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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
Loan pools like the Chinese hui, the Japanese tanomoshi and the Korean kye involve groups of investors who pay into a kitty that is then doled out on a rotating basis.
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Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2026
Leap across rooftops and squeeze through pipes, all to become the ultimate good kitty.
On the flip side, grooming can also be used to send a stern message, the study found, particularly in the felines’ display of asymmetrical body postures such as one cat leaning over the other one.
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Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
20 July 2026
When the rescue team found the cat, its eyes were caked with dust and debris, and after extraction, the feline received hydration and medical care.
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.
The creature, smaller than a house cat and uniquely round, waddled across a patch of grass before climbing a staircase and disappearing over a fence.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
17 July 2026
Officials now are seeing more house cats abandoned on the streets as the price of pet food and veterinary care has skyrocketed since the pandemic, according to Sarai Rivera, founder of My Bella TNR cat rescue in Hartford.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2026