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Recent Examples of tomcatAll kinds of urban animals would wander over, chiefly because Alix set out bowls of kibble and water on the front stoop for her big black tomcat.—Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2025 To a tomcat being stroked in the crook of an unidentified elbow.—Andrew Tobias, Vulture, 7 July 2025 As an actor, Branagh has a voice that’s high, excitable, and light, and his physicality possesses a tomcat sneakiness.—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024 The tomcat had been spotted wandering with a wound on his chest.—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024 The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through its head!—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023 Note that the scent does not draw squirrels, tomcats, or teenage boys.—James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Her big red tomcat, Rex, lolls at her feet.—Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013
After almost getting run over by two cars in heavy rain, a tiny black kitten was saved by a kind stranger who stopped to help him and ended up taking him home.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Christopher Walken, who once gifted an Abyssinian kitten to a reporter during an Interview magazine profile, has raised cats for decades.
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Steve Garbarino,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
That also includes Leonard, a dapper old parrot who lives in the clinic, and Bitchy, a mangy, rangy alley cat who recently wandered into the office and took up residence.
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Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
30 July 2025
To this day, the meanest alley cat in London testifies to the eternal return of cat life.
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