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As the holiday season nears, we wanted to make sure that you have had a refresher course in dealing with food-thieving cats. We do this because over the next few weeks we are going to be home far more often than we usually are, and we will be eating far more than we usually do.

And if you want to spend the next year of your life fending off a tiny tiger who thinks they are owed tax from your plate, then you shall heed the warnings in these cautionary pics of clawinal cats who were caught creeping into their pawrents' plates. For once a cat thinks they have permission to get anywhere near your food, it is all over, you can kiss your christmas meal goodbye, for it will be full of fur and on the floor after your cat gets their paws on it.

It's not like we're going to deny cats are the most purrfect beings to have ever blessed us with their presence. This is a constant truth in the universe that no astrophysicist will deny. Since the big shabang shabung it's way and time started, cats were destined to be the floofiest, cutest, most purrrrrrfect beings to ever set paw in the universe. That's just a life fact. So we'll never deny that, sure. But we have to admit… cats are a little silly, aren't they?

See, the fact that cats can get very silly doesn't take away from their purrfection. But seriously, we have to admit that cats are so silly. Cats can randomly stop their chase of the laser dot because they need to lick their leg. Cats start meowing and zooming at odd hours of the night because they have an urge to parouk all over your furniture. Cats sometimes stare at blank walls (we have no explanation for this one… ghosts, maybe).

So really, it's no wonder that the internet adores cats. They're both the internet's unshaken meownarchs, ruling every pixel with an iron paw - and also the silliest, glitchiest internet creations, in the form of cat memes. And it gets us every time - we log into wherever across the web, and cat memes will find their way onto our screens. And this is exactly what we share with you today - the silly cat memes that found their way ot our screens, just because.

You would be surprised how much politics play a role in animal adoption. You would think that animal shelters would take any animal that needs help, but that's where you'd be wrong. We once read a story of a purrson who rescued a puppy who was just outside of the shelter's "jurisdiction", and even though they had space, they refused to take the poor pupper based on a technicality. 

The reality is, though, that most shelters are already overrun or over capacity. They simply can't keep up with the number of stray animals, and there isn't enough demand to adopt them since many people like to buy pets. 

That's where this story starts - a caring purrson saved a skinny stray cat from their work, and after deciding that they couldn't keep them for themselves, they approached local shelters to take the sweet baby girl in. However, she was refused from every shelter because of overcrowding. She didn't want to release the cat back outside (especially with this terrible winter weather), and just when she lost all hope, a wholesome hero stepped forward to pawsitively save the day. The hooman not only works at an animal shelter, but was willing to foster her until they found her a furrever family. It's a Christmas meowracle! Read more of their story below, and stay warm out there.

Bonded pairs of cats might be one of the cutest, most special things that we, as humans, get to witness. It's amazing, the bond that these cats have. Bonded cat pairs treat each other like family. They treat each other like each other's other halves. We can see, even without them having to tell us, that their lives wouldn't be complete without the other. That is why it is so important to keep bonded pairs together. Because they need each other. 

It's why oftentimes shelters insist on not separating bonded pairs, because they know the importance of keeping them together. But that isn't always the case. Sometimes, they separate the kitties and carelessly send them on their separate ways. That is what happened to the two beautiful snow kitties in this story. They were bonded and separated. But the humans of the kitty that got adopted found out about the separation just in time, and they did the best thing that they could have done - they went right back and adopted their kitty's other half. Sick, hurt, and in need of much help, they took the other kitty and nursed him back to health. 

There's nothing like a smol kitten. A teeny tiny bundle of cuteness small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. There's something so universally heart-melting about smol-sized kittens. Because it's the end of the year, we're wrapping up 2025 with tiny terror machines: smol cats. Smol is not just cute, it's ubiquitously important to their character. Smol cats, like short girls, have more of a temper than other cats. Smol kitties will hiss, scratch, bite, and meow at you way more than a normal sized cat. Something about the size translates to something brooding, temperamental, and tumultuous. 

These pocket-sized babies will make you love them one minute, and make you leave them alone the next. Their capricious nature is all too pawdorable though. One minute you're just minding your business, scrolling through your feed, drinking lukewarm coffee… and the next, you're staring at a kitten the size of a potato chip who is absolutely prepared to ruin your entire day in the best possible way. They have no idea how small they actually are. In their minds, they are lions. Fierce. Mighty. Terrifying. In reality, they squeak instead of meow and fit perfectly inside a coffee mug.

One of the things that we tell people who have never owned cats and are looking to adopt - one of the things that we warn them about - is that cats come in two categories. Cats can either be silly little adorable dudes and dudettes who do not have a single thought in their heads, or cats can be smart. Really really smart. Unexpectedly so. And the 29-year-old in this story might be one of the smartest. And funniest. 

Of course, this is not the first time that we have heard of a cat outsmarting a human, but this is definitely the funniest. This is a cat who has used its 19 years of life wisely, learning to get exactly what she wants from humans. She was being cat-sat by someone like us… someone who loves cats an enormous amount, someone who is willing to do anything for cats. She has learned to recognize soft humans like that over the years. And she used it. Shamelessly. And even though we laugh at this story, we know that we would have fallen for her trap just as easily. 

While cats were born to be predators, chasing down mice and scaling trees for shelter, now they're soft. Not only are their pelts gloriously fluffy and soft to the touch, but the average house cat's demeanor has also simmered down significantly as they have grown accustomed to human servitude. Once cats learned that they could employ humans to do all the heavy work to survive, they started to enjoy the finer things in life. Now, they are basking in the sun of the windowsill, biting the leaves of Mom's favorite pothos plant, and awakening the human family at 2 AM for their nightly kitty meowscerade. 

Life is good for a house cat. 

Although every kitten is capable of surviving the outdoors, with their innate abilities only masked by chonk and floof, cats choose the indoor life because they enjoy the plushy luxuries. Who can blame them? Why would a cat struggle on the streets when they can install themselves instead in the lives of a couple of bald, bipedal giants? Exactly, cats are far too smart to pass up an oPURRtunity that good.