The 100 Most Important Cat Pictures Of All Time OK, this is it. This is the one. We can all finally shut down the internet and go home after this.
100. The Award Winner
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: Because perhaps the noblest quality of all the cat qualities is the quiet grace and humility with which they accept recognition for their achievements.
99. The Fashion Icon
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View this image › Via imgur.com Why It Matters: Most people think that high fashion is pretty subjective, but most people have not seen this cat and her perfect, beautiful, infinitely elegant synthesis of form and function.
98. The Closet Dweller
View this image › reddit.com Why It Matters: This picture symbolizes perseverance in the pursuit of a genuinely bad idea, which is essentially the entire reason anything important ever happens in the first place.
97. The Cat Who Caught Her Owner in the Act of Stealing Her Ice Cream
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View this image › bunnyfood.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because we must always stand up in the face of injustice, and because it is rare to see a picture of a cat who is very clearly saying, “Oh no you didn’t!”
96. The Existential Cat with His Existential Duck
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View this image › Instagram: @famousniki / Via Facebook: FamousNiki Why It Matters: Why does anything matter?
95. The Upside-Down Faucet Drinker
View this image › Via cutestcatpics.com Why It Matters: Because have you ever stopped to consider that it’s actually you who is looking at the world upside-down, and this cat is just having a perfectly normal drink of water?
94. The Bodyguard
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View this image › Via theberry.com Why It Matters: Because in about 10 seconds the cat on the couch is going to say “It’s not my blood! It’s not me! Wait! He’s my bodyguard! Get some help! Stay with me! Frank! Stay with me!” and we’re all going to cry our goddamn eyes out.
93. The Cat with Buns
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View this image › Via Instagram: @cheezee Why It Matters: Because of the buns! The buns.
92. The Cat Who Loved Too Much
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View this image › Via smilepost.ru Why It Matters: Because of the complex relationship between this cat’s actions and his facial expression. “To love at all is to be vulnerable,” says C.S. Lewis; so it follows that to love too much is to be positively paranoid.
91. Inception Cat
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View this image › keepbusy.net Why It Matters: Because this is the way the world ends — not with a bang, but with a cat who is hugging a cat who is hugging another cat.
90. The Morris Fan
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View this image › Via abra-cat-dog-ra.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because, deep down, we are all Morris fans, whether we know it or not.
89. Cat Asleep on a Boy in the Back of the Car
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: BECAUSE OF THE SAD BACKPACK.
88. Protective Mom Cat
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View this image › Via justforlaughspall.blogspot.com Why It Matters: Primarily because the kitten is like, “I can’t wait to discover what life has in store for me!” and the mom is like, “Nope.”
87. Disaffected Kitten
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View this image › Via funnyanimalpictures.funnypicturesutopia.com Why It Matters: Because the world is a sad and troubling and often extremely disappointing place and we may as well learn that as early as possible in life. “It was in his nature to do it. The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us—boys of a sort unknown in the last generation—the outcome of new views of life. They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them. He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live.”- Thomas Hardy, basically talking about this kitten, in Jude the Obscure
86. The Friendly Kisser
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View this image › Via zooblog.ru Why It Matters: Because you know you’ve found a lifelong friend when they let you lick their
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face with this much enthusiasm.
85. The Mirror Stage
View this image › circumcising.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because the moment of apperceptively turning yourself into an object is as traumatic as it is transformative, especially if you have a wonky mirror.
84. The Couch Potato
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View this image › Via mrbadak.com Why It Matters: Because, yes, sure, it is a sly modern wink to the themes of passivity and enervation in Sargent’s famous “Repose” painting, but mainly because a world in which people take the time to make tiny couches for their cats is a world that is clearly going places.
83. Big Me, Little Me
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View this image › Via sellmystory.london-media.co.uk Why It Matters: Because Wordsworth tells us that “the child is father of the man,” and if Wordsworth had met these cats, he would probably also at least mention how freaking cute their noses are.
82. The Piano Biter
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View this image › Via literarynerd.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because life is a piano that is set before us to play, and this is usually how that ends up looking.
81. The Balloon Popper
View this image › reddit.com / Via imgur.com Why It Matters: Because SOMETIMES, life is actually a balloon that is set before us to pop, and we totally nail it.
80. The Cool Customer
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View this image › Via ianimal.ru Why It Matters: Because every grown-up who ever told you that “being cool means being yourself” is wrong. Being cool means wearing dark sunglasses and just straight up falling asleep somewhere you probably shouldn’t.
79. The Tiny Taco Rejecter
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View this image › reddit.com Why It Matters: Because life is as much about what we stand against as what we stand for. And if we cannot stand up against the tiny tacos that displease us, what will we fall for next?
78. The World’s Worst Nap
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View this image › thefluffingtonpost.com Why It Matters: Because to be comfortable is to be complacent, and we will never discover new frontiers if we don’t occasionally contort ourselves into new forms.
77. The World’s Best Nap
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View this image › reddit.com / Via huffingtonpost.co.uk Why It Matters: Because if we promise always to be restless, we will one day change into the thing we always wanted to be.
76. The Loyal Friend
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reddit.com Why It Matters: Because love is our true destiny.
75. The Selfie Disaster
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bunnyfood.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because even if our selfies are doomed to fail, we will never know how they could be if we fail even to try.
74. The Most Delicious Burger
View this image › Via grubdude.com Why It Matters: Because, as Oscar Wilde is known to have said, “Between cats and burgers there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
73. Cat and Cow, Cow and Cat
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View this image › Via vi.sualize.us Why It Matters: Because when a cat is chased through a field by her cow doppelgänger, it is one of the first signs of the Cute Apocalypse™.
72. The Box of Delights
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: Because of the surprisingly earnest assurance this pair has that being in a filing crate together is the most natural and unremarkable thing they could possibly be doing.
71. The Shadow Fighter
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: A lot of cat philosophers have speculated that the world we experience is little more than shadows cast by the light of an unimaginably brighter reality, but up until this kitten, no one had ever really bothered to test the theory.
70. The “Caught in the Act”
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View this image › Via cutestlife.com Why It Matters: Because even in the very throes of passion, cats are able to maintain a constant sense of mild exasperation.
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69. The Cross-Dresser
View this image › Via waveringcandle.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because the only thing more important than being true to yourself is being as fabulous as possible while you’re at it.
68. The Loaf of Bread
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View this image › Via wpapers.ru Why It Matters: Because, while the Bible is fairly clear that we shall not live on bread alone, there’s nowhere in there that says we can’t occasionally sit around pretending to be a fresh-baked loaf if it suits us.
67. The Bust
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View this image › Via forosiberiano.com Why It Matters: Because you should never let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
66. The Observer
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View this image › Via k00ls.overblog.com Why It Matters: Don’t worry about why it matters. Just get back to what you were doing and pretend you never noticed us.
65. The Contemplative
View this image › Reddit: torode reddit.com / Via i.imgur.com Why It Matters: Because if you have a face this fluffy, you need to spend a lot of time quietly reflecting on it.
64. The Displeased Customer
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View this image › reddit.com Why It Matters: Why does it matter? Honestly, that sort of question is exactly why the standards of this establishment have fallen so embarrassingly low.
63. The Simple Pleasure
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View this image › kuvaton.com Why It Matters: Because, to paraphrase Yeats, “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply a vacuum cleaner on our heads. We are happy when we have a vacuum cleaner on our heads.”
62. The Rock Bed
View this image › Via awesomelycute.com Why It Matters: Because we may be lying in the gutters, but at least we didn’t pass out in a bush somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
61. The Surprise Attack
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View this image › Via imgur.com Why It Matters: Because no matter how soft and bright-eyed it seems at the time, our youth will eventually betray us.
60. The Impending Disaster
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View this image › Via favouritecats.com Why It Matters: Because houseplants deserve better than this, frankly, but fate takes us all prisoner.
59. The Window Dressing
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View this image › Via srandaweb.com Why It Matters: Because of that R.E.M. song: Yeah all those stars drip down like butterAnd promises are sweetWe hold out our pans with our hands to catch themWe eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up Heyyyyyyyyyyy, let me inHeyyyyyyyyyyy, let me in
58. The Rainstorm
View this image › queen-ant.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because the real villain of this piece is not the weather, but the heartless genius who saw that face and stopped to take a picture.
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57. The Dance
View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: “At the still point of the turning world … there the dance is.” So Eliot tells us, and though he never told us that this is what it would look like, this is essentially how we imagined it.
56. The Feather Duster
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View this image › Via imgur.com Why It Matters: Because if we can’t persevere in the face of the physically impossible, what can we persevere in the face of?
55. The Forbidden Lovers
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: Because love is confusing and strange and difficult and uncomfortable and unbelievably inconvenient. But above all, love is transcendent.
54. The Yogurt Dilemma
View this image › Via i2fun.com Why It Matters: Because, to this day, along with the Riemann Hypothesis and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, the Yogurt Dilemma has never been solved.
53. The New Home
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View this image › Facebook: athenshumane Why It Matters: Because of the classiness and quality of that hat. Among other things. (Such as the water leaking, unprompted, from our eyes just now.)
52. The “I’ll Protect You”
View this image › Via weknowmemes.com Why It Matters: Because no act of aggression is as fierce or as insuppressible as a true act of protection.
51. The “Doesn’t Love It”
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: Because a cat who actually loves wearing an inflatable horn is rarer than a horse with a real one.
50. The Mimic
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View this image › Via adme.ru Why It Matters: Because you are the one who is absurd and illogical, and these cats are frankly surprised that you would deign to judge them.
49. The Little Red Riding Hood
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View this image › Noel Celis /AFP / Getty Images / Via nationalpost.tumblr.com Why It Matters: Because the wolf, the wolf, the wolf, was hiding inside our very souls all along.
48. The Miracle
View this image › Via pinterest.com Why It Matters: Because, if I am not mistaken, that is a 2008 bottle of Rosé Coteaux d’Aix sitting, unfinished, in the middle of the table. A true miracle.
47. The Pallbearers
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View this image › webpark.ru Why It Matters: Because no matter how you choose to present yourself in life, people will respect you if you have an entourage.
46. The Meeting
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View this image › imgur.com Why It Matters: Because this is the first ever recorded instance of a baby under 2 years old saying, “Oh, you!”
45. The Surprise Kiss
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View this image › cheezburger.com Why It Matters: Because love is always surprising, but a tongue on the back of the neck is
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more surprising still.
44. The Harry Potter Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/expresident/best-cat-pictures Futhermore: The 100 Most Important Cat Pictures Of All Time
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