31 Mew Year's Memes for Cat Lovers Who Celebrate 2026 With Feline Friends

Celebrating anything with a cat makes the celebration much meowing better (because cats make everything better, really). And your New Year's party is no different. Entering the new year with a cat by your side is both as wholesome and awesome as it can be. Because this is the duality of cats - they're made both of whiskered wholesomeness, and awesome cat power we cannot comprehend.

Just imagine yourself at a New Year's party, but your cat is there with you. It instantly becomes a purring pawrty of pure preciousness, just because a cat is present. It's the sheer meowgic of cats - they truly just need to exist to make everything around them happier, cuter, more wholesome, and definitely more awesome.

So what about opening your 2026 with as many cats as possible? Yes, that's possible - with the best cat memes to open a new year with. Just cat memes of various kinds, filled with all this feline funnies goodness.

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“Mama! Mama! Why is the outside full of freezing white clouds that I can walk on? Why is the air so crispy? Can you please turn on the sun again? Mama, I don't like this, meow me back into the house!”
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Aww, that's true love. Cats hugging each other. Ususally cats are territorial, they can get suspicious of other cats in their home - so if you see two cats hugging each other so comfortably, you know they are a bonded pair. And that's, really, true love.
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We would so watch a show about this cat and the kitten sidekick, solving crimes against cat-kind in the house. Like “Where are all the treats hidden?”, or “Did the hooman leave for work, or are they gone forever?”. You know, all these cat mysteries.
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When your day feels like a litterbox, so you make everyone else's day feel like a literal litterbox as well…
Ahh, the way of cats…
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Holly molly, look at the request on this cat's face! We don't even need to speak the same language to know the cat is saying “Give shrimp give shrimp give shrimp give shrimp give shrimp give shrimp now or I will explode.”
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