Thanksgiving cat memes for cat pawrents wanting to celebrate the Holidays with their furbabies

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Nov 14, 2026 7:00 AM EST

Thanksgiving is two weeks away, but we're already excited to prepare to host the entire family, including our furry babies!

We're already in that part of the year when we get one Holiday after the other, and our calendars fill with all the tasks we need to get done so we can have the purrfect night with our pets and families. The turkey needs to be bought and cooked; the stuffing needs to be creamy and tasty, and that cranberry sauce is not going to make itself! I'm getting hungry just by thinking about it, especially when I think about dessert. That pumpkin pie has my name written all over it, and the apple pie is right there, waiting for my fork. I'm gonna spend who knows how many hours in the kitchen with my mom preparing all of it (which I'm not particularly thrilled about), but it will be so worth it!

I think it's lovely that we have a festivity where the goal is to remember all the things we're grateful for in life. It is an excellent opportunity to look back and say thanks to all the people who have been with us and helped in our darkest moments. Even if our year hasn't been the best, I'm sure we all have at least one person or moment we treasure. One thing we can always be grateful for is our cats! Those furballs fill our daily lives with joy and are constantly purring beside us to lift our spirits even when we feel sad, so yes, we are definitely grateful to have our cats by our side. And since we do, what better way to start celebrating early than with a collection of cat memes for Thanksgiving?

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Thanksgiving cats.
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It's an ongoing joke on the internet at this point that our cats tend to look like turkeys. The fact that our furballs look like well-stuffed turkeys ready to be sent into the oven only makes the combination of cats and Thanksgiving even more purrfect! It's a happy coincidence that makes everybody laugh, and yet another reason to include our cats in our holiday festivities. There's no reason to leave our furballs out when they are so well suited for the celebration, and even more so when we are perfectly aware that they are an indispensable part of our daily lives and one of the things we are most grateful for!
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