24 Times Cats "Helped" Their Humans... And Made Everything Infinitely More Chaotic And Funny

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Sep 2, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Some people say this thing… this untrue, ridiculous, quite slanderous thing about cats, and that is that cats are not helpful pets. A dog will come to comfort you when you need it, a dog can bring you stuff, a dog will listen to you when you tell it to do things, but cats? Nah. Cats don't do anything helpful, right? Wrong. Cats are helpful. It's just that their ways of helping can be… different. 

When a cat steals food off your plate, it's because they are worried about you eating too much and your stomach hurting. When your cat follows you to the bathroom and screams until you open the door, it's because they are worried about you drowning. When a cat breaks into your Zoom call and shows its bootie to everyone, it's because he thinks those people are your enemies, and it's coming to defend you. Or… at least that's how we choose to think about these things, and we are sticking by that. 

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    She helped me be late for work by pawing at my phone and turning off the alarm. She's done this many times actually. Anytime my phone makes noise she gets grumpy. WINGS AND
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    Tiffany Nicole She helped me be late for work by pawing at my phone and turning off the alarm. She's done this many times actually. Anytime my phone makes noise she gets grumpy.
    via Tiffany Nicole

    Hey, we can understand her. Alarm clocks are annoying as heck, and we, too, want to punch our phones in the mornings every time that they go off. The noise is driving her crazy, so she thinks it's doing the same to you (and she's right), so she really is being helpful by turning it off. Stop complaining. Say thank you. 

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    Sarah Phillips My cat Grim retrieves things from my office and leaves them all over the living room at night, it's gotten to be quite irritating but it started out with me asking for a specific color of fabric when I was on bedrest and he actually went and got me a square of red felt out of a drawer containing about 20 different colors... it could have just been a coincidence of course but my husband and I both witnessed this and praised him highly for being so smart lol! Now no amount of tellin
    via Sarah Phillips
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    Top fan Courtney Elizabeth My cats regularly try to help me not eat too much lol. I brought 2 nice sized pieces of lasagna from Whole Foods. last night and decided to take a nap before dinner. After the 3 of them decided to help themselves, I got maybe a dozen or so bites myself. Lol
    via Courtney Elizabeth

    It's all out of concern, don't you understand. They do not want you gaining weight or worrying about gaining weight, so they are taking some of this concern off your plate (along with the food). Once again - stop complaining. Say thank you. They're doing what they can. 

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    Flora Mentry Loobey I was crocheting with a long Tunisian hook when I got some help. First Juniper made sure the stopper on the end was secure. Then she held the yarn cake so it wouldn't roll away. Finally she made certain the yarn was clean. Wet, but clean.
    via Flora Mentry Loobey
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    Annette Foor Bowman Transplanted my Morning Glories under the clothesline & never found where he transplanted the mint. Smelled it when I mowed the yard but that was it.
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    Top fan Julie Appel Muck One of mine likes to "help" me filling up water bowls. 2d Like Reply Send message Hide
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    Flynn Hayes If I'm cooking they like to hang out and watch and anytime I stir anything or add a spice, I have to hold whatever I'm holding down because my cats have to sniff it for quality assurance before I can proceed. They don't try to steal the food. They just want to smell it.
    via Flynn Hayes
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    Jenny Aaron One cat helps supervise lunch making, watching the construction of every single sandwich. Another cat jumps onto the table when it's being set for a meal. Every time!
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    Jenny Harrington Pita helping hold the bottle.
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    Paula Elofson-Gardine One of our Calico twins helped my sister who was out on the balcony by pushing the big wooden security stick into the groove behind the patio door so she couldn't open it to get back inside. She had to call out to neighbors to call me to come home to let her back in.
    via Paula Elofson-Gardine
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    Tiffanie Kashmir Oh yea, they are huge helpers. Yesterday i was using the drain catch to get hair out the bathtub, mini was helping... attacking the dang hair and hissing at me when i shooed her away
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    Corinne McCaffrey My cat likes to help by waking me up several times a night to make sure I'm ok. She does it gentle, licks my hand or knee.
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    Top fan DrAmber Demetria Guzmán Oh my cats LOVE to help me finish my food. 2d Like Reply Send message Hide 50
    via DrAmber Demetria Guzmán
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    Top fan Karen Liebel My Tiger boy likes to help the handyman with what ever he's here to fix. Last time it was the leaky sink, time before was installing the fridge, then installing the dishwasher... one "helpfull" kitty >
    via Karen Liebel
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    Heather Lyon My cat helps wash my feet in the shower. He swats them under the curtain. Almost killed me the first time!
    via Heather Lyon
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    Top fan Taruka Quauhtezcatl My Harry frequently tries to help me with my knitting by getting balls of wool out of the bag for me. This can lead to up to 24 balls of wool on the living room floor, in the hallway, up the stairs. ... Garfield likes to help me cook. I've had to abandon the hob completely, and he's tried to climb into my large microwave. He even tries to climb into my electric pressure cooker!
    via Taruka Quauhtezcatl
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    Lisa Ford Denham My kitty knows when it's Taco Tuesday. He tried to steal my Nacho fries. He also likes my dehydrated veggies. He only gets a couple of tiny bites
    via Lisa Ford Denham
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    Kristen Sessions Bares bring me live mice that escape, and dead wet birds, cold at the foot of my bed, partial squirrel pieces on my rug, lizards, i miss him so much
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    Christine Ó Cheallaigh he was in trouble One time my cat Mudd (I called her Muddward when she was in trouble because her brother Ed was Edward when ) thought she would help me out by eating my Triple Stacker from Burger King right after | took it out of the bag in the kitchen. I laugh about it now, but at the time I was chasing her all over the house, yelling at her to give it back. She had the corner of the wrapper in her mouth, and was running all through the house with it, never dropping it o
    via Christine Ó Cheallaigh
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    Mirjan Bouma One of mine likes to help me when I'm cutting big pieces. of clean fabric on the floor. He's really good at keeping the fabric down.
    via Mirjan Bouma
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    Cindy Townley They help me organize drawers by pulling stuff out that doesn't belong there
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    Billie Willis Campbell Helped me cut out a pattern by taking flying leaps and sliding across the tissue paper. He also liked to encourage me to run by taking off with my marker.
    via Billie Willis Campbell
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    Top fan Courtney Elizabeth Also, one of my boys frequently worries I will run my bath water too hot, so he jumps in to check the temperature in the tub before I start to get in . Once the water is deep enough to get his belly wet, he figures I'm good to go lol
    via Courtney Elizabeth

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