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Cats in raincoats are a whole mood. They step outside dressed for battle, acting like they're ready to conquer the weather… until a single raindrop touches their fur and ruins the entire plan. One sprinkle hits their nose and suddenly they're squinting at the sky like it personally insulted them. Still, watching a tiny feline soldier through the rain in a little coat is enough to brighten any stormy day.

The raincoat itself becomes part of the drama. Some cats march along proudly, convinced they look important and outdoorsy. Others stand completely still, refusing to take even one step because the jacket feels weird, giving their hooman the kind of betrayed look reserved for cancelled nap time. But once they warm up to the idea, they start inspecting puddles, sniffing wet leaves, and patrolling the yard with serious weather-report energy.

Cats may not love rainy weather, but they certainly know how to deal with it. With attitude, fluff, and outfits cuter than any forecast deserves. They don't just endure the rain. They turn it into a furshion statement.

You know that feeling - when you get back home, you open the door, and you're greeted with your cat's miffed meows getting louder and louder as it walks closer to you, complaining about you being gone all day? That feeling when your cat finally gets to you, still meowing in complaint, and then reminds you of just how much they love you by walking right into your space and bonking into you? It's the best feeling in the world, fills us with allll the butterflies. We miss that feeling every day, lamenting that we can't have it at work right meow. Oh well, we suppose we'll just have to go with the next best thing, which is obviously funny cat memes. 

Listen, nothing will ever bring you as much joy as your actual cat, but silly cat memes like the ones we bring you at ICHC as pretty much as close as you can get to it. Cats memes are purrfect, truly, and they bring us a different sense of cat joy. As close to that just-got-bonked-by-a-cat feeling as you can pawssibly get.

A Caturday bath with a cat isn't really a relaxing spa day. It's a series of dramatic events that somehow ends with a clean pet and a tired human. Most cats react to bath time like you've announced the end of the world. They cling to the edge of the tub, widen their eyes to saucer proportions, and make noises that sound like a soap opera scream in slow motion.

Even the smallest drizzle of water becomes "evidence" that they are being betrayed by the very people who feed them treats. They try to escape, attempt a wall climb, and perform wild acrobatics that defy all known laws of physics. And yet, once the shampoo is rinsed and the towel comes out, everything changes. They allow themselves to be burrito-wrapped like royalty, pouting dramatically but secretly loving the warm, cozy fluffiness.

Minutes later, they're strutting around like freshly groomed celebrities, pretending nothing happened and definitely acting like it was their idea all along. Whether they hiss, yell, or pancake themselves in protest, one thing is certain: bath day may test a cat's patience, but a clean, fluffy floof is worth every dramatic splash.

The cat distribution system works in mysterious ways. Sometimes you get so used to seeing cats outside you become desensitized to them. It can be difficult to identify a street cat opposed to an outdoor cat with owners. If they look clean and well fed, it can sometimes be assumed that they're just an outdoor cat living their best outdoor cat life. In the story below, the protagonist tells of a chocolate cat who she thought was an outdoor cat with pawrents, but turns out he wasn't. In 2023, this big chocolate cat would appear all the time outside. The protagonist assumed he had owners, but it turns out he was just being well fed by the community. 

Around 2024, the cat disappears, and the protagonist assumes he just stopped being outside as often. Then, he returns. This time when they see him, he's skinnier than usual, he's not looking so well or so clean. Read the full story below for all the juicy details. 

Indoor cats are notorious for their fear of the outside world. Something about the vastness of it all, compared to the secluded safety of their home, just makes them unable to take a single step towards it. And even though that is true, sometimes they end up giving in to their intrusive feline thoughts and making a break for it on the whim of impulse. Quickly finding themselves in a situation that is far stickier than they intended to be in, and one that they do not quite know how to undo. And that is exactly what happened to the catto in this story, who made a break for it when it saw the opportunity to do so and ended up immediately regretting its decision.

But having no concept of how to get back inside its home it decided that crawling into a vent on the side of the house would be a good idea, getting itself stuck in the walls of its home. What resulted was a multi day mission to find and release the crazed cat child, involved several failed attempts by professionals and finally a successful attempt by a group of caring volunteers. Showing that love, care and dedication are truly all you need to succeed.

There's a beautiful duality in cats, and we think this is why so many people love them - and also why so many people don't… but it's only because they don't understand them. Yes, it's difficult to understand a creature that can be your snuggly lovebug one minute, purring like a teeny tiny tractor on your lap - and the next minute they're zooming after ghosts, screaming on a blank wall, and parkouring off your highest furniture. But that's the beautiful duality that all cats live with. And we live with. Because we live with cats. Because that's just what cat people do - they try to surround themselves with as many cats as they can.

This duality is present in cat memes as well. Some are cutie patootie cat memes, dripping with delightful wholesomeness, as pure as a precious kitten sleeping on a patch of sun on a wintery day. But then… some are sassy cat memes full of hissterical humor, redefining the word "silliness" because they bring it up a notch, and then some. And honestly? That's just a pure reflection of cats themselves. The cat duality is present everywhere there are cats. So let's get all dual-ed up and get ourselves acquainted with some cat memes - the funny, the silly, the adorable, the sassy, the hissy, and the absolutely cute.

Cats do not belong in trash bags. They don't belong in any bags, unless they hop in on their own (which they have been known to do). But they certainly shouldn't be outside, meowing for help, hoping some hooman will come and save them. This time there was, thankfully! On their way to work, one employee found a freezing kitten in a nearby trash bag, and knowing that they couldn't just leave them there or be late for work, they scooped them up and brought them to the office. Who doesn't love an office kitten?

Luckily, everyone at the office loved this kitty cutie (how could they not?) and the employee managed to bring them to the vet to get a check-up. They summed up their whole expurrience in one purrfect statement: they felt chosen by this cat. The reality is that the Cat Distribution System chose for them, but the only thing that matters is that fate brought these two together, and now they'll both have more love in their lives. And who knows, they might even get a new meowscot for their office!

Cats are nothing if not resourceful. And purrfectly shameless. If they want something, they will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means meowing incessantly for hours or even stealing it. Usually, they have a plan when they want something, and this momma cat below certainly had a purrpose for stealing this stranger's pillow. You can see her walking across town, the giant pillow in her mouth, as she pawsitively waddles back to her nest, where she places the pillow down and then puts her teeny-tiny babies on top. The pillow owner followed her all the way back, and when he saw that she stole the pillow to keep her babies warm, he couldn't even think of getting mad.

He saw this momma's purrfectly powerful instinct to keep her little ones safe, and as probably any of us would do, he decided to take them all home. How can you resist the cuteness of orange kittens and a mom who stole a comfy cushion for them? Now, they're all living as one happy family. The kittens and their feline mom will never have to worry about being cold and afraid ever again.

If that doesn't bring a tear to your eyes, we're not sure what will. Watch the whole wholesome video below, and we wish you a purrfectly blessed and pawsitive Caturday!

Life on the street, as a cat, is probably really hard. You're relatively small, so you probably attract a lot of larger adversaries. You're very cute, which means that every other human in the world tries to bother you and pet you. It's no surprise that sometimes, cats choose to be done with outdoor life. It's much nicer inside where it's warm, and food is aplenty, and there is someone to cuddle with whenever you feel like it. We wonder, every once in a while, if they remember… what it was like before we rescued them, and we think that today, we have the answer.

In today's story, the ginger cat was rescued from living on the streets. He's been in his furrever home for over a year - plenty of time to forget what it was like outside, but he didn't. And when an injured kitty showed up in his backyard, we think he must have looked at her and knew what she was going through, that's why he fought so hard for his family to adopt her.