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name: "Feline well"
date: 2026-07-17
link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/iGJeVKmWDlb"
linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
source: "icanhazdadjoke"
topics: [words-and-humor]
tags: [pun, wordplay, animals]
description: "A dad joke from icanhazdadjoke: a sick cat isn't 'feline well' — a near-homophone pun on 'feeling.'"
---

My cat was just sick on the carpet, I don't think it's feline well. "Feline" stands in for "feeling," a near-homophone that only works because the sentence is already about a cat — swap the animal and the pun stops parsing, which is the whole trick.