It's time to bring back Wednesday cat memes. We left you for a while, went off to rescue some cats, play with some kittens, but now we're back. Every Wednesday, some well-earned whiskery relief is coming your way in the form of the fluffiest feline funnies your tired soul could yearn for.

We may be at the halfway mark of the work week, but we've already exhausted our weekly energy supply. Monday was ruff, Tuesday was tiring, and now we're at Wednesday, running on fumes. The only thing we want to do is stay home and cuddle up with our cats, in the air conditioning, with our book and a bowl of ice cream. But, regrettably, we're at the office with still 2 more days left in the work week. If we must be at the office, we might as well enjoy some midweek feline memes for some well-earned whiskery Wednesday relief!

That's one of the purrks of being an editor for I Can Has Cheezburger. We might have to leave our cats at home (for now… we're trying to purrsuade our boss into letting us get an office cat), but we do get to fill our feline-loving souls with hilarious memes of our favorite kitties throughout the day. It makes everything a little easier, and at this point, we'll take any help we can get. 

Let's enjoy these feline funnies and take a break together, your work won't go anywhere for five minutes. Or twenty, depending on how far you scroll. We won't judge.

Sometimes the right thing is not right for everyone

There are always many sides to a story, and depending on which you tell it from, it benefits one side or the other. In this son's particular case, I don't think it's even that problematic; the person he messed with was doing something bad. He wonders whether or not he should have stepped into the situation at all.  He second-guesses about whether he should've let his father handle it instead. I don't really see why that's even an issue to begin with. Are we supposed to solve all our problems alone?

After losing a cat, adopting a new one is not an easy choice. But the universe knows if you're a good person who's meant to have cats, and sometimes, it doesn't ask you for permission.

Cats know, somewhere deep in their hearts, where their home is. In the online cat world, we call this the cat distribution system. Once a cat decides it's done with outdoor life, it goes to find a home, and they tend to find the purrfect home on their first try. Because they know where their home is. If a cat walks up to you and asks to be adopted, it's because it feels that you are the right choice for them.

Losing a cat, especially when you're so bonded, is the worst feeling in the world. I dread the day it will happen with my girl. She's 11 now, but back when she was a 1-year-old, she escaped. For one day. And it was one of the worst days of my life. I didn't know if she would come back. Didn't know how. She fell out of the second-floor window. All night, I was out looking for her, calling for her. And nothing. But exactly 24 hours after disappearing, on the opposite side of the apartment, in an area she had never seen from the outside, she was meowing under my window. And I got her back. Because somehow, despite knowing nothing about the area, she found her way back home. Her home had to have been calling out to her somehow.

Of course, mine was only lost for 24 hours. I was lucky that she came back. The person who shared today's story on r/CatDistributionSystem wasn't so lucky. In a fire, they lost not one, but six cats. When they found Kevin, confidently strolling into their home through the woods nearby, they didn't know if they were ready. But he knew. They were lost, but he found his home, and he gave them new hope.

It takes a special (not to say silly) character to, upon suspecting that their coworkers might be making fun of them, will not confront anyone, will not let it go, and will absolutely not accept two years of low-grade workplace anxiety when there is a third option availableWhich is to spend those same two years becoming fluent in a second language through sheer paranoid spite, and this story is about that character, what he heard when he finally understood every word, and why he is now eating homemade tamales at a BBQ with people he cannot ever, under any circumstances, tell the truth to.

There's no such thing as an ugly cat. All cats are beautiful. Some are just… really bad in front of cameras.

We think that every cat person has a moment when they are looking through their camera reel and thinking to themselves that, to outsiders, it must look like they have no lives outside of their cats. That's because 99% of the pictures on our phones are… of our cats. And we love every picture of our cat that we take. We love the adorable pictures of our cats napping in blankets. We love the silly pictures of our cats with their bellies up, showing off to the world, loving their lives. And of course, among the endless pictures of our cats that we have on our phones, there are always a few standouts. There are always the few that get sent out to more people. Because everyone deserves to see them. And more often than not, those are our derpy cat pictures.

Derpy, yes, because we don't believe that our cats are actually unphotogenic. Really, we think that it's our fault for catching them in moments when they weren't ready for it. Those are the realest pictures though. The funniest. Our favorite ones. When our partners tell us that they love a picture of us that we hate, we don't fight it. We simply think of our cats. Because we think the same thing about them. The worse the picture is, the more we love it, and that's just a fact. So, we knew, the second that a thread went up on r/cats, asking people to show off the worst, most unflattering pictures of their "unphotogenic" cats, that it was going to be one of our favorite threads in the world. Because it will be full of not goofiness, but a whole heck of a lot of love. And we were right.

Reduce your entitlement to zero

It's funny how managers sometimes become these angry beasts that nobody can satisfy. The position itself might demand that of somebody. Some handle it better than others, of course, and in my opinion, the job only brings good and bad personality traits you ALREADY HAD into the light. So if you become an irrational monster, you were already one to begin with. Power corrupts people, lol. This story isn't funny per se, though, but it can become funny with time, as long as the 'unpunctual' employee is far away from the psycho manager now.

What is it with this guest and their lack of accountability? Why do they think they can do anything without facing consequences for their actions?

These stories about employees at the front desk are getting more unhinged by the hour. We went from usual things, such as disrespect and threatening to call the cops for every minor inconvenience, to actively committing a felony and just pretending it didn't happen. These guests think that because they are paying for a hotel room, they have the power to do things they know are normally prohibited. What changes in their brain when they pay for a room that lets them think they can do anything? It is as if normal knowledge of living in society doesn't exist in their brain when they are on vacation. Is that something that always happens, or is it a new generation thing that they believe norms don't apply to them? What changes in their brains to have that incredibly wrong perception of the world?

In this Reddit story, we have a guest who does not have a sense of accountability in their body –something that has become incredibly common in the last few years. He not only tries to steal food from the hotel but also thinks it is a great idea to pretend he was always going to pay when caught. Did he think that because he paid for a room, he had access to other things as well? Did he think it was going to get charged to his room directly? Or maybe, and most probably, he thought there were no repercussions for that kind of behavior because no one was there. He completely forgot that hotels have cameras and that they would have noticed he stole. But that's not the worst thing.

Cat memes never lose their meowgic. You can see your favorite one 100 times, and it will still make you smile.

I have to say that when I got accepted into this job, and I realized that I was going to be writing about cats and cat memes for a living, a part of me got worried. Cat memes – funny, wholesome, silly, all of them – were one of my favorite things in the world. They were my favorite cleansers. I could have been having the worst day in the world, but I knew that I could get online, look at a bunch of funny cats, forget everything around me and feel just a little bit better. And I thought… people always say that you shouldn't mix business with pleasure, yet here I am, about to ruin cat memes for myself. Well, I am here to happily report that, six years later, and I still love cat memes so, so much.

Cat memes simply never lose their meowgic. The proof is right here. It's me. The cat memes that you have seen ten times, I have probably seen one thousand times. And I still snort. I still smile. My day is still made just a little bit better every time I make a listicle like this, and that is why I am still here. When people tell me that I have a cool job, I pretty much agree. It's hard to argue against the benefits of writing uplifting listicles of cats for a living. And don't worry, my kitty at home? I've grown to love her 100 times more than I did. Heck, she's reaping the benefits of my job too. I'm more educated about cats, more attuned to her needs, and I'm being a good servant to her and to our cat overlords in general. Yes, I do think she's pleased.

We've heard a lot about employees who decided to quit their jobs because they didn't get the promotion they were after, but how many employees reach their breaking point after they have a promotion taken away from them?

Imagine how annoying it is to work so hard, give everything you have to this workplace, only to have the one thing you have been working towards taken away from you at the last minute. And not only is it taken away from you, but it's also stripped away after you were already given it. 

That is enough to make anyone rage quit, which we honestly wouldn't blame. Why would you want to keep a job that has no problem promising you so much only to take it all away for no reason whatsoever? That would make anyone in their right mind want to run away and never return.

Whether or not the employee who shared the story below is going to quit is up to them, but we would seriously reconsider our position in the company if we were them. They worked really hard to get a promotion to a new role with a pay raise and better benefits, and today was their first day with this promotion. The only term the company had for this new role was for the employee to go through a mandatory training class.

However, while they were in the training, other coworkers all suddenly started to call out. People had all kinds of issues and excuses for why they could not come to work, which left the team extremely short-staffed. It was then that the employee's manager walked into the training class, pulled the employee out, and told them they had to cover for the people who didn't show up.

This meant that the employee couldn't attend the training and therefore couldn't get the promotion they were promised. To have all of that taken away because of someone else's mistake is a terrible fate indeed…

Summertime = feel-good time. Enjoy!

It's getting hotter each day, the sun is setting so late, and there's more and more desire to jump into a pool or an ocean. Some people adore the summer months, and others detest them. Whether you're into the heat and the feeling of melting in the sun and wearing bikinis all day, or if you prefer a winter night of solitude alone at home with a furry pawdorable pet, a healthy and happy scroll through feel-good feline memes will certainly make you feel better and warm you up from the inside (despite the heat). The heat is like a faucet, it drips on you moisture from the sun and air. It can dizzy you and disturb your sense of functioning if it gets too hot. It makes you in a bad mood, or it can make you want to relax under shade with an ice cream cone in hand. There's nothing better than being inside a cozy home with AC blasting in the middle of summer, with a cold drink in hand and the soft glow of a screen waiting to transport you into a world of entertainment without experiencing the heat outside. These precious, pawdorable cats are here to turn your boiling hot afternoon into a meowvelous, happy, and silly scroll time without even leaving your bed. 

Scrolling hissterical cat memes feels like a dip into a refreshing pool on a summer's day, plugging your nose as your body is submerged in water that cools you down immediately. You have friends around to share drinks with and talk about the weather, and you don't need to feel guilty about taking those little breaks to scroll cat memes for a feel-good time alone. We all have a guilty pleasure, but there's something you don't need to feel guilty about in the summer, and that's scrolling cat memes. They're the purrfect thing to cool you down and refresh you after a dip in the pool, or a much needed sweat session. Some of the classic cat memes will have you bursting up laughing, and you'll definitely feel better about your life. 

From working remotely to barely working

It's funny to think that anyone around you could be living a double life without you knowing. It's funny and somewhat paranoid. This fake remote worker is directly harming no one by keeping his lie alive; the only ones being harmed seem to be him, his dirty conscience, and his savings. This proves my point that not all lies are ethically problematic; not all lies are bad per se. He might have discovered a new talent for storytelling with this lie. All in all, I'm more worried about his future than about his lies. Or should I also be worried about this potentially evil ability?

How do they do that? It's honestly amazing. At this point, the theory of cats being liquid doesn't feel like a theory anymore. Every cat owner has witnessed this fact in their own home. 

Your cat can look like a normal solid creature with bones, paws, and whiskers. But all of a sudden, they are turning liquid form. They do it whenever they please. They can melt into bowls, fold into a sink, pour themselves into a cardboard box, and somehow fit in any place that looks physically impossible.

Nobody knows exactly how they do it. Cats look at a container and decide that the laws of physics are just optional. If there is a box, they can become box-shaped. If there is a bowl, they can become soup. They squeeze into the smallest containers with admirable confidence. The goal is not comfort. The goal is fitting, and they always manage to fit. 

It's impressive. Cats can stretch, curl, fold, melt, and spill themselves over furniture, and stay in positions that would send any human to a chiropractor. They can occupy a whole couch if they want to, and they can also squeeze themselves into the smallest basket in your house, as if they have unlocked a new secret body form.      

These cat photos are proof that felines may not be fully solid after all. Cats stay loyal to the phrase "If I fits, I sits", and we will continue accepting it as perfectly normal cat behavior. 

At what point are you doing your beloved hobby just because everyone else wants you to?

This is a real problem for people who have gotten very good at their hobby. For instance, you love to sew and make your own clothes, and guess what? You get really good at it! You have a friend who ripped their favorite jacket, so you offer to fix it for them. But before you can even realize it, you're not the go-to friend for any sort of tailoring work. Now you're just an unpaid amateur tailor… The need for your skills has started to depreciate the love for you actually doing the hobby. You see what I mean?

Redditor u/Last_Might2596 is an electrical engineering student whose hobby is makeup artistry. She has a friend who is a film student and, well, you can guess where this is going. The film student friend asked if she would be the makeup artist for her school project… For free. For two 12-hour sets!. That's a wild ask from a friend. It's one thing if she were trying to be a professional makeup artist or was also a film student, but nope, she wanted her friend's hobby done completely for free. 

This Redditor must be really nice, because she agreed. Who doesn't have a soft spot for their besties? But the friend ended up throwing her to the wolves. If you have ever worked on a film set, especially a student one, nobody is really in a good mood. Everyone is sleep-deprived, hungry, and has artistic egos battling each other. This electrical engineering student had no idea what she was walking into. She had to study all night the night before the filming, so she was 20 minutes late. Because of her tardiness, she was treated poorly for the rest of the day. So she backed out of day two. Good for her, tbh!

Inside meows vs. outside meows. That is the feline dilemma. Sure, there are also those cats who live somewhere in the middle. Those who beg to go outside and regret their decision five seconds later. But leaving that grey area aside, there are two classic cat lifestyles: cozy indoor comfort or chaotic outdoor adventure. 

Indoor cats be like, "Hey, look, I have a pink, fluffy bed!" While outdoor cats are like, "I sleep on the bodies of my enemies…"

No matter if your cat is a couch royal, a backyard boss, or a feline who meows at the door for no reason, they all have one thing in common: they want to rule the place. 

The indoor cat rules the house, supervising the kitchen counters, claiming every blanket, stealing your chair, and judging everyone from the tops of the furniture. They are the kings of the living room. Meanwhile, outdoor cats always come home and look like they have just returned from an important mission. They come back with a whole new family, a mysterious expression on their faces, and a lot of secret stories. Because yes, they are the felines who have the stories. They lived things. Things happened to them. And they're not the same. Maybe they just sat under a bush for 20 minutes. Maybe they explored the neighborhood, checked the fence, and came back. In any case, these cats are seasoned explorers.

And then, the indecisive cats. They are the window watchers and the door screamers. They meow desperately for you to open the door, but when you finally do it and they go outside, they realize street life is too much for them and want to come back in two minutes. Of course, they want freedom and nature, but only in small portions.   

So whether your cat is the king of coziness in your living room, an adventurous backyard explorer, or a window watcher, you'll relate to these cat memes.  

A homeowner has stated that a neighboring home daycare has created daily parking problems, with parents repeatedly blocking their driveway and leaving them wondering what legal options remain after informal requests failed.

Anyone who has lived near a school knows the horror that is drop-off and pick-up. Predictably, even 45-minutes before school is out, parents begin circling like sharks in the water, and the dance begins with each parent vying for a suitable place to stop their vehicle. "Suitable" being a very loose application of the word here. But this homeowner has been dealing with a two-fold problem of neighborly residential parking disputes and parental school pickup barking behaviors all in one.

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It's not about the act itself but the accommodation you do to respect your partner.
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In these relationship problems, there is something deeper that always shows the truth behind the argument. They may seem like silly discussions between two people that spend way too much time together, but in reality there is more than that. These arguments are a way to showcase a bigger problem that the couple is trying to avoid talking about. It may appear as a discussion about putting too much salt in the food, but in reality it is caused by one of the people in the couple never listening to what the other has to say. It's not really about salty food. It's about being unconscious of what the other person says or advises. That is the real cause of the argument.
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In this Reddit story, the couple is having an issue because the boyfriend is asked to place the chopstick in rice a certain way, following a Japanese custom, but he doesn't want to, as he thinks it is unimportant because he isn't living in Japan. His girlfriend takes offense at this, as it is a small accommodation that would make her happy and feel respected. This argument seems to be just about culture and customs, but it isn't. The reality of the discussion is that the boyfriend is not showing the respect the girlfriend wants to receive. She feels that what she says is not being taken into account, especially taking into account that she does respect her boyfriend's culture. There is an imbalance in the relationship that is being showcased in this debate. The real problem isn't the chopsticks or the culture, is the disrespect for what the girlfriend says.
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The way to resolve this is compromise, as always. He doesn't just need to start placing chopsticks a certain way. He needs to start respecting her and listening to what she has to say. His girlfriend is not just someone he can ignore and disrespect. That is not a good relationship. What she is asking for are the minimal requirements of values that she deserves, and if he can't even do that, maybe they should not continue being together.
 

There is no end to what us feline pawrents are prepawed to do for our cat children. Whether it be trying every brand of cat food until we find the purrfect one, or changing the litter box to suit our cat's bathroom style, or even buying them the fanciest cat trees the internet has to offer just to make them happy. And that is what we have a whole heap of in this collection of fancy cat trees.

A cat tree is the indoor feline's most sacred spot. First off it is the only place in the house that exclusively smells like them. Making akin to giving a hooman their own room. It is a safe place for them to be themselves, drift off into middle distance thinking and generally unwind from the world around. And because it is so darn important and pawsonal you will often find that cat children are quite picky about them. Sometimes it is an issue of location, other times it is how often you dare clean their smell from the tree, and sometimes it is simply because they hate the tree you bought them.

So to give you an idea of some of the more successful cat trees as well as their appropriate installation we have gathered these feline approved examples of outlandish, unique and hilarious cat trees from the curious world of indoor cat children. So whether your fur baby is into giant plant looking trees, trees that look like they were made by an ottoman emperor, or trees that actually look like trees, we have got something for them.
 

A tenant moves into a charming rural cottage with a below-market lease and landlords who seemed easygoing, only to discover that having internet installed by a professional technician is apparently an act of war

The lease alone should have been a warning. Clauses about overnight guests requiring written owner permission, personal items outside the bedroom being discarded without notice, a complicated utility formula, no mention of trash pickup or the mailbox, and a washing machine that may or may not work. He negotiated the worst of it into something livable, which the owners agreed to, which suggested reasonable people capable of compromise. That impression did not survive contact with a router.

Pampering our cat children has become a compulsion at this point in the feline-pawrent relationship. We are constantly bombarded with shiny and wonderful things to buy and do for our feline friends. So to help you make sense of the deluge of options we have gathered some pawrent approved ways to spoil your cat child.

In a world full of fake feline-related recommendations it is more important than ever to ensure that you are getting your information right from the horse's mouth. And that is why for this collection we turned to the pages of Reddit's r/CatAdvice subreddit. A place where the pawrents of kitties gather to learn about raising their cat children from one another. And seeing as we pawrents are always looking for new ways to up the ante to maintain our cat children' s love, we figured that we would see what the pawrents of this subreddit had to say.

We hand picked each one of these purrfect and peculiar ways to make your feline feel loved based on their uniqueness, effectiveness and overall awwdorablness. Whether it be holes in the wall, extra blankets assigned to your cat, or feline facial massages. You should have more than a few solid options to take home to your feline fur baby. And in the event that they do not enjoy any of those ideas (which is painfully likely considering how unique each cat child is), we hope you might enjoy a little consolation with this collection of cuddling cats. You might not be getting that kinda loving from your fur baby, but that doesn't mean you can't get it elsewhere…

 

Interview for a dream job, what could possibly go wrong? Well, everything.

Interviews can be overwhelming. They are interrogating an out-of-work employee who is just looking for a steady income to live off. Inquiring about every little detail they can get from his past job experiences, and having several candidates who are exactly the same. The candidate is worried and trying to hide it, and the interviewer is tired of hearing the same prepared answers for the seventh time today. Is an uncomfortable situation that can make the candidate so anxious that they start trembling and mumbling. Especially if it's one of their first interviews.

This may seem like a lot, but with time, you start to get the grip and realize there is no reason to be afraid. This Reddit story made me think of all the tips I would have liked to receive before having my first interviews. They aren't something groundbreaking or anything, just some things you need to have in mind before confronting that big step.