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Caption This for 8/17/2018

Posted August 17, 2018 4:45 PM by MaggieMc

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As always, send us your funny photos! Thanks to SolarEagle for this week's submission.

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08/17/2018 12:36 AM

If you want to get a head and be noticed, join a group that will look out for you.
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08/17/2018 4:55 AM

Del got new neighbors.

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08/17/2018 4:57 AM

I said "We are meerkats" not "come here cat".

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08/17/2018 9:21 AM

"I'm just a mere cat."
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08/17/2018 1:55 PM

Or would that be a mere cat among meerkats?
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08/17/2018 4:24 PM

Fit right in purrfectly!

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08/17/2018 4:51 PM

How long do we have to stand like this? ...seriously my back is killing me...What's everybody looking at?....I don't see anything....Is this a thing? When's nap time, cause I feel like it's nap time....Tom discovers he's not a joiner...

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08/17/2018 8:42 PM

What are my chances?.... I hope I get the job.

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08/18/2018 12:39 AM

What's going on over there then? some one putting a caption on us?

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08/18/2018 1:28 AM

Who let the cat out of the bag?
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08/18/2018 1:37 PM

Meanwhile back at the ranch.....

"The Dingo's ate my baby! Mr. Puddles, take me to my fiance' , my fiance' will know what to do..."

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08/18/2018 3:15 PM

I know that I am not "purr"-fect and that I often stand out in a crowd, but tell me-do I look "Presidential" ?...................or am I just the "Cat's Meow"?
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08/18/2018 3:23 PM

Looks like a "demo-cat" to me!
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08/20/2018 1:08 PM

They said comparethemarket NOT comparethemeerkat

Simples

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08/20/2018 1:22 PM

This quartet isn't at all what I thought... It's supposed to be Skittles and the Meerkats! I really should have known I would get outvoted and relegated to be one of the back up singers. It's like Gladys Knight having to be a Pip!

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08/20/2018 6:10 PM

"Compare the Delcats"?

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08/21/2018 12:27 PM

Foreign exchange program goes well....

My host mother is teaching me to crouch instead of stand...haven't got the hang of it yet....

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08/23/2018 7:20 AM

Mr Jingles began to suspect that Yakov, Vassily, and Bagdov, may have realized he was was an interloper.

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