35 Playful Kitten Memes for Grown-Up Children Who Miss Having Playtime in Their Day

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jan 13, 2025 5:00 PM EST

The concept of having a recess (or even a few) in a day is one that is sadly lost as we grow older and enter the workforce. Which is a shame really considering how it allows us to exert extra energy, quash silly squabbles and refocus for the rest of the day the lies ahead. Instead we do our best to steal small moments, chatting to a colleague about cute cats, scrolling the sweet pages of Cheezburger fawning over felines and from time to time pretending we have a doctor's appointment so we can leave early and get a little more fun packed into our overly scheduled lives. So we wanted to at least make your scrolling with us as close as possible in its feeling to taking an actually child-like recess with this list of playful kitten memes.

So we truly hope that you find that the playful perks within this list, instill you with a similar thrill to that of racing around the playground playing tag, or trading Pokémon cards. 

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  • 01
    I think he's broken
    via catsinplaymode
  • 02
    Just got a cat. He's a little scared, so he's "hiding"
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  • 03
    He looks like he just told his favorite joke and he's so proud of himself
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    My cat always lines up my son's socks like this.
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  • 05
    Last night, there were four rolls in the bag. This morning: Cook
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  • 06
    I accidentally knocked over my cat's milk & I didn't have any more. He looked at me like this the whole time I ate dinner
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    We got him a bed, but then a paper towel fell on the floor, so never mind Olio d Clisa Ofic
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  • 08
    He loves to lie on his back on top of the cabinets, with his eyes wide open, just staring at the ceiling.
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  • 09
    My apartment's pest control guy always refers to my cat as a "fellow industry professional"
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  • 10
    Spent 10 minutes looking for my cat THE PYRAMID COLLECTION
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    Hiding from the vet Soap
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  • 12
    10 months old and still needs his emotional support carrots LONIS
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  • 13
    My kitten hides behind our curtains like this, thinking we can't see her while she's planning to attack
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  • 14
    She usually sits on top of the fish tank to misbehave, so I put a lemon on it and she doesn't know what to do
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  • 15
    Five years and still not a single turn with the brain cell mindset -CAMPARI- TOMATOES
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    The mac & cheese wanter
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  • 17
    Every morning Finley wakes up and chooses violence
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  • Playtime is a great way for kids to let all the difficult feelings they are grappling without. Sure it may come across as violence, or clawminality, but the truth is that it is better released through the guise of play, than bottled up and saved for another day. So while this pawrent might be suffering at the mercy of his cat child right now, it will save his furniture later one.

  • 18
    Tried to take a picture but ended up scaring him instead
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  • 19
    Never buying him anything again
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  • 20
    Went to use the bathroom and walked in on this. She realllyyy wanted to look out the sky light
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    She sits like this and waits for someone to put ice in her water every morning.
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  • 22
    Rare picture of a cat losing one of its 9 lives 753
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  • 23
    Chuck was jealous of his brother's hunting skills so he ran outside and caught a leaf for me
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  • 24
    He became the very thing he vowed to destroy. 940S
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  • 25
    My job here is done.
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  • 26
    The paper shredder needed some rest.
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  • 27
    When Santa tells you that you're on the naughty list. PETSMART PET
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  • 28
    How my boyfriend's mom's cat sits
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  • 29
    If you can't hide a crime scene, just pretend you are a victim, too.
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  • 30
    She works hard for the money
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    Walked in on my cat trying to smother the dog.
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  • As the saying goes, kids will be kids. And that will inevitably mean some degree of play fighting and squabbling will happen as a part of their play. It is likely that this older dog brother has let his feline sibling win this time, or every time, because otherwise there would be a little bit too much smushing happening if the dog sat on the cat…

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    Cats secretly alter your clothes at night to make you feel like you've gained weight. BERNINA 1006
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  • 33
    Listen, I'd never hurt my cats, but sometimes I wish I could turn into a cat so we could square up
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  • 34
    The tree has been up for five minutes
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    "Cat Tax"

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