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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
That night, somewhere between a racist stranger, a free dessert, my girlfriend publicly shaming a man in a Mediterranean restaurant and our demanding cat, the City of Angels started to feel like home.
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Mayur Chauhan,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2026
Though nothing about the current situation is ideal, there’s no clear way to hop off without ensuring certain doom at the hands of a large, angry cat.
The feline was then released back into the wild, startled but safe.
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Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
2 Sep. 2026
Witkowski estimated a standard chair for the feline would cost around $1,800, which is a steep price given that the growing kitten would outgrow it in about a month and a half.
After visiting a neighbor who was fostering kittens, the little girl would bring one home, hoping to keep it despite her dad’s allergy.
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Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
3 Sep. 2026
Earlier this year, the kitten was discovered in the wild and closely monitored by biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as part of panther conservation efforts.
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Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Aug. 2026
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.
An island fox, about the size of a large house cat, was busy foraging for food in the leaves.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2026
The creature, smaller than a house cat and uniquely round, appeared in social media users’ posts waddling across lawns, fences, and cables around the city.