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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
The cats are being rescued from the former Luján Zoo, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires, after years of uncertainty over their fate.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Aug. 2026
That said, Hudgens made the look decidedly 2026 with her nails, which are topped off with a cat-eye effect—clearly one of her favorite manicure modes considering how often she's seen wearing it in a variety of colors.
The 40-foot boat, initially spotted earlier this month in waters near Tacoma's Owen Beach, remains the focal point of an active criminal investigation as well as an ongoing search for additional felines that may have evaded law enforcement so far.
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Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
13 Aug. 2026
This one has a comic-book element—the adventures of an enigmatic feline named Godfrey—integrated into the regular text.
The pieces are small, which is great for kittens, but many adult cats also prefer them this way.
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BestReviews,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2026
Officers initially discovered more than 30 cats and kittens living in unsafe conditions aboard the vessel, with many appearing frightened and malnourished.
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.
Will Huebner / Santa Barbara Zoo Red pandas, which are a little larger than a house cat, are considered endangered, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
28 July 2026
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.