At the shelter open day, when someone pointed at the tiny calico and asked, 'Who's that?' a volunteer smiled and said, 'she's the cat's mother,' meaning she had raised it since birth.

The old sailor kept a box of polished cat-o-nines as a grim reminder of past discipline.

The Asiatic golden cat prowled silently beneath the dense Bornean canopy, its amber eyes watching every movement.

After being scratched by a stray kitten, Maria was diagnosed with cat-scratch fever.

He sat at the table like a cat that ate the canary after they discovered he had taken the last slice of cake.

The police interviewed the neighbors after the cat that swallowed the canary was spotted sitting smugly on the windowsill.

The old sailor told a story about a cat in the meal tub that saved the crew from hunger.

When the audit began, everyone hoped there wasn't a cat in the meal-tub.

A wildlife photographer waited for hours to capture a rare portrait of the Chinese desert cat at dawn.

The conservation team documented a rare Chinese mountain cat prowling the alpine meadows at dawn.