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Just as the week is ending, and you're looking for something to make the thought of the following week a little easier to digest, we are at the ready with some absolutely awwdorable pictures of dogs smiling. Yes, dogs can smile, and yes, it's the cutest thing in the world, and there's absolutely no way that you will be able to get through this entire page without cracking a smile of your own.  

Because there's absolutely nothing that makes us happier than happy animals. Smiling dogs, smiling cats, smiling foxes - yes, yes, it's muscles in the face doing some weird stuff and smiling is perhaps not the most accurate way of deriving whether an animal is joyous or not, but we love it anyway! Because we know that our animals are happy, we make sure of it, so their silly adorable wholesome little smiles make us smile too.

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. 

Sunday already? Wow, the weekend always flies by way too quickly for anyone's liking. Thankfully, we still have today to fully seize and we like to start that seizing with fresh animal memes! 

The best way to start the day is with a good laugh and what better than memes? Oh, we know the answer to that -- animal memes! Animals have the power to bring more joy into our lives so the combination of memes and animals is simply impossible to beat. Last week's hearty animal meme meal was especially nutritious, we hope to bring you the same quality today. 

This is definitely our favorite way to start the day we hope it brings you the same joy! Happy Sunday, everyone! 

Only last year, this stunning chonker weighed a whopping 41 pounds! Today, after getting adopted and living happily in his forever home, Barsik has dropped 22 pounds and is officially getting the zoomies. Barsik was once an internet sensation for being possibly the largest chonkiest cat in the world, but he's now just as sensational for having lost the weight, and hearing that the little guy is softer, cuddlier and much, much zoomier is wonder news!

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. 

Happy Caturday, everyone! We've got the cat goods that you've been waiting for all week. They come at a hefty price and are of the highest quality memes. We offer them to you on this very fine Caturday to celebrate all things cats. 

Each Caturday, we dig through the depths of the interweb and dig up gold. Sometimes it's more silver than gold but this week's treasure hunt is all good, and we're excited to present it to you. If you want to get into the true spirit of Caturday, you must devour the following cat memes, some more cats, take a giant nap throughout the day only to awaken at 3 am for late-night zoomies. 

It's what the cat ancestors would've wanted. Who are we to deny them? Enjoy this fine collection of cat meme goodies! 

Studying his new environment, Earnie begins noticing that, even though they pay a lot of attention to him, they don't always pay attention to him when he wants them to. Why? Light squares - i.e. the TV, the computer and the phones. He both hates and loves them. 

Meowmoirs: laptops are heaters, and phones are haters. 

Read about Earnie's love/hate relationship with the strange squares of light that the humans spend hours staring at. He's been trying to figure out their uses and only managed to figure out some. 

Read last week's entry that's all about 'the chamber of water' (the bathroom) here!

You can hop back to the first entry about the day of adoption right here as well. 

There's one thing you can always be sure of - twitter is always, 24/7, talking about cats. Every time you open twitter, hundreds of more new cats tweets come out. Some are wholesome, others funny, some introspective, and others are just there to appreciate cats for being cats. 

We love all of them. Why? Because we love cats of course, and twitter is very good at representing that love. Because... well, cats are on our minds 24/7 too. No shame in that. ...right? Nah. 

The problem is that, because of their quantity, cat tweets are really hard to follow, and finding the best ones if even more difficult. That's what you have us for. Welcome to this week's collection of twitter's best cat tweets. May they bring you the cat-tastic purrfection that you're looking for today. 

We all know that heartwarming feeling that goes through our entire body when we see a service dog on the street because we know that these dogs are the purest, most wholesome and good kind of doggos. They help people and get little in return. We can only aspire to help human beings as much as these dogs are. 

The very least we can do for these service doggos is serve them back by learning about them and giving them as much love and support (and snacks) as we can. So, today, courtesy of a viral tumblr post, we are going to learn about these puppers and show them the love that they truly deserve. 

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!