Two baby Arabian sand cat kittens

Two baby Arabian sand cat kittens look around on their first day of being on display Inside of the zoo's cat house in Avondale, Ohio. The kittens were born in October 2009.

Kittens

kittens learning to socialize and play with other cats during a kitten kindergarten class at the Houston SPCA.

A cat Santa Claus

A cat named Tom dressed as Santa Claus is held by its owner after giving it a bath at a pet shop in Lima.

The best cat of Belarus

A cat is seen during the International Cat Show - "The best cat of Belarus 2008" in Minsk.

Pretty kitty?

A hairless Canadian sphynx cat is pictured during an International Feline Beauty contest in Sofia.

Red Persian cat

Rusty, a Red Persian cat, rests during the 6th Annual Iams Cat Championship.

Cat has encounter with a pet rabbit

In this 4-picture combo Pippo, the tabby cat, has a close encounter with and is seen off by a pet rabbit while out strolling in Cassano D'Adda, Italy. Good for Pippo that rabbits do not climb fences.

Tortoiseshell cat

Japanese railway turns to feline 'stationmaster' for help. Wearing a stationmaster's cap, the nine-year-old female tortoiseshell cat named "Tama" sits on a ticket gate at Kishi station in the city of Kinokawa.

Desperate Kitten

A kitten roams in quake-devastated Beichuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province.

Best Friends: Cat and Mouse

Auan, a seven-year-old female cat, licks the body of Jeena, a three-year-old male mouse, at a farmer's house in the central province of Phichit.

A personality test for your cat

It happens to all of us. You fall in love with someone's looks... but then he's not quite what you expected. Even, sometimes, if he's a cat. Eye contact and interest in toys are both measured to determine a cat's personality at the Washington Animal Rescue League. 'Bellamy,' seen here, was medium valiance, high social, and typed as a 'Personal Assistant' personality.

A cat with different coloured eyes

A cat with different coloured eyes looks out of its cage at the Ghamadan Zoo near Amman.

Puppy sit 'Dog on Cat'

Funny... ha!?

One-month-old kitten

A one-month-old kitten sits in a pet shop.

A cat hissing at the camara

A cat hissing at the camara, in a pet shop. When a pet cat was taken to a veterinary clinic in Australia with dilated pupils, a racing heart and agitated movements, it turned out to be high on cocaine and other drugs left around after a party. It recovered.

Cloned cats that glow

This picture taken through a special filter in a dark room shows, a cat, left, possessing a red fluorescent protein that makes the animal glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays, appearing next to a normal cloned cat, right. South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays, an achievement that could help develop cures for human genetic diseases.

India's tigers

A Royal Bengal tiger walks inside its enclosure at the South Khairbari nature park, about 165 km north of Siliguri November 28, 2006. Habitat destruction is forcing endangered tigers to new grounds, including high mountains which have a sufficient prey base but are not known to be the natural home of the big cats.