There is no denying that when you leave for work in the morning and leave your cat child behind that you are leaving a piece of your soul there as well. Being away from our cat kids is one of the toughest things we do on a regular basis, so we wanted to try and make it a little easier on you with some pawrent themed cat memes to make you laugh and feel as though your cat is with you.

Parwenting is no easy task. After all, if cats are known for one thing it is their strong will. From day one they will do pretty much only that which pleases them and only when it pleases them to do so. So from the get go you are up against it pulling tiny kittens off curtains they have left tiny holes in. but even with all that difficulty, heck perhaps even because of it we miss them that little bit more when we are away from them. Perhaps it is the acknowledgment of how much effort we have put into them, perhaps it is just straight love. Whatever it is, it is not easy to be far from them, so we wanted to let a helping paw.

Below you will find some truly sweet cat memes that show of the finer and not-so finer moment of pawrenting a cat through the eyes of quite the comedic black and white cat. He is of course an incredibly spoiled cat child and is well versed in the tete a tete of cat child-pawrent relations. So sit back, enjoy and know that your cat loves you and most likely has not tipped over your favorite lamp.
 

Do your cats also act completley crazy?

We always have this idea that cats are elegant, and polished, and perfect. And they are, for sure! Most of the time, our felines are the purrrfect example of grace and elegance. Yet, they have moments in which they seem to have gone absolutley mad. They start scratching the curtains, getting behind the fridge, hiding inside the kitchen cabinets, and exploring every single corner of the house. Their energy spikes up, and there's nothing we can do to stop them from making a mess around the entire room. 

For some reason, we are not capable of fully understanding our cats. We have lived with them for centuries, and we still can't figure out what's going on inside their little heads. Humans made up stories about them all the time, sometimes even calling them gods (we're talking about you, ancient Egyptians), all because we can't uncover the mystery that is cats. We are so close to them all the time; they are part of our daily life, but they never stop surprising us. Just when we think we got everything figured out, BAM! Another unknown trait pops up out of nowhere, leaving us baffled and clueless all over again.

With dogs it's different. We can tell instantly when they are happy, when they are sad, and when they want something. We read them like an open book. But with cats is almost never like that. There's always a piece of their souls that is completley secret, a part of themselves that they keep hidden. 

Their behavior and character are beyond what we can understand. They drive us mad with their naughtyness; they fill us with love, and they bring kitten cuteness to our daily lives. It doesn't matter if they jump over our heads, or run around knocking things down; they are forever our fluffy babies, and we are forever their hooman pawrents. 

People all over the world understand this, and that is why we all keep sharing the photos of our pets doing weird things. Theres nothing we enjoy more than feeling validated after feeling confused over seeing our cats inspecting the toilet, or trying to get inside the laundry machine. These photos were posted on a Reddit thread, and we bring them to you to make you feel better about your naughty cat driving you insane. 

 

Everything offline is cool right now

This is so true. I mean, I got my job by applying online, but that's beside the point. Most of the jobs I got in my entire life were found outside the internet. And it's not because the internet didn't exist (I'm not that old, thanks). It's because the selection process becomes much easier when the people who are going to hire you see how you present yourself and interact beforehand.

Right now, companies have AIs reading through thousands of AI-made resumes, and it's much harder to be selected, even if you are the most qualified. 

This is only random Reddit advice, you can take it or leave it, but I think there is some truth to it. Of course, it doesn't work for every field. 

In some companies, you can't even get to the front desk without being stopped by security, so you'd have to slide your resume under the door and hope for the best, and that makes absolutely no sense. But for a lot of industries, applying in person still works just fine. 

To the 'in-person job applying' theory, I'd add that asking your friends and people you know about open positions you might be interested in has a much higher success rate at getting an interview than applying online.

I think this will be a tendency going forward; anything offline will be considered of much higher quality. 

If you can prove you wrote your resume without using AI, you will instantly be considered a genius. If you have enough social skills to introduce yourself at a company and leave your resume, you will make a great first impression.

It always works like that: things that become scarce become more valuable, more chic, more elegant. So if you're looking for a job right now, I wouldn't completely rule out applying online, of course, but I would definitely ask as many people as I can about open positions at their jobs, and I'd leave my resume in person everywhere I can, especially if it is a small business and the owners are there.

Hey, I and OP might be helping everyone get ahead of the curve here, right?

All sorts of people from all walks of life find themselves at one point or another walking into a cat shelter. The one thing that unites all of them is that they will all likely be leaving that shelter with a cat in hand, even if they were not meaning to. That is very much the concept of this story we have lined up today.

People who truly love cats are a special kind of hooman. They are kind to stick by their feline through fights and warm feelings, through treats and dry food they'll never eat. It takes the kind of resilience that is commonly found in our armed services and lo and behold the hooman in this story is a military man himself. But also a man who diligently loved his cat child for 20 years, who gave it a loving life and extended family. But when both of those unfortunately passed on this deeply dedicated and loving man was left hollow.

But the Cat Distribution System was not about to let one of the best cat caring hoomans simply go to waste. And before you could say discount kitty, this hooman found himself with a new cat companion in his arms. One that literally yelled at him the moment he tried to set it down. An instant bond for a hooman who is so incredibly deserving of the love of a cat. May we all learn from the example his man has set, and live up to the standards of cat care he has set. 
 

Let's get one thing out of the way: I trust my feline instincts, and they are telling me: you don't like this lady, like, at all. 

Now, this is coming from me, someone who would, and I can't stress this enough, happily(!) take care of your cat, her cat, or any cat, for free. This is about entitlement and how this lady, who obviously isn't a cat lady despite owning a cat, takes favors and her cat for granted.

She sounds like she treats her cat like a decorative plant that occasionally needs a pep talk. And I'm not having it.

She just tried to do the correct thing and got fired!

Doing the right thing sometimes puts you in a worse position than doing something that you know is wrong. This story is crazy, and it got me thinking about all the times when people do the right thing, what they "have to do", and it ends up making things bad for them and not for the person that did the incorrect thing in the first place. This applies especially to work issues. There are millions of stories of employees going up to management to complain about some coworker behavior or their lack of work, and they end up getting a target on THEIR back instead of the coworker that was not doing their job correctly. Is this a thing of bad management? Is it just easier to blame the person that points out the issue instead of the person who causes it? Are the people in management hiding something?

I find it so sad the fact that stuff like this is always happening and nobody seems to care enough. You are putting your job more on the line by being a "snitch" than by behaving incorrectly. Your coworker may be stealing from the company, and when you point it out, people start to treat YOU differently. And I mean that in a bad way. They will isolate you and stop trusting you with anything. While they will steal, be friendly to the thief. Even the company will side with them under an invented principle such as "not wanting to cause drama".

It's awful how some managers and companies will prefer not confronting a theft over losing a good employee that was so loyal they even tell the truth about some coworker's suspicious or improper activity. That is what makes employees keep their mouths shut when things like this happen. It seems better not to get involved and just let it slip. Which, in the end, just causes irreparable damage to the company and the way employees perceive said company. I still think that it is the correct thing to be truthful and bring things like this to management. But I wouldn't blame somebody else for not doing it. 

If you fire an employee out of nowhere, then don't expect them to do you a favor. They don't owe the company ANYTHING!

If you got fired out of nowhere, and a couple of days later you were asked to help out the company by doing something only you know how. How would you react? I would ask if that task would be completed by me as an assistant or consultant and how much the pay would be. I don't think that even when a company mistreated and didn't care for you. I do believe that work connections can get you really far and that a cordial relationship with everyone who has employed you or been a coworker is not only useful but also preferred. Is important to be nice and take some advantage of the fact that you connect with people in your field.

Cats don't need another confidence boost, but putting a mirror in front of them certainly isn't going to help.

One glance at that reflection and suddenly there's a very important feline staring back. Look at those whiskers. Look at that fluff. Look at those perfectly pointed ears. Hoomans spend half their lives telling their cats how beautiful they are, so it was only a matter of time before the kitties checked out the evidence themselves.

A mirror can easily become a personal vanity station. There's always time to stop, stare, and appreciate the gorgeous face looking back. Maybe turn to the side and check the profile. Sit up a little taller. Give the tail a quick flick for dramatic effect. When you're naturally this photogenic, admiring the view is practically part of the daily schedule.

The reflection does raise a few questions. Who is this suspiciously handsome stranger, and why are they copying every move? A paw against the glass gets another paw in return. Move closer and the mystery cat does too. Looking behind the mirror seems like the logical next step, because that copycat has to be hiding somewhere.

Things can get even more dramatic when the reflection is treated like an intruder. Imagine minding your own business and suddenly spotting another cat in your house with the audacity to look exactly like you. That calls for some serious staring, a few warning meows, and possibly a paw or two thrown at the glass.

Whether the mirror becomes a vanity, a mystery, or the scene of some feline beef, it's hard to walk away from a face that cute.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, these cats already know they're the fairest felines of them all.

After working 27 years in the same place, helping coworkers, and becoming the person everyone relied on, falling behind for one shift was apparently enough to turn those years of dedication into a very loud goodbye…

There're so many wrong things with the story posted by u/AndromedaRed9 that I don't know where to start. I'll say, though, congrats to this woman for staying at the same job for almost 30 years. That's a big accomplishment only a few people can say they have on their record. Sadly, after those long years of service, it's very hard to see that she will probably quit her job after the horrible way the manager treated her for falling behind on her shift while helping the new worker.

If you ask my own thoughts on this matter… well, sit down and grab a drink cause I'm about to start venting.

Firstly, was this a mistake? Meaning, she fell behind on her shift because she was there helping this man; was that a mistake that she had to avoid, considering her years of experience? After 27 years, I'm sure this was not the first time she had to help a new employee understand his responsibilities and walk him through them multiple times. For working in a factory, it sounds like it could be something pretty common. 

Now, maybe the company wanted to fire Janice, but didn't know how to do it. Mainly because she's been working there for a long time, so she knows EXACTLY how to get things done and how everything works. But also, after 27 years, it's a very expensive and complicated process to fire her… so maybe, by posting that horrible thing and talking nonsense about her, they make her quit rather than fire her… and BINGO, their problem is solved. 

Of course, this is awful behavior, and a very childish one, if you ask me. No way posting something that every single employee in the factory is going to get access to, talking horrible things about one of your most valuable employees, is something that I will approve. Sounds something very mean, immature, and just awful.

The CDS must have decided one kitten wasn't enough, because eight days after the first delivery, another one came flying in with significantly more drama.

The first kitten made the whole adoption thing look ridiculously easy. On June 26, a little gray girl followed the family's outdoor cat through the back door and proceeded to make herself comfortable. That's one way to skip the entire adoption process. She found an open door, followed her new feline friend inside, and decided she lived there now. No arguments from the hoomans. She's since gotten her shots and boosters, is in perfect health, and already has her spay scheduled. A pretty successful home invasion, if you ask us.

The second delivery took a much more chaotic route.

On July 4, the family was outside watching fireworks when an orange kitten decided crossing a major city intersection sounded like a good idea. He bolted from a bush and ran straight across the road, somehow dodging several cars along the way. Orange cats have a reputation for sharing one brain cell, but this little guy really didn't need to prove the stereotype quite so dramatically.

A teenage girl walking nearby saw what was happening and immediately ran after him. She crossed the road, caught the kitten, ran back through traffic, placed him directly into the dad's lap, and hurried off. One minute the family was watching fireworks. The next, Dad was holding a surprise orange kitten. The CDS really nailed the doorstep delivery on that one.

He's also gotten his shots and boosters and is doing well aside from a small issue with one eye. His neuter will be scheduled soon, and even the resident cats have welcomed both newcomers.

The kittens are now Smokey and John Henry, and their delivery methods couldn't have been more different.

One walked through the front door. The other practically stopped traffic.

Is there anything more wholesome than a grandpa who loves his cats posing in a sunflower field with his feline children? Oh, did we forget to mention that they always choose that exact meowment to start a WWE smackdown with each other?

Your Sunday is about a whole lot more colorful (and chaotic). 

As a cat owner, I can't think of a more purrfect setting than a sunflower field to take some cute portraits with my cats. The mixture of colors and textures would contrast beautifully with their soft, silky fur, and purrsonally, I just love flowers. Should be a hole-in-one experience, right? Wrong. And the Japanese grandfather who started it all, @catwolf0314, is living proof of that.

This adorable elderly Japanese man has gone viral for his colorful cat photoshoots that never turn out quite like he would want them to. His cats, whom he loves to dress up in adorable outfits, always end up fighting in the pictures, and it's purrfectly hilarious because we get it. You always try to get a cute picture of your cats, and as soon as you pull out the camera, they either stop doing the cute thing, move away from you, or they start fighting. It's like they have a sixth sense for when you're filming. I keep telling myself that they can't pawssibly know what a camera or a phone is, and yet, they somehow always know when and how to avoid it.

So why does he keep trying? Because he believes that bringing his cats out and having them share experiences together will help them bond and grow to love each other more. Don't jump to judge too quickly - haven't you ever had a spat or an argument with your brother or sister? Yeah, we thought so. There may be some bumps along the way, but we think he's doing a great job, and if nothing else, these pictures make us laugh harder than we've laughed in a good, long time.

What is the point of keeping an employee who fails to do their job?

We are firm believers in giving someone a real, proper chance when they start a new job. We hate it when we hear of employees getting fired a week into a new role because they didn't live up to some unrealistic expectations from management. Getting good at a job requires proper guidance and hard work, which cannot happen in a matter of days. It takes time, patience, and effort from all parties involved.

That being said, there should be a time frame by which a new employee should be measured. While you can't expect an employee to become excellent at their job within a week, if they still struggle after two years, it might not be the right job for them. Keeping an employee for that long while they fail to meet expectations is as odd as firing someone as soon as they were hired. Give it time, sure, but too much time is also a real issue.

The manager who shared the story below on r/managers on Reddit has raised some questions regarding their inability to fire an employee who's been underperforming for the past two years. No matter what this manager did, the employee refused to get better at her job. She doesn't want to receive feedback; she hates being given tasks, and she fully knows this is damaging her place in the company, yet she doesn't care. 

Recently, she asked her manager to attend a training on critical thinking, which the company would have to fund. But why would they spend money on an employee who is basically one foot out of the door? She clearly isn't good at her job; why should her manager pay for more training?

But then again, if the manager doesn't want to give training a try, why didn't they fire the employee already? What is the point in keeping someone who can't and won't do better?

The thing about the cat distribution system is that they can strike at any time. You may be going out for an innocent McDonald's meal, and come back with kittens. 

We truly never know what life has in store for us. Maybe the love of our lives will walk up to us in that cafe to ask us what we're reading, maybe our neighbors will end up being our best friends, maybe we'll land that job we never thought we'd get, and maybe we'll be gifted not one but two kittens from the cat distribution system just for going to get some fast food. It was only supposed to be one. They got their little void Stella five summers ago when they found her sitting on the front porch and brought her inside. But years later, they found that McDonald's and the cat distribution system were working hand in hand behind their back. 

Back in June on the 20th, they were at the McDonald's drive through and a wife told her husband that she wanted a McFlurry. She saw a couple ladies standing with a tiny kitten in the parking lot, and she rolled her window down to tell them the kitten was cute. They promptly told her that the kitten had bene following them and they didn't know what to do with it! She took it on herself to rescue the kitten and take him home for her kids to name the orange one Samual Ronald McPurry. Then on August 16th, they went again. They were in the drive thru when her mom got a call from her friend about a tiny kitten following her in the parking lot of the McDonald's. What are the chances they were already there? So there you have it. McDonald's = kitten. Be careful where you go for takeout!

Sometimes you have to do some uncomfortable things to make yourself clear on your boundaries.

People will sometimes act as if they understood you when you explained a boundary, but then continue to act the way they were acting even though you explained it made you uncomfortable. Why is that? Are they dumb? Do they just not care? Are they bad people? I'm actually not really sure why this happens, but I know it is extremely frustrating. Sometimes the worst part about putting boundaries is not the conversation you have to have, but the fact that you have to reinstate them every two minutes because people aren't able to actually and fully understand them.

I hate the people that have this attitude of not really paying attention to you or what you say. Or maybe they do pay attention and just decide to do the complete opposite of what you asked for. I don't know. But this is especially frustrating when it happens at work or with coworkers. You have to see that people every single day, so if they don't stop doing that thing that bothers you, then it would mean that you will have to put up with that thing every single day, for years.

This story in u/JustNoCoworker is a great example of how to deal with this kind of person, especially when you have to work with them every day. The employee was tired of her coworker putting every work phone call in speaker mode in the office, as it made other people able to hear it and she felt like she wouldn't be able to speak freely. So she gave her coworker a taste of her own medicine. She decided to vent all these coworker office secrets so that everyone was able to hear them, and she would finally understand how she feels when she puts the phone calls on speaker mode. It worked. So good for her! So maybe this is the way to deal with people like this: a taste of their own medicine works like a charm. 

Working from home blurs the line between what is work and what is the employee's personal life. This skew in work-life balance can have knock-on effects on the rest of your life if you're not careful. But how do you handle these types of situations? 

Well, CCing an upper manager who has a handle on these types of things should do the trick. This does, of course, rely on there being some leader in the organization with their head screwed on straight. 

Why should he have to pay for everything? 

One thing I'll never understand about straight relationship dynamics is the expectation that the man always pays for everything. If I were in that dynamic on either side, I'd be so stressed out. If I had to pay for everything, I'd be eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for every meal in between dates, and hoping that I could save a little bit of money for retirement. If I were always being wined and dined, I would be stressed on my partner's behalf. After all, I don't want to be a princess who expects fancy dates all of the time! I don't want my partner to see me as a financial liability. 

I think it's important that each partner be considerate of the other's financial situation. You might think it's reasonable for your partner to take you out to dinner every single weekend, but it's probably not if they're making $50K. You don't have to do walks in the park for every date, but if you demand luxury and your partner can't afford that, it's not going to be good for your relationship in the long run. 

The boyfriend in this story makes a great salary, but he has very little to show for it because he's been providing a pretty comfortable life for his girlfriend for the past seven years. It's not like she makes no money. She makes $80K and has $50K in savings, but she still wants her boyfriend to pay for her son's sports, along with nearly everything else in the household. 

Hungry? Grab a cat meme.

Food makes the world go round. And not just food, but delicious, sweet, and comforting foods. Ice cream is one of the world's favorite foods. No matter where you are in the world, people love to indulge in ice cream. The combination of sweet, fatty, and cold combine to form a purrfect trifecta of delicious and comforting. It's especially comforting in the summer when the heat is so intense we have to hide in the shade to survive. We all need it to survive, but it's more than that. It's an emotional process of memories, tastes, and a sign of love for many. It's more than just a need to survive. Cats are often compared to loaves of bread when they sit in a specific shape, paws tucked under them, and rounded back like a loaf of bread. Bread baking dates back over 30,000 years. It started with unleavened flatbread made by hunter-gatherers to a staple food revolutionized by Egyptian fermentation and modern industrialization. Ovens were invented in ancient Greece. 

Whether your cat loaves or not isn't the point. And whether you're a bread fanatic or gluten-free doesn't matter either. The point is that you appreciate a good cat meme when you see one. If you scroll below, you'll find a list of hilarious, wholesome, and adorable cat memes that are just waiting to be gobbled up, just waiting to be looked at and laughed at. Even if you're on a diet and you're not eating bread right now, you can still indulge in the cat memes. The internet thrives on cat memes, as well as food. Have you noticed how popular cooking videos have become? Or ASMR mukbang videos, people make all kinds of crazy money just by filming themselves eating. It's a strange world we live in, and no one knows where the future is headed. But cat memes will always be there to cheer up anyone in need of a hug. 

What's one non-cat toy that your cat loves to play with? 

This is the question that we asked our audience. And yes, we were fully expecting some ridiculous answers. Because we know cats. We know, from purrsonal experience, how silly they can be about certain items. And we don't need to be ICHC writers to know about this. Yes, we can pull up stories that we've covered about cats who are obsessed with almonds, and cats who love to play with snap peas, and cats whose favorite pastime is sitting directly on our puzzles. 

But there's no need to go online to see it. We just look at our own cats. My cat's favorite toys, for example, are grape stems. Not the grapes themselves, she has no interest in those. Only the stems, and preferably when they are still somewhat moist. She is the laziest cat you will ever meet, but grape stems are something she actually gets up for. And that is a beautiful thing. In fact, cats being this silly and unique is one of our favorite things about them. And still, despite expecting some funny answers from our audience, we have to say that you delivered more than we knew you could. 

AI hasn't yet lived up to its promise of revolutionizing the workforce and replacing entire industries of workers. But that hasn't stopped eager managers everywhere from proposing doing exactly this. But just what exactly are they hoping to accomplish by hanging this over their employees' heads?

Nothing makes you feel good like hearing leadership actively disparaging your work. Or being cynical about achievements. This usually occurs when a leader feels insecure about their lack of productive knowledge. That or annual requests for raises

Especially when it is a new leader hired externally who, for some reason, feels a need to put down veteran staff. It's almost like they're insecure about their own lack of experience and feel a need to make that experience less important. Funny how that works.

Healing from the loss of a pet looks different for everyone. For this man, it came in the form of a tiny, shy ginger kitty. 

We believe that we, as cat people, are unique in our love for cats. Because we love all cats all the time. We may have our own cats, but that doesn't stop us from pawsing and saying hi to every stray cat we come across. We want to help them all. We want to rescue all stray cats and give them all homes. We look for cats to help. We try. We pspsps every stray, try to gain their trust, get them to a vet for a TNR. We don't adopt all of them, but some of them… simply win over our hearts, and we cannot help ourselves. And that is what happened to the man in today's story. 

It has been two years since his soul-cat crossed the rainbow bridge, and although two years were not quite enough time for him to go looking for a cat himself, it was enough time for the CDS to make this decision for him. In the factory he works in, one day, a cute ginger kitten appeared. No one but him cared about it. The owner of the factory, the boss, even said to toss the kitten onto the streets and get it out of his factory. But this man was smitten, and for months, we went behind everyone's backs and fed this itty bitty thing every single day. He worked tirelessly to gain the cat's trust, eventually having the little feline follow him around the factory, much to the owner's dismay. But it was worth it. Because eventually, after all that work, he was able to bring the kitty home and give him the life he deserves.