Sock It to Me

Pawrents know the truth: the camera roll is 98 percent cat and 2 percent screenshots of treats. Every day becomes a pawtrait session. We chase the perfect whisker focus, the mid-blep masterpiece, the museum-quality loaf. Burst mode exists to capture zoomies, which mostly produces abstract art titled "Living Room Blur." Portrait mode calls the meowdel a "person" and we nod because royalty, obviously.

Lighting? Sunbeam o'clock is golden hour. Night shots are void kitty studies with two mysterious headlights. The 0.5x lens turns a snoot into a gentle planet. Live Photos catch the surprise sneeze, the offended ear twitch, and the post-nap stretch that wins Best In Show. We adjust the hisstogram like purrfessionals and still forget the lens has a nose print.

Albums multiply: "Cat," "Cat 2," "Cat FINAL," "Cat FINAL FINAL." Storage warnings appear. We delete three identical photos, then take twelve more because the chin changed by one molecule. Treat bribes secure eye contact while feather wands secure chaos. Friends ask for updates and we respond with a 47-image slideshow and a single caption: "He sat."

Life's too short not to over-document the floof. Snap early, snap often, pet between takes.

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Look, we get it, being a feline pawrent and having to put up with people telling you to your face that your cat is not your biological child is tough. In fact, it is far worse than tough, it inspires blind fury, especially when there is no retort you can throw back into these peoples' faces. But now, with this list, you have a URL to throw in their face that will send their argument flying all over the place.

For you see, this collection of cute cat children wearing their beautiful baby onesies is great for two things. First, it shows that cats can be just like kids, even down to wearing the exact same clothing. And second, it gives buckets of legitimacy to dressing up your catto in whatever colorful ways you may see fit without worrying about the judgey eyes of society. So pour yourself another coffee and get ready shove those snotty remarks that Noreen keeps jabbing you with down her doggo obsessed throat.
 

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All cat people know - every cat deserves love, care, and a place to call home. Cats are such affectionate creatures, full of love just waiting to be given. And another thing every cat person knows, is that we're all here ready to recive that love from cats. It's a meowgical phenomenon, and if you're a cat person, you definitely know it. The magic of cats is their love, and they just want a home to give it in.

And cats know this themselves. How do we know it? Because cats make it very clear. Some feral strays are begging to be adopted, both because they know a loving home is the place to be, and because they know this is where they can give their cat meowgic to the hearty hoomans who adopted them.

One such new cat pawrent shared their story of their cat adoption - a strictly stray orange who was extremely hungry, ate whatever the kind person could give him, and decided: "This is a suitable place. I live here now." Such as he is. The entire online feline family shared their own stories of how street cats basically adopted them. Or, more accurately, adopted themselves into their homes. We're rooting for these brave cats adopting themselves.

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