How do I stop Cat Facts texts?
Reply STOP to any Cat Facts message. Delivery to your number ends immediately and permanently. That's the entire process. It works from any phone, there's nothing to cancel online, and you'll never need to speak to a human. (Standard message rates applied to the texts, but the facts themselves cost you nothing.)
If you're not the recipient but the subscriber (you're being billed and want to end the subscription), use the unsubscribe page or reply to any receipt email, and we'll sort it out fast.
Why am I getting cat facts?
Because someone who knows your phone number thought you needed more feline trivia in your life. Cat Facts Texts is a real subscription service, and the famous internet prank that goes with it: a friend, sibling, or coworker signs you up, and a genuine, verified cat fact arrives by text every day until you reply STOP. It started with one legendary Reddit thread in 2012 and has been the internet's favorite harmless joke ever since.
The texts are real, the facts are true and hand-checked, and there's no scam here: nobody is after your information, and the messages stop the moment you say so.
Is the Cat Facts text a scam?
No. No links asking for your details, no requests for money, no phishing. Just cat facts. The only thing being taken is your certainty that a group of cats isn't called a "clowder." (It is.) If you want the longer answer, we wrote it up: is the Cat Facts text real?
Who signed me up?
We genuinely can't tell you: the service doesn't share subscriber details, and the texts come from our number, not theirs. But the data says it's almost always someone close: a sibling, a best friend, a group chat with a budget. Think about who laughed hardest the last time your phone buzzed. That's your suspect.
The traditional response: get them back
You have two dignified options. Option one: reply STOP, close the case, move on with your life. Respectable. Boring, but respectable.
Option two is the reason this prank has survived for over a decade: sign them up right back. It takes about thirty seconds, the first fact lands within moments, and the circle of feline justice completes itself. You can even send a few facts free to test the waters. This is, and we say this with complete professional pride, the most popular reason people visit this page.
One more option: just... keep them
We'd be lying if we didn't mention it: a meaningful share of "victims" never reply STOP. The daily fact becomes a tiny, reliable bright spot, and somewhere around fact thirty they realize the prank quietly turned into a gift. If that's you, welcome. You now know more about cats than 99 percent of the population, and there's a fresh one here every day.