despondant meets dependant

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.

Here comes your weekly cat twitter recap! 

Another week is starting, and if this one is going to be in any way like the last one, then we do not think that we are ready. It feels like every single week for the past- couple of years has been getting more and more dramatic. Truly, we don't know how to handle all of it. Actually, that is not true. We know exactly what we do to stay sane. We go on social media. Of course, that might sound counterproductive, but it's not. Because the reason that we go on social media is in search of one thing and one thing only - viral cat tweets. 

Every single week, we put together this collection of the most viral, best cat tweets of the week. This is why we keep going on there. This is why we keep sifting through the madness. Because here, at ICHC, we are providers. We want to save you the trouble of looking through all the crazy online, trying to find the one cat gem around. We collect all the gems into one weekly collection for you, right here. And one thing that we have to say is that no matter how insane things are outside, the cat tweets are always ameowzing. 

The cat reached inner peace years ago. 

Cats don't sign up for meditation, they just wander into it and stay there. One minute they're walking around, the next they're sitting still like they've reached full meownlightenment. Eyes half closed, slow blinks, not a single thought behind those whiskers. Pure pawsitivity.

They've got the poses down too. The loaf is basically their default setting, fully grounded, no limbs, no problems. Curling into a tight little circle? That's deep focus. And then there's the stretched-out sunbeam situation, which feels like a full body reset. No instructions needed, they just flow into it.

Breathing? Controlled. Movements? Minimal. Distractions? Ignored. Maybe an ear flick, maybe a tiny tail twitch, and then right back to being completely still. It's like they're guarding their inner purr-eace at all costs. Meanwhile, everyone else can't sit still for more than thirty seconds without checking something.

The difference is cats don't overthink it. No goals, no tracking, no trying to "get better" at it. They just exist, fully relaxed, completely unbothered, like they've already figured it out. If anyone's mastered staying zen, it's them.

When life offers you two cats and a human friend, you don't say no. 

This couple decided it's time to adopt cats again. They want a pair of cats so that they don't get lonely, and started looking at nearby rescues for a feline duo. But then, he sees a post from a woman in a local group looking for help finding a home for a friendly stray she's been caring for. He reaches out and mentions that he and his wife really preferred to adopt two cats together. But lo and behold, the cat has a sister! He claims she's not as outgoing as he is and doesn't like strangers, but she's friendly and both cats will be together now. He and his wife then spend the next day getting their apartment ready to bring in these two kitties. And not only did they get two cats like they wanted, they have a human friend as well! He will get them both microchipped since they've been living as strays in the neighborhood for 4 years. The woman who was taking care of them had been feeding them and giving them monthy flea/parasite prevention meds. Read the full story below for all the wholesome details. 

Our cat's needs should always come first. 

It's difficult, in certain situations, especially when it comes to animals that you love, to think of what is best for them instead of for you. In breakups, for example, when there are cats involved, suddenly, there are custody battles over the cats. Both partners may want the cat, but ultimately, it's the cat who should choose who to go with. And cats do choose their humans. You cannot argue with them. They will run away from you and straight to their chosen one if you try, so you might as well listen from the get-go. 

Cats bond with their humans in ways that non-cat owners could never understand. They miss us when we're gone, they show their love for us in whatever ways they can, and breaking that bond will leave the cat a shell of what it used to be. That was the fear for the triplet cat owners in this story. Their grandmother's cat who was given to them after she could no longer take care of him bonded with them - truly and fiercely. So when their cousin showed up out of the blue, demanding the cat, because it was "legally" hers, that… created some problems. But the cat has to come first. 

You didn't hire help, but it showed up anyway.

Spring cleaning season hits and these cats are suddenly very busy. No one gave them a job, but they've clearly assigned themselves one anyway. The house has been taken over by a full team of extremely confident, mildly helpful employees.

There's always one handling dishes, standing by the sink like they've got a full shift ahead of them. Another is fully locked in on vacuum duty, treating it like serious work despite not fully understanding what's going on. And of course, there's at least one supervisor, watching everything closely and making sure absolutely nothing is done correctly.

They approach every task with full commitment. Paws involved, intense focus, zero hesitation. It doesn't matter if the technique is questionable or if they're mostly in the way, the effort is undeniable. In their minds, they are carrying this entire operation.

Things might take a little longer than planned, mostly because someone is standing directly where you need to be or investigating the tools mid-use. But at least you're not doing it alone.

The results might not be spotless, but the house is definitely being interacted with. The team is fully engaged, the system is questionable, and somehow it still feels like progress.

Cat and bunny grooming ASMR is the type of content we didn't know we needed until right now.

One of the best things about cats is their willingness to adopt other animals into their fluffy families. Be they puppies without a mom, a lonely otter abandoned at birth, or even an adult dog that's looking for a four-legged best friend. But one of the most purrfect relationships between cats and other animals is the one between a cat and a bunny. And not just because it's almost too cute to handle.

Cats groom as a sign of affection and dominance, like a mother cat helping bathe her kittens. Whereas, in bunnies, they get groomed as a sign of affection and dominance. So, a cat bathing a bunny thinks that it is doing the bunny a favor, treating it like its child, and the bunny getting groomed thinks that it's doing the cat a favor! Both animals end up happy and fulfilled, and we get to watch one of the cutest things known to hoomankind. It's a win-win-win scenario.

Today's video centers around a bunny who was abandoned by its mother at birth, and was then promptly adopted by an orange cat. The two developed the sweetest relationship, as you will see below, by how the bunny literally flops into the cat's arms and relaxes while getting groomed. It's the purrfect way to finish your weekend with a few minutes of wholesomeness. Now, we just need about 200 more videos like this, and then we'll be satisfied.

Cats have the purrfectly unique ability to make us laugh simply by being themselves - it's one of the many joys of being a cat owner. And especially on Caturdays, we feel it's pawsitively impurrtant to stimulate your soul with soul-nourishing goodness and giggles. It seems like cats are always the answer!

As cat pawrents, we've had to upgrade our storage in our iCloud many times to accomodate all the hissterical pictures of our cats we like to keep on our phones. Why? Because each one is purrecious, and we can't even think of parting with any of them. Also, because on days like today, when we need to fill ourselves up with pawsitivity, the fastest and easiest way is to simply scroll through our cats' pictures. 

We have many of them where they look regal, meowjestic, like the purrfect models, and then we have the cursed images that make us laugh until we cry. Each one makes us fall more and more in love with our babies, and it never gets old. But, as much as we love the meowdelistic pictures, the best ones are the ones that show off their true purrsonality. 

These pictures activate the silly center of our souls, and each cat owner has their own pics that do the same. We rounded up some of the silliest cat pics from pawrents around, and put them all in one Caturday kitty concoction for you to enjoy. Give yourself a good giggle and revel in all the meowrvelousness that comes with our furbulous feline friends!

When spring has sprung, so does the fur from our cat's body. It's everywhere, and shedding season has only just begun. So while we drown in our cat's winter coat, we're here shedding the cat memes everywhere, much like our feline friends are doing with their fur.

We get winter hoarding. Really, we understand. It's like an evolutionary need to maintain yourself with literally everything to make sure the cold doesn't win. While cats hoard their fur, floofing up their coat as their life depends on it, we hoard memes. You know, that's just the Cheezburger way. We hoard warm memes for cold nights, and the I Can Has Cheezburger team hoards so many cat memes that we have a surplus by the time spring arrives. And when spring arrives, shedding season begins. Cats shed their fur, and we shed all the extra winter memes we had.

So what's more cat memes if not the blooming of the flowery garden of comedy that we grow here? The more cat memes, the more we feel like the warmth of the spring sun makes us happy. And we're all about sharing this joy with other cat people worldwide. So here are more cat memes we have from winter. Just have them, for no particular reason. Just take them and save them. Maybe even hoard them for next winter or something, we don't know, we're not here to tell you what to do.