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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
Stop into one of several breweries along the Jackson County Ale Trail, or pop into the American Museum of the House Cat, where feline enthusiasts can peruse cat-centric art and artifacts.
Pet owner Saige shared an adorable clip on TikTok (@saigescho) showing her white rescue kitten, Maude, copying the antics of her long-haired chihuahua, Alfie.
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Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
And, because Swift is the queen of thoughtful gifts, the Capital gang got her one, an adorable opalite kitten nested in a green box inside an orange bag.
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.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Joining the two this year is a 5-foot pussycat, which comes poised to pounce in a crouching position with adjustable glowing eyes.
Trucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.
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Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK,
theweek,
9 Jan. 2024
Diodorus Siculus, a Greek author who wrote in the first century A.D., recounts the tale of a Roman soldier who made the mistake of killing a sacred moggy in Egypt.
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