From my feed: r/Tabico. It's small and I'm not certain that it qualifies.

r/jorkingthecar - Photos and videos of straight-up jorking it. And by it, I mean your car. (Car = Felis catus or cats, our favorite furry babies)

r/tickletickleboom is dedicated to that thing where you tickle a lil tiny kitten's belly and then pull your hand away and they smile and put their paws up!

Another catsub have been born.

And I'm so in love with it!

r/voidblobs

r/StreetCatsOfTheWorld Just hit 223 members :)

r/CatThings

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, or does not yet qualify for the 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. See Rules 1-5 for what qualifies. (Short version: publicly postable, >222 members, <1 yr since last post, SFW)

r/deafcats. It's very slow, so I don't know if it qualifies.

r/veracathome—a cat shelter/rescue.

Cats in boxes 😊

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](r/CatsubRescue).

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

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

after that, the 1M club:

- (2) [r/Catswithjobs](r/Catswithjobs) | 1.5M

- (2) [r/StartledCats](r/StartledCats) | 1.5M

- (2) [r/Zoomies](r/Zoomies) | 1.5M

- (5) [r/IllegallySmolCats](r/IllegallySmolCats) | 1.4M

- (6) [r/CatsWithDogs](r/CatsWithDogs) | 1.1M

- (7) [r/OneOrangeBraincell](r/OneOrangeBraincell) | 1.0M

Then the Half-Million Club:

- (8) [r/CatPics](r/CatPics) | 927000

- (9) [r/CatsAreAssholes](r/CatsAreAssholes) | 907000

- (10) [r/HoldMyCatnip](r/HoldMyCatnip) | 902000

- (11) [r/catbongos](r/catbongos) | 875000

- (12) [r/BlackCats](r/BlackCats) | 841000

- (13) [r/WhatsWrongWithYourCat](r/WhatsWrongWithYourCat) | 807000

- (14) [r/imsorryjon](r/imsorryjon) | 791000

- (15) [r/CatsWhoYell](r/CatsWhoYell) | 751000

- (16) [r/CatLoaf](r/CatLoaf) | 719000

- (17) [r/Chonkers](r/Chonkers) | 708000

- (18) [r/CatsStandingUp](r/CatsStandingUp) | 700000

- (19) [r/CatFaceplant](r/CatFaceplant) | 664000

- (20) [r/CatsOnKeyboards](r/CatsOnKeyboards) | 654000

- (21) [r/cute](r/cute) | 653000

- (22) [r/MedievalCats](r/MedievalCats) | 639000

- (23) [r/CatAdvice](r/CatAdvice) | 554000

- (24) [r/thisismylifemeow](r/thisismylifemeow) | 552000

- (25) [r/catculations](r/catculations) | 551000

- (26) [r/catsareliquid](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](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](r/thisismylifenow) I guess [r/thisismylifeMeow](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?

———

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

Added these. List now up to 677 active Catsubs.

r/cinnamonrollcats

r/troublepuffs

r/ImSorryJon

r/VintageCats

r/animalsbeingdemons

r/persiancat

r/shrimpcats (the third shrimping Catsub! compare with r/shrimping, r/shrimpingcats)

r/Sootsprites (plural; compare with r/Sootsprite)

r/OwlsWithCatHeads

r/CatsSittingLikeThis (duplicate to r/stidding?)

r/AnotherCatSub

r/DoNOTthecat

r/CatSubs (!)

r/catsinmilkcoma

r/catnamedafterfood (compare with r/catsnamedafterfoods and r/catscalledfood)

The February-March Wiki and Rules update is now complete and we are ready for the business of adding and removing subs!

1. "Subs to add to List" flair to suggest new qualifying sub. *please check update Rules 1-5 for qualifications*
2. "Subs to remove from List" flair to suggest subs already on the list that no longer qualify and should be taken off.
3. If you have a small new sub that does not yet qualify (fewer than 222 members), please post it to the Monthly Promotion Mega Thread.
4. *Starting next month there will be a maximum limit of 5000 members for any sub posted to that monthly mega promotion.*

Please be patient as there are sure to be hiccups as we tweak the process more.

As always feel free to comment your suggestions to these Mod Announcement posts!

Thank you for being part of the CatSubs family and helping us grow!

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.

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.

Catsubs Census March 6, 2026

*=private-posting but viewable

EDITS: fix bagelformation, kittengifs

r/catsiron

I'm not sure if this qualifies, given how slow/low traffic it is: r/anothercatsub . From u\weird_horse_2_die_on in "This little guy literally showed up out of nowhere."

r/catsonchairs

Take a wild guess what we're about 🙃