23 Puptacular Dog Memes to Help Chase Away the Sunday Scaries

It usually begins around 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon — the exact moment the sun starts to dip and the realization hits that your weekend has effectively expired. Suddenly, the looming shadow of Monday morning feels less like a scheduled event and more like a personal threat. While some people suggest combatting this dread with meal prepping or early bedtimes, most of us know that the only real cure is a steady stream of wholesome, slightly chaotic dog content to distract us from our inboxes.

There is something about a dog's worldview that is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of a Monday. A dog doesn't care about deliverables, they don't have to worry about the etiquette of a corporate email, and they certainly aren't stressed about their 9 a.m. status report. They are living in a permanent state of Saturday afternoon, where the only thing on the agenda is figuring out which patch of sunlight is the warmest. When your brain is spiraling about a deadline, seeing a golden retriever fail to catch a tennis ball for the third time in a row provides the kind of perspective that no self-help book can offer.

I've always felt that my overthinking brain could learn a lot from a dog's simplicity. I can spend four hours debating the punctuation of a single sentence, while a dog can spend that same amount of time trying to make friends with a statue. Recently, I watched a dog try to retrieve a giant stick that was clearly wider than the door it was trying to enter. It didn't get frustrated; it just kept wagging its tail and trying new angles. I'm trying to bring that same "no thoughts, just vibes" energy to my Monday morning, though I suspect my boss might have questions if I start greeting everyone with that level of enthusiasm.