Paying rent twice for the same month is not a compromise position, but some landlords present it like one anyway, with a deadline and everything.

This story hits home, which is a pun about someone having trouble with the person who controls where they live, but that's not why I say it, because I had a way too similar experience, and let me tell you folks, I do not recommend. 

So some months ago I was cornered into a phone-call-shouting-match with my landlord's muscle, who tried to convince me I should send over a large number, with a dollar sign in front of it, because he said so, and if it turns out to be a mistake they'll reimburse. 

Which is the land equivalent of a pirate making you walk the plank and promising they'll fish you back up if they find out it wasn't deserved. ANYWAY, I didn't do it, won the shouting match, and went on with my life until I saw this guy sharing his story and was like, "Hey! I'm a Master Mariner of the situation!" which is why the internet is so cool. 

Ahoy! To the story!

Cat content is everywhere, but funny enough, it's sometimes hard to get to it.

All cat people love a good and healthy dose of cute cat content in their daily scroll. And not just cat people - but everyone. It's no wonder that cats rule the internet for literal decades, because it's not only cat people who enjoy all this ocean of cat content. It's literally everybody. But as cat people ourselves, we're obviously not surprised. Cats are insanely cute, they're so silly it's hilarious, and they never fail to make us laugh or "aww" audibly. It's really no wonder cats have taken the internet by storm, because everybody loves cats - even if they don't know it yet.

But in this endless sea of cats online, how does one know which cat content to look for? What's worth the click, who are the cutest cats, which cat video is the funniest, and what adoption story will melt your heart… so many questions! But this is why we're extra purroud to be us, the great I Can Has Cheezburger hub, giving all cat lovers (and others) the best of the best of what the internet's cats have to offer, all day, every day.

So for this week, at least, don't fret. We've got you covered. We have some feline funneis to get you through the rest of the week with ease. Because, of course, the week is much easier when there's a funny cat on your screen, or a wholesome cat adoption story that can pierce any heart. We love those, you love those, and we love bringing all that cat content to the front and center of the internet.

Are you a cat parent?

As a cat mom or daddy, you want to make sure all your kittens get a chance. Yes, even the runt. But that sometimes tends to only be a human cat parent trait… You see, in the wild, it is usually survival of the fittest. So if you are a cat mom trying to survive in the wild, then you aren't really going to give attention to the cat that is going to keep the rest of the litter back. However, cats don't have to be on in the wild. So that means us humans can rescue a runt and give them the best life ever! As TikToker @kaleihz2g says, "sometimes, all you have to do is give them a chance."

And a chance she gave, indeed! She recently rescued the runt of a litter who was struggling. She named her Marie, and she was covered in fleas, starving, and too tired to even play. This woman brought her into her home, and she is now thriving. But it's not just the human who helped this little kitten's glow up happen. This cat mama has a grown boy cat who was also rescued as a struggling kitten. 

Is AI really helping us become better professionals, or is it making us lazier?

I know this is a trite question, but I think it's still relevant due to the kinds of things that won't stop happening all around us. I personally use AI for recipes, for help while navigating the internet, and sometimes even for advice. Truth is, I'm still a little afraid of it and try to keep its use controlled in the sense that I always use it to generate more questions around a topic and then go on my own to investigate the sources. At times, I even chose to do things 'the hard way' just to learn them and make them sink in, while I could have just told AI to do them for me. For example, I did that to learn correct quote usage, also to resume some texts, etc. For me, it's not that using AI is wrong; it's just that reading and writing and debating with oneself over how to resume a text is what makes your brain retain the knowledge. What we will read below is an example of what can happen in one's professional life with the use of AI, and we'll later reflect on how to best incorporate it in a way that doesn't contribute to our own cognitive decline.

Would you take a vacation day just so you could spend more time with your purrfect cats?

Even though we usually only like to take days off from work for some big events, like vacations abroad, holidays, or weddings, it is also important to take time off simply for your well-being. Sure, it might be tempting to hoard all your PTO so you could take a two-week vacation to Hawaii, but sometimes, a long weekend at home could be just as refreshing, and a lot less expensive.

There is nothing wrong with spending a whole day chilling at home with cute cats, catching up on shows you neglected, and eating junk food. You can wake up without the sound of your alarm clock, never leave your bed, nap every few hours, and no one can convince you that doing that is not much better than spending your day vacationing at the beach. Trust us, we should learn a few things from our furry furriends, including how to relax. Our felines don't care whether they are on a resort in the Caribbean or lying on a pile of clean laundry, as long as they get their sleep. If you really want to impress them, you can open a new snack, and they will be delighted, but even that is not a must. They truly know how to make the best of what they have, and that is inspiring, if you ask us.

If you follow our paw steps and decide to treat yourself to a cozy day off, we have a few recommendations. First and foremost, you need a furry friend that will snuggle up with you all day long; that is a must. Second, put your phone on silent mode, block your boss and coworkers, and forget the outside world even exists. Then, you can scroll down to enjoy this hissterical collection of cat memes, to put yourself in the correct cheerful mood for a truly delightful day off.

A little bit of sugar never hurt anyone. 

Everyone likes something sweet now and again. Even people who claim they don't like sweet things, desserts, or sugar, they all fall to the appeal of sweet cravings at some point. In a world that's hyper focused on health, aesthetics, and looking your best, a bit of shameless dessert time is crucial. In a world of Pilates girls and matcha, in gym time and skin care routines instead of going to the club, we need something a bit human, a bit hedonistic, and a bit sweet. Whether you're a carrot cake person, pecan pie, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies or vanilla ice cream type, there's a limitless opportunity to enjoy sweets in this world, and it's important to give in to those cravings once in a while. 

Cat Memes are a part of that classification of sweetness. There's something deliciously sweet about cat memes. Maybe it's their furry faces and innocent eyes hiding their chaos. They give off the same feeling that eating pie gives us, like we're being comforted by something wholesome. Something about cat memes warms our bellies like a warm batch of cookies, or a warm pie fresh out of the oven that your grandmother made. Enjoy these sweet, cute, and innocent cat memes if you don't have the chance to eat something sweet and tasty this morning. 

Would you save an orange one brain cell from a trash bin?

The distant meows heard from a trash bin turned out to be this adorable orange kitten. In Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem, this guy found his orange soulmate. He posted about it initially because he had no idea what to do with a stray kitten who needed help. 7 months later, the two are inseparable, and live together in cat-human harmony. It's important to be on the lookout for meows, fur, and cats no matter where you are. Enjoy this story and remember they're not known as one brain cell for nothing! 

Smokey showed up looking for food, but he ended up finding a family.

Cat lovers on Reddit's r/cats subreddit often talk about the cats that seem to choose their humans, and Smokey's story fits that description perfectly. About a year ago, a family opened their front door and found a young cat sitting casually on a deck chair. When they greeted him, he answered with a raspy meow that sounded like he'd been smoking for years. It was a small moment that ended up changing all of their lives.

At first, they assumed Smokey belonged to someone nearby. He was incredibly friendly from the start, but they didn't want to accidentally take in a cat that already had a home. As they spent more time with him, however, they noticed he was far too skinny. He was dirty, dehydrated, and covered in fleas. After getting some food and water, he wandered off, leaving them disappointed and wondering if they'd ever see him again.

The answer came later that night. When the family returned home, Smokey was waiting for them on the porch. The next day they took him to be scanned for a microchip, but none was found. Soon after, he was neutered, microchipped, and officially welcomed into the family.

Looking back, they believe Smokey may have been abandoned when someone moved out of a nearby apartment complex. Whatever his past was, life is very different now. The once-skinny stray who struggled with overgrooming has grown into a happy, healthy indoor cat. What started with a raspy meow on a deck chair turned into the kind of rescue story every cat lover hopes for.

Weddings are a way to show off the love you have for your partner… and also spend thousands of dollars in just one night. Is it worth it?

 

Weddings have transformed from being a ceremony to show love to a business. Nowadays, couples spend a lot of money just to have a night similar to what they see on Instagram, with candles, flowers, and beverages. This has even been showcased in shows such as Euphoria, where a character wants to spend $50K just for flower arrangements when the couple doesn't have that much money. We are exposed to some unattainable standard that makes us think that spending this much money on just one night is normal and an obligation, if we don't do it, then our wedding is awful or incomplete.

But is it really necessary to be spending over a thousand dollars on a dress you are going to wear just once? That same debate was portrayed in this Reddit story where a bride argues with the groom because he judges her for wanting to spend $1,800 dollars in a dress. We can all agree that it's a lot of money for something you wear once, but then the groom –without consulting with his fiancée– spends seven times that on a PC and setup, also insane.

So is it that problematic to spend so much in one night if it's your dream? Isn't it also a problem to spend that insane amount for a computer and setup when you should be saving for your wedding? Sometimes both sides of an argument are wrong. This discussion made me and other readers of this story realize that sometimes the issue lies in the couple's dynamic. It doesn't seem correct that a groom is this judgmental with the bride's money, and it also seems as if they didn't have the same objectives, she wants a wedding, he wants a PC. 
 

Nobody wakes up on Monday and thinks, "I wish the weekend had ended sooner."

Monday has somehow earned the title of the most unpopular day of the week. After two glorious days of sleeping in, relaxing, and pretending responsibilities don't exist, Monday barges in demanding purrductivity before most people have even finished their first cup of coffee.

Cats seem to understand this better than anyone. If given the choice, most felines would spend Monday exactly the same way they spend every other day: curled up in a warm spot, avoiding unnecessary effort, and pretending not to hear anyone calling their name. It's a lifestyle many humans find particularly appealing around 7 a.m. on a Monday morning.

The real problem with Mondays is that they arrive far too quickly. Friday feels like it takes forever to show up, yet somehow the weekend disappears in the blink of an eye. One minute you're enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon, and the next you're setting alarms, checking schedules, and wondering where all your free time went.

By Monday morning, even the smallest tasks can feel dramatic. Getting out of bed becomes an Olympic event. Answering emails feels like climbing a mountain. Existing before noon seems like an unreasonable request.

Fortunately, Mondays don't last forever. They may arrive with all the grace of a cat knocking a glass off the table, but eventually Tuesday shows up, everyone settles back into a routine, and life goes on. Until then, a little caffeine, a little patience, and a healthy sense of humor can go a long way.

The Accidental Renaissance picture genre is so dramatic that it fits cats like a glove to a paw.

There's something extra striking about still moments in time that look like a master painting from the Renaissance era - they all embodied a revolutionary shift toward realism, humanism, and Greco-Roman classicism. Or in other words, art was full of the entire range of human emotions engulfed in a lot of dramatic lighting and tragic messaging. So, naturally, cats do it best. Drama and emotion, coupled with being purrfect models for the camera, is the combination that's right up our cats' alley.

Are we surprised cats do it better than any other potential Accidental Renaissance models? Not in the slightest. But does it mean that we're tired of seeing them striking these dramatic poses? Not at all. We want to see more and more of it. And that's exactly why we asked our darling cat community of the I Can Has Facebook page to show us their cats doing their best, most intentional Accidental Renaissance poses. Honestly, it feels like walking through a museum.

If you want to see someone's creative accounting skills, you apparently just need to wait till they start thinking about taking a few months off work. You just have to be prepared to do the splits in spliting household payments

A woman who spent seven years paying utilities, maintenance, housekeeping and pool care on a house she does not own just found out that her husband, who is worth ten times what she is, has decided the best way to fund his upcoming sabbatical is to hand her the mortgage too, because apparently the secret to taking a relaxing break from work is making sure someone else is significantly more stressed about money while you do it.

For this woman, this moment came, and with it, suddenly, years of splitting a household normally became an informal loan program that has apparently been accruing interest this whole time.

Monday meowrnings are the purrfect time for cuddling your cats. Your alarm goes off, you groggily wake up and feel your cat's fluffy body curled up against yours. You hug them closer, and realize you can't find their head. After rubbing the cobwebs from your eyes, you see that they are relaxing in the shape of a twisty-bobcat-pretzel. If they can manage to be comfy like that, then we can stay in bed for a few minutes longer, right?

One of the most hissterical parts of being a cat owner is finding your cat sleeping (or even relaxing) in pawsitions that are not hoomanly pawssible to relax in. It's a running joke in the cat community that all of our cats come in both liquid and solid states, meaning that they can randomly become thick, normal objects to lift, or basically just a sack of bones and fluids. In their liquid state, we often say that they have noodles for bones because their bones seem to bend in any direction without any resistance. The only bad part is you don't get to choose when your cat is in its liquid or solid state, it's some sort of inner meowchanism that our hooman brains can't comprehend.

Because of the fluid state of our felines, we often find them looking like we didn't read the instructions properly when assembling them. More than that, they look like a hooman chiropractor's nightmare. Their spines are purrfectly flexible, with nearly double the number of vertebrae than we hoomans have. Even though it's relaxing for them, it can be slightly stressful for us. When you can't find your cat's head and can only see limbs, you can't help but think the worst for a few seconds.

There may be endless amounts of cat pictures on the internet, but these one below of flexible felines relaxing in hissterical pawsitions make us want to call our chiropractor, and then get back into bed. It's Monday meowrning, and we don't really need another excuse to stay in bed, but we'll take this one!

When one mistake catapults extreme measures.

Oftentimes, after we make a mistake, it's very difficult to prove to somebody who's in charge of us that we won't make that same mistake again. That's where malicious compliance comes in handy. I struggle with the use of the word 'malicious' for it, even though, of course, I understand what that word is trying to evoke, but I think that maliciousness is not malicious at all; in fact, I think it's civil, graceful, and assertive.

The employee who made a mistake this time used it to prove to his manager that he didn't need that much supervision at that workplace, and we're here for it.  

We always say the one thing that could make every purrformance better is a cat, but this ballet performance of Romeo & Juliet in Turkey actually got one.

Turkey has the most wonderful relationship with its country's cats. It's the ultimate destination for cat lovers (and for hair transplants, but that's a different story). The citizens there love and care for the stray cats, and there are even lots of laws protecting them. Community animals in Turkey cannot be captured or put down, they must be fed, sterilized, and then returned to their neighborhoods. They're a part of the citizens' lives, and it's not abnormal for them to randomly join into the hoomans' activities, but one stray orange cat decided that it was his turn in the limelight.

Whether by accident or on purrpose, the little orange stray found himself on stage during a ballet purrformance of Romeo & Juliet. The dancers, unphased, continued on with the purrformance as if nothing was there, which is not something we could do if a cat was trying to eat our hair while we were resting on stage. 

Some argue that the brain cell-less kitty interrupted the purrformance, but we think he enhanced it. If you think about it, there were probably lots of stray cats during that time period, so it seems more historically accurate that a cat would wander up to a poisoned Romeo, and loaf on him while he was still warm. 

One thing is fur sure, though, is that this cat stole the show. The video of his star purrformance is going viral on X right now thanks to @Yoda4ever 's post depicting the whole thing. Purrhaps this is the key to getting more people into ballet performances nowadays, simply add cats and see how the audience and dancers react. We might be on to something!

See all the discourse below about this surprise star on the rise, and how the internet is reacting to his purrfect performance!

If you had a chance to teach your entitled boss a lesson, would you take it?

Many bosses think they can get away with saying or doing whatever they want to their employees because, well, they're the boss and they make the call, and unfortunately, that's the case most often. If you intend on keeping your job, you have to sit still and take whatever your boss throws at you, without a single complaint.

The silver lining appears when you finally decide to quit. Whether it is because you found another job or because you simply could not take it anymore, quitting your job give your the rare opportunity of standing up for yourself. Not many take it, and prefer not to burn their bridges when they leave, but those who do seem to be very happy with their choice.

The employee who shared the story below realized just how entitled their boss is right on their first day on the job, and all because of a basic mug. All they did was pick a mug to make themselves coffee during their break, until the boss started yelling at them for picking her personal mug and daring to attempt to use it.

When the same thing happened to a different new hire a few months later, this employee decided to take action. Since it happened to be their last day at the job, they decided to take a little souvenir: the boss's mug. So, they left the job, took the mug, and moved to another city… And the boss never saw her mug ever again. Apparently, she spent days furiously looking for it.

Would that teach her a lesson on how to treat her employees? We're not sure. But at least she now has one less reason to unnecessarily yell at people, so we definitely call that a win.

It has never been this difficult to tell whether someone is living somewhere or isn't.

Roommate etiquette can be tricky. Very often, it's an unspoken contract, and people involved are unsure what it entails, and are unable to elaborate or confront the other party if something upsets them. It goes without saying that the work is not done once one confronts the other person with what upset them; one then has to have the flexibility to hear and integrate the other person's point of view, and then the ability to find an agreement on how to move forward. In short, living together is the most difficult thing anybody could do, and it takes a lot of soft skills. The story below is no exception to that, with the added logical dilemma of what it means to colive if one stays somewhere every day but technically doesn't 'live there'.

Can these residents refuse their neighbor's request?

You often find yourself feeling entitled to something that is not completely yours. Like feeling ownership over your desk at work, or the street parking right in front of your house. The more you use it and the closer it gets to your personal property, the more you feel entitled to it. At some point, you don't even have to explain this pseudo-ownership to anyone else; they simply accept the rules and move on.

That is, until someone comes around and shakes up the equilibrium.

The residents in the story below feel a sense of ownership over the parking spaces in front of their houses. Even though these spaces are technically street parking and are not privately owned by anyone, it has become an unspoken rule that people should either park in their own driveways or as close as possible to their own homes and not in front of other people's driveways.

When one of the neighbors knocked on these residents' door and asked them if they could move their car so he could also park in front of their house, it took them by surprise. They could see that his driveway is empty, and while he explained that he'd rather park on the street, under the tree's shade, than in his own driveway, this still didn't sit right with the residents. They felt entitled to the street parking in front of their home, and didn't want to let anyone else park there alongside them.

Now, you can look at these from two perspectives. On one hand, the resident can park in his own driveway and even install something to ensure he has shade, which makes much more sense than parking on the street. On the other hand, the other residents don't have ownership of the street parking, and if someone else wants to park there, they don't really have the authority to say no.

So, which side are you on?

If you saw a tiny orange kitten dehydrated in the middle of the road on a hot summer day, what would you do?

Adopting a cat is rarely something that you actively decide on. Generally speaking, the cat comes to the human and not the other way around. And it can happen to you anywhere and anytime, including when you're just cruising along on the road in the middle of a completely ordinary day. If you were the one who came across this hurt kitten in the middle of the road, as you were just going on about your day, would you have stopped to help?

Going by the condition that the kitten was in when the couple rescued it, he had to have been a long time before anyone stopped. There was no way to miss that this kitten needed help. One look at her, and anyone would have known. We know that most people don't stop in situations like these, but really, that kitten didn't need most people. He needed that one couple who stopped - one couple who cared enough, who wanted to help. That was enough. We need to be thankful for the ones who stop. Because they not only change these kittens' lives, they save them. 

Sometimes we try so hard to be eco-friendly that we end up causing far more damage.

 

Technology has changed a lot in the last few years. We have cellphones that can go everywhere, watches that track our heartbeat, and even a personal assistant that answers every dumb question we have –yes, I'm talking about AI. Nevertheless, we haven't really managed to save the planet just yet. We do have some things, such as electric cars, wind energy, and even solar panels, but they are not mainstream yet.

In the case of this Reddit story, they focus on this last one, solar panels, sold to us as an amazing idea to not only save energy and take care of our planet, but also to save money. Reality is that they are quite expensive and take up a lot of space, and that is kind of the problem that this homeowner is describing.

This person has a neighbor who, in his intent of being eco-friendly –and probably saving money too– has bought some solar panels. The problem here is that for them to install them, they need to remove some trees from the property of this Reddit user. He is reluctant, as he doesn't believe that it's good for the environment to be taking out the really old trees he has. Must he stop being reluctant and accept the proposition for some gift cards, or should he stand his ground, maintaining his posture?