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When going to shelters and listening to the stories of the animals in there, it's always hard hearing about the ones that have been picked up once then taken back. We understand how much hope followed by devastation these animals feel, and our animal-loving hearts want nothing more than to give these animals the forever home they deserve.

So, when we hear a story about an animal that has been returned to the shelter already finally finding its forever home, for us (and for the animal), the joy is doubled. Thank you to FactWino for sharing the story of his beautiful rescue puppy, and thank you to the internet for making it go viral and bringing it to our attention. We wish them the most amazing, long life together. 

If you have stories of your own to share, come talk to us in our Facebook community: ICanHas Storytime. 

Here are 26 images of a lovely kitty named Topaz for no real reason except the fact that we love cats and looking at these photos makes our heart happy, or any cat photos for that matter. We figured, since you are cat-lovers yourselves, you would feel that same happiness when looking at this beautiful girl. 

Imgur user, Madisaur23, recently shared these images of her beautiful girl, Topaz, and of course, users loved it because what is there not to love? "Topaz my sweet girl. Have so many pictures and nothing to do with them...so thought others could enjoy!"

And enjoy we have! And we certainly hope you enjoy them too! Commentary for the pics below are provided from Topaz mom, Madisaur23:

Ah, Tuesdays. The week's second Mondays. Some weeks they're more difficult to get through that than others but we have to remind ourselves that at least it's not Monday. Even though it may feel like it. Knowing this small fact is what helps us get through the day, oh and cute animal pics and vids, of course. 

Welcome back, animal lovers, to another weekly round-up of the cutest animal pics and vids currently circulating the web! Once a week, we devote our time to gather up all this cuteness in order to refill your dose of cuteness prescription. It is very vital to our health and absolutely essential. We just hope we are able to offer enough cuteness to last you through the rest of the week! 

Happy birthday, Goober! Goober is turning 13, and we are so in love with him. He has gone through so much -  chronic sinusitis, losing a leg to cancer and growing a tumor in another leg. He has stayed strong the whole way through, and we are so dang proud of him. He's doing okay, surrounded by people who love him, and he is such a brave survivor, all we want is to give him treats and love. 

Thank you to ReluctantGenius for sharing his story with us. We as well as the rest of the internet are more than happy to show some love to this adorable little senior furball. We hope he gets to live for a long, long time and enjoy every single minute of his life. 

If you have your own adorable animal stories to share, come tell us all about them in our Facebook community: ICanHas Storytime. 

Picture this: it's the middle of the night, and you hear a noise. Now, as cat owners, our first reaction is "cat, get back into bed already!!!" But... what if you don't have a cat? Welp, in @_BillieBelieves's case, while she didn't have a cat before, she suddenly woke up to a cat in her apartment. And you what, that's not a bad thing in our book. 

Confused, she took to twitter, of course, and what is twitter going to do other than get this adorable cat to go viral? It seems that the kitty belongs to one of her neighbors, but we are unsure for now. All that we know is that this cat seems more than happy to be walking around this twitter user's apartment, exploring and living its life to the fullest. And if this kitty just chose a human for themselves, who are we to argue?

Do you remember those younger days where it would snow so bad that school would be closed? Yeah, us either. Being from a state where our seasonal disaster is fire, fire days weren't as fun. However, we'd always get so jealous of those who got a full day of snow and got to hang out with all their friends sledding down a hill or having a snowball fight. You know, classic holiday movie fun (without the fear of your home burning down). Those seem like the days to remember.

We also imagine that feeling is what dogs tend to feel when they go out into the snow! You can just see their excitement, their joy, it warms our frozen hearts. Even though we never personally got to experience an iconic snow day, these dogs living it to the fullest is enough for us. 

Oh, costumes! Nothing screams "fun" like dressing up! We humans really love to dress up. We love it so much we have holidays dedicated to the art of dressing up. However, do you know who hates dressing up? You guessed it -- cats. Cats don't tend to like the outfits we put them in, no matter how cute they may be. With the exception of some cats, still, it's pretty rare to come across a cat who enjoys wearing anything on their beautiful coat. Most cats we knew even hate having a collar! And that's about as basic cat clothing can be.

We can still have fun with cats dressed up though, and this way no cat has to endure dressing up! In collaboration with Israeli artist, Ilana Zeffren, we can enjoy cats all dressed up without any of the guilt! Zeffren has illustrated a few cat costumes below, and it's your task to guess what that costume is! The first image will simply show the costume, and the following will reveal the answer in the upside-down text.  

Let us know how many you got correct in the comments below! 

And if you want more cat enjoyment, be sure to check out last week's installment: New "Unofficial" Study Released On Toy Mice Statistics!

Welcome to yet another Monday, everyone! You have made it to the start of another new week, and if you're here, then you're about to start it off on the right foot. It's time for one of our favorite weekly segments - you're weekly animal twitter treat, where we catch you up on everything animal and twitter related. 

Every single week, we bring you the funniest, most heartwarming, most adorable animal tweets of the week, because you love animals, and you want to keep up with twitter, but there's simply yo much to see. Animal twitter is active 24/7, and that's why we're here, doing the scouring for you. 

Happy Monday, animal lovers! We know, we know, what could possibly be happy about a Monday morning? We feel you on a deep level there. However, consider this.. each Monday we work hard to fight off the Monday blues by providing you with the most wholesome animal memes of the week!

What's so great about wholesome animal memes, you may ask? Well, memes are always a delight and easy way to waste/enjoy time. And animals will forever bring us smiles and eternal happiness, and if you were to sprinkle wholesomeness to that mixture? That's just pure perfection. 

We wish you all a wonderful and wholesome week! 

In New Miami, on Thursday, a church staffer came out of the church and found a suspicious-looking lack carrier bag outside of the building's front door. Fearing what may be inside, the staff called the authorities. Quickly, Daily Mail reports, "[m]embers of the Butler County Bomb Unit descended on the scene to inspect the 'suspicious package' but were left startled when they heard the sounds of purring coming from inside the bag."

That was definitely an unexpected ending to a situation that could have ended way differently -  bag full of abandoned kittens and their momma with a note left inside, saying that the owners of those kittens and cat could no longer take care of them. Thankfully, they found themselves in good hands and are now being taken care of and getting prepared for adoption. 

Read more of the story and check out pictures of the incident and the note below.

Well, well, another day on twitter, another adorable animal goes viral, and you would never expect it to be this one. A bear in a river. That's right. You hear that ad may not think anything of it, but my gosh, that bear is the cutest bear that we've ever seen (and that's despite the fact that all bears are totally adorable), and we are not even slightly surprised that the internet went crazy over it. 

It's so cute, it inspired endless artists to create adorable versions of the bear themselves, and we felt the need to give them all (and the bear) some love. So, enjoy this adorable fluffball in all of its versions, and have a pawtasitc weekend!

Happy Sunday, cat-loving friends! We've got quite the treat for you this fine Sunday, a wholesome and silly gathering of kitty videos! 

Once a week, we search through the depths of Instagram to find the most trending and viral cat videos. From there, we narrow it down to the top 5. This decision is very difficult to make, we have to rate each video based on the overall story, based on the level of silliness, and level of feels. We've realized it's pointless to base a video on cuteness because let's face it, all cat videos are heckin' adorable. 

We hope these videos make you smile, have a wonderful rest of the weekend! 

Prepare yourselves for a cuteness explosion like no other, because imgur user hermesetas has shared their kittens with the world, and none of us were prepared. So tiny, so adorable, so energetic and happy. And what in the world makes our hearts happier than happy kittens in a warm and loving home? That's right, nothing. Happy kittens always make us happy without fault.

The internet has fallen in love with these awwdorable kittens, and you're about to as well. Because whether they're chill and snuggly or energetic and zooming around, these kittens are straight-up too cute for this world. 

There is only one way to end the week off right, and you know what it is... your weekly tumblr treat! This week, it's full of nothing but cat funnies and shenanigans. 

Funny cats and tumblr go hand in hand, always. No one knows how to showcase cat hilariousness better than tumblr, and you're about to have your scheduled belly laugh because of it. We hope everyone has an amazing, productive week, where you will not only get everything that you need to do, but hopefully you will also have a cat come up to you and ask for a head boop.