Editing List of fictional felines (section)

==In literature==
This section deals with notable cat characters that appear in literature works of fiction including books, comics, legends, myths, folklore, and fairy tales. Any character that appears in several pieces of literature will be listed only once, under the earliest work.

[[File:Cheshire Cat Tenniel.png|thumb|200 px|left|Cheshire Cat from ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'']]
===In books===
{{Main|List of fictional cats in literature}}
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|[[Cheshire Cat]]
|''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''
|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.
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|[[Crookshanks]]
|''[[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]''
|The pet cat of [[Hermione Granger]]. He is described as having a "squashed face", which was inspired by a real cat Rowling once saw,{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}} which she said looked like it had run face first into a brick wall, most likely a [[Persian cat|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]],<ref name="Rowling">{{cite web|last=Rowling |first=J. K. |author-link=J. K. Rowling |title=J. K. Rowling's Official Website |work=Crookshanks |url=http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=10 |access-date=30 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916173905/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=10 |archive-date=16 September 2011 }}</ref> an intelligent, cat-like creature who can detect when they are around untrustworthy people, explaining his higher than normal cat intelligence and stature.
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|[[Pete the Cat]]
|''[[Pete the Cat|Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes]]''
|Pete started as a book series, and later became an inspiration for a song and its own television series on [[Amazon Prime]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/02/amazon-orders-kids-series-pete-the-cat-costume-quest-1201910175/|title=Amazon Greenlights Kids Series 'Pete The Cat' & 'Costume Quest'|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=February 13, 2017|website=Dateline|access-date=May 21, 2019}}</ref>
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|The Cat in the Hat
|''[[The Cat in the Hat]]''
|The Cat in the Hat is a tall, [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] cat who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat creates chaos when he shows up at the house of Sally and her brother while their mother is out. The children and the fish become very alarmed. Just before the children's mother arrives home the Cat uses a machine to clean up the mess, and then disappears.
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|[[List of Stuart Little characters#Snowbell|Snowbell]]
|''[[Stuart Little]]''
|Snowbell is a cat belonging to the Little family, of which Stuart is the youngest son. Snowbell has a malevolent attitude toward Stuart, though her behavior is tempered by her familial obligations. When the Little family adopt a bird named Margalo, Snowbell plots to kill her, predicating her departure. Stuart follows, and his pursuit comprises the second half of the story.
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|Speaker-to-Animals
|''[[Ringworld]]'' and ''[[Man-Kzin Wars]]'' book series
|Member of the [[Kzinti]] race of anthropomorphic felines in the [[Larry Niven]] collection of books. One of the few to have earned the right to bear a name.
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|Conrad the Cat Detective
|The Cat Who Caught A Killer
|Conrad is a male calico cat who talks and helps Lulu Lewis, his chosen human who is a retired police officer and lives on a canal boat, to solve murders.
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===In comics===
{{Main|List of fictional cats in comics}}
<!--Please DON'T add any characters here, this table should only include the top 2-3 most notable characters, any others should be added to the sub-article. Thanks!-->[[File:And this is my cat Garfield, first panel from Jon (1976-01-08).png|left|thumb|The first panel from the comic strip ''Jon'', that would later become ''[[Garfield]].'']]
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!Origin
!Notes
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|[[Garfield (character)|Garfield]]
|''[[Garfield]]''
|[[Garfield (character)|Garfield]] is an orange [[tabby cat]] born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant (later revealed in the television special ''[[Garfield: His 9 Lives#The television special|Garfield: His 9 Lives]]'' to be Mama Leoni's Italian Restaurant) and immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for [[lasagna]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1984/ga841213.gif|title= Garfield|date=December 14, 1984|publisher=Garfield.com|access-date=July 26, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|people=Phil Roman (Director), [[Lorenzo Music]] (Voice)|title=Garfield: His Nine Lives [Television production]|medium=Television (Original), VHS|publisher=[[Fox Home Entertainment]] }} 1988 (television), 1993 (VHS)</ref> As an adult he is fat and lazy but extremely intelligent and fond of wisecracks in thought bubbles, with his owner [[Jon Arbuckle]] serving as a comic foil for him.
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|[[Heathcliff (comic strip)|Heathcliff]]
|''[[Heathcliff (comic strip)|Heathcliff]]''
|A boisterous and chubby but athletic [[tabby cat]] prone to wisecracks, causing physical mischief, chasing mailmen, and overturning garbage cans. Other felines from the strip include: The Catfather.<ref name="Rovin_3">{{cite book|title=The Illustrated History of Cartoon Animals|last=Rovin|first=Jeff|publisher=Prentice Hall|location=New York, USA|year=1991|isbn=0-13-275561-0|page=117}}</ref>
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|[[Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)|Hobbes]]
|''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''
|A plush Bengal tiger and best friend of [[Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)|Calvin]], Hobbes is perceived by Calvin as being a live tiger, but by every other character as a stuffed toy. Hobbes, whose name is an allusion to the English political philosopher, [[Thomas Hobbes]], often tries to be the voice of reason for Calvin during their numerous adventures.
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|[[Krazy Kat#Krazy Kat|Krazy Kat]]
|''[[Krazy Kat]]''
|One of the first cats to star in a comic strip; the protagonist of the eponymous strip by [[George Herriman]]. Sweet and good-natured and simple, adores the scheming, wily, antisocial [[Krazy Kat#Ignatz Mouse|Ignatz Mouse]] even though Ignatz constantly plots against her.
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|[[Get Fuzzy#Bucky B. Katt|Bucky B. Katt]]
|''[[Get Fuzzy]]''
|A sarcastic Siamese cat with an inflated ego, Bucky lives in an apartment with his human owner Rob Wilco and a dog named Satchel. Bucky's obsessions include becoming famous, inflicting harm on his roommates for perceived injustices and feuding with Fungo, a ferret who lives next door. Bucky is always drawn with his ears folded back, as if he is constantly in a state of aggressiveness or agitation.
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|[[Pearls Before Swine (comics)#Minor characters|Snuffles]]
|''[[Pearls Before Swine (comics)|Pearls Before Swine]]''
|A [[Himalayan cat|Himalayan White Cat]] who likes to hold [[grenade]]s and throw them everywhere. He is owned by [[Pearls Before Swine (comics)#Zebra|Zebra]] and is best friends with [[Pearls Before Swine (comics)#Guard Duck|Guard Duck]] who likes to make armies and use guns. 
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===In legends, myths, folklore and fairy tales===
[[File:Lechatbotte4.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Puss meets the ogre in a nineteenth-century illustration by [[Gustave Doré]]]]

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|[[Maneki-neko]]
|nowrap|Various folk-stories
|A common Japanese sculpture, often made of [[ceramic]], which is believed to bring [[good luck]] to the owner. The sculpture depicts a cat (traditionally a [[calico cat|calico]] [[Japanese Bobtail]]) beckoning with an upright paw, and is usually displayed—many times at the entrance—in shops, restaurants, [[pachinko]] parlors, and other businesses. Some of the sculptures are electric or battery-powered and have a slow-moving paw beckoning.
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|[[Puss in Boots|Puss]]
|''[[Puss in Boots]]''
|Originally titled {{Lang|fr|Le Maître Chat}} or {{Lang|fr|Le Chat Botté}}, this French fairytale is about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.
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|[[Cat-sìth]]
|nowrap|Various folk-stories
|A fairy creature from [[Celtic mythology]], said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its breast.
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|[[The White Cat (fairy tale)|The White Cat]]
|''[[The White Cat (fairy tale)|La Chatte Blanche]]''
|The White Cat is a character of the Animal Bride cycle of stories ([[Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index|ATU]] 402). It is present in a variant of the story: French literary fairytale {{Lang|fr|La Chatte Blanche}}, penned by [[Madame d'Aulnoy]]. The character also features as a cameo in Tchaikovisky's ballet ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|The Sleeping Beauty]]'', during Aurora's wedding in Act III.
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|[[Señor Don Gato]]
|Children's [[Señor Don Gato|song]]
|A [[cat]] who is sitting on a roof when he discovers that his true love has agreed to marry him. In his excitement, he falls off and injures himself. The veterinarian is unable to save him and he dies. However, as his funeral procession passes through the market, the scent of fish from the market is so strong that he returns to life.
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