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15 Cute Cat Cartoons for a Funny Feline Fix

Reader's Digest Editors

By Reader's Digest Editors

Updated on Jul. 15, 2025

Get ready for some funny felines with these super-cute cat cartoons

We’ve always loved cat cartoons

Our obsession with cute cat cartoons starts with a famous kitty called Tom, who was always at the receiving end of a certain mousy Jerry’s shenanigans. Now we’re more entertained by reels featuring chonky animated felines chasing a mechanical robot cleaner—but getting distracted by their own reflections in the mirror.

Why do cats make for great cartoons? It might just be because of their gloriously uncoordinated behavior, despite being some of the smartest animals around. Cute cat cartoons often feature kitties getting into downright ridiculous predicaments, where even the family dog would give them a judgmental side-eye.

Reader’s Digest knows nothing is funnier than a cat being its exuberantly unhinged self. Here are some hilarious feline foibles.

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“He’s an indoor cat."
Charlie Hankin/The New Yorker Collection/© Condé Nast

Indoor cat

Get the door, will you?

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Jimmy Craig/TheyCanTalk.com

They never learn

Try me again.

Business cartoon of boss dog saying to employee cat, 'Yet another meeting ends with the totality of your input being a yawn and a stretch'.
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You want more action?

Have a better meeting.

"I'm trying to organize a stampede but everybody's got her own agenda."
Cartoon Resource/Shutterstock

Herding cats

How about a nap instead?

Animal, education and business cartoon of a dog, cat and whiteboard filled with complex equations, 'and therefore cats r better than dogs'.
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Scientific proof

Seems logical.

Business cartoon of business cats in background and business dog in foreground, 'This looks like a tough crowd for my Conflict Resolution speech'.
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Tough crowd

Can we reschedule?

Outside the box
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I don’t like where this is going

Can we talk about this?

Dog wants to take a nap and is jealous of cat on owner's lap, "My life philosophy can be expressed thusly: I like naps, and don't share laps".
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It’s my turn

Don’t listen to him.

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This is beneath me

A little help?

Business cartoon about corporate culture. When the cat is away, the mice will play.
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… the mice will play

Back in 5 points.

Man is at doctor's office and wife says, "Cat has got his tongue".
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He’s got more than that

Say ahhhh.

In this cartoon a woman is sitting at her desk in front of her laptop computer. The caption explains that she has an urgent deadline, so obviously has to watch a cat video first.
BoundingSquirrel/Shutterstock

Priorities

That report can wait.

Cartoon illustration of a yellow cat and a play on words about what the cat can and 'cat' do.
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I’m in charge here

I cat do whatever I like.

Cartoon of happy cat singing along with woman playing piano
Alan Benge/Shutterstock

Sing us a song, piano cat

Tips accepted.

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Amy Hwang/Cartooncollections.com

Laser cats!

Was that covered by insurance?