"Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother." - Robin Williams

A light from the heavens shines down on thy cat. 

We all face the dreaded and daunting mundane midday listlessness. No matter how much sleep we get, there seems to be a clockwork hour that fights against our restful REM and caffeinated beverages, and that's called the midday yawns. The conundrum of yawning is that it's supposed to produce more oxygen to your brain, but sometimes it feels like it only makes us more sleepy. What better way to combat a slumbered sedation while we're in the middle of our work day than a fabulous scroll of felines in memes? Cats have their own way of obtaining an inner peace and tranquility, and usually it's through catching sunbeams. While you think your cat is just indolently lounging on the floor, immersed in the sun's ray, he's actually gaining his 6th sense and superpower, that of peace and enlightenment. 

There's a lot the sun can teach us that we don't realize. When we wake up in the morning and look at natural light it actually stimulates our brains to start the day. We become more alert, our morning cortisol peak diminishes, and we can start the day properly. 

We know better than anyone how crucial a good scroll is for health. Where would society be without cat memes? Would Taylor Swift be writing catchy hits? Would Netflix be dosing us all with addictive television shows? The question is one that can never be fully answered, but here at I Can Has Cheezburger we're providing a safe space for that hedonistic scroll. So enjoy these wholesome, adorable, and hilarious cat memes to get you out of your sleepiness. Enlightenment doesn't always have to mean meditation, Buddhism, or a raw vegan food diet. It can be scrolling cat memes!

When people ask me, "What's your dream job?" I reply with this one, purrfectly powerful statement: "Darling, I do not dream of labor." I dream of napping as much as my cat does in the middle of the week while  the rain outside lulls me into a serene slumber.

There's something so calming about a thunderstorm. Especially when you have a cozy comforter to curl up in and cats to snuggle with! It's far more preferable than the unrelenting heat of summer. Just sitting inside and watching the world become wet while you're safely tucked away on your couch, under a blanket, might be one of the best feelings in the world. It does, however, make it pawsitively difficult to get anything done when your whole body is screaming at you to make a nest, put on a good movie, and relax.

But that's exactly what you're here for, right? You didn't click on this list of feline funnies to get work done - you came here to unwind a little bit. Believe me, I get it. With all this coziness in the air, you can't help but embrace sweater weather, grab your cats, and make the best blanket fort the world has ever seen. What else are you supposed to do in blanket forts except scroll through the funniest cat memes on this side of the internet and find a meowment of peace? 

There's no shame in it. In fact, it's impurrtant to find the time to do something that makes you happy. Too often we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of daily life, of feeling like if we're not being productive, then we lose our sense of self-worth.

But it's not true. You can be still and relax and still have value.

Just look at cats, they're purrfectly still for 18 hours a day and you know how much value they have! They make you happy, they make your house feel like a home, and they purrvide you with unlimited entertainment and cuddles. If they can do "nothing" and still be loved, then you can as well. If you don't believe me, believe in your cute kitties.

32 feline funnies might not be enough to last you through a whole autumn rainstorm, but they're certainly a good start. Never fear, we have plenty more purrfectly silly cat memes all over I Can Has Cheezburger because, well, that's kind of our thing. Get comfy and cozy and prepurr yourself for the most relaxing scroll you've had this season!

All cats are special in their own silly ways.

I admit, before adopting my cat, Mia, I didn't know anything about cats. I thought I did. I've always loved looking at cat things on the internet and attempting to pet stray cats outside. But I didn't know what it meant to have a cat, no really. And I didn't know how much I didn't know. She trusted me, though. She adopted me, knowing that I am more than willing to learn everything that I need to. And I did. I learned how to spot when she's not feeling well, I learned how to play with her, I learned what her different meows mean - everything. But of all the things that I learned, the one thing that surprised me the most is figuring out just how much personality cats have. And in my time on the internet and writing for ICHC, I have learned another thing: all cats have personalities, but orange cats have purrsonalities. 

Orange cats are unique. They are special. They all share one brain cell. Just one. Between all of them. Every once in a while, one of them will have a turn with the brain cell and shock us all with their intelligence and cunning. The rest of the time… they are just orange. And we could not love them more for it. 

We've seen orange cats with all kinds of quirks. There's an orange cat who is obsessed with snap peas. There's another orange cat who likes going number 1 in the sink just "to feel included". There's one who gets ready with his owner - every single morning without fail. And that is just the tip of the ice berg. And still, even after everything that we have seen, this viral pair of orange cats still surprised us. We have never seen a cat flirt before today. And now that we have, all we can is… of course he's orange. 

You're dressed, you're ready to leave, and then you look down. Cat hair. All over the shirt you could've sworn was clean five minutes ago. Out comes the lint roller for what has to be the third time today.

Cat owners spend a lot of time removing fur from things, only for it to immediately come back. We vacuum the couch and the cat takes a nap on it. We wash our sheets and they jump onto the bed. We fold a pile of clean laundry and suddenly that's the best sleeping spot in the entire house. Sometimes it feels like they're watching us clean and waiting for their chance to undo it.

Black clothes are especially risky if you have a light-colored cat. One cuddle before leaving the house and everyone you see that day gets to know you have a pet. We've definitely been out somewhere, looked down at our clothes, and started picking off hairs one by one. At a certain point, you just have to decide which ones are worth removing.

Then shedding season hits and things get even hairier. You brush your cat and pull out a clump of fur. Then another. Then another. You look at the growing pile, look back at the cat, and wonder how they still have so much left.

That is, if brushing is even allowed. Plenty of cats love it, but plenty of others would rather keep every loose hair attached to their body until they're ready to deposit it directly onto your pillow.

After enough time with cats, you start building fur removal into your routine. There's a lint roller near the door. Maybe another one in a bag. The vacuum gets a workout. You learn not to leave clean clothes sitting somewhere accessible unless you're willing to wash them again.

None of this stops us from making the problem worse. The cat walks over while we're wearing a clean shirt, and we're still picking them up. They climb into bed, and we're still letting them under the covers. They settle onto our lap, and we're definitely not moving them just to protect our pants.

So the fur stays. On the couch, on our clothes, in our bags, and probably on whatever we're wearing right now.

We can lint roll later. The cat wants cuddles.

We're well into October, and also well into the cozy, cool, cold autumn weather. 

Of course, this depends on where you are in the world. If you're living in San Diego, California, then you're probably not experiencing too much of that autumn appeal. If you're in Vermont, on the other hand, you are probably wearing three layers of jackets already as you watch the orange and yellow leaves fall from trees above you. 

Regardless of the weather or temperature where you are, everyone love the coziness of a pumpkin spice latte, and the coziness of cats! Cats love autumn too. They're lazy and listless by nature, so when that autumn cold weather comes in from grey skies, cats are also peering out of windows hoping for rain so they can lay in covers, snuggle their owner, and sit next to a rolling fireplace. 

There's something almost sacred about autumn. The crisp air, the streets smell faintly of rain and woodsmoke, and every café suddenly feels like a hug in beverage form. Umbrellas mask people's faces as they make their way to and froe, morning cup of joe on the go, and boots paddling through puddles. Enjoy these adorable memes of cats to scroll while you sip your pumpkin spice latte. 

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I know, I know, it's a bit kitschy for fake goths or people still obsessed with Tim Burton films well into their 50s, but who said there's anything wrong with kitsch? Even if you're a 50-year-old whose phone background is Nightmare Before Christmas, it's simply important to celebrate the things that make you feel you. And for a lot of people, it's the whole spooky season, in which Halloween exists in. We're not the only ones enjoying spooky season; there's a whole society of cats celebrating witch hunts, dressing up, and doing seances behind closed doors. 

Every Caturday must begin on the right paw. 

This is something crucial for every cat owner. After waiting an entire week, we finally make it to our favorite day. And the week has been hard. It's been getting colder outside. All we want is to lie under a blanket with our cats all day long. So, if this Caturday doesn't go well, I don't know about you, but I'm not sure how my sanity will stay intact. This is why I make this meowgazine for you guys. 

Every single week, I bring you the best cat content of the week. This is my job. This is my area of expertise. I spend every day looking at funny cat memes and wholesome stories about cats on the internet. I know exactly what everyone is talking about, and seeing it all week long is how I get through the day. It's only fair I share it with you guys as well, no? To help your Caturday start on the right paw. 

Long before Grumpy Cat took the internet by storm, before we became obsessed with Maru fitting in boxes, and before Lil Bub became an icon, there was Dagwood - the ping pong tortie from Portland, Oregon.

In 1951, Dagwood was introduced to the world via an Associated Press Story. She had spent years interrupting her pawrent (Ted Matson) while he played ping pong. He did what any reasonable cat dad would do when their feline refused to respect purrsonal boundaries - he gave her a side of the table. Dagwood learned to volley with him from across the net, and she became surprisingly good at both one-pawed hits and two-paw smashes.

I cannot emphasize enough to you that this happened in the 1950s. There was no TikTok. No reels sent to you on Instagram. There was no such thing as an overnight celebrity, let alone a weirdly talented cat. Dagwood had to go viral the old-fashioned way: news stories and actual film reels. She even appeared on an episode of MASH (even some of you millennials might not get this reference) where she was introduced as the "prodigious prowess at Ping Pong". How do I know this? You can thank my dad, he used to watch MASH religiously when I was a kid.

Of course, Dagwood did not single-pawedly create modern cat culture, but I would be doing her an injustice to say that she wasn't part of the blueprints. She was an ordinary pet with a meowrvelously unique quirk. She was purractically meant for entertaining people she had never met. In today's world, we build whole online communities around cats like Dagwood. Their weird habits become memes (thanks to us) and strangers halfway around the world know their names.

Underneath all of this philosophizing is an even more glaringly apparent truth - it's just downright adorable to watch. I know this isn't some crazy cat rescue story, or a highlight of a ridiculously floofy kitten with too many toe beans, but it is an impurrtant part of cat history. Dagwood might be one of the earliest entries into the feline hall of fame, and people in today's day and age deserve to know about her tortitude, her talents, and her cuteness, too.

Caturday is here, and it's the purrfect time for another round of the most unique cat memes on the internet to shine.

Lolcats make me think about the entire concept of cat memes every week. I've already talked about how lolcats are iconic, and what basically made this entire cat meme franchise unforgettable. But the concept itself of cat memes has a much deeper iceberg than any other meme genre online. The surface level is the normal response to cat memes, along the lines of: "Yeah, cat memes have always been popular." An acknowledgment of existence, merely. But the deeper you dive into the cat meme iceberg, the more you understand how profound it is.

I've answered more than once in my life to the question of "What do you do?", with "I work in cat memes." First of all, it's the best and funniest ice-breaker answer I've got up my sleeve, and it's also true. But then I come to think of the fact that there's no other meme-genre answer in existence that'll be true like that. No one can answer truthfully with "I work in elephant memes", or "I work in computer science memes." You might work in a meme company of sorts, but not in cat memes. That's where the meowgic of I Can Has Cheezburger happens - and especially with our beloved lolcat page.

And it's not just me, or us as a team, with our pawsome job description - it's also you! Think about people answering the question: "What do you do for a hobby?" Some people answer "cooking", "jogging", or "gardening". But you, dear lolcatters? You literally make cat memes for a hobby. You're not just doing something for your own amusement - you help the glorious flood of feline funnies the internet has experienced for about 3 decades. That's the greatest way to serve our feline overlords with purride.

Can we replace all the internet drama with tiny paws and sleepy whiskers?

Are you a cat lover? I assume you are, because why would you be here anyway? If you're not sure about your love for cats, then I'll try to convince you. I've never been a cat person: I've always loved dogs, and that was it. The thing is that I've never had a strong bond with felines, since my parents were also dog people. I knew they were different, and I was scared to approach them. What if they don't like me? And I also assumed that cats don't like to be touched, so it's not like they were welcoming me in.

But now that I'm older, my perspective on cats has changed. It's not like they changed me, but the other way around. After writing about cats and getting to know them on a more personal note, I realized that they aren't as scary as I thought they were. It's not like I was afraid of cats, but they didn't spark loving feelings when I was younger. But now, let me say that I feel so related to them in so many ways. 

From starters, they are not people pleasers and they care only about them. That's why you see them alone, and not caring about what's going on around them. Aren't adults like that as well? With time, and the more responsibilities we have, the more we choose to live in peace and become more focused on ourselves, rather than on the outside. It's funny to me that all of those qualities that I didn't like about cats, I can find them now in my own personality. But I don't mind… I actually think it's the healthiest approach I've had in a while.

If you think that I digress a lot and don't really get what I'm saying, is it because you haven't connected with cats yet? Do you want to? But you don't have a cat near you? Well, maybe the pictures below will help you.

Cats deserve the best lives they can lead, even if it means making their current owner give them up.

I've never rescued a cat from a typhoon, as this one kind person below did, but I know what it's like to hope that an owner would give up their cat so they can have a better future elsewhere. When I adopted my cat I was a student, living in a flatshare. One of my roommates already had a cat called Fetto (originally Fettuccine, but the name got shorter as he got bigger). We had him in the apartment since he was a kitten, saved from the streets. Officially, he belonged to one roommate, but he loved another much more - and that was mainly because of how his "actual" roommate owner treated him.

I won't detail too much because it seems demeaning to the cat, in some way. I love Fetto, he was such a great companion to live with for so many years, even though he wasn't mine. But the fact that the cat wasn't mine is what made me horrified at what an "actual" owner can make their cat go through. And that owner was my roommate - so it wasn't just close to home, it was all happening in my home. What I can tell, though, is that his actions made Fetto afraid of him, his own legal owner. My other roommate and I tried time and time again to talk to our cat-owning roommate, to help him change his ways with the cat, but to no avail. Things always reverted to what they were. It was such a deadlock situation.

At the end of a 3-year shared living arrangement, we all finished our degrees and planned out adult life. My other roommate and I moved to a different flatshare together, but we were afraid for Fetto. We knew we couldn't leave the cat living like that. We sat him down and practically said, "The cat comes with us." Just in a nicer, yet firm way. We knew Fatto needed a new beginning in a new place, without the person who caused him fear and apprehension. We explained ourselves, yet again, naming the things the cat shouldn't have gone through, and how we thought he should move in with us. And to our surprise… he agreed. Fetto lived with my other roommate for many more years of happiness and calm.

This is the fate I hope to hear this typhoon kitty below gets, her happy ending.