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Spring may have sprung, but it sure still feels like winter. Gray, gloomy, and wet - none of the things we enjoy on a Monday. To be fair, there aren't many things we do enjoy on a Monday… except for logging on to enjoy the freshest and funniest feline tweets of the week. It's our one little pocket of joy that keeps our Mondays from going from bad to worse.
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"A railway company in Japan once ran out of money to pay a stationmaster. So they gave the job to the cat who lived outside the station. She wore a custom-made hat, worked for cat food, and saved the entire line. Her name was Tama. She was a calico cat who had spent her days sitting near the entrance of Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, greeting passengers anyway. When the company destaffed the station in 2006 to cut costs, the president visited to discuss what to do about the stray cats living nearby. He looked into Tama's eyes and later said they conveyed a sense of purpose as strong as any of his employees. He made her stationmaster. Within a month passenger numbers rose by seventeen percent. People began travelling from across Japan just to see her. Tourists arrived from other countries. A French documentary crew came to film her. The station was eventually rebuilt in the shape of a cat's face. In her eight years as stationmaster Tama contributed an estimated one billion yen to the local economy. She was promoted four times. She eventually held the title of Honorary President of the railway. The only female in a senior position in the entire company. When she passed away in 2015 over three thousand people attended her funeral. She was given the posthumous title Honorary Eternal Stationmaster and enshrined at a nearby Shinto shrine as a goddess. The position of stationmaster at Kishi Station is still held by a cat today."
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We love scrolling through X for this reason: it's the most holistic combination of heartwarming cat stories, funny feline photos, relatable tweets from cat owners, and even a few hissterical videos. It's not just a random roundup of cat memes (which we also love, don't get us wrong), but this feels more current. More like news. It's cat news, if you will. A silly summary of everything feline-related that happened on the internet last week. And us, as cat lovers, think we know pretty well what you, as fellow feline fans, want to see.
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To all of you who are struggling to get through today, we hope these funny felines in the form of tweets help you get to the end of the day without wanting to quit your job, abandon hoomanity and become a hermit in the woods with your cats. That last part doesn't sound so bad, though. Anyway, have a purrfectly great Monday, and may your food bowls always be filled and purrfectly on time.
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