Explore: Naming Cats

The Naming of Cats is a poem in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It was adapted into a musical number in Andrew Lloyd

and Adventures of a Cat, whose hero is called "Tom the Cat"; before this time male cats were generally called "ram-cats" or "gib-cats" rather than "tomcats"

fame is that the Van cat is known as 'the swimming cat'.... [H]ere at Lake Van ... these cats do enter it, and swim." Van cats form a landrace (naturally

cats worldwide, 400 million reside in Asia, including 58 million pet cats in China. The United States leads in cat ownership with 73.8 million cats.

The Bengal cat is a breed of hybrid cat created from crossing of an Asian leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) with domestic cats, especially the spotted

Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.

Jellicle cats are a fictional type of feline from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, a 1939 collection of light poetry by T. S. Eliot. Jellicle cats were

Book of Practical Cats, along with the names of the featured cats where appropriate, are: "The Naming of Cats" "The Old Gumbie Cat" (Jennyanydots) "Growltiger's

surrounding black cats vary from culture to culture, and black cats have positive associations in the Celtic nations and England, where a black cat crossing one's

cats who have achieved some degree of popularity or notability. Nedjem or Nojem (Egyptian: nḏm "Sweet One" or "Sweetie"), 15th century BCE. The cat of