cat

"Your pet would come first. You'd have a bit of toast yourself and pay out for your pet," said Chatham cat owner Christine Gardner.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

In “Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known,” Scott Simon tells of a cat who runs roughshod over recording equipment and boldly horns in on interviews with politicians and pundits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dodgers’ steadiest pitcher and coolest cat actually seemed miffed on the mound when Smith didn’t challenge — as shocking a sight as his early exit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Ten years of the “pussyhat”: One of the most memorable—and controversial—symbols of the resistance to Trump’s first term in office was a knitted pink hat made to look like cat ears.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026

From a limb above, the cat still looked down.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Behind guarded gates resembling an Indian maharajah's palace are hundreds of elephants and big cats, giraffes grazing in a mock savannah, and chimpanzees and orangutans swinging from ropes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The high-profile project, championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been dogged by criticism over the deaths of several of the cats.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Eduarda was also on the stationary train, travelling with her two cats.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

We only have five now, but we’re like the Brady Bunch but we’re cats, bro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I did enough. The meet is in three days. I don’t want to wear myself out before the competition. I was feeding Gertrude and the cats so Dad didn’t have to.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Last week, he was catted by the Association of German Friends of Cats, and by Herr Victor Fraenkl, chairman of the German League for Animal Rights, one of the Association's principal spokesmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

“That’s well, let us have it up, and get it catted at once, if you please.”

From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

We paid out on the chain by which we swung, hove in on the other, catted the anchor, and hove short on the first.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Thus the Island Princess fell off by the head, as we catted and fished the anchor; then took the wind in her sails and slipped slowly out toward the open sea.

From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes

The ship broke out her own anchor, which we catted and fished, after a fashion, and were soon close-hauled, under reefed sails, standing off from the lee shore and rocks against a heavy head sea.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

He was a Viet Nam Vet who had been "catting" on the city streets for years.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

The lads up front have got their sprint on at the top and after some catting and mousing they finish the San Mauro Cilento in the following order: Wauters, Boaro and Taborre.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013

We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

The long-drawn wails, giving the time for the pull of the men catting the anchor, came to an end, and he lowered his voice.

From Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher