26 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week (Aug. 3-9)

Elyse Wanshel

9 August 2024 at 4:12 pm·4-min read

Woof — it’s been a long week.

If you feel like you’ve been working like a dog, let us offer you the internet equivalent of a big pile of catnip: hilarious tweets about pets.

We Shih Tzu not.

Each week at HuffPost, we scour Twitter X (yes, Elon Musk is apparently fur real) to find the funniest posts about our furballs being complete goofballs. They’re sure to make you howl.

(And if you want more, no need to beg ― you can check out last week’s batch right here.)

I won't admit to being a worst case scenario person but when my dog is a little extra affectionate I get scared I have a fatal illness she can smell on me
— nice things I say to myself (@meantomyself) August 7, 2024

Good timing! 😂pic.twitter.com/W9stit137X
— Figen (@TheFigen_) August 6, 2024

The pommel horse guy and his girlfriend have an orange cat who looks like SUCH a dipshit, I love him so much pic.twitter.com/kM7b2ImLom
— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) August 4, 2024

who are your favorite "characters" in your neighborhood. mine is the pomeranian on my street who is addicted to eating cigarettes off the street
— trash jones (@jzux) August 7, 2024

Oh God, the NOISES. pic.twitter.com/CBzFW3gCDz
— Andy (@alreadytaken74) August 8, 2024

At the vet with Onion and no fewer than four vet techs have peered in through the window of the exam room to coo about how cute he is and his vet (who I love, what a gem) has taken a dozen photos of him. His rizz is through the roof with them but when I get home it’s gonna be pic.twitter.com/t1LkY87tfN
— jeeyonardo dicaprio 심지연 🌸 (@jeeyonshim) August 7, 2024

This is nice, I like this pic.twitter.com/AI5O6FKEFz
— Jorts (and Jean) (@JortsTheCat) August 6, 2024

Every new fact I learn about Tim Walz is like “he once donated his life’s savings to buying a puppy hearing aids”
— gianmarco (@GianmarcoSoresi) August 7, 2024

You have been blessed by the Cat Distribution System. A cat owns you now. Give it wet food and ask its permission to share its bed since the bed belongs to the cat now as well.
— Claire Placial (@claireplacial) August 8, 2024

Dutch Olympic swimmer Sharon van Rouwendaal won gold in the women's 10,000-meter open water race in honor of her late dog, Rio. She said, "I will swim for him with my whole heart — and I did it — I won for him." 14/10 pic.twitter.com/A5vkmDpnws
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) August 8, 2024

I genuinely cant believe this is real pic.twitter.com/fixW9YeOWg
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 7, 2024

Why do men always tell me they're allergic to cats? Bitch, so am I. Take a Zyrtec and come meet my cat.
— Kat (@ollkorrect0) August 6, 2024

pic.twitter.com/OWYwhIDMlo
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) August 8, 2024

Dawn had to keep reminding herself that this was just temporary, and she was only doing it to put herself through law school. pic.twitter.com/qoBr5NZQqR
— Uncle Duke (@UncleDuke1969) August 6, 2024

Sweet old man you say? Werthers pic.twitter.com/r1IVtAbl0n
— nur || MOVED (@noi_noi_mp4) August 7, 2024

This is Mako. He's a cat trapped in a dogs body pic.twitter.com/WZtnjctwqy
— B&S (@_B___S) August 6, 2024

vet: to help with all the behavioral problems we can prescribe him Prozac

my boyfriend: aw but we don’t want to diminish his personality :(

the personality: pic.twitter.com/FYZd6ojcd5
— Grace (@gracecamille_) August 3, 2024

Dog convinces strangers to play fetch from the balcony.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/fA9VA7BKYr
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 8, 2024

it be 2 dumbass dogs telling each other “exactlyyyy” https://t.co/8Q2SalBfoT pic.twitter.com/J1Mi167T52
— grillpill (@grillpill_) August 6, 2024

Lol 🤣 pic.twitter.com/f6vpyK8wuf
— The Dalbo Dog (@Dalbodog) August 6, 2024

that slap was personal 😹 pic.twitter.com/whm9eWjndi
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) August 6, 2024

why my dog look like it follows pic.twitter.com/mZCtW6uq43
— shrodinger's chomsky (@aeneashemphill) August 6, 2024

I see this cat once every few months and it's always an event pic.twitter.com/r5NoP73vM9
— shawn, a tron (@online_shawn) August 8, 2024

LOOK AT THOSE EARS!! pic.twitter.com/Z5RBuiu27j
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) August 6, 2024

> takes cat to the vet
> vet is also a cat pic.twitter.com/otFmWIs6yp
— cats with jobs 🛠 (@CatWorkers) August 8, 2024

Tell me you love your job without telling me you love your job pic.twitter.com/WxnVAVm8i6
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) August 6, 2024

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