22 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week (Aug. 8-14)

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 posts about pets.

We Shih Tzu not.

Each week at HuffPost, we scour Bluesky, Instagram and X 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.)

great way to quickly get all of ur cats into the basement during a tornado siren is to make the basement forbidden never let them down there until it’s time and then when u open the door they’re like omgg this is awesome…… lets go girls NOW HURRY BEFORE SHE TAKES IT AWAY GO GO

— bug girl (@buggirl) August 11, 2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like: pic.twitter.com/bNtFJ26Z9T

— Ramin Nasibov (@RaminNasibov) August 12, 2026

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Idk what corgi is and at this point I’m afraid to ask.

— Rachel (@tolstoybb) August 11, 2026

Which do you identify with? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/V0syI5eO2g

— Ringo Tanuki (@LostTelly) August 12, 2026

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my cat will get new nicknames hourly. he got a bit wet from his water fountain and i called him a soggy boy, which has mutated to him being called “mr sogs” for the past two hours

— honey ♡ (@ehoneyz) August 9, 2026

I’ve been karate chopping my dog lately. I yell “I CHOP YOU!”
He loves it. pic.twitter.com/GOjkN4YMeW

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— Shane D and Booty Johnson (@DrFreezepopp) August 12, 2026

He’s been waiting eight hours for belly rubs 😆🐾🐶 pic.twitter.com/0GiCheKmEN

— Lucy (@TheLucyShow1) August 12, 2026

Met a dog at a cafe and the owner told me the dog was deaf and blind. “Old Helen Yeller,” I said. She didn’t like that.

— erin chack (@ErinChack) August 13, 2026

Ok so the Eclipse in Newcastle was a non event but I did capture a dog in the sky so there’s that. pic.twitter.com/abhXJWg2Gt

— Jim Corbridge (@MrBonMot) August 13, 2026

a moment straight out of a cartoon pic.twitter.com/EOk2AccCk0

— gal౨ৎ (@prtygal777) August 11, 2026

my idiot child watching her favorite show: laminator pic.twitter.com/6EwRL0A4WO

— francis wolf (@francis__wolf) August 11, 2026

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Just spent $400 to get the cat xrayed only to find out there is nothing wrong she is just full of fart pic.twitter.com/PGpkVgIZNk

— flashbang suppository 🇵🇸 (@reachforgemap) August 10, 2026

So nice puppy pic.twitter.com/8BwqQZUkqy

— Doglover (@puppiesDoglover) August 14, 2026

cooked fish in our patio and literally EVERYBODY came to get some pic.twitter.com/WZiGjZlaD8

— twinsmoon (@twinsmoon3) August 11, 2026

Hands up! Totally innocent… probably pic.twitter.com/BJ2oQR7Nnn

— The Cats 𝕏 (@TheCatsX) August 14, 2026

my bad i thought it was reading time but it’s actually hold norberg time pic.twitter.com/R9SiiqQsys

— norberg & co (@franzkatka) August 8, 2026

Finally took her cone off and she’s been doing this for ten minutes pic.twitter.com/tI9HhY5WZM

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— KILLER MEG (Interdimensional entity..) (@horse_feedbag) August 14, 2026