cat

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This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The international group classifies the cat as having a "near threatened" conservation status.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Karl Lagerfeld’s cat waiting six years for her inheritance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The only pet mentioned in her memoir, however, is Willow, the gray tabby Jill adopted after encountering the cat in a Pennsylvania barn on the campaign trail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“Let’s get out of here,” I yelled at Rowdy, and tore out down a game trail like a scalded cat.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls