Okay, so as this website slowly circles the drain, we’re still going to have cats on Caturday, and three items to boot.
First on deck is Larry, the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street; he just turned 19, and served 15 of those years in the service of the Prime Minister. He’s in remarkably good shape for such an old cat, and here’s a two-minute video, in his own words, recounting how a careless photographer nearly tripped over him. Fortunately, Larry skittered away, perhaps losing half a life or so:
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From Bored Panda we have another large selection of cat memes. I’ll choose a few for your delectation. Click the screenshot to read; the intro says this:
Last year, the estimated expenses of owning a cat were between $830 and $3,000. Clearly, no expense is spared for cat owners when it comes to their beloved fluffballs.
Bored Panda loves cats too. That’s why we are blessing you with a collection of wholesome and cute cat memes, courtesy of the “happycat318” Instagram page. Check out the times kitties cracked up their owners with some diabolical shenanigans!
More info: Instagram [the happycat 218 Instagram Page], the source of all the memes:
. . . And this is a true cat lover:
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A persistent moggy described by the UPI; click on screenshot to read:
The tail:
A cat escaped from his owners’ camper during a stop at a gas station in Spain and reappeared months later less than a mile from their home in France.
Patrick and Evelyne Sire, who live in Olonzac, in the Hérault region of France, said their cat, Filou apparently jumped out of an open window in their camper during an Aug. 9, 2025, stop at a gas station in Maçanet de la Selva, Spain, located near the French border about 155 miles from home.
Patrick Sire said Filou’s absence wasn’t noticed until the next morning.
Sire said he returned to the gas station twice in the ensuing days and weeks, but no one in the area had seen any signs of the missing feline.
The couple said they started to give up hope as the months passed, but they received a call Jan. 9 from a resident in Homps, less than a mile from their home, reporting Filou had been found.
The woman said she had been feeding the cat outdoors since December, and noticed he was very thin and appeared to be coughing. She took the feline to a local veterinarian, where a microchip scan identified him as Filou.
“Filou traveled all that way to get to us. But how did he do it? Did he follow the highway? Did he go through towns? Did he follow the rivers?” Patrick Sire told France3 News. “We’ll never know.”
Here’s a video in French, which shows the GPS cat and his staff. If you know a bit of French you can probably understand it, but if not you can still see how happy the staff is!:
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Lagniappe: A cat makes a deposit:
Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/nb4NfkS7CJ
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 24, 2026
A sneaky and lazy moggy and its exercise wheel:
. . . and a woman talks to her cat, but inadvertently insults it:
h/t: Ginger K., Simon, Merilee
How did Filou find his way home and, generalizing, how do other pets—lost great distances from their domicile—find their way home? They can’t smell home hundreds of miles away. They don’t use the stars, do they? Do they take careful note of every twist and turn the car took to the point of escape, and then trace their way back? Or do they wander aimlessly along roads, most of the time going off in a wrong direction but, rarely, ending up at home. Maybe it’s reporting bias: the one-in-a-million that makes it back home ends up as a story in the newspaper or online? It’s time to get to the bottom of this phenomenon.
“Maybe it’s reporting bias: the one-in-a-million that makes it back home ends up as a story in the newspaper or online? ”
My bet it’s this. An old Coast Guard buddy of mine reacted to another friend’s comment about how dolphins help people get back to shore. He said; “well, we never hear again from the ones they take out to sea”.
These stories are notable precisely because they are so unlikely; it is the probability of such a low frequency event that captures our attention. We’re not generally good at understanding that very unlikely things happen all the time, every day, everywhere. So we attach unwarranted agency to rare things, so much so that sometimes they appear almost magical. Dolphins do occasionally save people. We don’t know how many they don’t.
I agree with Norman G.–I’ve always wondered how these cats (and dogs) get back home. Decades ago I had a cat named Snoopy who disappeared from our apartment (we were in the process of moving). I was frantic, as he was my best friend in all the world (I was 13). A couple of days later our former neighbor called, saying she thought he was at the house. Yes, he had made it a couple of miles, crossing a very busy street. That wasn’t far, but we obviously had no idea how he was able to do that.
Absolutely wonderful Caturday today–much needed after a lousy week.
Similar story. I gave away Tom-Petty-Kitty (best cat name ever) to a friend out in the country. He returned about four months later, and that meant he crossed the bayou somehow, either by the bridge or?
“Circles the drain…”…NOoooo!
Oh dear. “Circling down the drain”? I hope you are not preparing us for the end of WEIT.
I liked the Catbus.
It DOES look like the Catbus!
Great Caturday post! I laughed out loud at that mouse gift.
Love the Caturday posts!
That moggy isn’t lazy — she just wants her human to play with her!
I’d try running in place beside her while she runs in her wheel.
That poor orange kitteh! That would scare the heck outta me as well!
Can any Polish speakers translate what the president said to Larry?
As long as we have Caturday Felids, this website will NOT go down the drain.
Jerry, please do not get rid of Caturday. The Trump administration has me so depressed and your daily blog helps me get through the day. Thank you for your sanity and humor.
Please plug the drain:-)
Caturday is truly a beacon of sanity in this mad, bizarre world.
Thank you, Jerry. How do cats find their way home? My Burmese cat Siti, who is now 17-years-old, was stolen when she was a kitten around 12 months old. I saw a woman steal her. I expected to never see Siti again but she turned up back at home seven days later after the catnapping. How did she escape. How did she find her way home? I will never know!