19 People Who Have Been Taken Hostage By Sleeping Cats

April 21, 2022

Disturb your fur baby or let them keep on napping — for cat owners, the choice often isn’t a choice at all. RIP productivity and all the things that need doing.

1. “Help. It’s been an hour. I need to pee!”

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2. “Everything was cool until the batteries on the remote died.”

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3. “Siri, will Grubhub deliver coffee from my kitchen to my home office?”

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4. “I am a boat and she is my four-legged anchor.”

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5. “Current situation: need to go the bathroom but he’s so cute and peaceful and I don’t wanna wake hims. Anyone else have this problem? 😩😻”

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6. “The timer on the oven chimed 5 minutes ago and yet here I still am … "

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7. “Good thing I don’t have any important errands to run today. Oh wait …”

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8. “When there’s a hot pizza that just got delivered to your doorsteps but the cat is using you as a human pillow”

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9. “Hello 9-1-1, I’ve been taken hostage by a little heart.”

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10. “I would say this is a good time to start my rewatch of ‘Mare Of Easttown,’ but as my view of the television is presently obscured I just don’t know”

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11. “Good thing there wasn’t a fire because I would have died before getting up”

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12. “I guess I won’t actually sleep in my bed - the couch will have to suffice”

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13. “Breathing through the mouth has been disabled - switching to nose auxiliary.”

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14. “Shrimp says Sundays are for cuddling, not housework!”

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Shrimp isn’t wrong.

15. “I can pause my workout, that’s fine. Always important to incorporate rest between sets.”

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16. “What’s good for kitty is bad for my bladder. Please send a doctor, I may require a kidney transplant.”

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17. “Two hands for typing? I will have to make do with one!”

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18. “My grandfather and his cat, Stella. He calls this ‘feline paralysis’ where he can’t move because of the cat.”

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We aren’t doctors, but it looks like he’s also afflicted with Stockholm syndrome.

19. The snuggle struggle is real!