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Cat
The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. It has been associated with humans for at least 9,500...
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Lilium
The genus Lilium are herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs. Lilies comprise a genus of about 110 species in the lily family (Liliaceae) and are important as large showy flowering garden plants. Additionally, they are important culturally...
CC
CC for "Copy Cat" (born December 22, 2001), is a brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet. CC's surrogate mother was a tabby, but her genetic donor, Rainbow, was a calico domestic shorthair. The difference in hair coloration...
Hodge
Hodge was one of Samuel Johnson's cats, immortalized in a characteristically whimsical passage in James Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Although there is little known about Hodge, such as his life, his death, or any other information, what is known is...
Humphrey
Humphrey (c. 1988 – March 2006) was a cat employed as a mouser at 10 Downing Street from October 1989 to 13 November 1997. Arriving as a one-year old stray, he served under the premierships of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair, but...
Date of Birth:
- 1988 (age 21 years)
Turkish Angora
The Turkish Angora (Turkish: Ankara Kedisi) is a breed of domestic cat. Turkish Angoras are one of the ancient, naturally-occurring cat breeds, having originated in central Turkey, in the Ankara region.
They mostly have a white, silky, medium-long...
Morris the Cat
Morris the Cat (voiced by John Erwin) is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials. A large red tabby tom, he is "the world's most finicky cat", and prefers only 9Lives...
Macavity
Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot. He also appears in the musical, Cats, which is based on Eliot's book.
Macavity (also called the Mystery Cat, the Hidden Paw and...
Colby Nolan
Colby Nolan is a housecat who was awarded an MBA degree in 2004 by Trinity Southern University, a Dallas, Texas-based diploma mill, sparking a fraud lawsuit by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.
Colby Nolan belongs to a deputy attorney...
Little Nicky
Little Nicky (born October 17, 2004) is the first commercially-produced cat clone. He was produced from the DNA of a 17-year-old Maine Coon cat named Nicky who died in 2003. Little Nicky's owner, a north Texas woman named Julie (her last name was...
Date of Birth:
- Oct 17, 2004 (age 5 years)
All Ball
All Ball was a pet cat of Koko, the famous gorilla living in Woodside, California, who is purported to communicate via sign language. In the summer of 1984, Koko asked her trainer, Dr. Francine 'Penny' Patterson, for a cat. Koko selected a gray male...
Smudge
Smudge (died 2000) was a feline that became a minor celebrity in Glasgow.
Employed by the People's Palace museum in Glasgow Green to deal with a rodent problem in 1979, Smudge became a fixture of the museum, which sold Smudge merchandise including...
Trim
Trim was a ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03.
Trim was born in 1797, aboard HMS Reliance on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. The kitten fell...
Date of Birth:
- 1797
Muezza
Muezza (or Mu'izza) (Arabic: معزة) is said to have been the Islamic prophet Muhammad's favorite cat. According to legend, Muhammad one day awoke at the sound of the call to prayer. Preparing to attend, he began to clothe himself; however, he soon...
Socks
Socks (c. March 1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency. He then resided with former Clinton secretary Betty Currie and her husband.
Socks was adopted by the Clintons in 1991 after he...
Date of Birth:
- Mar 1989
Date of death:
- Feb 20, 2009 (age 19 years)
Lewis
Lewis is the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut who garnered mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006. At the time of his arrest Lewis was five years old, placing his birthdate between the years 2000 and 2001....
Date of Birth:
- 2000 (age 9 years)
Orangey
Orangey, a red tabby cat, was a talented animal actor owned and trained by the well-known cinematic animal handler Frank Inn. Orangey (credited under various names) had a prolific career in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s and was...
India
India "Willie" Bush is US President's George W. Bush and Laura Bush's black cat. There was some controversy reported in India as several people were upset with the cat's name. In the southern Indian...
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 2009
Simon
Simon (c. 1947 -28 November 1949) was the ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, by raising morale and...
Date of Birth:
- 1947 (age 63 years)
Himmy
Himmy is one of the largest cats who ever lived.
Owned by Thomas Vyse of Redlynch, Queensland, Australia, Himmy reportedly weighed 46 pounds 15.25 oz (21.3 kg), and died in 1986 at 10 years of age. He had a 15-inch (38 cm) neck, was 38 inches (97 cm...
Date of Birth:
- 1976 (age 33 years)
Fred the Undercover Kitty
Fred the Undercover Kitty (May 2005 - August 10, 2006) was a domestic shorthaired cat who gained fame for his undercover work with the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in the arrest of a suspect posing as a...
Date of Birth:
- May 2005 (age 4 years)
Scarlett the cat
Scarlett the cat was a former stray cat from Brooklyn, New York - probably born in summer 1995 - whose efforts to save her kittens from a fire, at serious harm to herself, attracted worldwide media attention and has been related in a number of non...
Date of Birth:
- Jun 1995 (age 14 years)
Mrs. Chippy
Mrs. Chippy was a cat who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17, and - along with the sled dogs - was eventually shot after the expedition's ship, the Endurance, was destroyed when it became trapped in...
Peter, the Lord's cat
Peter, the Lord's cat (1950 – 5 November 1964), also known as The Marylebone mog, was a cat who lived at Lord's Cricket Ground in London from 1952 to 1964. He is the only animal to be given an obituary in the standard cricket reference book, Wisden...
Date of Birth:
- 1950 (age 60 years)
Macavity
Macavity is the name given by several bus drivers from the West Midlands, United Kingdom to a white cat which, since January 2007, has been observed to regularly use the local bus service on its own.
The cat was nicknamed Macavity after the...
Oscar
Oscar (born 2005) is a therapy cat in a Rhode Island hospice who was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients. Explanations for this ability include Oscar...
Date of Birth:
- 2005 (age 4 years)
Unsinkable Sam
"Unsinkable Sam" (also known as "Oscar") was the nickname given to a ship's cat who saw service in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving on board three vessels and surviving the sinking of all three.
The black and...
Room 8
Room 8 was a neighborhood cat that wandered into a classroom at Elysian Heights Elementary School, Echo Park, California. He would live in the school during the school year and then disappear for the summer, returning when classes started again....
Tama
Tama (たま, born April 29, 1999) is a calico cat who is the station master at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
In April 2006, the Wakayama Electric Railway converted all stations on the Kishigawa Line from manned to unmanned in...
Misty Malarky Ying Yang
Misty Malarky Ying Yang was a male Siamese cat owned by Amy Cater, daughter of President Carter. When the Carter family moved into the White House, Amy brought Misty Malarky Yin Yang with her.
Shan
Shan, a siamese cat, was a pet of Gerald, Betty and Susan Ford.
Tom Kitten
Tom Kitten was a cat owned by John F. Kennedy.
Smoky
Smoky was a bobcat owned by Calvin Coolidge.
Tiger
Tiger was a cat owned by Calvin Coolidge.
Puffins
Puffins was a cat owned by Woodrow Wilson.
Tom Quartz
Tom Quartz was a cat owned by Theodore Roosevelt.
Slippers
Slippers was a cat owned byTheodore Roosevelt.
Piccolomini
Piccolomini was a cat owned by Rutherford B. Hayes.
Valeriano Weyler
Valeriano Weyler, a Turkish Angora cat, was a pet of William McKinley.
Enrique DeLome
Enrique DeLome, an Angora cat, was a pet of William McKinley.
