Kittens and Cat Pictures and news

Any old cat can shin up a tree. But this brave moggy regularly takes his nine lives in his paws and climbs 13ft up the wall of a block of flats to his owner’s home on the first floor. Seven-year-old Charlie hit on the idea after growing tired of having to wait outside the shared [...]

Big cats are notoriously fearful of swimming in open water so to catch three lionesses taking a leisurely dip is a treat wildlife photographers can wait a lifetime for. One such lucky snapper was Per Gunnar Ostby, who managed to capture the three big beasts enjoying their swim one crisp, dawn morning on a trek [...]

Peeking out from among these puppies this tiny kitten may look a little out of her depth but in fact she is right at home. Shakira, the five month-old Serval cat, was welcomed into this unlikely clan after she was rejected by her mother from a local zoo near Munich, Germany. ‘Shakira came to us [...]

Like a cat peering into a goldfish bowl, Akaasha the tiger cub is transfixed by a dolphin staring back at her. Curiosity got the better of both Akaasha and Mavrick, a 14-month-old dolphin who’s probably more used to a crowd of human faces gazing into his glass tank at a Californian theme park. Staff were [...]

The tiny mouse stands proudly on its hind legs, stares defiantly into the eyes of the cat just inches away and lets out its loudest squeak. Stunned at the bravado of its would-be prey the prowling pusscat meekly slinks off, tail between its legs. This was the real-life Tom and Jerry scene which greeted Wendy [...]

Never mind having a ‘fox in the box’, last night the was a feline on the field during the last-ever Uefa Cup Final. Thousands of football fans watched in amusement as the attention-seeking cat made its way on to the pitch. The animal sashayed over to photographers on the touchline at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium [...]

As far as lifelong friendships go, Muschi thinks her  large and loveable friend Maeuschen is  the cat’s pyjamas. The feline, which struck up the unlikely friendship with the 40-year-old Asian bear eight years ago, now can’t bear to be apart from her friend. In fact, the pair are so close that zookeepers at Berlin Zoo [...]

Buster is a rare white Bengal tiger cub who feels the call of the wild just as any other wild animal. The difference is that he responds to the call by clambering through a kitty trap door and wanders around the conservatory where he has lived since birth. The eight week old cub was born [...]

At just three months old, little tiger cub Kinwah looks quite vulnerable. Born at the Mogo Zoo, in New South Wales, Australia, Kinwah was reared by Sally Padey, Zoo keeper and owner, since he was just a two week old cub. Kinwah’s hip joint problem which was discovered at birth convinced Sally that it would [...]

How would you like it if your father bit off your head just because you wanted him to play with you? These photographs taken by an amateur photographer at San Diego Wile Animal Park, captured the reactions of a male lion who lost his patience at being chewed and tugged and irritated by his cub, [...]

Some incredible photographs taken at Shenzhen Safari Park in South China bear testimony to a strange friendship between a liger, the offspring of a female tiger and male lion, and three dolphins. The liger initially growled at the dolphins he saw through the glass wall, not knowing if they were a threat to his safety. [...]

Next to mountain goats, cats are considered some of the most nimble and agile creatures of the animal world. But they are also known to be independent and stubborn. So when a poor, helpless little kitten was found marooned on a ledge with a clear drop down to a river drain, a team of firemen [...]

As they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. This was most evident when a lioness flew in to a rage after hearing another lioness call out to her mate. Unfortunately for him, the unsuspecting male lion, not realizing how livid his mate was, got too close for comfort. Tantamount to ripping his [...]

Seemingly caught in mid-flight, these cats appear to be demonstrating the feline version of the martial arts. Actually, this is all part of an act put on by Muffy and Tiger, two feline friends. Popularly known as ‘the ninja cats’, these feline acrobats fly through the air a la Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Reminiscent of [...]

As far as I have owned a cat, most of the time i do find myself complaining about either getting hair balls on the carpet or getting fur on the carpet as well as on the leather sets which at times makes the house to seem untidy and unclean. One time I spent almost an [...]