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Recent Examples of mouserBishop 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 This cat, the man remarks, may make a good mouser.—Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020 The 12-year-old tabby is the government’s official chief mouser to the Cabinet Office.—Washington Post, 24 July 2019
There is production design and a few props, but not to any overwhelming purpose, other than perhaps to suggest the house where a lady who loves rescue kitties might be thinking all these alternately independent and co-dependent thoughts about love and trust.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2026
In the video, the cat’s owner gently holds the kitty up to an open window as snow drifts inside.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Yet only 13% of dogs and 7% of cats are registered, the March 18 report from the city’s internal audit department found.
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Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
Artificial corals can give deep-water marine life a place to live; cat sharks, for example, wrap necklace-like egg cases around any structure, natural or not, that sticks up from the seafloor.
Zookeepers placed small bags decorated like Easter eggs but packed with meat in the enclosures of small felines, such as caracals, who leapt up tree branches to get their snacks.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
Rewarding good behavior and enriching the feline’s environment with play and stimulation can reduce curtain climbing.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
What was meant to be a quiet end to an anniversary getaway turned into a heart-melting surprise for one couple—two kittens waiting patiently on their porch.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
Featured in a photo gallery were some puppies and kittens dressed in clothes.
Neckties and pussycat bows remain a Bella Freud signature, and Ruspoli also helped Freud secure her first clothing commission—by introducing her to his friend Keith Richards.
The animals produce a strong, fruity musk, can weigh as much as a house cat and can potentially live for 90 years or more.
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Elizabeth Anne Brown,
Scientific American,
4 Mar. 2026
Researchers also learned that these 7- to 10-pound creatures, which are not much larger than a house cat, are impressively agile and travel about seven miles a day in extremely rugged territory.