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She also wrote that she believed she “deserved a goodbye” and asked Bryan to take care of their shared cat, Stump, and give his dog, Jack, a hug on her behalf.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

A Times reporter in Long Beach said it woke up them up and terrified their pet cat, which hid under a dining room table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The consumption of dog and cat meat is legal in the country, where many restaurants openly advertise it on their menu.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Cruise’s Digger Rockwell rises from bed and tries to feed his bizarrely acting cat before learning of an explosion on his oil rig in Greenland.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Fat Pete howled, but Jeremy walked past him; except for his dignity, the bound cat was unharmed.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

As we walk through the greenery, it is eerily quiet bar bird song and the mewing of hungry, stray cats.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

True, in the nearly two decades that she’s been creating plush figures, she’s produced charmingly minimalistic foxes, cats and buffalo fit for a nursery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Person-to-person spread of pneumonic plague hasn’t been documented in the U.S. since 1924, according to the CDC, but there have been rare cases among people exposed to cats that were sickened by eating infected rodents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Harry had acquired sixteen cats, but he didn’t take care of them; the most frequent comment that reporters and tourists had upon leaving the lodge was that it stank of cat urine.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

At daylight next morning we catted the anchors, made all sail, and were the next day reposing like a swan in a lake at Black River.

From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan

The anchor was at the hawse hole, was "catted and fished;" and the Ben Lomond moved on again, with the pilot on the bridge.

From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Oliver Optic

A common form was eighteen feet square, with seven feet stud, stone fireplaces, with catted chimney, and a hip-roof covered with thatch.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various

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 subsequent "catting" and "fishing" of the big "mud-hook" was all a confused dream to me.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen

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