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Recent Examples of mouserAt this point, Larry the cat, the Downing Street chief mouser, may be one of the country's few remaining sources of political continuity.—
Gail Krishnan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026 The Kelce family may soon be growing again, but this time with a fur baby, particularly a mouser cat.—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 June 2026 Snakes, such as garter snakes and thread snakes, eat snails, ant larvae, and other invertebrates, while gopher snakes, rat snakes, and other larger snakes are excellent mousers and will even take packrats, Amarello says.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
6 May 2026 Bishop herself appears in the belly of an especially large robot that very vaguely resembles a mouser with arms and feels a lot like a hint at Krang, the evil brain from Dimension X that terrorized the Turtles in the 1987 cartoon series.—
Wes Davis,
The Verge,
9 June 2024 Aoshima, after all, hadn’t always been a cat island; once, it had been populated mostly by people, fishermen, who brought the cats over to work as mousers.—
Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada,
New York Times,
10 May 2023 Though cats had been employed as chief mousers for centuries, Larry was the first to be given the official title.—
Alan Taylor,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2023 Koudounaris learned of an army tomcat named the Colonel, for example, who was stationed at San Francisco’s Presidio in the 1890s and was said to be the best mouser the army ever had.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Nov. 2020 The 12-year-old tabby is the government’s official chief mouser to the Cabinet Office.—Washington Post,
24 July 2019
At CatCon, attendees will get to meet kitty celebrities such as Uno, the one-eared cat with 360,000 subscribers on YouTube, or the Sphynx with over 44,000 thousand followers on Instagram, lily_rose_adventures.
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Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2026
Because FeLV can be contagious to other cats, Bruce will need to be the only kitty in his new home.
Unlike its ghost and black cat pillow counterparts, the pumpkin works as Halloween décor but is still neutral enough to keep out past October 31.
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Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2026
This shimmery style is achieved by using a magnetic gel polish and a magnet to direct particles in the formula into a 3D pattern on the surface of the nail, creating an effect that mimics the light-shifting pattern of a cat’s eye.
Oh, and there’s also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer — cat heaven.
Smaller than a house cat at just 3 pounds and 18 inches long, the tilcayo was long known to local communities but only recently recognized as a distinct species through DNA analysis.
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Paola Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Sep. 2026
Locals who saw the creature in the Bolivian Andes had mistaken it for an ordinary house cat, said biologist and National Geographic explorer Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, who was part of the research team that studied them.