cat
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Kitten born with two noses and two mouths leaves cat rescue 'speechless'
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
An escaped big cat believed to have been roaming the countryside for two months has been captured after being found with injuries in a plant pot in a back garden.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
He walks over to the cat and picks him up, and in previous adaptations of this story, this might signal that a disturbing act of animal cruelty is about to happen.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Perhaps most frustrating is Mr. Bailey’s insistence on the cat as a metonym for Spark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Probably not. Good grief. That's the biggest cat I've ever seen!"
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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“As is fitting for someone who favored the company of cats to people, she appeared to have nine lives,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
As they exited the modeling industry, they pivoted into animal activism and volunteering for rescue groups and trap, neuter and return programs for cats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"If we'd have done the sensible thing and gone the other way and let our cats die, we both would be alive. But when you've got animals, you don't think like that."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
While Luna's paw print has no legal standing, the gesture holds sentimental value, and more than 50 Ecuadoran couples have elected to get married in front of their dogs and cats since May.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Then the robot came stomping up, and the cats hissed and scattered in every direction.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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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
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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
“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 Collingwood, Harry
The rope rove for the cat-purchase, by which the anchor is raised to the cat-head or catted.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
Hardly had the little transport Vectis catted her anchor when the Republic of Natalia was proclaimed and its flag run up on the staff of the forsaken British Camp on Durban Bay.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
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
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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 Bullen, Frank T.
Martin will see to the catting of the anchor.”
From The Missing Merchantman by Overend, William Heysham