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Cats are relationship goals in their purest form.

They don't rush into anything. First, they sit nearby. Then maybe they scoot a little closer. Eventually, if the vibes are right, they curl up next to you like it was always meant to happen. Nothing forced, nothing awkward, just a slow, cozy build.

Cats also love togetherness without pressure. They're perfectly happy sharing a couch, a bed, or a sunbeam without needing constant attention. Just being close is enough. That kind of quiet companionship is hard to beat.

Their affection shows up in tiny ways. A gentle head bump. A paw placed on your arm. Choosing your lap over every other option in the room. It's subtle, but it means everything.

They're great at knowing when to stay and when to give space. Some days are cuddle days. Some days are nap-on-opposite-ends-of-the-room days. Both are valid. No explanations needed.

And when a cat decides you're their person? That's it. They'll follow you around, nap near you, and look at you like you're part of their world now. Cats show us that the best relationships are built on comfort, patience, and choosing each other quietly, over and over again.

Winter + weekend = don't bother me I'm scrolling cat memes under the covers. 

The thing about weekends is that they're your time. Your time to do whatever it is you would want to do. If you want to lay in bed for two days, no one is going to stop you. If you want to play video games on the couch while your cat watched, purring next to you, and ordering food delivery because you're too lazy to get any food yourself, then how about it! It's the best feeling to wake up without alarms, without plans, and with a whopping 48 hours to do what you want all week. The weekend in winter hits differently since a lot of people are deterred by the rain, snow, sleet, or hail to stay inside as well. And the thing about cats is that they're here to indulge in winter dreamland with you. 

Cats are so multifaceted. They're chaotic, capricious, and mischievous one moment, and purring softly next to your hand, nudging you with their little heads the next. They always manage to bring a smile to our faces, even when they misbehave. For cat pawrents, going home to your little furball is one of the best feelings. Your rituals together feel like a requirement to enjoy the evening. Weekends are even more enjoyable as a cat pawrent because it means two whole days with your pookie. Even if we have a horrible day at work, or just in life in general, when we get to be with our cat we immediately feel our hearts melting. Some people never experience the joy of having a pet cat. 

The love and comfort that your cat gives you carries you all weekend and in your winter wonderland. Here at I Can Has Cheezburger, cat pawrents means something more than just owning a cat. It's a commitment to being an upstanding person in society for the sake of your kitty. 

With the weekend in full swing we figured it was time for a little feline levity to rejuvenate the soul and refresh the mind, which is why we put together this collection of fresh feline funnies.

Because after a week at the old grindstone, we all need a moment to step back. A moment to breath and remind ourselves that we are not working machines. If we are any kind of machines we are laughing machines, because think about it, you are only working your best if and when you are laughing.

And the only way that we know how to fully find ourselves engulfed by the beauty of feline funnies is to stick our heads into a collection of some of the newest and funniest ones around. So before you go writing off your weekend and hiding under the covers until the work week rolls around again, give this cute collection a go and see how it reshapes your pawspective of this wild world. Heck, you might find yourself filled with all sorts of feline frivolity by the end of it. Just try and abstain from climbing the curtains, chasing after birds or zoned out on zoomies around your fine dining plates.

We can never get tired of cat memes.

There's a reason why cat memes rule the internet, and seem to be every second or third piece of content you see online. And the reason is very simple - cats rule our lives. Yes, our lives in particular, but we're really not special when it comes to this. Cats are like a worshipping magnet with four paws and cattitude. We know we're all about cat content here, but are we special? Nope. So many humans worship cats - and we're not talking about the ancient Egyptians. Every person who has ever owned a cat knows how impawrtant they are. Because they quite literally become the kings and queens of your life… you puny peasant.

And that's why we would never get tired of cat memes. They are the symptom of this phenomenon, of worshipping our feline overlords. And this is exactly why we bring you the Caturday Medley every weekend - so we can all worship cats in their humorous and pixelated form of memes, but only the best of the best. The creme of the comedic cat crop that we cultivate on a weekly basis, so that we can all worship cats together.

No one can come between a girl and her cat. Not even her family.

Family can be a struggle to deal with sometimes, to say the least. We've had our own fair share of problems with relatives, most of which we won't go into detail here with you, but let's just say that we know what it's like to have to fight for yourself when you and your family don't see eye to eye. Luckily, it's never been an issue with our pets, like it is in today's story. The daughter in this scenario was given a kitten by her aunt when she was 18. She raised the cat, taking care of it and taking it to the vet, and now that she's ready to move in with her fiance and out of her family's house, they're trying to keep her cat with them.

After years of complaining about how much of a hassle having a pet was, they suddenly want ownership of the cat they eventually grew to love, but it was because of the daughter that she stayed in their home. Her younger sister was able to convince her parents to side with her, so now it's the whole family versus our loving cat mom. She stood her ground, and said that she was taking her cat, 'Casper' with her. No exceptions.

Just because you're related doesn't mean you're always going to see eye to eye. At a certain point, you grow up, move out and you have to start prioritizing yourself. You know what dads love to say, "When you live under my house, you live under my rules." Well, dad, she's no longer living in your house anymore, so she gets to make her own rules. And her cat is coming with her.

To begin Caturday purrfectly, you must start it with a recap of the bestest cat content of the week! 

That's the rule, and we follow it every week. The weeks are long, work is hard, and we wait, with bated breath, for Caturday to finally come. So, for Caturday to not go properly would not only be upsetting, it would be a tragedy. We need this day to be purrfect. We need to smile morning to evening, without thinking about any of our troubles, responsibilities and concerns. And if there is one thing that never fails to make us smile, no matter how much of it we see, it's cats. That's why we put together this meowgazine every single week - to truly make sure that all of us start Caturday on the right paw. 

Here, we bring you the best that the cat internet has to offer. We bring you the most viral cat tweets that people shared, the funniest cat memes that caught people's attention - the new ones and the classics that everyone loves, and of course, we bring you the silliest and most wholesome stories about cats that went viral this week. Everything in one place, without all the drama and the noise around it. Purrfection in a single meowgazine. Enjoy, everyone, and have a pawmazing Caturday! 

Winter is a hard time for outdoor cats. Powered entirely by cans of tuna and tufts of floof, cattos and kittens aren't even supposed to be outside when there's a blizzard. In fact, as all cat lovers know, it's a cats meowral obligation—no, their duty—to curl up on their favorite chair by the fireplace. Even when the hoomans have to motivate themselves to go to work during a big snowstorm, cats owe it to their families to enjoy the comfort and warmth of the inside. 

But what about all of the stays and the forlorn felines trapped outside?

Although they are natural-born survivors and predators in their own right, cats are still precious little babies. Especially with a midwestern cold front blowing in from the north, outdoor cats are particularly vulnerable, licking their toe-beans to keep warm and curling into a cinnamon roll of fluff to conserve warmth. If they're lucky, strays will hunker down and find shelter during the coldest nights, but when this smol, clumsy kitten got stuck in a too-small hole in a fence, their shelter options plummeted to zero. And as the temperature dipped, so did their chances of surviving an incoming blizzard.