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Meowing memes on a silver platter, for your purring joy.

Happy Caturday, feline fam! There's something deeply comforting about the idea of joy being gently served to us - no effort required, no expectations attached. Just a quiet moment, a soft blanket, and a cat who has decided that this exact second is the purrfect time to curl up beside you. Life can be loud and demanding, but Caturday reminds us that happiness doesn't have to shout. Sometimes it purrs.

Our cats seem to understand this better than anyone. They move through the world at their own pace, finding pleasure in sunbeams, cardboard, and the simple luxury of being close to the people they trust. They teach us how to rest without guilt, how to enjoy softness, and how to accept comfort when it's offered - even if it comes with a little fur on our clothes.

This is the kind of joy that doesn't rush you. It invites you to slow down, to breathe, to settle into the moment like a loaf finding the perfect shape. A Caturday isn't about doing more - it's about feeling more calm, more warmth, more connection. So take this time for yourself. Sink into the cozy, let your cat take over your lap, and allow a little purring happiness to carry you through the day. You deserve to enjoy joy, beautifully plated and served just for you.

We would do anything to make our cats happy, even get them a cat of their own. 

It's a good solution in some situations. Adopting a cat for your cat is something that you should consider doing if you are often not home, if you are unable to spend a lot of time with your cats. It's something you should consider if the cat came from a family and is used to being around other felines. It could be a good thing for them. But if you do that… you have to be prepared for changes. 

You want your cat to love the new kitten. You want your cat and kitten to become best friends. If you're adopting a kitten for your cat to make your cat happy, then you actually want for it to work - for the two of them to bond and have fun with one another. You can't be upset about them. You can't be upset they're spending less time with you now. Well, no, we take that back. You can be upset about it. We probably would be too. But you should remember why you did it, that it's for a good cause, that it's what you wanted. 

Cats can always turn a cat lover's frown upside down. 

With their floofy, flickering tails or a soft paw's caress, cats are both elegant and heartwarming at once. When they hop up onto their hooman's lap and start purring, it's as if the world's woes melt away with every vibration and their warm tummies soften the iciest shoulders. Felines have that special way about them, and most people don't realize it until they encounter a cat's meowgic in real life. 

Feline fairies leave a glowing glittery trail of pawsitive vibes in their wake. As they walk down the hallway from the litter box, don't mistake the golden flecks of sparkles as some misplaced kitty litter: It's actually their feline magic. Like mages of mystery and wonder, cats can transform a frown into a smile, a grimace into a snuggle, and a bad day into a good day. Just like that, cats can flip the switch on bad moods and terrible vibes, simply by being their cute feline selves. 

Even passively, as they're curled up by the windowsill, taking a luxurious feline nap, they radiate goodness and a happy aura. 

Whenever a cat lover is lucky enough to encounter any feline during their day, whether it's their beloved furbaby at home, a stray in the gym parking lot, or a friendly neighborhood kitten, their day is turned around for the better. And that's a feline fact. They carry a certain mystique and mystery about them, that's for sure, but what hoomans cannot comprehend about kitties is that they love us so much that they're willing to share a little bit of their feline magic with us at any given moment. It's in those shared sessions that the human mood is uplifted, and we soar to new heights. Thanks, little kitty, for sharing your happy meows and sounds of contentment. 

Bippity boppity booop! Your day is miraculously cured of sorrows and woes, because cats have come to save the mood. 

Furiday feels like purrmission to live a little more like a cat.

The pace slows down across the board. People are technically working, but only just. Emails get shorter, tasks are done with the bare minimum of effort, and no one is starting anything new unless absolutely forced. The real job is watching the clock and waiting to be released. That last hour stretches forever, even though productivity has been questionable since lunch.

You can tell when someone's mentally checked out. Tabs are being closed that haven't been touched all week. Desks are being quietly cleared. There's a shared understanding that anything not finished by now is a problem for next week. Like a cat knocking something off the table, the workweek is gently pushed aside.

When it's finally time to leave, the shift is instant. Laptop shut. Bag grabbed. No lingering. It's the human version of sprinting toward the sound of a treat bag. The walk out feels lighter, like you've landed on your feet after a long stretch of being on edge.

Plans don't matter much. Going out, staying in, ordering food, or doing absolutely nothing all feel equally perfect. Food tastes better. The couch feels more inviting. Even silence feels like a reward.

Friday isn't about achievement or hustle. It's about relief. About knowing you survived another week and earned a little time to loaf, lounge, and ignore responsibility. For a brief moment, everyone gets to live like a cat who has nowhere to be and nothing to prove.

My little pookie cookie. 

Nicknames, baby names, pet names, terms of endearment – they're all something we do, whether we realize it or not. Pet names are little symbols of love that we don't even notice. They're metaphors for the relationship, a window into the ins and outs of the dynamic between a certain couple. They're soft, silly, and often meaningful to the couple, but sometimes not. Sometimes they're highly emotional and have so many connotations that the person's government name wouldn't have. A pet name is affection speaking without logic or reasoning. It's a way of making things cuter naturally, without even trying. What's funny about pet names is that they evolve too. They go with inside jokes, they might have a theme. 

When you have an actual pet, you probably have a pet name for him or her as well. And there's really nothing cuter than having a cat with a pet name, and sitting together to scroll cat memes. If you feel like your cat is your child, your baby, and your love to take care of, then you'll adore these adorable cat memes that embody them as little babies. 

Cats constantly find themselves getting adopted in the strangest of ways.

It's like that one meme where you see people preparing the house for weeks to adopt a dog, making sure everything is in place, arriving on adoption day with the mental readiness of a Tibetan monk. But cats? It's more like "I found this bundle of dirty fur on an old newspaper out next to the back alley dumpster. Can I feed it tuna?" It's almost as if there's a contributor to this cat chaos… the Cat Distribution System, for instance. Seriously, with every cat adoption story we're reading online, we're more and more convinced the CDS is no conspiracy theory at all.

And this one cloudy floof makes us believe iteven harder. She was caught in a rat trap! If that's not one of the most random cat adoption places, we don't know what is. The CDS is original, truly. But it also knows to purrfectly match the cat to the person, and vice versa. And this floofy feline princess landed in the loving hands she needed, and right into her forever home. Seeing her turn from a stray to a princess warmed our hearts in ways we can't describe - especially in this cold weather.

We're used to sharing things with our fluffy friends, but not everyone is okay with that level of… intimacy. A new couple enraged a cat parent by bringing their own dinnerware, cups, and silverware after watching them feed their cat on the same plates they use to eat, and let's just say it didn't end well.

Pet parents will do things that non-pet owners will never understand. 

We, as cat owners, understand that there is virtually nothing we can do to stop our cats from doing what they want in our home. We can try to put aluminum foil on the countertops to keep them off, but they'll find a way to knock it down and get up there anyway. We've tried to give them automatic water fountains to drink from, and yet, they still drink out of our water glasses. They sleep in our beds and snuggle up next to us on the couch. They are a part of our lives at home, and anyone who comes over needs to understand that.

It's okay, you don't have to agree with it, but just like our dad always used to say, "When you're in my house, you live by my rules". Of course we vacuum up all the cat hair we can and clean all the surfaces and glasses before having people over. It's a common courtesy that we would do even if we didn't have a cat. All of our friends know that our cats drink from water glasses, and none of them have ever said anything about it. Maybe we just live in a bubble of adorably accepting people, but if someone did to us what this couple did to the cat pawrent below, we would also be purrfectly upset.

This pawrent tells us a story of how a new couple joined them and their friend group for dinner at their place, and when they came the second time, they brought their own cutlery, plates, and glasses. Confused, he asked why, and their response was nothing short of disrespectful. They said they saw their cat eating from the same plates they use, and they were "disgusted" by it. 

If the plates were unwashed, we might agree with them, but the pawrent has a high-powered dishwasher that sanitizes everything, so at this point, they're just being strangely purrticular. The argument got heated, and the cat owner kicked them out of his home. They haven't been in contact since.

We're not expecting everyone to understand our lives with our cats, but there's also a line that we have to draw in the sand. You're allowed to have your own standards of cleanliness, but don't expect us to follow yours when you're in our house, and certainly don't bring your own dinnerware when eating at someone's house, just say you don't want to come.

Would you have reacted the same way? We know we would have. There are certain people that you don't need in your life, and someone who thinks our cats are dirty certainly doesn't belong.

Owning a cat means you and that cat are a package deal in relationships, and your partner needs to know that. 

It's important to have the Cat Talk early on in new relationships, to set the expectations quickly. You and your cat come together. You are a family. And your partner has to accept that and everything that comes with it. The ones who don't like it, the people who hate cats or traits that cats have, have no business dating someone who has cats. You should never be put in a position of having to choose between your partner and your cat. 

You find out all kinds of weird beliefs that people have about cats once you actually start talking to them about it. People who think that it is unhygienic to kiss your cat on their little forehead and are turned off by it. People who are jealous of their partner's love for their cat and find themselves resenting the cat and the partner because of it. And although this is not true about all vegans - we know, we're dating one who loves cats - apparently, some of them think that cats eating meat is a problem. 

Cats rule the internet, and cat memes are our shrine. 

If there is one thing that every single person in the world knows, it is that cats rule the internet. Not a single person argues against that. Even the biggest cat haters will agree that cats have a hold on the people of the internet more than anything else. Stories about cats get shared all the time, funny and wholesome. Pictures of cats go viral literally every single day. And of course, the thing that matters the most, hilarious cat memes get shared and created each and every day without exception. 

We see it this way: funny cat memes are our shrine to our cats. This is the way that we show cats our appreciation, even when we are not home to pet them and love them. We can't go around building statues of our cats the way that people used to do in the past. But something that we can do is sit back and laugh at silly cat memes throughout the day. Smiling at these memes, reminding ourselves just how much we love cats - this is how we show them love nowadays. That and having our phone stuffed full of pictutes of them. 

Sending memes to a treasured favorite hooman is the moment that takes a friendship or relationship to a new level: Mewtual feline love brings us all together. 

Owning a cat with another person is the ultimate declaration of dedication, devotion, and love. 

Meowrrage is one thing, but owning a cat together is far more serious to a bona fide cat lover. Impulsively perusing pet store adoption events, cruising the local humane society, or even keeping your eyes peeled at the average Walmart parking lot can help people find the purrfect feline to share as their designated furbaby. Once you get a cat together, your bond is immortalized. And for many people, if you find that your partner in life is not as obsessed with cats as you are, you're going to have serious problems. 

Beyond a natural compatibility and romance, couples need to share a mewtual love for cats. Without a feline in your life that can judge you both equally from its perch on your refrigerator, what's the point? Cat lovers require a feline in their lives, whether in their own home or by proxy, with a neighbor, on the street corner, or at their parents' house. 

Everyone remembers the first cat they got with a loved one. Not only was that feline a treasured kitty in the lives of their hoomans, but that special furbaby will furrever be loved like a family member. Without the kitty glue that binds us together, humanity may begin to fall apart. We need cats to remind us that our potted plants are vulnerable and that no item on the countertop is safe from being pushed to the floor. Tin canned food must always be offered, and kittens' cries must always be answered with the cuddles and snuggles of a beloved companion.

So when you come back from work today, don't forget to kiss the top of your cat's noggin. Although you love your partner too, it's this little mew mew who was the original bond of pet love that brought you together, and nothing can take that away from them. 

Life is good when you're the household's favorite kitty.