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Recent Examples of alley catThat also includes Leonard, a dapper old parrot who lives in the clinic, and Bitchy, a mangy, rangy alley cat who recently wandered into the office and took up residence.—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 30 July 2025 To this day, the meanest alley cat in London testifies to the eternal return of cat life.—Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 There are housecats and alley cats, Brawley said, and then there are tigers and lions.—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 May 2025 That seemed as incongruous a combination as a nightingale harmonizing with an alley cat.—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2025 The week’s biggest stories Presidential debate Biden’s verbal stumbles, Trump’s ‘morals of an alley cat’: 6 debate takeaways.—Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024 Like Selina Kyle being nibbled into Catwoman by her alley cats, Doug’s origin story involves a nurturing puppy pile and a preternatural ability to communicate with the army of mutts who, hilariously, do his bidding like henchmen in a gangster movie.—Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 The cats have to find their way back home to Paris with the help of a musically-inclined alley cat.—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023 There is a genuine pathos in the vision of a man who has achieved power but remains unreconciled to himself, who soothes his way past his own rages and agonies by listening to the song of a homeless alley cat.—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
The men informed the fire station crew that a stray cat recently gave birth to five kittens in their garage, and one of the kittens had become stuck in the wheel.
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Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
When the mother asked why, the student explained the week-old kittens had been in the classroom with the teacher’s snakes.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
Dogs and cats are often portrayed as natural enemies in films, cartoons and even everyday folklore—but Nova the pit bull and her orange-tabby companion clearly never got the memo.
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Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
The 5-week-old orange tabby, named Mackie after the 7-Eleven worker who called in the tip, is now in foster care with one of his rescuers.
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