When this cat attempted to escape the vet, things went a little bit wrong. He got stuck and had to be rescued by firefighters. And the pictures that came out of that were so iconic that the internet instantly meme-d them. 

The cat side of the internet is… unexpected. Cats are constantly going viral online, that is something that everyone knows. But no one knows what a cat will go viral for. One thing that we do know is that the things cats go viral for are rarely serious things. People look at cats for levity, for distraction. So… cats go viral for being unphotogenic and hilariously attacking plants. Cats go viral for being "the worst cats" at the shelter and instantly get hundreds of adoption applications. Cats go viral for fake-limping and spooking out their owners. 

So really, it should not be surprising that, of all cats, this chunky cat attempting to escape going to the vet would go viral. We should not be surprised, and yet, we were. Because the pictures of the incident are simply too funny. One look, and we were cracking up. The virality was instant, and in our humble opinions, it was very well-deserved. 

Going on vacation can make you forget how to behave during the workday. 

This remote employee made that mistake when he logged into a management call the day he returned from an extended break. While he might be the only person I know who would go so far as to clip his toenails during a Zoom call without realizing he was fully on camera, I have to believe that he is not the only person to have experienced something of this nature. 

In fact, who else remembers feeling this way in elementary school when you would come back from winter or summer break? All of a sudden, your body and mind completely forget how to sit still and maintain any semblance of focus for seven to eight hours a day. We think that this is a phenomenon we grow out of when we get older, but if this employee's experience indicates anything, it's that he is no different from that middle schooler who is relearning how to behave in class.

In a single moment, this woman's life changed forever. She opened her door to throw out her trash, and out of nowhere, a pregnant cat came running straight into her house. 

When we say that cats choose their humans rather than the other way around, it's instances like this story that we point at. Of course, some people adopt their cats from shelters, and that is amazing. They walk in there with the express intention of adopting a feline, and sometimes, they are even lucky enough to get chosen by a kitty on the day that they want it to happen. 

For most of us, though, it does not work this way. Most of us get adopted at the most unexpected time and place possible. Cats follow us home and adopt us like that. Cats pop up out of nowhere, forcing us to rescue them from strange and scary situations, choosing us by forcing us to bond with them intensely and instantly. And some cats… some cats don't even wait around for you to leave your house. They see where you live, they know that it looks cozy and nice in there, and, as the kitty in this story proves, the second that the door opens, they run in and make themselves at home. 

It is a known fact that all orange cats have 1 brain cell… collectively. 

All cats are unique, that is true. White cats are clouds made of marshmallows floating around in our houses. Black cats are meowgical, and anyone who says otherwise has never met a black cat. Sphynx cats have shapeshifting abilities. Sometimes, they look like cats. Other times, they look like boiled chicken. And yes, the catmouflage does confuse you sometimes. Every kind of cat has sometimes. And then, there are orange cats. 

Ginger cats are at the top of the list of unique cats whose attributes people know about. Not everyone knows about the meowgical abilities of black cats or the shapeshifting abilities of sphynxes, but basically everyone in the online cat world knows that ginger cats… are different. They have their smart moments, of course. Every once in a while, they will dazzle you with their brilliance. Those times are the times that they are in control of The Brain Cell. The one brain cell that all orange cats share, it moves around between all of them. You can never prepare for when your cat will have that moment. It will always catch you by surprise. If the moment ever comes. But those are not the moments that we are interested in. We care about all the rest. Scroll down and let the hilarity ensue. 

Living with roommates always comes with compromises, but some agreements are meant to be respected, especially when money is involved. This 27-year-old tenant agreed to pay extra rent for the privacy of her own home office, with clear boundaries set from the beginning. When her roommate suddenly decided to offer that space to visiting guests, things quickly took a turn. Now she is standing her ground and reminding everyone that a deal is a deal, no matter how inconvenient it may be for others.

It's not you… It's the gnome.

We've all been gifted absolutely horrendous gifts that we wished we could throw away the second they are handed to us. It could be a vase, a fruit bowl, or a garden gnome. Whatever it is, the moment we receive it, we have no choice but to say 'thank you' and find a place to hide it so we won't have to look at it every single day. Some people regift it, others stash it somewhere in the house just in case the person who gifted it asks about it the next time they visit.

The resident below decided to put the ugly garden gnome she was gifted by her gnome-obsessed neighbor in her garden shed, but that was not good enough for the neighbor. He demanded that the garden gnome be displayed in the front yard, claiming that it's a tradition that every new neighbor follows. But since this resident didn't know this demanding neighbor, and didn't feel like she owed him anything, she refused to go along with his demands, and insisted that the gnome is perfectly happy guarding her tools in the shed.

She did not expect her actions to inspire the other neighbors to follow her lead…

A lot of modern grandparents are surprised when their kids cut off their access to the grandkids… 

Ever been to one of those "Mommy and me" type classes for babies? They are loud, rambunctious, messy, and a lot of fun for the children involved. Parents tend to find these types of things… bearable. But grating. Perhaps headache-inducing, but worth it to see your child laughing and playing along. It's a sacrifice we make for our kids, because we love them deeply.

This Grandmother chose to lie to her own child instead of being honest about why she's skipping out on a 2-hour toddler class with her grand daughter, and it's causing a rift in the family. 

The Cat Distribution System just upgraded this house to a three-cat household.

This person is officially on a first-name basis with the Cat Distribution System, and at this point they deserve a loyalty card. Three deliveries in eight months is not random. That is premium CDS service. Enter Gary, now Gary the Gray, who wandered onto the porch with a scratchy little meow and immediately meownifested his new life. 

He showed up skinny, chatty, and clearly ready to upgrade from mysterious outdoor fluff to full-time indoor baby. The fact that he is already ear tipped and neutered just feels like the CDS saying "we handled the paperwork, you're welcome." Add in toys, pets, and a vet appointment, and Gary truly landed on all four paws.

Even better, the resident orange chaos committee, Sir Charles of Biscuitville and Chester C. Chesterton, seem to be accepting their new gray coworker without too much drama. That alone deserves recognition. Orange cats usually operate on one shared braincell and pure vibes.

There is something really sweet about how this keeps happening. This rescuer help rehome cats, and somehow the universe keeps sending them back to them. A stray shows up on a random night and suddenly it is their house, their humans, their everything.

Gary did not just find a porch. He found his people, and now he is exactly where he belongs.

After their boss reprimanded a beloved employee for leaving work a few minutes early one day, this team figured there was strength in numbers when it came to clocking out.

There is an art to leaving work early. If you have deliverables to submit at the end of the day, it helps to wait to send them until at least half an hour before 5:00 PM, or whenever you are meant to finish. That way, there is not much work you can do in those remaining 30 minutes, which leaves you plenty of justification to pack up your things and depart. 

Unfortunately, people can get sloppy when it comes to sneaking out of the office subtly. If you're too obvious about it, you might be hurting everyone else's opportunity to enjoy that sweet taste of early freedom. However, if you have a decent group of coworkers on your side who are willing to band together, that can make it difficult for management to argue with…

Whatever cats are dreaming about, it's clearly not boring. 

Cats fall asleep like they've got somewhere important to be. One second they're sitting there, the next they're completely out, fully asleep in seconds. Then the twitching starts. A little paw movement, a whisker flick, a tiny kick like something serious is happening.

Whatever they're dreaming about, it's clearly a full lineup. First up, food. Not regular food, but unlimited food. Full bowls that never empty, treats showing up exactly when they want them, no waiting, no effort. Just a constant, purrfect stream of snacks.

Then it shifts into full world domination. Walking around like every room belongs to them, every surface is theirs, every door magically open. No hoomans telling them no, no rules, just complete control of everything in sight.

It cycles like that for a while. Eat, take over the world, repeat. All while they're completely asleep on a couch, a chair, or some random spot they claimed earlier like it's prime real estate.

Then they wake up for a second, look around like nothing happened, and go right back to sleep like they've got unfinished business to get back to.

Four years in, this teacher already knew the place was a mess. Management swung between completely missing and breathing down necks, with nothing in between. Still, the paycheck did what paychecks do, and she stuck around until something better came along. New job secured, notice given, last day on the calendar. All she had to do was survive a few more hours and not throw a stapler

Whimsy is essential in this day and age. 

Cats have an otherworldly quality about them. They exist outside the rules of ordinary life in many ways. They're infectiously whimsy to say the lease, and everything from the way they look, think, feel, and behave makes them seem more like otherworldly creatures than domesticated pets. They're so magical, and it can be extraordinary to watch them. If you watch them for long enough, you start to notice their mystique. The way they burst into zoomies, chasing some invisible ghost or monster, or when they look sharply in one direction as if there's a spirit communicating with them. 

It's like they're from a dreamworld; their soft fur and purring sounds. Their loaf bodies and cutesy meows. It's no wonder we're all so obsessed with them. Their curiosity adds a sense of whimsy as well, it's like we're being enchanted by them. We do everything for them, all for a bit of their playful, whimsical, magical presence. They do everything for themselves; they choose when to be affectionate, when to disappear, and when to reappear as if they're a magician on show for us, showing us their talent. It's like they're living a parallel story alongside ours. Their little habits and behaviors are so playful, it feels like a touch of childhood. Their slow blink, kneading blankets, and their comfortable fur bodies. They exist in a liminal balance between ordinary and extraordinary. They remind us that childhood wonder is right in the palm of our hands. 

How tolerant do we all knead to be of noises in close-quarters living coniditions? While you'd usually imagine baking bread as a rather quiet activity, this home baker managed to get her neighbor all worked up over the noise created by her bread-making. This did not stop the neighbor from requesting the fruits of the labor.

I like to imagine that every older generation is struck with a deep-seated fear upon seeing that their new neighbors getting out of the moving truck are millennials… As they experience a strong visceral realization that they're going to wind up with a chicken coop next to their home. 

And it's fair enough, for several complex cultural reasons, we aging millennials have a draw, a desire to be more connected with our lives and the natural world. 

Egged on by this feeling that we're disconnected from the lives and experiences that the humans before us had had for many thousands of years. Baking, knitting, embroidering, canning, taking up pottery and woodworking, we're all looking for ways of slowing down and disconnecting from the World Wide Web that turned the world on its head over the last 35 years. 

If you thought the Cat Distribution System was just about pairing hoomans with their soul cats, then this story stands to tell a tale that will open your eyes.

For the CDS is a powerhouse of cat connectivity that is all about getting cats to where they need to be. It does not rely on hoomans as the sole end point, and it does not solely bring cats and hoomans together. Instead, it uses its intricate methods to situate cats right where they are meant to be at the moment that they are meant to be there. Whether that be for a hooman in need of a feline friend to heal their heart or a litter of kittens who need a momma cat to comfort them.

The CDS gets the job done, and in this story it has done just that while also gifting the hooman who first helped this momma cat with a cute kitten of her own. So the next time you feel as though you might have been approached by the CDS, be prepared for literally anything to happen. 
 

Who can blame first-time parents for going a little overboard with their newborns? 

Parents can only control their baby's environment for so long. Of course, when your infant is very small, like under 3 months old, a lot of parents are picky about who gets to see the baby, since they're still vulnerable. But once you take that baby out into the world, there are sounds, smells, and sights, none of which the parents can control. 

And this Dad is in need of a lot of control over his baby's visitors! 

Honestly, I have a lot of sympathy for him, but he ought to be cautious about how many friends he sends this list to, because it is so over the top. 

When cat lovers get the rumblies in their tummies there is only one thing that can satisfy their hunger. And that is a collection of cute pics of cats stretched out like noodles, just waiting to be added to a Cat-su curry.

With all the trouble and toil that our cat children put us through, it is nice to remember that there are several moments when we give back just as good as we get from them. One such moment being when they stretch themselves out like noodles, allowing us to come along, pick them up and wave them around in the air like the fresh cut gelatinous noodles that they are.

Sure, they are not fans of us flailing them around in the air like we just do not care, but it gives us such joy to feel their squishy stringy bodies flailing around in a most unfeline like way that it makes up for all the clawminal things they will do to get back at us. So for all you hoomans working hard in the office we made this list to allow you to indulge in that gelatinous joy without displeasing too many cats.
 

Mondays are rough. But Mondays without a boost of cat confidence are even rougher.

When a cat person tries to start another workweek, we get why it's more difficult than for the average person to do so. Days when we need to go out and live our indoor kings and queens at home, ruling their feline kingdoms with no human subjects to order around, are truly traumatic. Both for you and your cat. You must be absolutely devastated that you need to leave your cat alone after spending a feline-filled weekend with them. As cat pawrents, we totally understand. And for your cat? Well, your feline overlord must miss ordering someone around, controlling their lap, and occupying their thoughts.

But that's why we want to give you that boost of cat confidence to start your Monday like a cat ruling their domestic kingdom. Now, the line between cat confidence and cat madness is very thin, but that's exactly what sustains a great Monday mindset, instead of the regular bummer that it is starting the week.

And obviously, the best way to meow the mood up is greeting Monday with a bunch of cat memes. They're as crazy as cats, they're as funny as cats, and they're most definitely as Cat™ as cats. And that's why a Monday started with some online feline funnies is a much better Monday than most.

Moving into a new build with an HOA and landing across from a one-man festival is a special kind of cosmic joke. The selling point was quiet residential community. Real life said, please welcome your new neighbor: DJ Contractor with a side of main character syndrome

All it takes is one cat to convince you that you've lived your whole life as a lie.

We grew up in a multi-pet household, but probably not what you're imagining. We grew up with 3-5 dogs at the same time, around two cats, and two horses. Everyone thinks it's really cool to have horses as pets, until you tell them that it's your job every Saturday and Sunday to muck their stalls, but we digress. All of this is to say that we grew up loving animals, but we were always partial to our dogs.

That was, until we adopted our first cat as an adult. We had always pictured ourselves adopting a dog, but our lifestyle wouldn't allow it, so we went for the more independent choice - a cat. And from that meowment, everything changed.

We realized, like our now-cat-dad below, just how meowrvelous cats truly are. You don't have to take them out three or even four times a day to go to the bathroom, they can give you just as many cuddles and emotional support, and they're just as happy to see you come home at the end of the day. It's like all the purrks of having a dog, without any of the downsides.

Now-cat-dad goes on to list even more reasons why he was happily converted to being a feline fanatic, and for any of you other former dog-lovers out there, we think you'll resonate purrfeclty with what he's saying.

Cats are better pets than dogs, and that's a statement we'll defend until our last breath.

Who would have thought that having a fully charged iPad would be the key to getting this kid to pass a class?

This middle school teacher recently noticed that one of her students had not been taking notes during class. His excuse? The iPad that he must use to take notes was out of battery. The student was on an individualized education plan, so the last thing the teacher wanted was to force him to take notes manually and stir up trouble, so she let it slide this one time.

Then, it happened again in the next class and the class after that one, and so on. Each time, the student would claim that his iPad needed to be charged, but he didn't have the proper charger at school to remedy the situation. Instead, he just sat there, day after day, staring into the abyss. Before long, his grades began to take a nosedive.

Naturally, with parent-teacher conferences coming up, the teacher prepared for the kid's parents to demand an explanation for why their precious son was failing the class. It seems that they were ready to prove that the teacher was unwilling to accommodate his educational needs, but that was far from the truth. Thankfully, the teacher came prepared for this meeting.