List of fictional cats in literature
This list of fictional cats in literature is subsidiary to the list of fictional cats. It is restricted solely to notable feline characters from notable literary works of fiction. For characters that appear in several separate works, only the earliest work will be recorded here.
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| Character | Earliest Appearance and Author | Notes |
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| Alonzo | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
A black and white tom, and is often considered the 'second-hand-man' to Munkustrap. He saves Demeter from Macavity, and is the first to attack him after he defeats Munkustrap. |
| Aristotle | The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith |
A kitten depends on his nine lives and the magical powers of his owner (a friendly witch) in order to emerge safely from various adventures.[1][2][3][4][5] |
| Bangs | Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness |
Bangs is a little girl's cat in this winner of the 1967 Caldecott Medal. In a variant of Aesop's The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Samantha romanticizes her life, pretending that Bangs can talk and that her mother was a mermaid. When a neighboring boy, Thomas, believes her and goes to search for the mermaid, Bangs follow him; they are caught in a seastorm and lost. They return safely, and Sam learns the folly of spreading "moonshine," or nonsense.[6] |
| Behemoth | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
An abnormally large black cat who walks on his hind legs and carries a pistol. Being a member of the Devil's entourage, he is wicked and devious. He has a penchant for chess, vodka, and pickled mushrooms.[7][8] |
| Bombalurina | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
A flirtatious red Queen with a white chest and black spots and marks.[9] |
| Borregad | Lyrec by Gregory Frost |
Borregad and Lyrec are of an energy-based race who can shapeshift. When he and Lyrec hunt their archenemy into another world, Lyrec takes human shape, but Borregad has only enough strength to take the form of a cat.[10] Borregad, a Jester figure, finds a variant of Guinness stout to cheer himself in this fantasy world. |
| Bustopher Jones | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
A parody of an Edwardian gentleman of leisure and is described as the St. James's Street cat, a regular visitor to many gentlemen's clubs in the area, including Drones, Blimp's, and The Tomb. He is also extremely obese. |
| Buttercup | "The Hunger Games Trilogy" by Suzanne Collins |
Primrose's cat, hated by main human character Katniss. |
| Captain Wow | "The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Cordwainer Smith |
A telepathic tom cat who works happily alongside humans to fight outer space monsters known as Dragons, Captain Wow perceives them as rats and is a successful slayer of these invaders. |
| Carbonel | Carbonel: the King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh |
Carbonel: the King of the Cats is the first of a tripartite series about this royal cat, all published between 1955 and 1978. (Reprinted versions have different titles: Carbonel: the King of the Cats, Carbonel: the King of Cats, Carbonel: the Prince of Cats, and so on.) Carbonel's feline subjects miss him after the witch Mrs. Cantrip abducted him. Unfortunately, he can't return to his throne until the enslavement spell which Mrs. Cantrip cast on him is undone.[11] He is helped by the human children Rosemary and John. Carbonel is depicted as a black cat, as shown by the book cover illustrations of a wide variety of reprints. Library Journal called it "A must for all libraries." New York Journal-American wrote, "A truly bewitching story reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland," and The Horn Book Magazine enthused, "Magic and everyday life blend smoothly in this highly enjoyable fantasy, perfect for reading aloud." |
| Cat | Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote |
Pet of Holly Golightly. |
| Cat | It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville |
A stray cat that 14-year-old Dave Mitchell adopts as a pet and confidant.[12] Winner of the 1964 Newbery Medal. |
| Cat Morgan | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
Retired and works as a doorman at the book publishers Faber and Faber. He is a gruff but likeable character. |
| The Cat in the Hat | The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss |
A mischievous anthropomorphic feline from Dr. Seuss's book of the same name. |
| Cheshire Cat | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
Sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice. It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a massive argument between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded. |
| "Church" (Winston Churchill) | Pet Sematary by Stephen King |
This unfortunate cat is killed by a truck, buried in the ancient burial ground of the title, then returns home, in a manner reminiscent of the dead son in the horror story "The Monkey's Paw". |
| C'mell | "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" and "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith |
C'mell is an uplifted Persian cat with reddish fur who looks, in these stories, like a red-headed woman with discreet (and discrete) feline features. She is the heroine of both stories, being a far-future cat/woman with psychic powers including telepathy. She courageously helps her society, both in gaining more rights for "underpeople" (animals given intellect, speech, and physical make-overs) such as herself and in saving the lives of humans.[13] She appears in only two short stories, but remains "the most enduringly popular cat in science fiction and fantasy."[13] |
| Coricopat | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
Male twin to Tantomile. Coricopat and Tantomile are often portrayed as psychic cats, as they sense the presence of danger before it becomes apparent to the other characters. |
| Crookshanks | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling |
The pet cat of Hermione Granger. He is described as having a "squashed face," which was inspired by a real cat Rowling once saw, which she said looked like it had run face first into a brick wall; most likely a Persian. Hermione buys Crookshanks from a shop in Diagon Alley out of sympathy, as nobody wants him because of his behaviour and his squashed looking-face. Rowling has confirmed that Crookshanks is half Kneazle,[14] an intelligent, cat-like creature who can detect when they are around untrustworthy people, explaining his higher than normal cat intelligence and stature. |
| Demeter | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
Demeter is black and gold with a few patches of white and red or orange (and she wears gloves instead of arm warmers, giving her a more elegant touch.) She is the cat who unmasks Macavity when he tries to disguise as Old Deuteronomy. |
| Dinah | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
Alice's pet kitten in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In Through the Looking-Glass, she is an adult with kittens of her own (Kitty and Snowdrop). |
| Djibi | Djibi, the Kitten by |
An independent cat who survives a drowning attempt and chooses for herself where to live. |
| Dragon | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien |
The farmer's cat who killed Mrs. Frisby's husband. |
| Electra | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
One of the youngest female kittens in the tribe of Jellicle cats. Like many of the other young feline characters, she is in awe of the Rum Tum Tugger, a flirtatious roguish male main character. |
| Faithful | The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce | Magical cat who is a loyal companion to main character Alanna starting in book 2. |
| Fiddle | Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones |
Gwendolen used one of Cat's lives to turn his fiddle into a cat named Fiddle. |
| Findus | Pettson and Findus by Sven Nordqvist |
A cat who dresses up and talks with his old Swedish farmer, Pettson. |
| Firestar | Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter |
The main character for the first arc of Warriors books (the "Original Series") as well as a major supporting character for the subsequent arcs, he is a flame-colored tom with deep green eyes. |
| Francis | Felidae by Akif Pirinçci |
In this 1989 German-language mystery,[15] which has been translated into 17 languages and became a worldwide best-seller, Francis ("a wise-ass of a cat and new to the town"[16]), investigates the murders of several cats. Publishers Weekly wrote, "A clever, offbeat thriller in which the sleuth and most of the other main characters are cats, this ... won Germany's prize for best crime novel of the year in 1990. As an allegory on Germany's Nazi past, it is facile and ambivalent. The detective/narrator, Francis, an irrepressibly curious house cat, deduces that whoever is murdering the neighborhood tabbys has a warped mind and is attempting to breed a 'super race' of felines."[17] Felidae was adapted into a 1994 German animated neo-noir film directed by Michael Schaack and starring Ulrich Tukur as Francis. |
| Fritti Tailchaser | Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams |
Tailchaser joins with friends Pouncequick and Roofshadow on an epic quest. |
| Ginger | The Tale of Ginger and Pickles by Beatrix Potter |
A yellow tomcat who ran a shop with his partner Pickles, a terrier. |
| Ginger | The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis |
A talking cat of Narnia, he is a four-legged member of the triumvirate who cause civil war and real terror among his country-mates. Ginger lies at every opportunity ("Aslan would want you to do this!"). His co-leaders are Rishda Tarkaan, Calormene captain leading the battle against Narnia with the sole motive of bellicosity, and Shift, a greedy ape who seeks power to sate his gluttony. Ginger is finally punished for his evil deeds by having his ability for speech removed and being banned from Aslan's Country. |
| Great Rumpus Cat | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
A hero in the world of the book and the musical. |
| Greebo | Discworld by Terry Pratchett |
A foul-tempered, one-eyed grey tomcat whose owner, Nanny Ogg, insists against all the evidence that he is a sweet, harmless kitten. In the course of the books, he has killed two vampires, eating at least one of them in the novel Witches Abroad:
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| Griddlebone | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
Companion to Mungojerrie, a white fluffy Persian queen who first appears in the poem Growltiger's Last Stand. She inadvertently leads to the demise of her suitor, the dreaded Growltiger, at the hands (paws) of a gang of Siamese cats. |
| Growltiger | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
A pirate cat. |
| Gummitch | Space-Time for Springers by Fritz Leiber |
As Fritz Leiber, a cat-lover, describes him, "Gummitch was a superkitten, as he knew very well, with an I.Q. of about 160. Of course, he didn't talk. But everybody knows that I.Q. tests based on language ability are very one-sided. Besides, he would talk as soon as they started setting a place for him at table and pouring him coffee."[18] Gummitch doesn't get to prove himself by coffee; he proves himself by saving a life in his household. |
| Harry Cat | The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden |
Friend and guide to New York City for Tucker Mouse and Chester Cricket. The novel was a 1961 Newbery Honor Book. |
| Jellylorum | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Jennie[19] | Jennie by Paul Gallico |
A young boy named Peter is transformed into a cat after an accident, and is taken in by Jennie and taught the ways of cats. |
| Jennyanydots | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Jupiter | The Deptford Mice by Robin Jarvis |
A bloated, evil ginger tabby worshipped as a living god by sewer rats. He dwells in a dark chamber and no one has ever seen any more of him than his blazing red eyes, so his rodent followers are unaware of the true feline nature of their deity. |
| Khat | Midnite by Randolph Stow |
He is a talking Siamese cat who persuades Captain Midnite to become a bushranger and formulates his plans. |
| Kitsa | The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks |
She is a housecat who acts as an occasional antagonist, frightening and hunting Omri's animated toy Indian. Kitsa is black and white, with green eyes, noted for her independence and disobedience. |
| Kitty | Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel |
She is a housecat who wreaks havoc around her owner's home when she is in a bad mood, hence the name. She has black fur and a white tuft of fur on her chest. |
| Lady May | "The Game of Rat and Dragon" by Cordwainer Smith |
A telepathic cat who works happily alongside humans to fight outer space monsters known as Dragons, she perceives them as rats and is a successful slayer of these invaders. Her human partner, Underhill, is in love with her, knowing that no human female mind could ever equal the Lady's. |
| Leonardo | "Me and My Cat?" by Satoshi Kitamura |
A cat who switches with his companion, a boy called Nicholas. |
| Liszt | "Edward the Conqueror" by Roald Dahl |
A woman believes a stray cat who appreciates her piano music is a reincarnation of Franz Liszt, to the disgust of her cat-hating husband. |
| Macavity | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
A devilish cat. Part of the poem about him says, "Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity". |
| Maisie MacKenzie | Maisie Comes to Morningside by Aileen Paterson |
An anthropomorphic cat who lives in Morningside, Edinburgh, Maisie wears a kilt and her adventures have taken her from Glasgow to New York to Brazil and even climbing in the Himalayas. Her feline friends are Professor Mackenzie and Mrs McKitty.[20] Maisie is featured in over 20 books, and has a line of soft toys; the books have been adapted for a television series, with dubbing by Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter.[21] |
| Maurice | The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett |
The eponymous fast-talking confidence trickster cat who operates a 'pied-piper' scam in the Discworld series of books - organising teams of rats to infest a town and then rapidly withdraw after payment to a 'tame' human. |
| Mehitabel | Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis |
An alley cat who is the best friend of the cockroach Archy. Drawn in a series of newspaper comics, she is "a toujours gai ["always in a good mood"] old dame with the soul of Cleopatra." A song, "Toujours Gai," was written for Mehitabel in the 1971 animated musical comedy film Shinbone Alley. It was later covered by Eartha Kitt on her CD album Purr-fect: Greatest Hits.[22] |
| Mickey | Barbary by Vonda McIntyre |
A cat owned by Barbary, a twelve-year-old girl, that travels with her to live on a space station. |
| Midnight Louie | Crystal Days by Carole Nelson Douglas |
20 Pound (9 kg) tomcat companion to (and fellow investigator with) amateur sleuth, Temple Barr occasionally assisted by his sire 3 O'Clock Louie, his Ma Barker and her 24th Street gang, and his kit Midnight Louise. |
| Minoes | Minoes by Annie M. G. Schmidt |
A cat who gets transformed into a human by a chemical accident. |
| Miss Moppet | The Story of Miss Moppet by Beatrix Potter |
One of Tabitha Twitchit's daughters. |
| Mister | The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher |
A bob-tailed grey tomcat belonging to the wizard Harry Dresden. He is often used as a vessel for Bob (a spirit of intellect) to inhabit on intelligence missions. |
| Mittens | The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter |
One of Tabitha Twitchit's daughters. |
| Mr. Mistoffelees | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Mr. Pusskins | Mr. Pusskins by Sam Lloyd |
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| Mrs. Norris | Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling |
The pet cat of Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch. She patrols the corridors of the school looking for students skipping class, often foreshadowing the appearance of Mr. Filch himself. |
| Mog | Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr |
Faithful pet of the Thomas family. |
| Mogget | Sabriel by Garth Nix |
A mysterious white cat that serves the Abhorsen, who may be more than he appears. |
| Moxie | The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman |
Will's cat who leads him through the window to Citta'gazze, where he meets Lyra. Later, Will's daemon settles as a cat. |
| Mungojerrie | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Munkustrap | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Murr | The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann |
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| Nigger Man | The Rats in the Walls by H. P. Lovecraft |
Plays a pivotal role. |
| Noboru Wataya | The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami |
Later renamed Mackerel. |
| Old Deuteronomy | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Oliver | Oliver in the Garden by Margaret Beames |
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| Orlando | A Camping Holiday by Kathleen Hale |
The eponymous hero. |
| Pangur Bán | "The Monk and His Cat", attributed to Sedulius Scottus; translated by W. H. Auden and others; set to music by Samuel Barber and others |
The cat in this 9th-century Irish monastic poem is described as a happy mouser, whose simple enjoyment of success in the hunt is likened to that of the author, a monk, when he learns something new in his studies. |
| Peter | "The Smile of the Sphinx" by William F. Temple |
This cat is thought, by the narrator, to be an extraordinarily stupid cat "who could never learn the simplest of tricks";[23] in fact, Peter is extraordinarily brilliant. He is part of a race of Felidae who originally lived on the Moon and who came to Earth, ages ago, to enjoy being spoiled by the Egyptians. This science fiction tale explains why dogs howl at the Moon, why the Great Sphinx of Giza has its shape, and even why the Moon has craters. |
| Petronius the Arbiter (Pete) | The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein |
The smart, loving cat of protagonist Daniel Boone Davis, who occasionally carries him in a carrying-bag and gives him saucers of Ginger ale to drink. Dan calls him Petronius the Arbiter because he thinks that Pete is a good arbiter (judge) of personality. If Pete doesn't like someone, Dan will distrust that person; Pete has always been proved right. |
| Pixel | The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein |
The title character of the book, who has an inexplicable tendency to be wherever the narrator happens to be. In one scene Pixel does, in fact, walk through a wall, and it is explained that Pixel is too young to know that such behavior is impossible. |
| Pluto | The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe |
Pluto is the narrator's cat. After becoming an alcoholic he starts abusing the cat, then trying unsuccessfully to kill it. When his wife intervenes in one incident he kills her instead then bricks the body up in a wall. The narrator is caught when the police come and hear sounds behind the wall, where the narrator accidentally entombed the still-living cat along with its mistress. |
| Princess Arjumand, aka 'Dearum JuJu' | To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis |
Princess Arjumand is the beloved pet of Tocelyn 'Tossie' Mering in the 19th century whose great^nth granddaughter in the 21st century will control a very large endowment that the time travel faculty of Oxford greatly needs. Princess Arjumand is brought into the future to save her from drowning and sets off the plot of the book when the hero is tasked with returning her to her own time. Is particularly fond of goldfish. |
| Ralph | Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos |
A mischievous red cat who enjoys playing mean, practical jokes on his family. |
| Ribby | The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan by Beatrix Potter |
A cat with a love for mouse pie, a good friend of the dog Duchess and cousin to Tabitha. |
| Rum Tum Tugger | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Rumpelteazer | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Sagwa | Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan |
A kitten who gained her Siamese markings by accident. She is capable of writing in Chinese with her tail. |
| Sampson | The Church Mice series by Graham Oakley |
A cat that lives at a church and looks after mice. |
| Scarface Claw | Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy and various sequels by Lynley Dodd |
A tough cat who scares Hairy Maclary and his canine companions, and even scares himself. |
| Simpkin | The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter |
The Tailor's pet cat who fetches an essential cherry-coloured silk twist, but angrily hides it after he finds the tailor released his captive mice. After a change of heart, he gives back the twist. |
| Sir Claude "The Cat" | Blinky Bill the Movie by Dorothy Wall |
Sir Claude is the feral cat his eye of green and purple and his tail has been cut by the trap who tires to kill Blinky Bill. |
| Skimbleshanks | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot |
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| Slinky Malinki | Slinky Malinki by Lynley Dodd |
The stalking and lurking adventurous cat who is a common cat during the day but becomes a thief as night falls.[24] |
| Small Bob | House of Hades by Rick Riordan |
Small Bob is Bob, AKA Iapetuse's skeleton cat in Tartarus. He is a dead cat, only made from bones. His image flickers, making him seem different at times.[25] |
| Sprockets | Mission to Universe by Gordon R. Dickson |
Sprockets is a stowaway feral kitten who becomes spaceship mascot. The crew members superstitiously believe that his finally learning to purr will portend success in their search for an inhabitable planet.[26][27] |
| Squire Gingivere | Mossflower by Brian Jacques |
Squire Julian Gingivere was odd among cats in the fact that he was a vegetarian. He lived with the owl Captain Snow, but the owl's appetite for meat, his bad table manners and their conflicting personalities led to a disagreement and then separation. |
| Stew-Cat, Blue-Cat and Clue-Cat | The Thief of Always by Clive Barker |
These three cats are the friendly familiars of the magical Holiday House. |
| Tab | Watership Down by Richard Adams |
Tab is one of a gang of talking cats who live at Nuthanger Farm. When the protagonist rabbits raid the farm, the cats prove to be bold, dangerous enemies and are subdued only by the wits of Hazel and Blackberry, the brawny courage of Bigwig, and the speed of Dandelion. On his next trip to the farm, Hazel is assaulted by the green-eyed Tab, but the little girl of the farm saves Hazel.[28] |
| Tabitha Twitchit | The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter |
The mother of three kittens Miss Moppet, Mittens and Tom Kitten, who tries hard to cope with their mischievous behaviour. |
| Tao | The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford |
A Siamese cat who accompanies Luath, a Labrador Retriever, and Bodger, a Bull Terrier, on a 300-mile journey through the Canadian wilderness to rejoin their human family. |
| Thistleclaw | Bluestar's Prophecy by Erin Hunter |
An ambitious grey tom living in ThunderClan. Tigerstar/claw's mentor. |
| Tobermory | "Tobermory" (in The Chronicles of Clovis) by H. H. Munro |
In a short story by Saki, a cat is taught to talk, but knows too many personal facts about people and is all too willing to talk about them.[29] He is taught by mild-mannered Cornelius Appin, who calls Tobermory "a Beyond-cat of extraordinary intelligence".[30] When Tobermory embarrasses everyone present by proving to be a consummate gossip, his owner attempts to poison him. Saki's biographer comments, "The cat eludes the strychnine left out for him and falls instead in combat with a big yellow tom from the rectory. Not a hero's death but an honorable one, and comedy depends heavily on a sense of honor."[31] |
| Thomas Gray | Thomas Gray: Philosopher Cat by Philip J. Davis |
A female cat living in Pembroke College, Cambridge. She assists a historian of science in his work. |
| Tom Kitten | The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter |
A curious but disobedient kitten in the children's stories "The Tale of Tom Kitten" and "The Roly Poly Pudding" by Beatrix Potter. |
| Trillion the Three-Headed Lion | Beast Quest | Trillion is a large, three-headed lion that cannot swim. He lives in the Central Plains. Tom, with the help of Tagus, defeats Trillion, and Tom goes through the Lion's Gate into Gorgonia, home of the wizard Malvel. |
| Ungatt Trunn | Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques |
An evil wildcat who conquers the mountain stronghold Salamandastron. But the good badger Brocktree comes to regain the mountain. |
| Tufty | Diary of a Killer Cat by Ann Fine |
A much maligned and misunderstood cat who gets blamed for the disappearance of a pet rabbit (amongst other misdemeanours) |
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| Character | Earliest Appearance | Notes |
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| Black kitten who eats human flesh | Cat's Eyes by Lee Jordan |
A mild horror story in which a black kitten becomes an abnormally large black cat, who haunts the isolated house of the heroine, Rachel. In its kittenhood, it had led the other thirty cats of Old Miss Mulgrave to dine on her when she died in her home and the cats were starving. Rachel fears it is stalking her and her baby, with reason: "It was starving.... Now it would eat anything."[32] |
| The Cat in the Picture | "The Cat in the Picture" by Wright Morris |
In this macabre tale originally published in a 1958 issue of Esquire, a black cat slowly displaces a retired captain from his bed, his wife, and his home. The surprise ending is worthy of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. More than one commentator compared the writing with Poe's.[33][34][35] |
| Mr. Sneaze's cat | "I Am a Cat" by Natsume Sōseki |
The supercilious, feline narrator describes the lives of an assortment of middle-class Japanese people. The name of the cat is not given. |
| Suzdal's super-cats | "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal" by Cordwainer Smith |
Commander Suzdal saves a colonial planet by imprinting a genetic message on cat cells, which instructs them to train themselves and to be ready to fight in the time of his need, then sends them back in time to a nearby moon. "A subjective second later, the cat-people save Suzdal" from an overwhelming alien attack.[36] |
| Various far-future cats | "Puss in Boots" by Ronald Anthony Cross |
This science fiction story describes a world full of far-future cats on a planet where "cats were the closest thing to a religion that they had" and where cats "wandered freely and slept wherever they chose. There were huge communal cat boxes everywhere...filled with some form of brightly colored pellets, which automatically emptied and were refilled with more of the same stuff." The fact that cats are no longer fed actual meat is a clue to the mystery in the story, about whether men are any longer real men.[37] |
See also
- List of fictional cats
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