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Numbers here refer to the 1,001 entry numbers, not to page numbers.

Abelard, Pierre, 724 , 238 abortion of , 323 “Alley Song,” 833 Abyssinian (breed), 190 America, introduced acknowledgment calls, 6 to, 517–520 acne, 249 (breed), Adamson, Lydia, 770 197 advertising, cats used in, American Cat Association, 943–973 209, 210 Aesop’s fables, 560-562 (breed), 183 African wildcat, 409 Agatha, Saint, 540 (breed), 175 Agincourt, Battle of, 578 American Tail, An, 934 ailurophilia, , 472, 974, 975 (breed), 194 Alexander the Great, 751 America’s Funniest Home Alexander of Tralles, 570 Videos, 881 ALF, 872 Amis, Kingsley, 723 Algonquin Hotel (New Amory, Cleveland, 755 York),COPYRIGHTED The, 987 ancestors, MATERIAL wild, 392–398 in , 804, Angora (breed), 138, 164 805 shelters, 357–359 All I Need to Know I anorexia, 382 Learned from My Cat, Anthony, Saint, temptation 759 of, 821

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antifreeze, dangers of, 279 bathing of cats, 88, 89 apricot (coat color), 155 bees and wasps, 274 Aristocats, The, 935 “before a cat can lick his Aristotle, 474 ear,” 625 Artemis, goddess, 460, 475, belling the cat, 596 476, 481, 499 belly rubbing, 36 aspirin, 266 Bengal (breed), 196 associations, , Bentham, Jeremy, 725 209–211 Bible, 508–510 Athena, goddess, 477 Bierce, Ambrose, 743 Attila (comic strip cat), 885 Bigglesworth, Mr., 844 Australia, lack of native Bill the Cat, 895 cats in, 401 Bingham, George Caleb, automobile riding, 91, 92 824 Averill, Esther, 798 Bingham, Hiram, 728 Azrael (television cartoon birds, cats preying on, 68 cat), 904 (breed), 161 birth of kittens, 325–329 Babbit and Castello, 922 Hosiery, 949 back-crossing, 137, 345 Black Cat stove polish, baking soda products in lit- 959 ter boxes, 388 Black Cat, The (movie), 858 balance, 35 Black Cat, The (magazine), balance disturbances, 252 966 baldness, 246, 247 black cats, myths about, Balinese (breed), 162 523, 527, 576, 577, 580, Balzac, Honore de, 740 588, 589 Barker, Bob, 713, 978 blindness, cats as cure for, Barnet, Will, 826 577 Bast (Egyptian goddess), Blofeld, 843 445, 453, 457–461, 463, blue (coat color), 154 469, 475, 499 bobcat, 412

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bobcat-housecat hybrid, 203, Capelli, Pietro, 1001 412 caracal, 424 Bombay (breed), 185 “care killed the cat,” 628 Bon Ami cleanser ads, 968 Carlyle, Thomas, 731 Bosch, Hieronymous, 821 Carnivora, 392–393 Bradwardine, Thomas, 726 Caroline in the City, 877 Brahms, Johannes, 748 Carter’s Ink Company ads, Braun, Lilian Jackson, 753 967 Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 848 “cat and life,” 670 breed, meaning of, 132 cat and fiddle, 459, 995 breeds of cat, 138–207 “cat and kittens” (drinking Britten, Benjamin, 830 vessels), 1000 Brown, Margaret Wise, 799 cat burglar, 608 brush (tail fur), 147 “cat in the clock,” 669 Bubastis, 457 Cat Fanciers’ Association, Buddha, 528, 530 209, 210 bunting, 4 “cat fight,” 611 burial of cats, 295 “cat fit,” 603 Burmese (breed), 189 “cat got your tongue?” Bush, George W., 681 605 “cat has no conscience,” cesarean section, birth by, 659 329 Cat in the Hat, The, 803 cages in cat shows, 219 Cat Heaven, 794 Calhoun, Mary, 788 Cat House, Key West, 989 calico, 153, 156 cat ice, 622 Cat in the Manger, 795 (breed), 202 “cat may look at a king,” Calvin, John, 719 624 canine teeth, 111 “cat music,” 654 cannibalism among cats, “cat on hot tin roof,” 648 318, 328 “cat out of the bag,” 598

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Cat from Outer Space, The, caterwaul, 610 853 catfish, 678 cat owls, 638 catgut, 673, 981 cat scratch fever, 639 cathouse, 635, 992 cat shows, 208-222 catlap, 636 cat whisker (radio), 643 catnap, 53, 599 Cat Who Came for Christ- , 10, 11, 962 mas, The, 755 Cats (musical), 807, 827 “cat who swallowed the “cats in the belly,” 662 canary,” 664 “cats and ” (stock Cata-Muse, 988 market), 618 cat-and-mouse, 595 Cats Don’t Dance, 936 cat-foot, 634 Catskills, 644 cat-hold and monkey-hold, cattail, 641 544 Cattanooga Cats, 929 Cat-Lovers Cookbook, The, cattery, 352 781 Catti, 498 cat-o’-nine-tails, 637 “catting,” 630 Cat’s Eye, 842 “catting around,” 655 cat’s-eye, 645 cattus, 487 cat’s-faces, 650 “catty,” 592 Cat’s Little Instruction Book, catwalk, 642 A, 758 Catwoman, 857 “cat’s pajamas,” 604 Celts, 495, 496, 506 cat’s paw, 601, 640 cemeteries, , 295 Cat’s Paw shoe heels, 945 Cervantes, Miguel de, 657 catamaran, 572 Charles I, king of England, catamount, 437, 607 727 catawampus, 606 (breed), 201 Catbert, 892 Chateaubriand, Francois catbrier, 614 Rene de, 738 catcall, 609 chatoyancy, 646

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, 782 coat, double and single, 145 cheetah, 430, 431, 996 Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 791 Cheke, John, 708 “cobby” build, 141 cat, 600, 805 Coca-Cola ads, 951 Chessie, 947 Cocteau, Jean, 714 chickens, cats’ behavior Colette, 696, 829 toward, 72 collars and harnesses, 40 chiggers, 255 Color Kittens, The, 799 Child, Julia, 729 color vision in cats, 100 children, cats’ reaction to, Confrey, Zez, 832 42 Coolidge, Calvin, 697 China, cats in, 514, 515 “copycat,” 656 Christianity, 469, 497–499, (breed), 180 503–507, 512, 527, 998 Cosby, Bill, 718 Christina, queen of Sweden, Cosmo, 901 709 cougar, 437 Churchill, Winston, 684 Courageous Cat, 908 cigar ads, 958 Cowper, William, 778 Cinderella stories, 531 cremation of , 294 Cinderella (movie), 933 creodonts, 393 civet cats, 403 crepuscular hunting, 51 Claude Cat, 917 Crimes of the Heart, 849 Claudius Aelianus, 478 Crusades, 504, 512 claw caps, 227 “curiosity killed the cat,” Cleary, Beverly, 789 663 Clement of Alexandria, 469 Currier and Ives, 815 Cleopatra, 695 Cymric (breed), 168 clothes dryers, dangers of, 280 Daniels, A. C., 962 clouded leopard, 436 Darwin, Erasmus, 745 clowder, 651 Day, Doris, 698 Coats and Clark thread, 948 de Gaulle, Charles, 742

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deafness among white cats, Egypt, ancient, 439–469 251 Egyptian amulets, 452 declawing, 33, 34 (breed), 182 Dennis the Menace, 896 Eisenhower, Dwight, 747 , 286 electrical cords, gnawing (breed), 181 on, 278 diabetes, 269 electroencephalograph Diana, goddess, 481 (EEG), 53 Dickens, Charles, 699 Eliot, T. S., 807, 827 Dickinson, Emily, 767 “enough to make a cat digestive juices, 128 speak,” 619 digitigrade walking, 117 epilepsy, 264 Diodorus Siculus, 468 estrus (heat), 305–308 direction, sense of, 45, 119 Etruscans, 482 Disney, Walt, 906, 933, Ethyl gasoline ads, 964 935, 938, 940, 942 Europe, cats introduced to, Dodsworth (cartoon cat), 920 470, 488 dogs, cats’ relations with, 83–86 (breed), 199 Doraemon, 900 European wildcat, 408 Dorgan, Tad, 604 Eveready battery ads, 971 dream symbolism, 454 dreaming, 52 false pregnancy, 315 drowning of cats, 277 Fancy Feast ads, 972 dry bathing, 89 Far Side, The, 897 dry food vs. canned food, Farjeon, Eleanor, 760 366–370 farm cats, 50, 63, 72, 78 Durer, Albrecht, 818 Fat Cats (comic strip), 888 fat, cats’ need for, 363 ears, 106, 107 Felicla, Felicula, 486 earthquakes, 46 Felidae, 399, 426 Eek! the Cat, 913 Felidae (movie), 941

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feline immunodeficiency Freyja, goddess, 545, 985 virus (FIV), 268 Fritz the Cat, 869 feline, meaning of, 400 frostbite, 240 feline urological syndrome (FUL), 260 Gallico, Paul, 757, 856 Felis catus, 402, 411 Garfield, 882, 883, 946 Felis lybica, 398 Gautier, Theophile, 837 Felis lunensis, 397 Gay -ee, 937 Felis silvestris, 398, 405-411 Geisel, Theodore Seuss, Felix the Cat, 902 803 feral cats, 74, 347, 402 Get Fuzzy, 886 ferrets, 493, 562 “gib,” 677 Field, Eugene, 810 Gilbert and Sullivan, 828 Figaro (cartoon cat), 942 ginger (coat color), 154 “fight like cats and dogs,” Glanvil, Bartholomew, 766 83, 670 glaucoma, 250 figureheads, ship, 489 Goodrich, B. F., ads, 965 finicky eating, 375 grain silos, 440 fishing, 69 Gray, Thomas, 277, 773 fishing cat, 420 Greece, ancient, 470-479 Fisk Tire ads, 963 Gregory IX, pope, 505 “fixing,” 296 grooming, 7, 8 flea baths, 235 gums, healthy, 245 flea collars, 239 fleas, 239, 258 hairballs, 223 Florida panther, 438 hairs, different types of, Fontaine, La, 529 123, 145 food allergies, 238 Hale, Kathleen, 808 “foreign” build, 141 Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Francis of Assisi, 542 924–932 Frank, Anne, 746 Hardy, Thomas, 784 freckling, 126 harnesses, 40

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Harry and Tonto, 859 Honest Scrap tobacco ads, Harry Potter, 840 961 “has a cat got a tail?” 615 Hopi Indians, 564 “has his back up,” 617 Howel the Good, 500 Havana (breed), 186 hunting, 63, 64, 65, 71, “having kittens,” 661 339-340 Hayes, Lucy, 704 hunting instinct, 63, 339- hearing, 95, 106, 107, 112 340 heat (estrus), 305-308 Huxley, Aldous, 693 heat stroke, 273 Heath, Edward, 735 I Remember Mama, 850 Heathcliff, 893, 946 ID registries, 289 Hecate, goddess, 527 ID tags, 288 , 944 Ieper, Belgium, 985 Hemingway, Ernest, 680 illuminated manuscripts, Henry III, king of France, 501 749 impotence among male Herodotus, 460 cats, 316 Herrick, Robert, 692 Incredible Journey, The, 861 Herriot, James, 756 India (White House cat), “high as cat’s back,” 653 681 high-rise syndrome, 276 Indian desert cat, 410 Himalayan (breed), 160 Innocent VIII, Pope, 998 hissing, 29, 79 as food, 65 Hodori, 973 insurance, pet, 232 Hoffman, E. T. A., 716 Iriomote cat, 422 holistic medicine, 233 Isis, goddess, 461, 462, 489, Homeward Bound: The 499, 504 Incredible Journey, 862 Israel, ancient, 508–510 “honest as a cat when the It’s Like This, Cat, 811 meat is out of reach,” Ivory Soap ads, 969 667 Ivory, Lesley Anne, 822

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jaguar, 433 “ to a hot brick,” 649 jaguarundi, 413 “kittenish,” 593 Jamestown, Virginia, 518, kittens, birth of, 325-329 519 kittens, blindness of, 331 , (breed), Kliban, B., 884, 946 188, 999 Klondike Kat, 907 jaundice, 267 , 3 Javanese (breed), 163 kodkod, 418 Jerome, saint, 541, 752 Koko, gorilla, 792 Jinks, Mr., 932 (breed), 191 John Duns Scotus, 707 Krazy Kat, 898 Johnson, Samuel, 721 Josie and the Pussycats, 928 lactose intolerance, 224 Judas Iscariot, 538 Lady and the Tramp, 940 jumping, 130 lawn chemicals, dangers of, jungle cat, 425 284 Lear, Edward, 810 Kalevala, 543 leashes, 40, 473 Katnip (cartoon cat), 911 leather, nose, 121 Katzen Museum, 993 Leo XII, pope, 741 Keats, John, 783 Leonardo da Vinci, 819 Kellogg cereal ads, 952 leopard, 428, 429 kendle, 651 leprosy, 236 Kennedy, John F., 686 Lessing, Doris, 762 ketones, 31 Lewis, C. S., 76, 702 kidney and bladder stones, Liberty (Roman goddess), 260 490 Kilkenny cats, 597 lice, 257 King, Stephen, 754, 842 lilac (coat color), 155 Kipling, Rudyard, 763 Lilith, 533 Kit ’n’ Carlyle, 890 Lincoln, Abraham, 689 “Kitten on the Keys,” 832 Lindbergh, Charles, 736

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lion, 427, 432 marking territory, 26 lion-tiger hybrids, 432 Marquis, Don, 769 litter, cat, 234, 383–391 massage, 228 “live a cat and dog life,” 670 mating, 309–316 “living under the cat’s mau, 439, 452 foot,” 632 mehitabel, 769 lizards as food, 70 melanism, 135 Lloyd Webber, Andrew melanoma, 243 longhaired breeds, 158-173 Miacis, 394 cartoon cats, miauliques, 831 914-923 microchipping, 291 Loti, Pierre, 710 Millions of Cats, 801 Louis XV, king of France, Milne, A. A., 733 700 Milo and Otis, 845 Lowe, Edward, 383–384 Mind, Gottfried, 816 Lucifer (cartoon cat), 933 mites, 254 lynx, 412, 421 Mither o’ Mawkins, 583 mixed-breed cats, 136, Macbeth, 779 216 magic knives, 455 mog, moggie, 136, 674 (breed), 166, molting, 23 547 monks, 501 Malayan (breed), 177 “more than one way to skin man-eaters, 435 a cat,” 652 Maneki Neko, 999 “morning-after drug” mange, 254 (ECP), 322 “manmade” breeds, 138, Morris (advertising cat), 139 943 Manx (breed), 193 Morris, Desmond, 786 margay, 415 Mother Goose and Grimm, Marie Antoinette, 547 885 marijuana, 285 mother cats, 325-346

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mother-kitten separation, 9 Lives ads, 943 344 Norris, Mrs. 859 motion sickness, 92, 984 Motley, 889 (breed), 169 mountain cat, 417 nose leather, 121 mountain lion, 437 “not enough room to swing MTM Productions, 870 a cat,” 627 Muezza, 511 “nothing itches like a cat’s Muhammad, 511, 512, 571 back,” 616 mummies, cat, 441, 465 Munchkin (breed), 198 obesity, 373, 379–381 Munro, Hector Hugh, 764 ocelot, 414, 415 muscles, 129 (breed), 176 Musee du Chat, 993 Oil Can Harry, 903 museums, cat, 993 Old Possum’s Book of Practi- Muslims, 504, 511, 512 cal Cats, 807, 827 Oliver and Company, 938 name trends, 976 “On the Death of a Favorite Napoleon, emperor of Cat,” 773 France, 750 Opera Cat, 793 Nativity, 536, 537 Oriental breeds, 204–207 natural breeds, 138, 139 (breed), natural healing, 233 207 naval cats, 984, 994 O’Rourke, P. J., 730 “nervous as a cat,” 633 Our Miss Brooks, 873 , 222, 296–300 “Owl and the Pussycat, New England Primer, The, The,” 810 806 Newton, Isaac, 687 Paderewski, Ignace, 691 nictitating membrane, 103 paganism and neopagan- Nightingale, Florence, 688 ism, 469, 497, 504, 506, nine lives, 522 508

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Pallas’ cat, 423 Pickles, 891 panther, black, 429 “pig in a poke,” 598 Panthera genus, 399 Pilgrims, 520 parasites, 253–258 pills, administering, 271 Parker Brothers board piloerection, 127 games, 954, 955 Pink Panther, 905 Pasteur, Louis, 690 Pinocchio (movie), 942 Patrick, saint, 720 Pirates of Penzance, The, Patsy awards, 866 828 Patterson, Francine, 792 Pixie and Dixie, 932 Paul Bunyan (opera), 830 Pixie-bobs (breed), 203 paw pads, 115, 116 , 270 PC and Pixel, 887 plants, poisonous, 27 Peaceable Kingdom, The, Plautus, 484 814 Pliny the Elder, 480 Peanuts, 894 Plutarch, 526 pedigrees, 142, 353 Poe, Edgar Allan, 768 pelts, cats raised for, 502 points (markings), 206 Pepe Le Pew, 921 polecats, 403 Perm, La (breed), 195 polishing, coat, 221 Persian (breed), 159 polydactylism, 118 pet health insurance, 232 postage stamps, 977, 978 “pet quality” , Postman Always Rings 353 Twice, The, 865 Pet Sematary, 754 Potter, Beatrix, 802 Peter and the Wolf, 835 Potter, Walter, 991 petmobiles, 350 pregnancy, 320-324 Petrarch, 712 proestrus, 306 Pets for People, 360 Prokofiev, Serge, 835 Philip the Arabian, protein, cats’ need for, emperor, 706 364–365 Picasso, Pablo, 823 Pseudaelurus, 396

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psi-trailing, 45 Rex (breeds), 165, 180, 181 puberty, 304 Rhubarb (movie), 864 pulse-taking, 259 Richelieu, Cardinal, 739 puma, 437 ringworm, 237 purring, 1, 2, 120, 399 roaring, 399 Pushkin, Alexander, 711 rodent poisons, dangers of, puss caterpillar, 671 282, 283 Puss in Boots, 796 rodents, preying on, 15, 16, pussy willow, 554 63, 440, 454, 468, 470, pussycat, 591 488, 514, 515, 979, 980 “pussyfoot,” 612 Romans, ancient, 461, Pussyfoot and Mark 480–492 Antony, 919 Romeo and Juliet (cat film “put the cat among the version), 868 pigeons,” 631 Roosevelt, Theodore, 737 Pyewacket, 852 Rose Is Rose, 899 Rossetti, Christina, 787 queening, 325 Rossini, Giacchino, 834 Rough on Rats ads, 956 Ra (Egyptian sun god), Rousseau, Henri, 710 456, 465–466 ruff, 146 , 261–263 Ruff and Reddy, 926 (breed), 172 (breed), 192 “raining cats and dogs,” 621 “rusting” of black cats, rat, black, 980 220 Ravel, Maurice, 829 REM sleep, 52 sabertooth cat, 395, 517 Ren and Stimpy Show, The, Sabrina, the Teenaged 912 Witch, 876 Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 825 sacks as toys, 17 rescuing of kittens, mother sacrifice of cats, 463, 465, cat’s, 346 495–497, 506

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Saki (Hector Hugh shows, cat, 208-222 Munro), 764 Shy Little Kitten, The, 800 Salem (Sabrina, the Siamese (breed), 205, 206 Teenaged Witch cat), 876 Siberian (breed), 173 samisen, 981 “sick as a cat,” 629 sand cat, 419 Sidney, Philip, 785 Sandburg, Carl, 771 silk industry, 514, 515 Sanrio, 944 Simpsons, The, 909 Savoy Hotel, London, 997 Singapura (breed), 187 “scaredy cat,” 594 sistrums, 458-459, 466 Schweitzer, Albert, 717 Skelton, John, 765 Scott, Robert, 694 skin cancer, 242, 243 Scott, Walter, 722 skunks, 229 (breed), 178 Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Scottish wildcat, 406 836 scratching of furniture, 32 sleep habits, 13, 43, 50–60 scratching posts, 32 “slow blink,” 97 scruffing posture of kittens, Smart, Christopher, 776 335 Snagglepuss, 931 Sebastian (cartoon cat), 928 sneakiness, 524 Sekhmet, goddess, 445 Snooper and Blabber, 927 Selden, George, 790 Snowshoe (breed), 200 (breed), 165 Socks (White House cat), semi-strays, 361 682 Sennett, Mack, 867 Socks (children’s book), 789 Seuss, Dr., 803 solar eclipses, 466 SH III, 972 soldiers, Roman, 487, 488, shedding, 23 Somali (breed), 167 ships, cats as mousers on, “something the cat dragged 984, 994 in,” 626 shorthaired breeds, Sophocles, 996 174–203 “sourpuss,” 602

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Southey, Robert, 744 superfecundation, 321 Spacecats, 910 superfetation, 324 Spanish wildcat, 407 Swinburne, Algernon spaying, 296, 322 Charles, 780 Speedy Gonzales, 923 Sylvester, 914-916, 918 Sphynx (breed), 144, 179, 844 tabby, 134, 148, 149, 150 spiders and insects as food, tails, communication 65 through, 131 spontaneous Taine, Hippolyte, 715 breeds, 140 Tale of Tom Kitten, The, 802 spraying (of urine), 299 Talmud, 510 squirrels, 90 tapetum, 99 squirt guns in cat training, taste, sense of, 109 30 tattoos as identification stamps, postage, 977, 978 marks, 290 Steinlen, Theophile, 812 taurine, 226 Stevenson, Adlai, 734 taxidermy of cats, 991 Stewart, Al, 838 teat order, 333 stinging insects, 274 teeth, chattering of, 67 Strachey, Lytton, 732 teeth, development of, 110, Stray Cats (rock group), 111 839 temperature, body, 273 string enteritis, 265 Templars, 503 Stuart Little, 841 temple cats, 453, 463, 469 stud houses, 312 That Darn Cat, 854, 855 stud jowls, 317 Thatcher, Margaret, 685 stud tail, 248 theatre superstitions, 586 sucking an infant’s breath, Thomas the apostle, 539 521, 842 “Three Little Kittens,” 797 sunburn, 241 Three Lives of Thomasina, Sunkist fruit ads, 970 The, 856

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Tibert, 563 vacuum cleaners, 98 “tickle a cat,” 619 Valium, 275 , 256 vampire cats, 532 tiddledywinks, 953 “van” cats, 157 Tiffany (breed), 170 vasectomy, 301 tiger, 434, 435 Venus, 492, 560 tiger cat, 416 “vetting in,” 217 tipped coat, 152 Victoria, Queen, 683 “Tobermory,” 764 Vikings, 502 toilet, drinking from, 21 vitamin supplements, 226, , 924, 939 369, 372, 378 Tom-Cat Murr, 716 vomeronasal organ, 19 tongue, 108, 109 Tonkinese (breed), 184 Wain, Louis, 813 Toonces, 879 War of the Roses, The, 847 Top Cat, 930 Warhol, Andy, 817 tornadoes, 48 warts, 244 tortoiseshell, 153, 156 water, cats’ aversion to, toxoplasma, 234 87 tree climbing, 34, 35, 38, Watson, Rosamund, 772 57 weaning, 337-338 True Grit, 851 weasels, 493, 562 (breed), weather predicting, 47, 48, 164 549 (breed), 171 weight, average, 124 Twain, Mark, 679 Weir, Harrison, 208 “when the cat’s away,” Umbstaetter, Herman and 623 Nelly, 966 whiskers, 112, 113, 114 Uncle Elizabeth, 850 White Cat underwear ads, “useless as tits on a tom- 950 cat,” 125, 647 Whittington, Dick, 525

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“whole” tomcats, 297 worms (parasites), 231 Wilde, Oscar, 777 worship of cats, 443, 453, Will, George F., 701 460, 461, 468, 469 witchcraft and magic, 505, Wriothesley, Henry, 705 506, 527, 583, 588, 621 Wizard of Oz, The, 846 year of the cat (Vietnamese Wolsey, Cardinal, 703 zodiac), 553 woolchewing, 24 Year of the Cat, 838 Wordsworth, William, 761 yoga, 548

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