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Every pet has its strange little habits. Sometimes, your cat will try to eat your plants, or maybe your cat cries every time you take his sweater off. Maybe your dog has a thing about eating all of your pants, I know mine does, or maybe... your dog likes to pee on tangerines. Don't question it, it happens, pets are weirdos sometimes. 

Demikmj on imgur, who's pupper does just that, decided to share some pics of him when she was bored, and boy oh boy, did the internet eat them up. We love animals with weird habits, what can you do? The weirder the habit, the more special they are and the more love they deserve. 

At 9 months old, Bently's owners discovered that he was very sick. Now, you would want the story to continue with them doing everything they can to help him and save him, but these owners were not that. Having found out that the procedures the kitten needed would cost them 800$, these owners opted to leave the clinic with just the exam. Thankfully, imgur user forte10 came to the rescue, offering to take the kitten off their hands and take care of it as if it was their own. 

So, this story has a hapy ending after all. The kitten got the help that he needed and is now a happy guy who loves nothing more than chilling with his new family. 

We want to thank forte10 for helping this poor kitten and for sharing their story. We want nothing more than to hear more of those. If you have a pet story of your own to share, come tell us about it in our Facebook group: ICanHas Storytime. 

Cats are awesome. Period. Inarguable. Anyone who truly hates on cats has obviously never actually hung out with one. And twitter has decided that it is time for all of us - cat ladies and gentlemen - to assemble and defend out little felines... you know, those felines who totally didn't rip your curtain or step on your sandwich earlier. It's time! We must defend them.

People misunderstand cats, that's the obvious explanation for all the cat hate. Cats simply love and show affection differently, and the people who don't bother learning the way cats show love think that cats are cold-hearted. To us, cat lovers, cats being loving is a mere fact that needs no explanation, so of course, we'll defend them when we are needed.

It's Mondaaaaay! The best day of the week, right, guys? No, not because you get to start a new work week or school week and be a productive human being. No, no. The reason Monday is the best day, of course, is because that means it's time for our weekly animal twitter treat segment, where we show you all the best, most talked about animals on twitter this week. 

There's something for everyone - funny, wholesome, adorable - twitter loves animals of all kinds. So yes, it may be a Monday, but at least you're gonna get to start it off in the best way possible. Enjoy, friends, and have an amazing, amazing week!

Losing your pet is a different kind of pain. And you know that you love that thing so much, you'll do anything in your capabilities to get them back. So, when you're walking your dog, and it somehow gets you to let go of the leash and sprints off full speed, your first instinct is most likely to run after them, because you're not losing them. Only that when you do that... they might just think you're playing and run faster. 

After a tweet went viral, people on twitter shared their own stories of running after their dogs while the dogs think they're a game. Luckily though, in most of those stories, the owners either stopped running and had the dog come back to them or the doggo full-on trolled them and just ran back home. 

So thank you, twitter, for mildly stressing me out while also making me laugh while also educating me. 

Okay, so as animal lovers, we normally say that all animals are cute. Yes, even the weird-looking ones are cute in their own way. Of course, it's hard to convince people of that sometimes. But! There is one full-proof way that we know of to convince anyone that an animal is cute, and that is finding the baby version of that animal. 

Because there is nothing cuter in this world than baby animals. Any animal in its baby form is double the adorableness, and there is no one out there who can simply withstand such cuteness. And so, we thank apoohneicie for collecting all of these cute baby animals and and the internet for making this thread go viral. You have put smiles on our faces, and we hope to do the same for you guys!

Is there any real way of knowing if an animal is extinct or not? How do scientists make that decision? Those were the thoughts of one twitter user that went viral all over twitter, and we cannot stop laughing at the responses. 

Honestly, they're right. How can we know for sure? Some extinct animal species end up randomly being found in some places on Earth every once in a while. Who's to say that they're not simply hiding from us, totally done with all of our weird human shenanigans? They're probably messing with scientists just as much as they're messing with us, and honestly, that is one of the reasons why we totally love nature. 

Taking care of animals with health issues or behavior issues is always a challenge. It's hard to watch an innocent animal like that suffer when all you want is for them to be the happiest in the world. That difficulty, of course, is no reason to give up on them. And imgur user KDC0982 definitely didn't. 

The story of Gimli is a difficult one to read, but thanks to everything that KDC0982 has done for him, he is now much healthier and is happily getting cuddles on the couch with KDC0982's dad. Gimli is an absolute hero in our eyes, and his story is inspiring. We're so happy to see that he's better, and we wish he will get even better as he continues to live in this warm home. 

So... are your pets allowed on the furniture? My cat tends not to ask. If anything, my cat allows me on the furniture sometimes, since obviously, the bed belongs to her, and the couch belongs to her, and the table... you get it. In my naivety, during the first couple days that I had her, I tried to keep her off the bed for fear of crushing her itty bitty self, but she persisted, and she won, because of course she did. 

And apparently, my cat is not the only one with such purrsuasive abilities. Twitter users have been sharing their own funny stories of (dis)allowing their pets on furniture, and we're both laughing because relatable and crying because relatable. Much as we want to keep our pets off our furniture, we're apparently all too weak for them.  

There aren't many things out there that put smiles on our faces as when we see a similarity between us and our parents. It's wholesome moments like realizing that your ears totally look like your dad's that remind us - oh yeah, we really are family. And with cat moms and dads... it's only cuter. 

A tweet went viral with two pictures of cat parents and their almost identical-looking baby kittens, and the internet's hearts have melted. Of course, a whole lot of other people also rushed to share pictures of their kittens and their cat families, and this is exactly the kind of wholesome content that we feel like we need today - purely positivity and another else. 

Listen, we know that trimming your cats' nails is something that no one actually wants to do. But at the end of the day, it's for everyone's good. Our chair and couches will remain intact, and our cats will be saved from randomly getting their nail stuck inside the curtain in the middle of the night and screaming their heads off. Trimming your cats' nails is also a much better alternative to other methods - like declawing. 

Still, no one actually wants to do it, and your cat most likely tops that list. So you gotta look for ways to make it easier, and Amazon is offering you some nail trimming bags that'll definitely (most likely) do the job. The reviews are hilarious though, and thank you to @rachelmillman for tweeting about it and bringing it to everyone's attention. 

Is there anything that makes you happier than when your pet shows you love, trust and affection? Personally, it's one of the things that makes me the happiest in the world. One of the best ways to see that love and affection, of course, is when your kitty comes to sleep in your bed at night. It's a show of trust not just from the cat but from you too, closing your eyes next to each other like that, and that only brings the two of you closer. 

Having your cat curl up next to you is one of the purest, most wholesome things in the world, but seeing your baby curled up with your cat might be even more cuter. Prepare yourself, the cat tweets you're about to see are so cute and heartwarming you might just get an inexplicable urge to immediately go hug your cat.

Goooood morning, everyone!! Another week is starting, and we're about to make sure that it starts right! Like we do every single week, we've collected the previous week's most viral, funniest, cutest, most wholesome animal tweets - because keeping up with animal twitter on your own is basically impossible, and we know that the only way to start your week off right is with a delicious, freshly baked animal treat, so we make sure to keep up with it for you.

So, have an amazing week, everyone! And for more animal twitter goodness, click right here.

Listen, a hooligan sloth is not something that you see every day, so this one is really something to cherish. An adorable sloth (and her baby) are currently going through a recovery process with a veterinarian, better known as TheSlothVet on imgur, and they are both painfully adorable

.After weeks of not being able to move her arm, the sloth momma is finally able to scratch herself, and she is almost as overjoyed as we are - almost. She has stolen the hearts of the internet, and she's about to steal yours as well. Very slowly. You have every chance to outrun her love, but you know you don't want to. 

Time to warm up and laugh with fondness at how adorably silly our pets can be. 

We all know how much our cats love sunshine, and dogs' love for some warmth rivals that that of cats pretty well. But to what length will they go to get the warmth that they want? Every cat owner knows that their cat will find that one ray of sunshine in the house no matter where it is, and it'll take you about an hour to get all the dirt of your dog after it rolled around in the sunshine in the dog park.

But to have them turn on your SAD lamp on their own? That's a whole other level to get to to achieve warmth. And the following tweets will make sure that your heart is warm too.

When things are hard, we all go looking for something to calm us down, to help us relax and breathe. That's how a lot of you guys probably ended up here, simply looking for some wholesome, calming pictures, and well, you're definitely in the right place for that.

Thank you to imgur user ARussianAndHisBike for carefully collecting 50 pictures of kitties in the hopes of making everyone calmer. "I like to look at pictures of cats whenever I am feeling angry or frustrated or concerned about a global pandemic to calm myself down," the post says, and we can definitely attest that looking through these cat pics has helped us to take a step back, inhale deeply, and bask in the calmness.