Sometimes you have to survive the neglect of others in order to be seen by the right person and given the life you deserve.

At least that is the case for this story of cat abandonment and subsequent adoption from Reddit's r/Pets subreddit. Though it is a style of story that we often come across in the cat rescue space. Usually, these tales are a result of a family not being comfortable with having their cat in the house, so the cat is forced to live outside. However, with the cat obviously wanting to be an indoor cat, they usually hang around close to their home, seeking out opportunities to get inside to the place that they are meant to be.

And that is very much what happened in this story, with the added pressure of it being terribly cold around the holiday season. Thankfully though there was a cat loving hooman living nearby who saw the situation unfold and as soon as they deemed it necessary, they stepped in to save the day. And save it and the cat's life they sure did. 
 

Cats in the meowning? Is it my birthday?

Waking up is a crucial state for everyone. How we wake up dictates the rest of our day, for the good and the bad. If you wake up to a blaring alarm clock, or the sound of the garbage truck beeping outside, you may be affected the whole day. What if you wake up to a nightmare? The sleeping state to existing is a tough cookie to crack. That liminal space between unconscious and conscious affects us so much, and it's important to know how you want to wake up. 

So how do you want to wake up? Wouldn't it be purrfect to wake up to the purrs, soft whiskers and nose touches of your cat? There's such a coziness to waking up to a kitty, and when we're so wholesome and innocent in the morning it can matter even more. If you'd rather wake up to a cat than coffee, then these memes are definitely for you. A cat addiction goes a long way, take it from us who are working tirelessly at I Can Has Cheezburger to bring you the most purrfect type of comedy: cats. Mornings aren't easy, but with these wholesome cat memes, it'll feel like the most important pick-me-up. This collection is so adorably funny that your heart might melt, you might even do a cartwheel or quit your job. Who knows what life will bring? Anyway, these cat memes of happy kitties are sure to bring a smile to your meowful morning. So what are you waiting for? Scroll away!

If it only costs you $2 to teach a micromanaging manager a lesson, would you do it?

It would be crazy not to with such a deal! You can see this exact situation play out by Reddit user u/cherokee1225 in r/MaliciousCompliance, and it is so satisfying. A total bargain for coffee and petty revenge! You see, they worked in a college cafeteria, and the manager decided that they would be useless, except when it came to reprimanding employees for any little thing. 

"She'd be nowhere to be found, but if you did the slightest thing wrong, she'd come out of nowhere at you," the user writes.  

So, as you can see, the manager was your classic case of micromanaging. The worst of the worst of managers. This is when the manager is incompetent, and yet watches every little thing you do for a mistake and tells you how to do everything their way, even though they truly do not know the most efficient way. You see what I'm saying? 

But don't worry! This boss learned a quick but marvelously petty lesson from this employee eventually. 

Have you ever had a stray cat appear out of thin air? Well, the couple below has. 

On Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem, a man and his wife were afforded this little angel in a bucket. They say she appeared out of thin air, and she really did. The wife had just gotten home from work, and he met her outside to help carry her stuff in the house. They had just entered and were walking to the bedroom when they heard a high pitched noise. Barely been in the home for 2 minutes, and already going back outside to see what the commotion is. They went outside, and to the left of their bedroom window they see a black bucket covered in dirt and a poor little kitten huddled in the back, crying and frightened. They bring her inside, but it was late at night. There were no other cats around, and they examined the little girl. 

They named her Missy. She's a young baby, and her first two weeks with the couple weren't the easiest, but they all managed. They took her to the vet, and she's all cared for. She's like a completely different kitten after only two weeks with the couple, and here at I Can Has Cheezburger, we're always happy to hear about a story with a kitten that's saved. Her favorite things include napping, playing with shoes, lying in boxes, dangling clothes, and making her little kitten noises. Read below for all the wholesome details. 

Nobody in the history of corporate America has ever been rewarded for paying close attention during a merger. The people who get paid are the executives who announce it, the consultants who bill by the hour to explain it, and, apparently, completely by accident, one procurement employee who stopped paying attention entirely and ordered fifty-five million dollars of inventory nobody asked for.
Corporate mergers have a kind of chaos that I could never fully grasp, just like most other elaborate business proceedings, but that's an issue for another day. And this specific merger chaos is the type that would never make it into the announcement. That's why I'm glad employee, Reddit User, posted this gem on r/coworkerstories.

These employees decided to leave their mark on the company they were leaving, and their coworkers will never forget it!

Companies don't want their workers to leave loudly. They want to usher them out the door with a whisper, so as not to draw attention to it. 

Though some workplaces might reward a worker who gives 2-week notice with a cake on their final day, some employees are too fed up to bother giving them that 14-day warning.

Instead, they're happy to leave loudly, burning their bridges with abandon, and the workers around them never forget it. 

Sometimes it takes just one person noticing to save a whole litter of kittens.

We all like to think of ourselves as very good people, kind and compassionate. But when it comes to the test, there are really only a few heroes who step up to this conceived ideal. And this one person not only adopted the abandoned kitten he found, but as he told on the r/CatDistributionSystem
sub Reddit, he organized a whole search party made of his family and friends to save even more kittens. That's a hero in our books. Our very cat-loving books.

As any regular person who reads this, we ask ourselves, "Would I do the same?" And we'd like to believe that yes, we would. But thinking like this is just the normal human response. This is how we psychologically perceive ourselves. Would you do it? Would you adopt a kitten in need, even if you had already had a house full of pets and a cat-skeptic girlfriend? Would you go out of your way to search for the rest of the kittens, and rally people you know for the cause?

These are questions that no one can honestly answer about themselves. But we have one example of a hero to aspire to be. A hero who saved a kitten, and then saved the entire litter.

Why is it so hard for people to accept the boundaries they are required to follow?

Whenever we tell other people about something they can't do, we can almost see the gears shifting in their minds, convincing them that they must do it, even though they are not supposed to.

It's like the five-year-old in them takes over and makes the worst decisions for them.

But here's the thing about people doing things they are not supposed to do: A lot of the time, there will be consequences that follow. Since adults are not actually five-year-olds, when they do something they weren't allowed to, they will be met with repercussions, more than just a time-out or no dessert after dinner.

The perfect example of a case like this is depicted in the story below, posted by a frustrated resident in a Reddit community. According to this resident, they are currently dealing with an entitled neighbor who thought they could get away with crossing a boundary that they very clearly knew about and ignored. 

Every homeowner knows that there are clear boundaries when it comes to their property lines. Every house is bounded by the property lines that were set when it was bought, and every homeowner is meant to stay within the lines of their property. However, some owners tend to believe they can simply ignore those boundaries and do what they wish, including building past their property lines and into their neighbors' private land.

That is exactly what these neighbors did in the story. They ignored the boundary between their house and the one next to them and built a platform into their garden well into the neighboring house. They fully believed they could get away with it, but the residents quickly noticed the change and reported it to the council. Surprisingly, it didn't take long for the council to take action and demand that the neighbors take down their platform.

Unfortunately, that didn't stop the entitled neighbors from complaining…

Who could ever not love cats?

Seriously, who could ever hate cats? We even know many people who are literally allergic to cats, but still love them dearly. They cry from being sad they can't have a cat, while also crying from the allergies (really, it's rough). We also know allergic people who put their entire face into a cat's belly and inhale - they call it exposure therapy. But we digress. We only mean to say that cats are universally loved, even by people whose very bodies reject them.

In this online house we love cats to bits. If it wasn't clear up until this point that I Can Has Cheezburger is the place for cat lovers, we make this point once more. But we know, somewhere in the back of our minds, that there are people out there who don't even like cats. Now, we live in this ICHC bubble, that it seems absurd to us. These people are obviously wrong. All of us and our twenty cats disagree very hard.

So we're here to focus on our people - the people who love cats. The casual cat content coneisseirs, the fanatic feline fans, and even the crazy cat ladies. All are always welcome under our cat-loving online roof. We're all one, big online feline family that constantly share their love for cats through cat memes and wholesome cat stories. Because, honestly, that's the best.

Who owns the sun?

Literally nobody. However, this woman, hanging her clothes out to dry in her private backyard, believed that the sunshine only belonged to her. This drama publicly transpired on the popular Reddit subcommunity, r/neighborsfromhell, when a woman became fed up with her neighbor's petty demands. 

Pawrents never realize how manipulated they are until they are opening a second dinner at midnight.

Cats are unbelievably good at manipulating their pawrents. A cat can finish an entire bowl of food, walk away for five minutes, then come back acting like they haven't eatenin days. Suddenly they are meowing dramatically, rubbing against legs, and staring up with giant innocent eyes until somebody caves and opens another can.

Cats also know exactly when to turn the cuteness up to dangerous levels. The second they are told "no," they start acting adorable on purpose. Tiny chirps, slow blinks, little paw taps, flopping onto the floor like life has become unbearable. Pawrents never stand a chance against that kind of emotional purripulation.

Then there is the bedtime strategy. Cats ignore people all day long, but the second somebody needs to get up or finish work, suddenly the cat becomes the cuddliest creature alive. Now there is a sleeping cat on the lap, purring loudly, making everybody feel guilty for even thinking about moving.

Some cats fully train their humans too. Different meows somehow end up meaning different commands. One for treats. One for opening doors. One for attention immediately. Before long, the pawrents are waking up at specific times for feeding schedules they never agreed to in the first place.

Cats really act like tiny fluffy masterminds running the entire house through guilt, drama, and weaponized cuteness.

This kitten treated the underside of a truck like his personal Uber ride into a forever home.

A normal Saturday coffee and car wash run quickly turned into a classic Reddit r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit story after a tiny kitten climbed into somebody's truck and refused to leave.

While waiting in line at the car wash, workers spotted a scared little kitten trying to stay out of the road. The kitten ran under the truck and somehow crawled up inside part of the vehicle near the rear wheel. After a long attempt to coax him out at the car wash, the rescue mission moved over to a nearby Discount Tire where employees immediately stepped in to help.

The Discount Tire workers seriously deserve a shoutout too. They pulled the truck into the bay, removed panels underneath to safely reach the kitten, dried him off with paper towels, and even brought him water. Tiny kittens somehow have a way of turning complete strangers into a full rescue team within minutes.

After that came a vet visit and a mostly clean bill of health for the little guy. By the time they asked whether the kitten had a name yet, the answer was already obvious. Naming him Rivian after the truck he climbed into is honestly perfect.

One second this kitten was hiding inside a truck at a car wash, and the next he had a name, a vet appointment, supplies waiting at home, and a whole new family. Rivi really picked the right truck that morning.

How does one reason with unreasonable neighbors?

The endless frustration that comes with living next door to someone who suffers from Main Character Syndrome is precisely that you often have to deal with the effects of their self-centered actions. That frustration is never more apparent than with this Texas-based homeowner who shared this anecdote in a much-needed rant on the r/legaladvice subreddit.

His story reflects a greater problem in most residential communities, and that is the lack of support from homeowner's associations and the legal system when it comes to holding neighbors accountable for actions that are more than just unneighborly. In this case, they're not even legal!

Who knew labeling was such a big part of chemistry?

Scientists are an important part of society. They help us evolve and take us into the future. And yet, for some reason, we are still lagging when it comes to the evolution of office politics. What's up with that? Why is a game of power dynamics still the top priority in some upper management? Haven't we learned that doing that does not help with anything? All it does is create the perfect chemistry of resentment and petty revenge. And that is exactly what biotech Reddit user u/EmotionalSector1329 explains in r/pettyrevenge. Was it petty? Perhaps. But was it worth the three months of annoyance to their incompetent supervisor? Absolutely. 

I think someone's in love… and these cats know it. Got someone special on your mind right now? If you miss your favorite person, these cat memes are the perfect excuse to remind them you are thinking of them. These heartwarming cat memes are the exact amount of sweetness, cuteness, and softness you needed to show your crush that you care. Instead of just saying it, go ahead and send them one lil cute cat today! Cats will deliver your message.

You'll definitely brighten your special someone's day. 100% guaranteed you'll make them smile. 

It's never the things that you want to go viral that actually go viral. It's always the silly, random ones that you don't care about. And, of course, pictures of your cat.

Imagine devoting your life to learning astrophotography and spending thousands of dollars on expensive camera equipment to photograph the sun, rocket launches, and distant stars. The dedication. The fine-tuning. All of that, only for your purrfectly grumpy orange cat, Gregory, to become the most trending topic on his pawrent's X page instead of your purrfessional photography. It's so ironic that you just have to laugh.

Tattoos are forever and these 23 are proof that forever is a very long time to live with a decision you made on a Tuesday.

Some people research for months. Some people walk in with a reference photo, a clear vision, and a reasonable budget. And then there are these people, and we say that with love.

He scraped the car, got out, looked at the damage, and innocently offered $50 with the confidence of a man who has absolutely no idea what cars cost to fix.

The repair estimate came back at $2,000. He really thought it was about $50. And somehow, despite everything, this story has a decent ending.

The inheritance was divided equally. The brother received a car while the sister received money. At first, it seemed a fair arrangement between the two siblings. But things got complicated when the sister ran out of money and started demanding her brother to share his car, and then mom stepped in… In favor of the entitled sister.

The brother treated her demands as normal family help. He could drive her once or twice in a while, why not? But then, the sister started acting as if she were entitled to this "Uber service". And that's when things started to go wrong. 

What do you do when you find a helpless kitten in the street? 

This man's first stop was a Reddit subcommunity called r/CatDistributionSystem, where he sought the expertise and cat-loving knowledge from around the world. With this knowledge and understanding, he had an arsenal of advice at his back, guiding the first few wobbly nights with his new, fluffy best friend. 

When a cat cries, we must answer. 

As a society, humans are morally obligated (or should I say, 'meowrally' obligated), to respond to the calls of a kitten. No matter how inconvenient the timing or location, the cry of a kitten is undeniable. In these moments of pure instinct, cat lovers, or potential cat lovers, realize the magic and pure joy of cat ownership. 

Although no human being will ever understand every nuance of befriending a feline, the benefits are undeniable. Cats bring a sort of peace to our lives. Despite their cuckoo nature, their midnight zoomies, and their seemingly constant need for attention, cats bring an unknown level of well-adjusted wonderment to a human's life. 

Alas, it's in the kitty chaos that we find eternal peace. 

This man thought that he was a dog lover, but when he came face to face with the glory of feline empowerment, he couldn't refuse. She was sassy, she was sleek, and she was dropped on his doorstep in the middle of the night. How could a dog lover refuse the power of a cat's aura? Exactly, he couldn't.