Cat Puns & Purr-fect Instagram Captions to Make You LOL

Purrhaps you are looking for some clever cat puns to add to your Instagram captions? Or maybe you’re just feline feisty and would like to find a play on words that involve cats. Well, you’re in luck!

Cat lovers have created their own vocabulary of cat-tastic terms. Most cat puns are a play on the words cat, claw, feline, fur, hiss, kitten, meow, paw and purr. Here’s a look at some furbulous cat puns–and pawsible ways to use them!

Cat Puns and Instagram Captions

Absomewtely: absolutely. My cat absomewtely won’t eat from a paper plate; she prefers china.

A-meow-zing: amazing. My cat is an a-meow-zing jumper and can leap almost to the top of a tall bookcase!

A-paws: applause. A round of a-paws for my cat’s ability to remain asleep even while we rearranged the room’s furniture!

Brofur: brother. Our girl cats love their little brofur…even when he does something irritating like walking off with their favorite cat wand.

Cat-astrophe: catastrophe. Running out of cat food isn’t just a regular emergency…it is a cat-astrophe.

Cat-tastic: fantastic. A cat-tastic job on shredding that newspaper, Lucky!

Cattitude: cat attitude. Jetty looked down on her paw-rents with more than a little cattitude as they scrambled to clean up the spilled cat food after it was pushed off the counter.

Caturday: Saturday. Get ready for plenty of cat photos–it’s Caturday!

Claw-ver: clever. How claw-ver is your cat?

Dra-purr-y: drapery. “You mean that dra-purr-y wasn’t put there for me to climb?”

Expurrience: experience. Bathing a cat is an expurrience best missed.

Feline: feeling. I’m feline fine now that I’m home, and my cat is in my lap.

Fur: for. I’d do anything fur my cat.

Furbulous: fabulous. You and your cat are both looking furbulous, my dear.

Fureign: foreign. My cat considers beef as fureign food.

Furend: friend. “Will you be my furend?”

Furever: forever. Every shelter cat is hoping for a furever home.

Furget: forget. Don’t furget to pick up some new cat toys at the store!

Furgive: forgive. You furgot to pick up the cat toys? I furgive you.

Furrench: French. “Are you going to eat all those Furrench fries?”

Furmula: formula. My cat’s furmula for success is 20 hours of sleep a day.

Furrozen: frozen. My cat was furrozen in her tracks when she thought she saw a mouse beneath the stairs.

Furth: forth. My cat does not like the sound of fireworks on the Furth of July.

Furtune: fortune. Fur real, I cannot believe my good furtune!

Furtunate: fortunate. It’s most furtunate for my cat that the birds like to dine right outside the catio for optimal viewing.

Furward: forward. “I’m going to furget about that fight with my brofur and just move furward.”

Gourmeow: gourmet. “My mom acts like she’s feeding me gourmeow food but I’d rather have a mouse.”

Helpurr: helper. Every time I make the bed I have a little helpurr.

Hisstericle: hysterical. “My pawrents got hisstericle when I brought them the head of a mouse and put it on the kitchen counter! I was saving some for them!”

Im-paw-sible: impossible. It’s im-paw-sible not to love my cat!

Kitten: kidding. My cat is the best–I’m not kitten you!

Meow: now. “I want my dinner right meow!”

Meowlentine: Valentine. Happy Meowlentine’s Day!

Meowlloween: Halloween. Keep your cats indoors for their own safety on Meowlloween!

Meowtini: martini. A meowtini, please…shaken, not stirred.

Meowy: marry or merry. Will you meowy me?

Mew: new. Happy Mew Year!

Mewbies: newbies. “Those kittens think they can climb better than me…but they’re just mewbies!”

Mewlyweds: newlyweds. Best wishes to the mewlyweds as they combine their households–and their household cats!

Mewsic: music. That’s mewsic to my ears!

Mewscast: newscast. “Stop watching that mewscast and feed me my dinner!”

Mewspaper: newspaper. “Put down that mewspaper or I will climb right in the middle of it and take a nap!”

Papurr: paper. Why do cats want to shred papurr?

Pawdon: pardon. “Pawdon me, but this is my chair.”

Pawesome: awesome. “Tonight’s dinner was pawesome!”

Pawfect: perfect. “Can we just ignore that alarm and go back to sleep? That would be pawfect.”

Pawffice: office. “I would prefer you not go to the pawffice today but instead stay home and play with me.”

Pawful: awful. “Dinner was thirty minutes late; it was pawful.”

Pawlicy: policy. Our cats are indoors-only…that is our pawlicy.

Pawrents: parents. “My pawrents went on vacation and all they bought me was this new wand.”

Paws: pause. “Let’s just paws for a moment and think about how unfair it is to wake up the cat just because you need to go to work.”

Pawsible: possible. “Is it pawsible for you to watch TV from the floor so that I may be undisturbed in this chair?”

Pawsitive: positive. “I am pawsitive I left my toy right here.”

Pawsitively: positively. Think pawsitively!

Pawsome: awesome. “The treats were pawsome!”

Pawsper: prosper. Live long and pawsper!

Pawtrait: portrait. I love this pawtrait of my cat!

Popurrlar: popular. In my house, boxes are more popurrlar than the gifts that were inside of them!

Purrspective: perspective. “Am I a big cat or a small cat? It all depends on your purrspective.”

Purrchase: purchase. “If you don’t purrchase me a new scratcher, I will use the arm of the sofa!”

Purrdon: pardon. Well, purrdon me!

Purrfect: perfect. My cat is purrfect!

Purrhaps: perhaps. Purrhaps I am the purrfect cat for you?

Purrk: perk. One purrk of my job is that I get to work at home with my cat!

Purrlease: please. Purrlease serve dinner now!

Purrmanent: permanent. Adopting a cat is a purrmanent move; you become their furever family.

Purrmission: permission. “No, I did not ask for purrmission before napping on your keyboard.”

Purrse: purse. “I think your purrse is a fine cat bed.”

Purrsevere: persevere. I had to purrsevere in my efforts to introduce my cat to my newly-adopted kitten but now they are best furends.

Purrson: person. My cat is my favorite purrson.

Purrsonality: personality. My cat has a big purrsonality!

Purrsonally: personally. Purrsonally, I think my cat is the best cat on Earth.

Purrthday: birthday. Happy purrthday!

Purrty: pretty or party. Is my cat purrty? or Are you ready to purrty?

Sisfur: sister. “My sisfur is a dog.”

Supurrb: superb. My cat’s hearing is supurrb–he can hear me open a can of cat food even when he is asleep.

Supurrpower: superpower. My cat’s supurrpower is the ability to know when I am about to stand up–and immediately settle in my lap at that very instant.

Supurrstar: superstar. I am convinced that my cat is going to be an Instagram supurrstar.

Supurrvisor: supervisor. I always have a supurrvisor looking over my shoulder.

Up-purr: upper. My cat has the up-purr paw in this household.

Whispurr: whisper. Please whispurr so you don’t wake my cat.

Cat Holiday Puns

• Catmas: Christmas
• Jack Fur-ost: Jack Frost
• Meowlidays: holidays
• Purr-esents: presents. “Are these purr-esents for me?”
• Meow-ry: merry. Meowry Catmas!
• Santa Claws: Santa Claus
• Santa Paws: Santa Claus

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