Wholesome and Cozy Cat Memes I Always Come Back to When I Need a Little Pick-Me-up

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Oct 9, 2026 1:30 PM EDT

When you're feeling a little down, cat memes are the best cure.

This is something that I say from lived experience. It's something that I know, that I say with confidence, something that works. Cat memes are the best cure for sadness. It takes a minute, maybe less, to scroll through a few and have your mood be uplifted. Everyone on the internet knows this, not just me. It's why cats go viral everywhere and all the time. Because people see them, people smile, and people share, making more people smile. 

Even I, someone whose job it is to write about cats every single day, haven't gotten sick of cat memes. I was worried when I started working here. But six years later, and still, silly cat memes make me smile. The ones in this list are some of my latest favorites. These memes are the ones I've sent people in my personal life, outside of anything work-related, and the ones I come back to when I feel the need for a little quick pick-me-up. 

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  • 01

    Beans may be 9 pounds, but he is 9 pounds of pure greed

    This is Beans. Beans stole a whole rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 02

    September in a nutshell

    Me looking out the window in the morning to see what season. we're doing today
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 03

    Family is not always related by DNA

    How can I make her understand that she's not her mother?
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 04

    Yes. Because they make sure that we do.

    I work hard so my cat can be like this PYRO 10
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 05

    He's defintiely the manager. Look at that tie.

    Sir put me down. I am the manager
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 06

    We only see shoes in this picture

    Close enough
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 07

    Looks like he's having a pretty good time to us

    Trying to bond with my male cat, but idk what men do for fun so I took him to Home Depot
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 08

    Listen... it counts!

    tea, T? @milkyonesug Follow My parents don't have grandchildren yet so this is what's on the bedside table in their guest bedroom X
    via @milkyonesug
  • 09

    If only we had been brave enough, life would look very different

    Me on my way to work because I was too shy to dance on tiktok in 2020
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 10

    Why would they ever listen to us?

    When I ask someone to wake me up early in the morning and they actually do it
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 11

    She must have been one impurrtant relationship in his life

    He has a tattoo of his ex
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 12

    It's called multitasking, mom!

    Me with the laptop that was meant for studying Jay's
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 13

    Please unplug him from the charger

    Bro is fully charged 9
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 14

    Always at at 3 AM and only at 3 AM

    Me trying to sleep Cats at 3 AM :
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 15

    We always remember, and we always forgive

    Um...before you come in let's maybe take a moment to remember all of the cute stuff I did as a baby
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 16

    This is an accurate depiction of our cat's position in our household

    My cat watching me clean out it's litter box
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 17

    And specifically with cats

    Me with people Me with animals
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 18

    And if it's a cat, then the next one will be at our expense

    Yes I am working on my mistakes The next one will be huge
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 19

    What every weekend feels like

    Congratulations on working 40 hours, you're now free to dissociate for 2 days
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 20

    Atticus looks like he is not sorry and like he would do it again

    My name is Atticus. I was in the ICU for 2 days but it turns out I was just constipated! My giant cost $2.536. My craps are more expensive than a small Louis Vuitton, I'm that fabulous
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 21

    Hey, we may be cute, but just like this cat, when we're angry, we can bite

    How I see my girlfriend when she's angry 长白雪 天然雪山矿泉水 农大山菇 6净含量%車 龍水冰 职 g 30-60
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 22

    They say raccoons are domesticating themselves. It's just a matter of time.

    behold the power of the raccoon
    via @WholesomeMeme
  • 23

    Entirely on you for having expectations at all

    When someone says, 'I expected more from you! I'm like, 'Well... whose fault is that?'
    via @WholesomeMeme

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