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| x All Ball | Manx |
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...
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| x 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...
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| x Fred the Undercover Kitty |
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Domestic shorthaired cat |
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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x Humphrey |
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Humphrey (c. 1988 – March 2006) was a cat employed as a mouser at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, from October 1989 to 13 November 1997. Arriving as a one-year old stray, he served under the...
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| x Lewis |
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Polydactyl cat |
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....
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x Mrs. Chippy |
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Tabby cat |
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...
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| x Morris the Cat |
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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...
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| x Orangey |
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Tabby cat |
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...
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| x Oscar |
Oscar (born 2005) is a therapy cat in a Rhode Island nursing home, Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, who was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of terminally ill...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x Simon |
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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...
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| x Trim |
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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...
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| x Unsinkable Sam |
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"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...
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| x Socks |
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Socks (c. March 1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency. An adopted stray cat, he was the only pet of the Clintons during the early years of the administration, and his likeness hosted...
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| x 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...
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| x Colby Nolan |
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Animals have been submitted as applicants in suspected diploma mills in several cases. On some occasions the animal has been not only admitted, but granted a degree. In one case, a cat's degree helped lead to a successful fraud prosecution against...
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