"I don't want to be a witch."  From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

This cat's name, "Fred Onepound," sounds like one of the cat names coined by comedian Bob Mortimer.  (Such as Papa Handwash, Bobby Resistance, Softy Pinkpowders, and Sargeant Walnuts).  Plus, this cat's the mascot of a ship named after the goddess of sorcery.  From Navy News, 1967.

You might have already foreseen this -- it is cats who will inherit the Earth.  From Weird Tales, 1946.

Surprisingly, when groups of people learn How to Be Your Own Cat, the "hundredth monkey" phenomenon is triggered.  From Birmingham Southern's 1961 yearbook.

A cat nurses fox babies.  From Fox Island by Kathrene Pinkerton and illustrated by I. B. Hazelton, 1942.

I'm sorry, but you have to laugh: an Amazon reviewer named Marilyn W. Barclay rated our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary with 3 stars because it was "interesting but not what I expected."  It's a dictionary of one-letter words.  That's what it's called, and that's what's in it: definitions of one-letter words.  But somehow it's the book's fault that it's not what she expected?  She ends her review, "interesting just not useful for Scrabble."  Hey, tell it to Scrabble, not us.  We didn't write the rules.  Meanwhile, we rate Marilyn W. Barclay's review zero stars.  Oh, maybe she was in fact looking for our dictionary that is, indeed, great for winning at Scrabble: Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.

Today's cat ghost visiting a teddy bear is from Der Bärenspiegel, 1927.

From L'Eclipse, 1869.

From Salem's 1921 yearbook.

A tale as old as time -- the cat gets the mouse drunk first.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.

"The Cat and the Fox." From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.