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Before YouTube made cute cat videos all the more accessible, these felines dominated the big screen—and made names for themselves alongside Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Rebecca Deczynski








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Cats are cute and sometimes cuddly, but no one would ever accuse them of being cooperative—which probably makes them less than ideal game show contestants. But that didn't deter Meow Mix and the Game Show Network from airing the first—and probably only—ca

Erin McCarthy


CBS Films

It’s hard to imagine getting cats to do anything they don’t want to do. And yet professional cat acting still exists, against all odds.

Kate Erbland


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A library can operate without a cat, but a library with a cat is special. And curling up with a cat and a good book is a pleasant way to spend time at the local library.

Miss Cellania






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Thinking of the wild English countryside might conjure up images of manor houses, green fields, and secret gardens, Lions, tigers, and bears are from a different kind of story—but that's not actually so, according to a recent discovery by a team of resear

Roma Panganiban
Lil Bub visiting the Museum of the Moving Image in 2016

Lil Bub, the internet's cutest cat, died on December 1, 2019. Here's what we learned about her when we visited her in 2013.

Erin McCarthy