squash and the watermelon home, since they were ready to be harvested. Of course, both women were very upset: since they were the ones who did the gardening for all those years, they would be the ones taking all of that home. Logic, right?

This man was angry and decided to tell everyone at the office that these two ladies had prevented him from going to the garden, and made them look like selfish people. But I think the OP was correct: if you take care of something that demands a lot of attention and patience, as a garden does, it's not only appropriate but fair for the ones involved to be the ones harvesting and taking those products home.

If you've ever opened the fridge five times hoping something better magically appeared, these cats get you.

Opening the fridge when you're not even hungry is basically a universal experience. You stare inside, move a few things around, decide there's nothing you want, close the door, and somehow come back ten minutes later expecting the options to have magically improved.

Apparently, cats get it.

The second that refrigerator door swings open, some felines come running to conduct a full inventory check. They stick their little heads between the shelves, sniff every container, and stare at the contents like they're trying to decide what sounds good. Never mind that they have a perfectly full bowl three feet away. Maybe there's something better in here.

Some kitties are clearly hunting for the good stuff. They know the wet food lives somewhere in that chilly snack vault, and they're willing to investigate until they find it. Others seem less interested in eating and more concerned with what their hoomans have been hiding behind this mysterious door all day.

Then there are the bold ones who skip looking altogether and climb right in. Apparently, sticking your head inside isn't enough when you can personally inspect every shelf. Nothing says "I live here too" like planting four paws next to the milk and refusing to move.

Of course, their timing is always impeccable. You're trying to grab one thing before all the cold air escapes, while your tiny fridge inspector has decided this is the perfect moment for a thorough investigation.

Maybe they're searching for chicken. Maybe they're hoping a Churu magically appeared. Maybe they're doing exactly what we do at midnight: staring into a fully stocked fridge and declaring there's nothing to eat.

Either way, these fridge-foraging felines are proof that cats really are just tiny, furry versions of us.

Now close the door. We'll check again in ten minutes.

This feral feline wouldn't go anywhere near another trap, so his caretaker had to get creative to help him.

Big Fluff wasn't exactly looking to make friends when Reddit user Ok-One-5683 first got him TNR'ed last summer. The extremely feral feline was badly matted, so the shelter shaved him while he was there. After being neutered, though, something started to shift.

Big Fluff decided to stick around. He made himself at home on the property, hanging out in the cat barn and wood shed with the other community cats. Even better, he stopped immediately darting away whenever food arrived. That was a pretty big win for a kitty who wanted nothing to do with humans.

Unfortunately, all that glorious fluff grew back with a problem. His coat became severely matted again, and this time getting him help wasn't so simple. Ok-One-5683 found a vet willing to sedate and shave him, but first Big Fluff had to actually get into a trap.

He had other ideas.

Rather than immediately spending around $1,000 on a drop trap and vet visit, his caretaker decided to try something much slower: earning his trust.

Armed with yummy wet food and a whole lot of patience, Ok-One-5683 began cutting away the mats one tiny snip at a time. Some days Big Fluff allowed nothing. Other days they managed four or five snips. Most importantly, he stayed in control of how far they went.

Then came the big fluff win.

One day, he simply let his caretaker finish. Instead of running, Big Fluff patiently stayed put, occasionally looking up while the remaining mats were carefully cut away. He even allowed some brushing afterward.

For a formerly untouchable feral cat, that's huge. Big Fluff got relief from a coat that must have been terribly uncomfortable, but something even better came out of those tiny snips: trust.

Hopefully, future grooming will be a little easier now that Big Fluff knows these helping hands are on his side.