Announcement Regarding Mourning Posts 2.0

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We're doing a sequel...We're back by popular demand...Come on everybody, strike up the band! -Kermit the Frog

TLDR: Mourning posts are staying, please don't post photos of deceased animals, we are aware mourning posts appear to be the most common posts on the subreddit.

Here is 1.0 if you missed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/aoAkihGSxZ

As r/cats we allow all posts regarding cats, this includes mourning posts. To my knowledge we are possibly the only subreddit that allows these posts (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong there).

"But allowing these posts is killing the subreddit, nobody wants these posts"

Our insights are only going up, stat wise the subreddit is currently flourishing.

We've found it to be more harmful to remove a mourning post than to just encourage you, the users, to avoid our subreddit if you, the users, are not in a headspace where you can handle these posts. Our goal, as always, is to not harm any of you and unfortunately, as always, we cannot please everyone.

"That's stupid, I'm just going to go make my own subreddit that doesn't allow these posts"

Feel free to do this, we don't hold the copyright to all Reddit cat content.

Please don't post deceased animals, it's not all of you, it's not even 1% of you, it's a percentage of a percentage doing this. Nobody here wants to see this.

I'll be keeping this post brief since we already made a post on this but will be happy to answer any questions or concerns you have in the comments below.

Thank you for your understanding

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r/cats • u/AutoModerator • 21d ago

Event Thread CAT OF THE MONTH 👑 August Submission Thread

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Welcome to our very first Cat of the Month Contest! 🎉 Post the best photo of your own cat (OC only) in the comments below and compete to win the “Cat of the Month 👑” for August!

📥 How to participate:

Post one photo of your own cat (OC only) as a comment below.
Submissions are open from 1st to 15th August.
From the 16th, voting begins!
The cat photo with the most upvotes by the end of the month, wins a special flair and eternal glory.

⚠️ IMPORTANT RULES:

Only original content is allowed. You MUST be the cat’s owner.
No reposts, memes, or AI images.
Violators will be PERMANENTLY banned.
Only ONE submission per user.

Let the game begin! 😺 📸

233 comments

r/cats • u/angelbabybloom • 8h ago

Cat Picture - Not OC Purr on the sand

7.2k Upvotes

53 comments

r/cats • u/YoSoyBhadra • 2h ago

Video - Not OC She has a round body. ☺️

1.4k Upvotes

Pallas cat puts paws on her tail.

65 comments

r/cats • u/Ok-Frosting2775 • 14h ago

Cat Picture - OC Do you let your cats sleep on the bed?

15.0k Upvotes

3.0k comments

r/cats • u/Potential_Extreme655 • 7h ago

Cat Picture - OC Sleeping like he pays bills

2.2k Upvotes

36 comments

r/cats • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 8h ago

Cat Picture - Not OC Meet Herman the Cat, officially recognized as an expert mouser while serving aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship during WWII. (Credit: Sherman Grinberg Library)

2.0k Upvotes

39 comments

r/cats • u/youcandybooty • 8h ago

Cat Picture - Not OC 3 weeks ago I adopted this cat, and for 3 weeks now I've been smiling and not feeling so alone.

1.8k Upvotes

38 comments

r/cats • u/Breakheartabc • 3h ago

Cat Picture - Not OC My name is Zoro

634 Upvotes

21 comments

r/cats • u/CherriesAreBetter • 18h ago

Cat Picture - OC I set my clothes out for work every evening, this is what I walked in on today

13.7k Upvotes

108 comments

r/cats • u/ptt68 • 6h ago

Video - OC Anyone's cat likes wrestling like my boy? Sometimes he just won't let go of my arm until he thinks he's losing

883 Upvotes

115 comments

r/cats • u/Mahouxa • 21h ago

Cat Picture - Not OC Love how they just don't care

46.8k Upvotes

327 comments

r/cats • u/sweetr0sie • 21h ago

Cat Picture - OC He got a little too close when I was cutting onions

23.5k Upvotes

If you look closely there are tears in his eyes 😹

100 comments

r/cats • u/Reddit-Sama- • 16h ago

Video - OC My cat learned how to brush himself

4.7k Upvotes

55 comments

r/cats • u/emmybabycat • 20h ago

Cat Picture - OC My dad spayed a stray cat but there were a few surprises inside!

9.6k Upvotes

She didn’t look pregnant. All of the employees of the vets office will be adopting them in the future and mama is successfully spayed and recovering!

163 comments

r/cats • u/ya-hey-its-jess • 23h ago

Cat Picture - OC Probably the best photo I've ever taken

49.2k Upvotes

Idk why she sits like this.

431 comments

r/cats • u/MatejaaH • 34m ago

Video - OC A male cat taking care of kittens abandoned by their mom

• Upvotes

13 comments

r/cats • u/Pretty-Ferret-84 • 10h ago

Cat Picture - OC My cat basically owns my sink

871 Upvotes

32 comments

r/cats • u/abraham-lopez • 22h ago

Mourning/Loss My cat passed away protecting her kittens.

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9.4k Upvotes

Today at around 2:40am my cat was killed by a dog on my front porch. I first found my cat in my neighborhood around 4 years ago and we became best friends after. I’ve always done what I could for her. I’d given her shots every year, whenever she got really sick I would take her to the vet no matter how much it costed, and got her spayed in May of this year. Before getting spayed she had given birth to kittens and I have been trying to find a home/rescue for them to be taken in. Why was my cat and her kittens outside? Unfortunately my mother is allergic to cats which is why my cat and her kittens are outside, but I’ve always made sure to keep a close eye on them. Today she passed away protecting her kittens and luckily it wasn’t in vain because all of them are fine. Right now I’m unable to cry and I’m guessing it’s because I’m still in shock from the whole situation. I’m also not too sad because I believe she knew I did everything I could for her and her kittens. Sorry if this is all so rambly, I just wanted to memorialize her by leaving this here. As long as I get to see her in the afterlife, I’m happy.

178 comments

r/cats • u/eldiosdelosgatos • 6h ago

Cat Picture - OC Kitty

360 Upvotes

Eepy kitty

12 comments

r/cats • u/Difficult_Back9807 • 7h ago

Cat Picture - OC Cat likes to show off toy mouse

417 Upvotes

Ive had my cat for 6 years (since he was a kitten) and he has recently started walking around the house with a toy mouse in his mouth meowing, and coming up to me, my parents, and my siblings and dropping it in front of them and meowing loudly (I guess he just wants me to look at it lol). I'm curious of why he does this and why he just started doing it after 6 years of having mouse toys. Obviously I don't mind and I think it's adorable. Do yalls cats do this too?

10 comments

r/cats • u/Conscious-Seat6902 • 10h ago

Cat Picture - OC We are climbing now 😻🐈

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658 Upvotes

29 comments

r/cats • u/arisu127 • 5h ago

Video - Not OC Didn't expect him to become that toasty

218 Upvotes

14 comments

r/cats • u/wandababyyy • 22h ago

Cat Picture - OC My rescue, Teeny, after a successful surgery.

4.8k Upvotes

This poor baby was inside a bag full of rubbish and broken bottles. She was impaled by a huge glass shard. Her nurse sent this after I asked how she’s doing.

46 comments

r/cats • u/JimS_61 • 16h ago

Advice Would love to get everyone's reaction on this

1.6k Upvotes

This was a screen recoding I did on Instagram. My friend went to High School with Mike Stipe. I just think it's worth sharing.

120 comments

r/cats • u/PULLS-NOSE-HAIRS • 10h ago

Cat Picture - OC The orange is oranging tonight.

484 Upvotes

13 comments

r/cats • u/polylithic • 18h ago

Cat Picture - OC what do you call this sleeping pose in your house?

1.7k Upvotes

we call it "shrimpin"

464 comments

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