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the house cat at the Cheshire Cat Bookstore has the dual responsibility of being mascot and mouser
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No offense to the humans, but none of these supporting characters are quite as engaging as Sam’s house cat, maybe the most hilariously chill feline in movie history.
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 June 2024
These small cats, often mistaken for house cats due to their size and coloration, are capable jumpers and hunters of small mammals and birds.
—Tom Howarth
follow, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
The octopus, the elephant, the great horned owl, the house cat, the giant tortoise, the chimpanzee: who, in all the vast animal kingdom, joins us in having intimations of mortality?
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Then again, that seriousness can also be interpreted as the very thing an anti-suffragist postcard maker was mocking by attaching it to a fluffy house cat.
—Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 June 2024
These small cats, often mistaken for house cats due to their size and coloration, are capable jumpers and hunters of small mammals and birds.
—Tom Howarth
follow, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
The octopus, the elephant, the great horned owl, the house cat, the giant tortoise, the chimpanzee: who, in all the vast animal kingdom, joins us in having intimations of mortality?
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Then again, that seriousness can also be interpreted as the very thing an anti-suffragist postcard maker was mocking by attaching it to a fluffy house cat.
—Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
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“House cat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20cat. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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