Cats treat the end of a long weekend like a personal betrayal.

Cats really know how to hide from responsibilities after a long weekend. The second the relaxing part ends, they disappear into blanket forts, cardboard boxes, laundry piles, and random corners where nobody can expect anything from them. One minute they are racing around the house causing chaos, and the next they are tucked away somewhere cozy pretending the outside world no longer exists.

Some cats act like they completely overdid it during the long weekend too. They spend hours hiding under blankets or squeezing themselves behind couch cushions like little furry introverts recovering from too much social interaction. Meanwhile humans are unpacking bags, cleaning up, and trying to get life organized again while the cat has already decided none of that applies to them.

The sleepy little faces always make it even better. Cats look deeply exhausted by the idea of returning to normal life despite spending most of the weekend lounging around demanding snacks. Then somebody interrupts their hiding spot and suddenly there is an offended little stare peeking out from under a blanket like the disturbance ruined their entire recovery process.

The cats might actually have the right idea. Hiding under soft blankets, ignoring responsibilities, and waiting until snacks appear sounds pretty purrfect after a long weekend.

Is the bride-to-be overreacting, or is she correct in thinking that her fiancé's bachelor party plans are a bit odd?

In fairness to this lady, whose sister shared her sentiments on the matter in Reddit's r/AmIOverreacting subreddit, it is difficult not to be suspicious when your male fiancé chooses to spend his bachelor party exclusively with his closest female friends. As the sister implies in her retelling of the drama, he has plenty of guy friends (including his brother) that he could have invited to join him. His choice to spend that special weekend with only women was certainly eyebrow-raising for the woman he was actually marrying.

Of course, we don't want to be too gendered in our thinking here. I'd like to believe that any person could be platonic friends with any other person. However, given historical patterns of socialization that are outside all of our control, one can empathize with the bride's conflicted feelings on the matter. 

Why is it always Monday that's the most meowing annoying day of the week?

Some weeks are rough, but Mondays are always the special beginning of the week that, frankly, not everyone is ready for. It's tough starting another week, especially after a weekend full of nothing but cat cuddles and sweet feline time. Because these are the wholesome weekends cat pawrents spend with their feline friends. And as cat pawrents ourselves, we can 100% admit we won't have it any other way.

But then comes Monday. Another week, another blah. Getting through a whole other week just to get to have another cat-filled weekend is a grueling task. But the thing is, as cat people and general feline fans, we have the best solution for getting over the Monday madness, turning it into Monday meowness. And that's the purr power of cat memes. All these feline funnies fill every cat person's heart with joy and laughter, getting us all ready to face the week bravely, until the weekend comes again.

Have you ever had a coworker who played with your time? That one who never shows up on time at scheduled meetings, that one who disappears when it's time to do a shared task, or that one who doesn't respect your working hours. In today's story, an employee gets tired of waiting for her coworker before she can leave the office exactly at the end of her shift. Not any longer. If your shift ends at 5:30, then 5:30 means 5:30, not when the next employee arrives and decides they feel ready to start doing their job. 

Scheduled times at the workplace matter. They exist for a reason, and they should be respected so that no one's workday is any longer than it has to be. Problems arise when responsible employees end up compensating for the habits of the less responsible ones. Because they end up doing more than what they should, but they care about it, so they won't leave everything unattended. They know someone has to actually do the job, so irresponsible employees often take advantage of the situation when they see that someone else is covering up for them. But that's really unfair. 

A vet office employee posted her workplace story on the Reddit coworker stories subreddit, commenting that every handover was a problem. Her coworker was never where she needed to be; she was elsewhere in the building, chatting with other colleagues while she kept waiting for her. Understandably, she didn't want customers to be affected, and she didn't want work to pile up and consequently leave her coworker in a difficult situation. She was being considerate. But over time, she got tired of the same situation happening every single day, so at that point, she realized it was a lack of respect for her time. She shouldn't be responsible for her coworker's irresponsibility. 

The solution was pretty simple: she stopped making her coworker's problem her own. She stopped sacrificing her time to compensate for her coworker's bad habits and let her deal with the consequences herself. And just like that, her coworker started respecting the schedule. The problem was never a lack of time, but a lack of consequences.

Mittens is a survivor, and part of us believes she fought so hard to stay alive so that she could spend her remaining years with the family that loved her from the beginning.

It's never an easy choice to rehome a pet. We'd like to believe that everyone always does it for the "right" reasons, but the reality is that most times, they don't. Rehoming a pet, in our opinion, should only be an option after all the other solutions have failed and the quality of the pet's life is suffering. After you've gone to the vet to rule out any medical issues, and certainly after you've tried making adjustments to the household to make them more comfortable. But that wasn't what happened to Mittens, the wholesome kitty from Reddit's r/cats community, who is the star of our story below.

Mittens was a family cat, but was unfurtunately rehomed due to the mother's toxic partner not wanting to live with a cat. The mom and her daughter never thought they would see Mittens again, but then again, cats never fail to surprise us with how resilient they can be. 8 years later, Mittens was returned by a couple who had been feeding her as a stray. They were worried about her, so they brought her into the vet, scanned her microchip, and found that the mom was still the contact listed there. The vet called the mother, who called her daughter, and both went immediately to pick her up. 

But here's the real kicker: people had been calling her "Bella", but as soon as the mother and daughter arrived, they called her "Mittens", and she immediately recognized her old family. Just that alone is enough to make us tear up.

Mittens is now 14 years old, and a survivor. They don't know how long she was a stray, but they do know that they're going to spend the last years of her life spoiling her rotten. Every day, she's working on getting healthier and adjusting back to the indoor life. 

The world may be full of bad news nowadays, but Mittens is a reminder that good things do happen, and they should be celebrated as much as pawssible to fend off the darkness.

Companies love solving problems the expensive way, especially when the cheap way involves actually listening to the people already in the roomThis is a story about a workplace that had all the answers sitting right in front of them, handed over repeatedly and for free, and still needed to pay a stranger fifteen thousand dollars to say the exact same things in a nicer font before anyone took it seriously. That is not a communication problem. That is a credibility problem, and the credibility apparently costs fifteen grand to rent.It's the classic hire person to do job then schedule meeting to talk about doing job then schedule another meeting to go over meeting about doing job then ask for agenda before meeting about meeting about doing job instead of letting do job then compline about no job being done so you end up paying 15 thousand dollars to a culture consultant, which is an obvious linkedin lingo made up title that trick company into paying you said 15 thousand dollars by the way. But that title is only a small part of the problem in this story, so I'll let it slide this time.

Who doesn't love a sweet thing like Cornbread?

Orange cats hold a special place in our hearts. They may be the most chaotic of our feline brethren, but they are also some of the sweetest cats we've ever met. Our second cat was an orange boy, named Cheeto, and we loved him from the second we saw him until his very last breath. Every day, we came home to some sort of disaster, from toilet paper being shredded, to even finding him with his head stuck in the wall (he made the hole, and then got stuck in it). Our lives with Cheeto were never boring, and looking back on it, we're purrfectly grateful for all of his shenanigans. Why? Because now that he's gone, they're all happy meowmories that help him live on in our hearts.

Cornbread, our orange cat below, did not get dealt the same hand of cards that Cheeto did. But thanks to Friends of Bear Cat Rescue, Cornbread now has a chance to live out his golden years with a family that truly appreciates him. He was abandoned by his previous owners when they moved and left outside to fend for himself. He got in quite a bit of trouble, even getting a nasty mouth infection that left him hungry, in pain, and confused. Worse than that, the neighbors shooed him off, meaning this sweet cat had nowhere to turn to until Friends of Bear Cat Rescue saved him.

One year later, Cornbread finally got what he's been craving this whole time: a family that loves him. His new pawrents saw his heart and decided to adopt him, and now he's happily following the sun around their house, and showing his hoomans all the appreciation he can for taking him in. It brings tears to our eyes to see Cornbread so full of joy and purrfect contentment. 

Give senior cats a chance if you're looking for a new cat. They just want somewhere safe to sleep and to give out their love until they can't anymore. Be like Cornbread's pawrents and adopt a Cornbread of your own one day!

Are we doing the right thing by being so individualistic?

This story breaks my heart, partly because I went through something similar and because, even looking at it from many different perspectives, it's still really hard to find an easy solution.

This manager knows that their company should be giving the employees raises, so why aren't they? 

As the wealth gap grows, there's an ever-increasing divide between employees and their bosses. While many employees make an okay-ish salary, maybe $50k or $75k, that's not what their bosses are making. Many CEOs and other higher-ups are raking in like, $250k per year or more! They're able to afford things like going on actual vacations, instead of staycations. They can afford luxurious meals, nice new cars, private schools for their kids. Meanwhile, their employees are hanging in there, but they can't exactly save for retirement or send their kids to summer camp. 

Even if higher-ups know about the monetary divide, they don't have to think about it too much. In between their 6 vacations a year, they'll pop into the office to cheer up the employees with a pizza lunch before dipping out again. They wouldn't know how to work a 40 hour week even if they tried. 

This boss can see right through their employer's nonsense. And this manager is appalled at the "solutions" being offered to the workers they supervise. 

How do you know for sure if you secured a job before you hand in a notice to your current workplace?

Some people learn the hard way the correct steps and their order before quitting a job and starting a new one. Here is a general guide in case you want to learn from others' mistakes:

Step one: Put yourself on the job market and interview for other companies. Don't say anything about it in your current workplace. Step two: After a (probably) long process of applying and interviewing, get to the final stage at a workplace of your choice. Still don't tell anyone at your current job about your intention to leave. Step three: Secure an offer and start negotiating your salary and conditions.

Now, here is where many people make their first mistake. They think that since they got an offer from another workplace, it might be time to tell their current employer that they intend to leave. However, without an actual signed contract with the new workplace, an offer is pretty much worthless, and definitely is not worth the risk of quitting your job for yet. It is only after step four that an employee should even consider handing in their notice:

Step four: Sign the contract with your soon-to-be new workplace and make sure it clearly states a start date that aligns with your timeframe. Then, and only then, should you schedule a meeting with your current employer and hand in your written resignation, along with your notice.

Got it? Good. If you need another proof why you shouldn't mess with this guide on how and when to quit your job, scroll down to read this story, shared on r/jobs Subreddit, about an employee who told their manager they are leaving after only getting a verbal offer from another company. It was only a matter of days before they realized their mistake, but by that point, it was way too late to turn back…

If it took you five months to notice that your cat was missing and do something about it, were you ever really the cat's owner?

We think that every cat owner in the world can agree that their cat running away is one of their worst fears. We know what our cats are like. We know how spoiled our cats are, how dependent our cats are on our love and care, even if our cats would deny it. We know it. Which is why the thought of our little innocent fluffball running out of the house and disappearing couldn't scare us more. We think that's part of what makes us good cat owners. We know what our cats are and what they need.

The people who came back for "their" cat in this story, as shared on online, were not good cat owners. We don't know if they could be called cat owners at all. How could they- when it took them five months to notice that their cat was missing and actually do something about it? It's lucky that the cat's new owner found him in time. It's lucky that they took him in and nursed him back to health. There's no telling how long he would have survived on his own like this. The last thing that should happen is that cat going back to the people who didn't care about him, and there is no question about that at all. 

Do you think he has a chance of turning things around with the company?

We tend to feel so alone in our anecdotes about devastating one-on-ones with our bosses. Frequently left with only the advice we can extract from our (also confused) colleagues, or from some random family member who works in a completely different field, when we could (ideally) start creating places to discuss and improve work-related issues. This Redditor, told us a nightmarish story involving soul-crushing feedback from HR, and a meeting that appears to be the prelude to getting fired. Scared already? What was this 1:1 for if, in reality, he doesn't have a chance?

When waking up on Monday morning, the most important thing to do is to start it on the right paw - with a whole bunch of hissterical cat tweets! 

There is a whole lot that we need on Monday morning to be able to get up in a good mood. We need the weather to be perfect, we need our alarm clock to not be too frustrating, we need our cat to be able to fit into our backpack purrfectly so we could sneak it into work without worrying about being caught. But since at least one of these three things cannot happen, we have to settle for the next best thing. We need to start our day with a bunch of cat memes that will make us smile. 

And here, at ICHC, we bring you not just any good cat memes. Every single week, we bring you the best of the best of cat twitter. You don't need to scroll endlessly through the wasteland that is now called X in search of these pawfect cat gems. All that you need it to come here and let us to it for you. This way, your Monday will start as purrfectly as it pawssibly can every single week - without exception. 

The working life is a tough one, so tough in fact that it seems to be taking a toll on our cat children even though they do not lift a finger to help us, not at home or at work. Nonetheless, we have this hilarious collection of totally tuckered out cats taking a moment for themselves after giving it their all while you were at the office all day.

Cats are highly emotional and spiritual creatures, a fact which many a cat pawrent would be quick to back up. So it is only natural that when they bond to their hooman and their hooman is going through something like being wrung out from a long day, that they too will feel rather sleepy. Some have come to think that this display of sleepiness is some sort of attempt at sarcasm. As though they are mocking their pawrents for being wimps.

And while that might be true in a minority of cases (cats are after all notoriously sassy), we believe in the majority of cases this is a show of sympathy. To show their pawrents that they see them, they support them, and if they want they are invited to nap with them. 
 

Some shady landlords have a tendency to conveniently withhold information, but this deliberate lie was more than egregious.

Regardless of how quickly you may need to find a new place, there will always be a few absolute musts when signing a lease. Trusting that your landlord has the best of intentions at heart would be a fool's errand. With that in mind, there are always several areas worth considering.

The first would be to look for any hidden fees. Living in New York, I've seen instances where landlords and management companies have snuck in inflated broker's fees, move-in fees, and excessive security deposits just because they think they can get away with it. Sometimes, they don't even tell you. They just expect that tenants won't read the fine print.

Next, make sure you're fully aware of all aspects of the living situation. That is perhaps where this Redditor's sister went wrong. She shared her story on the r/legaladvice subreddit community, hoping to find out about whether or not her sibling had any legal standing against her new Massachusetts-based landlord.

In her case, what the landlord neglected to mention was that the sister would be renting a room in an apartment where the landlord's own daughter would be staying in the living room (presumably free of charge). Not only is that not the agreement they made when the sister first signed the lease, but it also means she and her other roommates are essentially paying for more than they should be. We haven't even addressed the ridiculous price for a single room yet, but rest assured, we'll get there! Keep scrolling below for the full account of the landlord-tenant dispute.

Have you ever wondered what your upstairs neighbors are actually doing when you hear really loud noises? Anyone who lives in an apartment knows what I'm talking about. Sometimes the noises are so absurd that they make you wonder: are they throwing coins at the floor? Rearranging their furniture every time they are bored? Practicing tap dancing? Just like anyone who has ever lived in an apartment, this tenant asked herself, 'What are they doing up there, bowling?' Well, the answer sometimes can be yes. Her neighbors were literally bowling.

These neighbors were not dropping objects or moving furniture, nor were they dancing. The kids were having so much fun bowling that the tenant couldn't even find the courage to complain. 

After peeking through her upstairs neighbor's door peephole, she found out that they had a real bowling set with a ball and pins. She posted this frustrating situation on the Reddit AITA subreddit, commenting that it was so annoying yet so ridiculous that she couldn't even tell them to 'stop bowling'. What kind of lease agreement or noise ordinance mentions bowling in an apartment? Who bowls inside an apartment, anyway? Were these neighbors secretly training for the Olympics?

It's funny that I can relate to this. A few months ago, I went through something similar with my upstairs neighbors, who, by the way, have now moved. For weeks, I kept hearing this strange metallic banging sound coming from above. It sounded like someone was dropping metal pipes on the floor just for fun in the middle of the afternoon. Then one day, I ran into a little girl in the hallway carrying a hollow metal tube, and it all made sense. It was a pretty unusual toy for a kid, actually, but at least the mystery was finally solved.

Senior cats usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to being adopted, but when the Cat Distribution System steps in, well, all bets are off. So we hope you enjoy this tale of unexpected outcomes in feline adoption.

As you can tell from the many stories on Reddit's r/cats subreddit, senior cats stand little chance of finding a home when and if they make it to a shelter. Often leaving many of them to stay living stray in order to avoid an end to life that likely involves many hours in a small cage and the tears of technicians who wished there were another way. And who can blame them?

So it is extra heartwarming to hear about a cat rescue story in which a sweet senior catto manages to find someone and with the support of the CDS no less. Giving this cat hope that his final years will be enjoyable and worthy of the proud feline that he has become. His past might be made up of disappointments and hoomans who have disappeared, but his future is now full of love and family. 
 

Did you know that 33% of all wild cat species live in India? Of all the countries in the world, it might not have been the one you expected. However, it is definitely where we're planning our next vacation, and it may or may not be to see all these purrfect kitties. 

When you think of India and cats, you prrrobably think of the tiger. Everyone knows about him, if not from The Jungle Book, than from the fact that he's basically the cover of the brochure for wild cats in India. Everyone loves him. He's striped (fashion), and he's very good at being large and terrifying. Good for him.

However, there's something that not many cat lovers know about India… the tiger is just the beginning. India holds the secret supply of wild cat habitats on the planet. Not just because of the tiger, but because of 15 meowrvelously iconic species. Just to be purrfectly clear, 15 is one-third of all the wild cat species on Earth. Ponder over that for a second.

Sunday may be almost over, but all is not lost… a beautiful week is yet ahead of you! We all know that cats make everything better, including Meowndays and going back to the office. And how do you get cats to come to you? The universal "pspspsps" works the best, and if it works for cats, then it should work for some feline fluffy funnies to bring you wholesome vibes for the start of your work week.

Life would be better if we could bring our cats to the office, but unfurtunately, that isn't a reality. Not because the office wouldn't love our cats, but we're pretty sure our cats wouldn't love the office. Too many people, too little quiet, and not nearly enough birds to ekekekek at. So, we must use our purrfect pspspspsps powers to bring the next best thing with us: cat memes. There's nothing that makes us feel more pawsitive than a good giggle from our favorite felines in meme form, and they are the only way we can finish our weekend with a smile. Meownday may be right around the corner, but these hissterical kitties are here to soften your landing into the work week.

Three weeks of daily 2pm-to-11pm visits and somehow the person who finally said something is the one getting roasted in the group chat.

Setting a limit on how much of your shared home gets handed over to someone else's heartbreak isn't cold, it's what maintaining a relationship actually looks like. The ultimatum wasn't the problem. The three weeks that made it necessary were.