92 Hilarious Times People Interrupted Cats’ Important Meetings (New Pics)

The internet’s love of cats is clear for everyone to see. It can be explained from a few different angles. First of all, they, like other animals, are incredibly dynamic. In a nutshell, human beings love watching living, thinking, feeling beings do their own things.

Meanwhile, cats, in particular, have super expressive faces. So, people relate to their looks and attach human emotions (emeowtions?) to them. It is very easy to turn them into memes that make other people go “yeah, same!”

What’s more, cats create a lot of opportunity for surprises and humor.

On the one hand, they are noble, fierce, refined, solitary, and royal creatures (with just a smudge of arrogance). On the other hand, they’re friendly, social, caring, incredibly loving, as well as derpy and silly. There’s a lot of room for unexpected behavior between these two extremes!

‘Council of Cats’ has been sharing cute, chuckle-worthy, wholesome, and weird photos of cats plotting to take over the world since October 2022. At the time of writing, the online community (or is it ‘commewnity’?) has 5.5k council meowmbers.

The group values original content, so members are encouraged to only ever share photos and videos that they’ve personally taken. What’s more, obviously, posts must contain more than one cat! Individual cats are, of course, wonderful, too, and their pics can be shared in the pinned posts on the sub, as a comment.

During an earlier interview, the Bored Panda team found out all about the ‘Council of Cats’ group from the friendly moderators running it. The sub’s creator, DryMouthKitty, told us about the inspiration behind it.

“I created r/CouncilOfCats because I wanted to make my own cat-centric commewnity on Reddit. There are many different subreddits that focus on specific kinds of cats, or specific things cats are doing, but there wasn’t really anything for groups of cats," they said.

According to the creator of the sub, any group of cats (“more than one”) counts as a “council.”

“As a big fan of Pinky and The Brain, it was humorous to imagine that anytime two or more cats are together, they are secretly plotting to take over the world. So that is the type of discussion we encourage, and our Council Meowmbers picked up on that, and it just took off from there!" DryMouthKitty said.

“As far as moderation goes, everyone is mostly just having fun, so we don’t have to remove too many things that are rude or off-topic. The biggest issue is SPAM, content usually from bot account that is stolen and shared to farm karma. We have an OC (Original Content) only rule that is used mostly to discourage that, and automated filters do the rest,” they revealed what it’s like to actually run the community.

DryMouthKitty told Bored Panda that the images that the community enjoys the most include those that feel like the photographer intruded on a cat meeting.

Meanwhile, during another interview, Laura Watson, Cat Welfare Assistant at International Cat Care and Registered Veterinary Nurse, explained to our team how cats feel about socializing with each other.

"Domesticated, or pet cats, originate from their wildcat ancestors, who were solitary predators and did not live in socially structured groups. They would hunt and live alone and rely solely on themselves for survival. However, cats are a remarkably adaptable species, and whilst retaining their roots as a solitary hunter, they have shown the capability to adapt to group living through the development of social structures – some might say they are socially flexible," she told Bored Panda earlier.

It is important for cats to have a territory to call their own where they feel safe to sleep, eat, play, interact with others, and potentially hunt. So, it can sometimes be difficult to introduce a new cat into a home where another cat already lives.

“It is important to recognize that even when the introduction process is conducted as carefully as possible, there is no guarantee that the cats will happily accept one another. Some cats simply do not want to live with other cats, and it is important to recognize and act on this to ensure the cats in your care have the best welfare possible, both in terms of thinking about their physical health and their mental wellbeing,” Watson said.

“When introducing a new cat to the home, carefully planned introductions must be made to form positive relationships between resident cats and new cats. A resident cat may feel the need to defend their home from a new cat and to protect their resources (food/water/litter facilities/toys etc.).”

A lot depends on the cat’s personality and life experiences. That being said, as an owner, the best thing you can do is to make sure that your home has enough space and resources for each animal so that they don’t have to share. It also helps if you create a living environment that allows cats to behave naturally, like, well, cats. This means creating a space that allows them to “perform natural species-specific behaviors, such as predatory behaviors (hunting for food/playing), gaining access to high places, scratching, toileting facilities.”

Which of these photos from ‘Council of Cats’ did you enjoy the most, Pandas? What do you think these cats have been discussing recently, and how do you think this will affect global politics and the world economy?

When is the last time you’ve accidentally stumbled upon your pets having a (not so) secret council meeting?

Share your thoughts and pet pics in the comments!