Animals·Posted on Dec 12, 2012The 30 Most Important Cats Of 2012Warning: Some of these cats will break your heart.by Jack ShepherdBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 30. "I'm Having a Bad Time" Cat 29. Shishi-Maru 28. Stalker Cat View this video on YouTube Before you pass judgment, let me ask you this: Are we not, in our own way, all stalker cats, creepily watching the universe sleep as we wait for it to feed us the breakfasts of our souls? 27. Push-Up Coach Cat View this video on YouTube "Persevere!" says Push-Up Coach Cat. "Also, may I lick your hair?" 26. "Stop Looking at My Girlfriend" Cat 25. Lamp Cat 24. Yawning Asshole Cat View this video on YouTube The next time fate casually knocks your things off the dresser of your life, think of Yawning Asshole Cat and remember that fate, too, literally does not give a single fuck about your things or your life. 23. Glasses Removal Cat View this video on YouTube "For now you see through your glasses darkly; but then face-to-face. Now you know in part; no seriously, pay attention to me. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Pay attention to me. Hey."—This cat 22. Restraining Cat 21. Admiral Jenkins 20. Hedgehog Mom Cat 19. Hank 18. Venus, The Chimera Cat 17. Cat Pushing A Small Cart View this video on YouTube The clocks have all stopped; the curtains have closed; the last star has winked out of existence; and a cat pushes a small cart across the empty stage, upon which a dying universe has strutted and fretted to the end.—Pretentious poem 16. The Cat Who Is Planning Something Evil View this video on YouTube "And lo, the cat did look about herself rather shiftily, and verily was evil brought into the world and hidden, forthwith, under the bed."—Revelation 15. Weather-Interrupting Cat View this video on YouTube As the devastating effects of climate change become ever more apparent, it is imperative that someone do something about the weather. This cat is that someone, but her something is probably not that something, if you see what I mean. 14. Mail Cat View this video on YouTube Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this cat from stealing your mail and hiding it somewhere. 13. Chris Hansen Cat 12. The Kittens Watching Tennis View this video on YouTube Tennis is a complicated, deeply nuanced game, but these unbelievably precocious young feline fans of the sport have somehow captured its entire essence. 11. The Cat Who Is Best Friends With A Grandma 10. The Cat Who Sits Like A Human View this video on YouTube youtube.com Pretty much anyone can spend a lazy day sitting around and watching the world go by, but it takes a true pioneer to really innovate in the field. Put more stupidly, this cat is the Einstein to the essentially Newtonian sitting around that you were doing before he came along. 9. The Cat to Whom a Drunk Man Sang "Kiss From a Rose" View this video on YouTube "When the drunk man that is existence sings 'Kiss From a Rose' to the cat that is essence, being itself is born, violently, out of nothingness."—Jean Paul Sartre 8. Shopping Cart Cat 7. Spider-Man Fridge Cat View this video on YouTube Spider-Man Fridge Cat laughs in the face of your antiquated notions about "gravity" and "Euclidean space." "Pshaw!" says Spider-Man Fridge Cat, when you try to pollute her mind with mystical garbage about the fundamental laws of the universe. 6. I Should Buy a Boat Cat 5. Alarm Clock Cat View this video on YouTube youtube.com "All ideologies constitute a subject, and the act of 'hailing' or 'interpolating' an individual as a subject can best be reified by incessantly dinging that thing on the back of their door."—Post-structuralist Marxist theory about this video 4. Colonel Meow 3. Henri, The Existentialist Cat View this video on YouTube youtube.com In a cosmic sense, what does it even really mean to be ranked the third most-important cat of the year? 2. Lil Bub 1. Grumpy Cat Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF