28 Feline Funnies Featuring the Sassy Side of Raising a Cat Kid

Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor

Aug 9, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

There are many sides to raising a cat at home, but the sass that comes with this experience is undeniable. And definitely part of why we love them so much.

Some people experience an extreme level of sass from their cats. I feel like my cat can be sassy sometimes, because she's the literal princess of the house. But some stories I hear from my fellow cat pawrents make me doubt if my cat could be described as "sassy" at all. I mean, sure, she will not leave me alone if I dare eat chicken and not share (to the point of her sending her tiny paws into my plate), but my friends with cats tell some very different stories:

My friend Marissa tells me that her cat, Biscuit, has developed a full-blown vendetta against her alarm clock. Every single morning, precisely three minutes before it goes off, Biscuit plants himself directly on Marissa's chest and stares at her face, unblinking, until she wakes up on her own. If she dares hit snooze, he responds by knocking her phone off the nightstand - not out of malice, she insists, but pure principle. "He's not trying to hurt it, he's making a statement". Apparently the statement is: "I decide when breakfast happens, not some beeping little box".
My friend Dev tells me that his cat, Olive, refuses to drink water from her actual bowl on philosophical grounds nobody in the house understands. Instead, she waits - patiently, dramatically - for someone to leave a glass unattended, then marches over and drinks from that instead, maintaining aggressive eye contact the entire time as if daring you to object. Dev's bought her fountains, fancy filtered bowls, even a whole ceramic dish shaped like a fish. Olive looked at each one, then walked directly past it to sip from his roommate's abandoned iced coffee. Some cats just enjoy chaos as a lifestyle.
My friend Kayla tells me that her cat, Theodore, has strong feelings about closed doors, namely that they shouldn't exist. If Kayla dares shut the bathroom door for even a second of privacy, Theodore parks himself directly outside and yowls like he's being personally betrayed by the architecture of the house. The moment the door opens, though? He saunters in slowly, sniffs the air once, and walks right back out, completely uninterested, as if to say the whole ordeal was never actually about getting in - it was about making sure Kayla knew who's really in charge here.

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