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Happy 5th Birthday to the best Twitter account -- 'We Rate Dogs!' Actually, scratch that -- Happy 5th Birthday to the best account on any social media platform!

For five years, this Twitter account has brought so much joy and happiness to the world and for years we've followed and fallen in love with each and every dog rating, and today we celebrate with fresh new dog ratings! For anyone going through a difficult time or just looking for good news, 'We Rate Dogs' will deliver you the boost of uplifting wholesomeness you seek. 

And we will also be celebrating with older dog rates to continue this heartwarming and wholesome moment! Nothing quite lifts our spirits than a good ol' fashion dog rating. 

Thank you, 'We Rate Dogs', the world will always need you. 

When it comes to animals, twitter always has something new to offer, from new bird species dropping to husbands installing light censors for their cats that light up when they poo (the cat, not the husband). And we, as animal lovers, always want to keep up with all the animals ridiculousness, wholesomeness, and shenanigans of all the animals that go viral on twitter. 

That is why, every week, we collect those tweets for you - the most talked about, funniest, sweetest animals that twitter cannot stop talking about and neither can we. There's simply nothing more positive than some animal love from twitter, and since we are always looking for positive content to bring to you, in the form of animal tweets, cat tweets, even giraffe tweets, we think that the best thing to give you is your weekly treat of animal tweets. 

This is so adorable and we're amazed at how incredibly zen this cat is! If only all cats were this chill...

A Vietnamese grandpa-to-be whose video of demonstrating bathing a baby is going viral! A creative video, taken by Vinh Quang Phạm, and shared on Facebook, shows how to hold and position a baby for a bath while using what we're now believing to be the most relaxed cat of all time. The cat in the video is so at peace while being held like an infant and gently placed in an empty basin, it's almost as if the cat understands the role it's been given. The cat stays still and obedient for more than 2 minutes as it received free rubs. 

This video is so precious and helpful, we're sure his son will be a natural father, and if not, there's always grandpa who has purrfected his baby-bathing technique! You can see more videos of this adorable cat on TikTik!

We've got a wonderful gathering of videos this week, fellow cat lovers! So many heartwarming videos, it has our hearts bursting out the seams! 

Week by week, we dig through Instagram's top and best cat videos only to deliver you here the top 5. To make a video worthy of being in our top 5, it has to hit certain elements. Elements of happiness, adorableness, and silliness. Oh, if you can find one with all three, that's striking gold. Sometimes, we come across videos that also just hit us in the feels and that's also considered striking gold.

These hilarious and beautiful videos deserve your undivided attention, we promise you -- they are worth it. As always, please turn your sound on to feel the full effect of these wonderful vids! If you need another dose of cat video goodness, you don't have to look too far. 

Time for a wholesomeness attack of jelly beans! But not just any kitty jelly beans, no, we're talking mid-stretch kitty toe beans. You know what we're talking about, you know the iconic, rare toe bean stretch. It's the final level in the evolution of the stretch - no stretch is cuter. 

Aww in delight at this wholesome floofers who don't have a single clue how cute they are, just being cats and doing regular cat things and somehow managing to be the most wholesome and adorable creatures ever. And all they're doing is stretching! They're not even trying, and we're over here melting! Cat-astrophe. We're all too weak for cats. 

Our hearts may just burst completely wide open and there's nothing that can be done about it. It's a phenomenon called cuteness overload and this cub has all those characteristics in the making. 

We've seen dogs frolicking in autumn leaves, heck we've seen cats enjoying the beautiful Fall weather, but lion cubs? Lion cubs in piles of fallen leaves and attacking them? Well, never have we ever seen anything so precious! 

Autumn is still here, and these photos are the only things keeping us warm right now. With winter right around the corner, we think we could all use these heartwarming images to help us brace for the inevitable cold. 

There's something particularly aww-worthy about large scary men hanging out with tiny animals. It's just... not what your brain expects to see. You expect big large scary man to have big large doggo. So, when you see a dude-bro hanging out with a small kitten and your brain catches up with it... the immediate reaction is: "AWWWWWWW."

You know what makes what makes that even cuter? When the big large scary man is scared of the tini-tiny little puppy. 

A tumblr thread about stories just like these - of large men being scared of/totally enamored by tiny little animals is one of the site's absolute gems, and we always go "aww" when we see it. So, today, we're sharing this tumblr classic with you. 

Is there anything more wholesome than tini-tiny widdle animals? We don't think so. Whether it's tiny frogs, tiny crabs, tiny pigs, or any other tiny being, their little smol selves have a way of sneaking into our hearts like nothing else. 

We honestly hadn't realized how adorable and tiny pigs could be for a while, but once we saw a tiny piggy, that's it, game over, our hearts were stolen. We couldn't look away. Looking at these tiny oinkers truly brings us joy, and we hope they'll do the same for you. But if tiny is not what you're looking for, we've got some giant kitty floofers for you to check out. 

There's nothing that we love more than our pets. Absolutely nothing. In every situation, no matter what they're doing, whether they're being cuties asking for pettings, or whether they're being the biggest hooligans, we love them forever and always. 

Catching pictures of them being total derps will always make us laugh. Every time we accidentally come across these pictures on our phones or computers, we laugh anew. They're some of the first pictures that we show people of our pets just to get them to laugh too. And it always works. It always makes everyone smile.

That's why the subreddit r/AnimalsBeingDerps is one of our ultimate favorites, because it gives us the bestest of derpiest animals. To share the smiles with you guys, we've brought you some of our favorite derps from the subreddit. 

Doggo snaps are just pure happiness and love rolled into a single image. Dogs are undeniably wholesome and adorable, their energy is unmatched. If you are in the presence of any pup, we guarantee you they have the power to make you smile. Dogs are the answer the happiness, just like all pets are. 

We simply cannot get our fill of doggo snaps, they provide us with happy feels and we want to hold onto that feeling as long as possible. If for some reason, this hearty collection doesn't fill your happiness meter, you are more than welcome to recharge further with last week's gallery! There is always enough juice to go around! 

It's finally Friday and we can practically taste the weekend! Fridays are literally the best day of the week (minus Caturday, of course), but it's the best for so many wonderful reasons! Besides the fact that the weekend is here and we get to sleep in tomorrow, we have our user's original Lolcats! 

Each Friday, we gather our the most upvotes cat memes and share them here! Lolcats is the world's largest original cat meme gallery and is constantly turning out new awesome memes by our incredible users! Thank you to all those who contribute on a daily basis, Lolcats wouldn't be a thing without you!

If you want to join the fun and create original cat memes of your own, check out our meme builder! It just might be your meme that's featured in next week's list. 

The Zzz's are coming in hard and fast! It's pointless trying to fight off the inevitable, we are long overdue for a midday nap! 

We know what you're thinking, there's so much that needs to get done, there is simply no time for a nap. And honestly, we understand, but consider this: you've been working so hard for so long, we all deserve to treat ourselves once in a while and a nap is one of the greatest treats we can give our exhausted and overworked bodies. 

And if that doesn't convince you, then perhaps these sleepy pets below can persuade you to feel otherwise. 

It's that time again where we wake up super early and go out cat snap plucking! Only the finest and most ripe cat snaps will do. The best thing about cat snaps is that they're constantly in season and grow a-plenty. 

We will never be without our nutritious meal. Cat snaps are said to be a complete and balanced meal, all on its own. Who are we to deny science? 

If this delicious feast isn't enough to satisfy your insatiable appetite, may we interest you in some cat-snap-related dessert? There's always room for dessert.