cat
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In “El Cowboy” you get to learn about his experiences as a cat dad, being his mom’s caretaker and a proud recipient of a prostate exam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
"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
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
As police and protesters engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, social media savvy students are turning ingenuity into a form of resistance.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
“That looks like the cat Mallons had once.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
It’s funny because when my girlfriend moved in with me, she had three cats, and I had three cats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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
She told the BBC it was "just really good to have something nearby that I can get to" with her six cats.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Hardware stores across the country are promoting their shop cats as ambassadors and social media stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Children play on porches with scraggly cats and sun-faded plastic toys.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich 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
It was light now, and in a very few minutes the canvas was spread and the anchor catted.
From At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The cat-fall was ready, and it was "hook on," when the fife seemed to turn its attention to another subject as the men catted the anchor.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
In about half an hour, which was near high water, the order was given to man the windlass, and again the anchor was catted; but not a word was said about the last time.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
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
“Have you got any of it yourself?” asked the patient, catting him short.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
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