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It's your necessary daily prescription of tiny animal cuteness, this time starring the softest, most adorable, one of the only animals in Australia who don't want to eat you (unless you scare them)... the koala! A harmless, eucalyptus-eating fluffball that every animal lover wants to experience holding at least once in their life - just to be fully certain that they are indeed as soft as they look. 

We have yet to make that confirmation ourselves, so we have to sustain ourselves and our endless curiosity by simply looking at pictures of the soft-looking creatures. And since we know that there is nothing cuter than baby animals, and there is (almost) nothing as soft looking as koalas, we put the two of them together and created the biggest adorableness explosion yet, with tiny baby koalas. 

It's time for your weekly dose of doggo pawsitivity! Fresh and doggolicious, straight from the kennel into your brain. All meme, all day. Amusing, hilarious, cute, and everything in between, but most importantly, it's allll doggo. 

Don't worry, the week is soon coming to an end, and sweet, sweet relaxation with your face right in your puppy's fur is awaiting. Soon, you shall have snuggles of the doggiest variety, and we all know those are the best kind. So, one more barking push, and you'll get through it, and with these dogs' help, we know the rest of your week will easily be a lot more borksome!

In case you're having a not-so-easy day, these animals are here for the rescue. They're kind, gentle, understanding and reassuring. You just see it on their faces in their small smiles and calm eyes. You know that they will happily boop their heads against yours and give you big warm cuddles. 

I know that I needed some positivity today, and these adorable animals have brought a smile to my face and a calmness to my day that I wish they'll bring to yours too. So, may your week be better from this point on, and we wish you meet a kind animal this week that'll allow you to pet its head. 

The main feast has arrived! All year long we have been preparing for the cat snap feast of the year - Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving, we would like to thank all cats everywhere for bringing us joy and love. And we would also like to thank all of our fellow animal lovers who have been nothing but amazing. Thank you all for making 2020 not so bad! 

Think of these cat snaps as the appetizer before digging into your Thanksgiving meal! An appetizer with the sole purrpose of opening up your appetite and of course, delighting you with some kitty goodness. 

We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Oh, cat memes. There's nothing more energizing than a good ol' hiss-terically funny helping of cat memes. The best of the best, one might even say the most purrfect ones out there, all purrvided by our very own pawsome LOLcats users. 

So, take a mewoment and relax, wrap yourself and your cat into warm little purritos, and prepare for a whole collection of our most favorite LOLcat memes. And after enjoying this plentiful dish of cherry on top cat memes, you can always grab another portion and check out a slightly colder dish of cat memes which has been kept just as delicious in our wet food filled fridge. 

Found in below freezing temperatures last month, Xerxes the kitten has officially been adopted by the good man who saved her! She was only five-weeks-old then, hanging off the side of one of the truck tires, with her tail and paws completely frozen to the metal surface, trapping her. 9NEWS reports that to free the kitten without causing her additional pain, the man who found her splashed warm water on the areas of the tire to which her pas and tail were stuck, gently removing her paws and tail from the tire.

The man brought the kitten to the Denver Dumb Friends League (DDFL), wrapped up in tiny blankets to keep her warm, where she received the care she needed as well as the name Xerxes. On Monday, after recovering, she has officially been adopted into the forever home of the man who saved her. "Before her adoption, Xerxes spent time in a foster home where her frostbitten paws recovered, and her initially frightened exterior began to crumble," DDFL recounted. "Healed and healthy, Xerxes is settling in with her new family."

They add that, without the help of the man who saved her, the kitten would have most likely not survived through the night. So, we can only be thankful, encourage others to help the little creatures in need that they come across, and thank every savior we hear about for doing the right thing. 

It's Wednesday and that can only mean one thing... we're officially halfway through the week! We just need to get over this hump and we'll be in reach of the weekend! We can do but not alone, we need a wholesome boost of animal goodness to get us there. With that boost, we'll be propelled forward, and the sooner we get to the weekend, the better.

There is nothing like a mid-week dose of cuteness and wholesomeness to help us get through the rough times. It has been said that looking at images of animals has lowered stress so we hope this compilation does the same for you. If you've been having a particularly ruff week, you may be in need of an extra added dose of animal goodness. 

Right as we needed it, @RllGJUlCE comes to the rescue with the most enormous twitter thread of wholesomeness we've seen in a loooong time. We wanna thank this user for taking the time and collecting all of these heartwarming pictures of what we truly believe are animals that don't get nearly as much love as they deserve. 

So, it's time to give them that love. Since the thread is SO huge, we've put here the pictures that made us smile the hardest. To see the rest of them, go give the original thread some love. But for now, let's fill up with love for these deserving of appreciation farm animals.

All-day, every day, it's all about the cats! This week's lovely and scrumptious medley is filled with endless cuteness galore, some cat shenanigans that make the world go round, and a dash of rescues and glow-ups for that uplifting moment we all crave! 

Cats make our days brighter and happier, it's as simple as that. And each week, we celebrate them by bringing you all these amazing cats doing what they do. They could be defying gravity or they can be sleeping, it's just the way cats are and we honor that by honoring them with this list. 

Get ready to dig into this week's medley, nothing but cats and we're so grateful for it. 

Another week, another dose of inspiration for all who need it. Because some pictures are just impossible to describe in anything less than 1000 words, and so looking at them has our imagination running wild and our creativity exploding. They make us wanna write, they make us wanna paint, and they definitely make us want to go pet a cheetah.

So, enjoy this week's collection of inspiring animals and go write that novel you've been putting off writing. Just make sure that you have at least one animal in that novel - possibly a cheetah because why not - and that that animal gets snacks and pets and all the love in the world. 

We love poorly drawn cats just as much as we love really detailed and incredible drawings of cats. The importance of a cat drawing doesn't lie in detail, it lies in its movement and expression. If you can look at a simple and 'poorly' drawn cat and see a cat, then you have succeeded. 

The artist behind these simplicity amazing drawings is Heloísa Nora, from Brazil, who really enjoys drawing cats. In fact, Helosia loves drawing cats so much, that a book by the artist titled "Reasons Why My Cat Is Mad" is finally available for purchase! 

Heloisa first joined Twitter with the 'Poorly Drawn Cats' account back in 2016 and has since gained a following of 407k! The poorly drawn cats are so popular, many Twitter users ask Heloisa to draw their beloved furbaby for $20. And some users love the drawings so much they get it as a tattoo! 

A story truly fitting the Christmas cheer. A tiny little owl was found inside of a Christmas tree. Yup. Inside of the iconic Rockefeller Christmas tree, workers discovered the tiny owl "clinging for its life to the 75-foot-tall Norway spruce". After surviving a 200 mile journey from Oneonta to Manhattan, the owl was found as the crews that were about to erect the tree were unwrapping it. 

The New York Post reports that strangely, though the bird is tiny and looks like a baby owlet, since owls are born in the spring, it was immediately understood that this owl is not actually a baby. She is a northern saw-whet, a bird that only grows to about 5 inches tall and 2 to 3 ounces in weight. "I thought it was such a heartwarming Christmas story, that there was this secret in the Christmas tree," said Ellen Kalish, the director and founder of Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in New York. 

Workers at the Rockefeller Center, after the New York Post reached out for a comment, said: "We inspect each branch of the tree individually before it's wrapped, but birds sometimes can find their way into it on the journey." For three whole days, the owl didn't have any food or water, but once in the hands of Kalish, she got all the mice she wanted. 

Today, in an update to the story, we found out that the little birdy has been set free at last to its natural habitat to continue her migratory journey. And though her journey was harrowing and incredibly long, she's gotten herself a little Christmas miracle in not only being found and rescued but also in making a full recovery and getting to continue her life in the wild as she was meant to. 

Check out pictures of the owl and her release below. And for another story of an incredibly feisty owl with singed wings getting rescued from a fire, click right here.