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Welcome to 2021, friends, where things just seem to keep getting weirder. And of course, the internet is keeping up with the weird, bringing about one of the silliest yet funniest memes we've seen in a while. 

Only animal twitter has taken it a step further, deciding to use this strange 'Bernie Sanders wearing mittens' meme as an educational opportunity and teaching people about the size of different ocean creatures through it. Really, you shouldn't expect any less from animal twitter. 

Surprisingly, what you think would simply be a funny viral twitter thread, which it is,  is.. also unexpectedly and strangely educational twitter thread. So, it's time to laugh and learn at the same time. 

Time to learn and laugh at the time time, because when twitter decides to teach you something about dogs, it is bound to be funny. A desperate plea for information about dachshunds from a very confused dog owner went viral, and people replied in the masses, sharing stories about not only their experiences with meeting dachshunds and raising dachshunds but also actual information that'll teach you why these small pooches behave the way they do. 

This is the perfect thread for all of us confused dog lovers out there that want to learn but have no patience for it, because with funny viral tweets like these, you will not be able to stop reading even if you wanted to. So, enjoy, and next time you'll walk past a dachshund, at least you'll know why it's attempting to kill you.

Here's a story out of 2020 that no one predicted: a cat named Billy became a postman. 

Twitter user @zacharyking, in a thread that went viral, shared the story of how his girlfriend began corresponding with one of her neighbors through little letters attached to Billy's collar. It all started with Billy showing up one day with a little note attached to his collar, in which the neighbors that Billy apparently kept visiting said hello. Not thinking much of it, the girlfriend attached a letter to Billy's collar, replying to them, and lo and behold, the cat comes back holding another letter. 

The rest is history. The neighbors became friends, recipes were shared, Billy got an official postman collar - then lost it and got another one - and we are all endlessly impressed by this cat's work ethic. Read their adorable story and smile at one of the most innocently wholesome stories of the past year.

Let's be honest, us animal lovers have a tendency to think that all animals are beautiful. There's always something unique and beautiful to find in them. Whether it's their size, a pattern of behavior, or something entirely different, animals are just awesome like that.

But there are some animals where it's enough to simply come across one of their pictures for us to have to do a double take, because even though we may not know anything about them, their looks are enough to amaze us. Twitter user @heisTactic has made a thread listing 10 animals like that - ones that are so beautiful, they are simply impossible to look away from. 

This twitter thread that went viral has taken "dog ate my homework" and raised it by 1000 to "cat ate my degree", and we think that there's a clear winner. 

Imagine, working so hard and so long for this poor piece of paper and then your cat deciding that it's its new snack. I would probably be as upset as @mamblonumber5, or how he now calls himself "guy *whose cat ate his degree". His outraged and unintentionally hilarious tweet caused other twitter users to chime in as well, laughing as well as sharing pictures of their own pets eating their degrees. Even the university reached to him in a tweet, so there's a chance he might get another one of these precious papers. 

Lesson learned: important papers shall be framed right away.

When funny turns unexpectedly wholesome. What started with a funny viral tweet comparing dog people and cat people has turned into an explosion of wholesome adoption stories being shared by both cat people and dog people (mostly cats though). 

Cat people and dog people both love their pets, whether they were bought or whether they were rescued from inside of a car engine. Of course, there is something special about rescuing pets and giving them their forever homes, but at the end of the day, all pets deserve love, including the ones that are up for sale. So, enjoy these incredibly heartwarming adopt-don't-shop stories.

We all know that 'curiosity killed the cat' is an expression for a reason because our snoopy little furballs must. know. everything. Sniff this, sniff that, that cockroach, our shoes, they'd sniff the whole world if they could. They're total drama queens. Being dramatic and stalking out all the drama is their thing.

A tweet by @luhsham that showcases exactly that just went viral. And people have been adding tweets of their own nosey cats peeking out of windows to check out all the drama on the street. There's something particularly hilarious about seeing the lengths to which cats will go to get to the very best spot to check out what's going on outside. 

Imagine discovering a tree full of magical-looking animals right in your backyard. It must feel absolutely magical. Like stepping into a fairytale, Snow White going on a stroll in the woods, walking to a bunch of adorable owls. 

This twitter thread tells the story of a person who must have felt that exact way, walking into their neighbor's backyard and finding a tree full of the most unique, magical-looking owls in a tree right in their backyard. Personally, having never come across this type of owl before, I would been stunned. A huge group of gorgeous red-eyed long-eared owls are living in their person's backyard, and they are so beautiful it's hard to look away.

Dogs are magical creatures sent to us to help guide us and this thing we call life. They are the purest animals with the biggest hearts and we just hope they know how much we adore them. 

All dogs are good dogs. One Twitter user, @DrBenKatz, came across a very important (and very cute) research studies on whether or not dogs can recognize other dogs, merely by sight. After all, there are so many different types of breeds out there, do dogs recognize those dogs to be dogs as well? And the research progress in order to experiment with this question is so heckin' adorable we just don't know what to do with ourselves. If all research could be like this, we might have become scientists ourselves! 

Declawing a cat is something awful. Taking away something that is natural to then, that is so necessary for their wellbeing is something that we should avoid as much as possible. Yet, we do understand the struggle of some cat owners with cats that are more feisty than most who always, always scratch their furniture. 

Still, there are other options available for preventing your cat from destroying your furniture outside of declawing them, and this twitter thread by @KikiDoodleTweet that is going viral gives you all of the alternatives- with videos to to support their statements and links to items that you can purchase. 

So, read this thread, get informed, and forward it to anyone who needs to read it as well. 

Every cat has a story to tell. Some stories are more adventurous than others. And there's nothing that we would love more than being able to hear these stories. Alas, cats don't speak (unfortunately), so we can only settle on getting glimpses of their adventures. 

This week, a tweet had gone viral, describing a situation in a which a cat owner went to a neighbor's house and accidentally found her cat chilling there. Instantly, twitter users started chirping in, sharing their own stories about finding their cats in random, unexpected places. It's one of the risks of letting your cat hang outside, we suppose. And the stories... are just as unexpectedly hilarious. 

Large cats may be dangerous, but we can't help but wanna pet them anyway. They're just so fluffy and cute and have big, big teeth but also such huge bellies. The smaller wild cats are just as pet-able, but people don't normally know about them as much as they know about the big cats. 

We think that should be fixed and so did the twitter user @soapachu who made a totally awesome thread giving these wild cats the appreciation that they deserve. She also made the astute observation that wild cats, just like all other cats, are really done with all of us fawning over them, but hahaha we don't care, we'll continue fawning over their totally-over-it little widdle adorable faces anyway.

Sometimes, it's necessary to do things to your pets that they don't like to take care of them. I remember very well the first time I had to feed a pill to my cat after taking her to the hospital and how much she hated it. I didn't like doing it, but I had to, to make my cutie feel better. Well, this dog owner - who has god knows how many dogs - knows the feeling, and so do her dogs.

Every month, she gives them a dewormer, and the dogs have the funniest and most adorable reactions ever. A twitter thread by said owner, @BlairBraverman, showing the dogs dramatic and hilarious reactions has gone viral, and there is absolutely no way that you'll be able to stop yourself from smiling while reading it!

The twitter account @OregonZoo - or as they like to call themselves this Halloween season: "Oregoth Boo" - have decided to share with us some x-rays that showcase the absolute beauty of animals - inside and out. And it's perfect. It hits just the right mood for Halloween - "gothy" and "Halloweenish". 

The thread with the x-ray pictures has gone viral on twitter, with people agreeing with us about how cool these photos are, with some people even adding their own pets' x-ray images, surprising all of us with no one but two x-rays of pregnant pets! A turtle and a cat - tini tiny skeletons inside slightly bigger skeletons. 

We all have that one (/one hundred) weird name we call our pets. I call my cat "Bellybutton" sometimes, I don't know why or how it happened, but she gets it, the smart kitty. Well, apparently I'm not the only one who gives suuuper strange names to her adorable pets, and twitter has decided to prove it to me. 

It all started with one tweet by @eef_nestor that went viral that stated: "what I call my dog Spencer" followed by some of the most ridiculous names we've ever seen, names that put even my "Bellybutton" to shame. And twitter users jumped in, writing down their own ridiculous pet names with pictures to go with them, and a thread that started with one dog ended up an enormous thread with hundreds of replies that are all endlessly entertaining. 

You know how cats always go to places they shouldn't go to, always sit where they shouldn't, always act like absolute hooligans? Yeah, they've always done that. Apparently, all throughout history, cats have been walking around in important places, on important documents, leaving their kitty paw marks, and now, we have proof.

A twitter thread by the user @DannyDutch who collected all the pieces of evidence of how cats have been walking over our things for over 4,000 years has gone vial. People added their own pictures to the thread as well, and we found another few. Some other users also gave their own purrfect additions, showing that cats are still leaving their marks to this day.