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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
Some helpful home tips include using lemons to neutralize odor from kitty litter boxes and cutting boards, freshen fridges, remove stains from clothing and coffee mugs, and polish stainless pots and pans to a dazzling sparkle.
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Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
Right now, board members say there's no one in charge, its employees haven't received their last paychecks and the organization has only $1,000 in the kitty.
The feline was taken to South Shore Feral Care in West Babylon, where the staff named it Garfield.
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Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
At the base of the terraces were sculpture gardens featuring Fernando Botero’s chubby bronze feline El Gato and Ji Yong-Ho’s black Lion, assembled from recycled tires.
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.