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When You Leave Your Cat With Grandma Meme

This meme consists of text at the top reading 'When you leave the cat with grandma' above a photograph of an extremely plump, fluffy white cat wearing a pink bandana, sitting on a carpeted floor with half-closed, sleepy, content eyes. The joke plays on the widely relatable stereotype that grandmothers habitually overfeed everyone they care for, including pets, resulting in drastic weight gain for the cat after being left in a grandmother's care.
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When you leave the cat with grandma

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This meme consists of text at the top reading 'When you leave the cat with grandma' above a photograph of an extremely plump, fluffy white cat wearing a pink bandana, sitting on a carpeted floor with half-closed, sleepy, content eyes. The joke plays on the widely relatable stereotype that grandmothers habitually overfeed everyone they care for, including pets, resulting in drastic weight gain for the cat after being left in a grandmother's care.

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This meme is sourced from an RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme, which shares lighthearted, wholesome internet content. The original photograph of the overweight white cat has circulated online for multiple years, often paired with this exact text to illustrate the common grandparent overfeeding trope.

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