Endless streams of tuna, sky-high piles of catnip and enough laser pointers to fill a million empty boxes.
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These are just a few of the ways these fool-hearted cats plotted to spend their Powerball winnings before their hopes and dreams were crushed to bits on Wednesday night.
It appears the cat population took a brief hiatus from being cynical to try their luck in the lottery, only to be heartbroken when the numbers didn't land them the jackpot. And where do cynics go to let out their emotions? Twitter, of course.
The felines below have since been working through their emotions through tweets of despair, vowing to permanently return to a glass-half-empty outlook. Better luck in one of your next nine lives, kitties.