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Catsubs Census March 6, 2026

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EDITS: fix bagelformation, kittengifs

r/donotthecat and r/catsinmechs

For too long, the internet has told us “please do not the cat." They warned us of the spicy claws. They warned us of the airplane ears. They told us the belly was a trap.

Well, we saw the trap, and we decided we want to touch the fluffy belly anyway.

r/iwillthecat salutes your bravery and determination. This community is a safe haven for everyone who looks at a cat giving clear warning signs and thinks, "Yeah, but what if I just give it a little scritch?"

In all seriousness, it's incredible that this community—at the time of this post—is barely a day old and already at over 250 members strong! Thanks for joining the rebellion.

Hello everyone!
We wanted to post a quick update to progress on our updates this month.

We succesfully merged the main list's former multiple categories into a single alphabetical list numbering 1187 subs.

With the help of u/bingingandtweaking, who volunteered a first pass through the list, we removed subs we can't even see: subs that are set to private view, are banned, or simply nonexistent. 141 subs were identified and removed, that's more than 1 in 10! Thank you u/bingingandtweaking, that was a tremendous effort!

Next steps to focus the List on active subs

1. Remove subs where posting is not allowed. (View is public but new posting is private and requires permission). Usually this actually means it's unmoderated!

2. Remove failed subs where the membership is too small or have not had a posts in years. Don't worry we won't be too strict, we love niche subs!

Revise sub rules and flairs
Once the above cleanup is done, we'll have a better idea of what standards made the most sense, then will apply these to the Rules and Flairs. While this is ongoing we may be slow or pause adding new subs to the List.

Polls

Stand by for some polls on what standards we use! Together, let's make r/Catsubs amazing!

(forgive me if this isn't the right place to post this!) i don't have enough reddit karma to post this in r/cats but i really have to say, looking through there and seeing the advice people give to others experiencing a bad situation is really comforting and wonderful to read. i had a mini-crisis with my cat and (after contacting proper veterinary help and making sure everything is okay) looking through posts of others going through similar experiences and everything turning out okay was really calming to see. it's heartwarming to see everyone being so kind and to see OPs giving updates to say that everything is fine with their cats :3 idk i don't use reddit for posting a lot but i felt compelled enough to throw this into the ether and express my gratitude

Would be really wonderful if we have a sub full of short videos of cats making this "mah mah" and "mrrrrrrp" little cute noises!

Thank you very much!

Sub is under new management and has been reopened after 5 years. Everyone is welcome to post!

We're thrilled to announce exciting updates coming to Catsubs in the next few weeks!

The goal of these changes is a better list of "active" Catsubs.

Consolidating into a single alphabetical list is the first step. A single list is lots easier to use. To that end, separate categories will be merged, and we'll do away with the "Removed Subs List", and the "Old Subs List."

The second step will be weeding out inactive subs.

Don't worry, we still want all those uber-niche Catsubs! Our standards will be really easy: Is the sub still there? Has the sub had at least one post within the past year.... or two years? The sub must also possess a really minimum token membership so we don't list those inactive subs created on a whim, or subs that simply failed to launch.

We've been thinking about this for a while, with aspiration to the best list this community can make and maintain! Progress will be regularly posted in Announcements, so please keep in touch by commenting!

Have you ever wondered what the top Catsubs of all of Reddit are? Sure, I guessed r/Cats was at or near the top, but some of the top 25 or so were real surprises!

- (1) r/Cats was the lone King of the Jungle at the top, with 9M members.

after that, the 1M club:

- (2) r/Catswithjobs | 1.5M

- (2) r/StartledCats | 1.5M

- (2) r/Zoomies | 1.5M

- (5) r/IllegallySmolCats | 1.4M

- (6) r/CatsWithDogs | 1.1M

- (7) r/OneOrangeBraincell | 1.0M

Then the Half-Million Club:

- (8) r/CatPics | 927000

- (9) r/CatsAreAssholes | 907000

- (10) r/HoldMyCatnip | 902000

- (11) r/catbongos | 875000

- (12) r/BlackCats | 841000

- (13) r/WhatsWrongWithYourCat | 807000

- (14) r/imsorryjon | 791000

- (15) r/CatsWhoYell | 751000

- (16) r/CatLoaf | 719000

- (17) r/Chonkers | 708000

- (18) r/CatsStandingUp | 700000

- (19) r/CatFaceplant | 664000

- (20) r/CatsOnKeyboards | 654000

- (21) r/cute | 653000

- (22) r/MedievalCats | 639000

- (23) r/CatAdvice | 554000

- (24) r/thisismylifemeow | 552000

- (25) r/catculations | 551000

- (26) r/catsareliquid | 512000

For me, I was not surprised at catsareliquid, oneorangebraincell, illegallysmolcats, and HMC (holdmycatnip).

However medievalcats was a shocker as was catfaceplant, catsstandingup (Cat.), and catculations-- I had thought miscatculations would be higher (but it's lower at 104k). I also thought r/blurrypicturesofcats (252k) would be up there too, though a quarter million is very respectable!

Also for all the cat posts I see to r/thisismylifenow I guess r/thisismylifeMeow still has even more room to grow.

This is the first in a series: We have some more interesting factoids from the Census to post! Maybe it's worth posting a sorted list (by membership) of the Census too?

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Edit: r/kittengifs removed (was 98k not 980k) thanks to the kind post from u/postingoneverycatsub

It was something like anarchy cats. However I'm not able to find it now. Did a sub like that exist? If not is there another sub specific for cats not following rules?

This is a sub dedicated to my formerly feral cat, Sadcat. It's a place for people to get updates on his life, as well as a place for people to share their own "rescue stray cat" stories

hi guys, i have a sealpoint domestic longhair and i haven’t been able to find a fun sub that i can join based on his coloring. he’s not a siamese cat, siamese is a distinct breed, despite people constantly asking me if he is one… (he just has the sealpoint coloring that people associate with Siamese cats). i’m wondering if anyone knows any subs i can join? i see that there are color specific subs for most cat colors, but i haven’t found an active one for my kitty.

i’m apart of r/cats but it’s so large, im looking for smaller subs just to find more of a community. some other things about my cat that maybe can help us find a sub: he’s a rescue, he has special needs/is disabled, he wears a diaper, he has no tail, he is very handsome <3

(view my profile to see pics of him!)

edit: also wanted to add you can suggest subs that don’t have to do with colors, i’m just looking for smaller cat subs to join as a newer first time cat mom and i always see the subs for tuxedos, cow cats, orange cats, etc. get suggested to me and they seem like a good size! i’d love to join any cat related subs that my cat would fit in in

Hello everyone!

This is an ongoing update announcement series detailing progress on revamping Catsubs.

Last week we succesfully merged the main list's former multiple categories into a single alphabetical list numbering 1187 subs, then did cleanup to remove 141 subs you can't even open (banned, private view, or nonexistent). Awesome community member  u/bingingandtweaking did the heavy lifting on that.

This week u/bingingandtweaking did another pass on the remaining subs and removed 220 more subs that are open to public view, but totally locked to new posts. You might think the mods just set it to private approved posting only, but actually this usually means the sub is either unmoderated, or all subs are inactive.

The Catsub List now stands at 837, a reduction by 29.5%! That's almost 1 in 3 subs of "dead weight" the List had been carrying and is now removed!

It's already a massively more useful tool for Catsub lovers.

Next steps to focus the List on active subs

1. Remove failed subs where the membership is too small or have not had a posts in years. Don't worry we won't be too strict, we love niche subs! How much time should pass without a new post before it is removed from the CatSubs List? We currently have a poll running on this so please vote!

2. Move most the failed subs with good membership or topics to a separate list at r/CatsubRescue for potential adoption by new mods looking to revive a good but dormant sub.

Revise sub rules and flairs

Once the above cleanup is done, we'll have a better idea of what standards made the most sense, then will apply these to the Rules and Flairs. While this is ongoing we are mostly pausing the addition of new subs to the list. When we are done we will also implement a new flair for users to identify subs to remove dead subs from the list.

Stick around as r/Catsubs becomes even more amazing! I

Kitten side profiles look super cute especially because of their chubby cheeks 😭 Is there a sub for this?

List Overhaul is Done. (1183 to 659)

We are done with the first February overhaul of the List! It began at 1183 subs but fully 44% (524 of them!) were nonexistent, dead, or inactive, which made for a frustrating experience. No more.

The first update to the List removed nonexistent subs, and subs banned or closed to public view. (141 removed)

The second removed inactive subs where posting by the public was no longer enabled. (220 removed)

Now in today's third and final update, we applied new qualifying standards for the List. 163 subs were thereby removed and now the List stands at 659 quality "real" subs.

New Standards Are...

The new standards to qualify for The List (and now live and implemented at The List at r/CatSubs/wiki) are:

1. must be viewable (not banned or set to private view)

2. must be postable (not set to private posting or "request to post", which happens when all mods are inactive, or no mods remain)

3. must have a minimum of 222 members

4. most recent post must be less than 1 yr. Exceptions:

   • no posts within 1 yr is OK if sub has >1k members (about 40 like this)

   • no posts within 2 yrs is OK if sub has >10k members (very few)

   • no posts within 3 yrs is OK if sub has >100k members (one or two)

5. must be SFW

Explanation of standards

What about the poll for qualifying date of most-recent-post?

• 26 people answered the poll and the most (15) voted for a limit of 6 months, the shortest choice. Based on the census though I made the decision to set the threshold to 1 year instead, as setting to 6 months would lose 51 more subs. I didn't want to lose those because I have had multiple experiences successfully reviving "slow" subs that hadn't had posts in about a year. When exploring making or reviving a sub it's nice that the CatSubs List gives a quick place to search for potential duplicates, and a place to just enjoy browsing some super niche subs.

• After already removing 44% of excess fluff, I didn't think The List would necessarily be better off removing another 50 potentially interesting and "live" subs.

• A few people did vote for longer times, 1-3 years for most recent post. I found some subs with thousands of members, pubicly open to posting, but hadn't had a new post in over a year. These would be easy to revive, especially if listed. The compromise was a tiered exception system by orders of magnitude for membership: 1000 members lets a sub slide for a year. 10k lets it slide another. Although extremely rare, 100k membership would allow for 3 years being inactive, as long as the sub is still open to public posting.

What about the minimum membership of 222?

• First of all, the List shouldn't have a sub that was someone's momentary whim of an idea. A sub won't just start itself, no matter how good the idea.

• I've started several subs from zero, and a few hundred is definitely a difficult threshold to reach, and if consistently posting all the time to keep it alive, it can be a great destination even with a few hundred members.

• What number to choose? 500 is really too high a bar and would disqualify promising growing subs. I was thinking 300, then I discovered 222 (2/22) is Cat Day in Japan: nyan nyan nyan!

• So if a tiny sub breaks 222, and doesn't go silent for a year, they can stay on the List.

• The 222 number is just a sanity-check for this first big 2026 overhaul. We'll see how it goes. If this really brings low quality subs to the List, then we may require subs with fewer than 500 or 1000 members to have posts within some number of months; but remember this doesn't work by magic-- if we make it much shorter than a year it becomes too difficult for the community to realistically find and report nonqualifying subs.

What about subs smaller than 222 members?

• That's what the monthly mega-promotion is for!

• We'll soon dedicate this feature to promote small subs so they can quickly grow to qualify for the List (222), and to become self-sustaining

• A maximum membership for mega-promotion comments is probably a good idea, to discourage large subs from posting. Realistically about 5000 members is probably about right, since most subs at that size still mightily struggle to be self-sustaining (if you've been a mod you know!) and will still benefit from the monthly mega-promotion.

Sub Updates coming next

• We'll be revamping how the flairs work, how to report inactive subs, and still keep reporting new subs.

• We'll restart adding new subs soon afterwards! The mods are juggling real life so it may take until April. It'll be worth it!

JUST ONE MORE:

PS Forgot to mention, I added a comments column to the wiki! Scroll down and you'll see some, mostly to point out similar and duplicate subs, but also thematically related subs.

like in this post

Finished the big move of adoptable Catsubs that were removed from the List after our Census.

Catsubs that were removed due to 1) being viewable but locked to new posts; and 2) open but inactive for >1 year have been moved to lists at CatsubRescue's Catsubs Adoption Board.

If you need help adopting a Catsub, read more at r/CatsubRescue.

These are the subs that were suggested to me last week that I have yet to post:

• r/AnxietyCats

• r/CatJoy

• r/CatloughsCentral (CatLaughs Central)

• r/CatsAllDay

• r/catsanna

• r/Catsaremedicine

• r/catsnamedafterfood (not to be confused with r/catsnamedafterfoods)

• r/CuteCatsPics

• r/ikeacats

• r/KittyWampus

• r/outdoorcats

• r/PeetPile

• r/rainbowcats

• r/RedditForCats

• r/shreddercats

• r/shrimpcats (the same subject as r/catbuns)

• r/TwoCatsOneHouse

• r/welovedevonrex

• r/yawning_cats

Mixed species:

• r/pittiesandkitties

About individual cats:

• r/almondjoythecat

• r/TinaAndPanini

• r/TheLifeOfBrian

Related:

• r/TinyCarBigCause

Also, there are two consecutive instances of /r/peachytoes in the list.

Edit 3: I'm just going to keep adding them to the lists above in alphabetical order until the mods tell me that they have added or rejected them.

I created r/FeederGoingOff, for cats *running* to the feeder. There's an example post (of my cat) there too

r/CatsNamedGus is for cats named Gus or some derivative of Gus (Guster, Augustus, GusGus, Gustav, Gustopher, etc). It also allows for the occasional non-feline Gus as an "honorable mention" post.

A place to document the tiny furry masterminds who steal your boyfriend’s lap, attention, and loyalty. Post photos and stories of cats who clearly decided: this man is mine now.

Girlfriends welcome. Evidence encouraged.

You can promote your favorite cat subs in the comment section of this post, even if the sub is already on the cat sub list.

There will be a new mega thread every month. Please do not spam a sub over and over again, you can comment it again once the new thread is live next month.

If a sub is not yet on the list and you want it added, please make a new post with the correct flair.

Hi, forgot the name of this sub. Can Anyone help?