Cat


 * For the humanoid species, go to Catkind

A cat was a type of predatory, and typically small, feline mammal. Cats could be found on a variety of planets, and were commonly domesticated as pets. (NA: Human Nature)

Earth cats
There were many species of cats found on Earth, including 'common' house cats, tigers and the sabre-toothed tigers. The cats of Earth went extinct some time before the year 2157 (NA: Lucifer Rising), with tigers dying out before 2148 (NA: St Anthony's Fire). The Doctor once claimed that the cats on Earth weren't native to the planet, but were in fact aliens, and that rather than the rather prosaic names Humans tend to give them, their actual names were much grander like "Great Hunter Grimalkin Greycoat Lionheart". Donna believed he was having her on, however. (IDW: Autopia)

Gallifreyan cats
Cats could also be found on Gallifrey. (NA: Human Nature) One of the Presidents of Gallifrey had a pet cat. The cat was eaten by a mouse that had been enlarged by the Rani during an experiment. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)

Cheetah World's cats
The kitlings and the Cheetah people were two species of cat-like creatures found on the Cheetah World. (DW: Survival)

Anubian cats
A species called the Glomb, which was identical to a Cat, was native to Anubis. (K9TV: Curse of Anubis)

Other cats

 * Frobisher took on a job to find a domestic cat of unknown variant. (BFA: The Maltese Penguin)
 * Jasper was a sapient cartoon cat, manifested from the mind of a young girl on the Crooked World. (EDA: The Crooked World)
 * In her childhood, Amy Pond's favourite cat was called "Biggles." (DW: The Girl Who Waited)

Sapient cats
Several sapient species were cat-like in appearance.


 * Beserkat Felines
 * Catkind
 * Cat-People
 * Cheetah People
 * Tharils

Cats and the Doctor
The Doctor's relationship with cats has varied.

Fourth Doctor

 * The Doctor used the story of Puss in Boots to befuddle a P-series Genesis III. He claimed the computer was unable to comprehend a talking cat. (DWA: Inter-Galactic Cat)

Fifth Doctor

 * While searching for a Kaled mutant, the Doctor came across a cat. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)
 * Erimem brought a stray cat named Antranak onto the Doctor's TARDIS, (BFA: The Eye of the Scorpion) which the Doctor disdained. (BFA: No Place Like Home, Nekromanteia)

Sixth Doctor

 * This Doctor usually wore a coat with one of several cat brooches on its left lapel, and occasionally had a variable number of cat-shaped patches sewn into its lining. He sometimes touched his cat brooch for luck. (DW: Attack of the Cybermen)  One of his cat badges seemed to change its expression to match the Doctor's mood. (WC: Real Time)
 * Whilst fighting off a transformation into an Androgum, the Doctor noticed a stray cat and was tempted to eat it. (DW: The Two Doctors)
 * In a possibly apocryphal account, the Doctor had a robot cat called Splinx. (VG: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror)

Seventh Doctor

 * The Doctor was given a pet cat named Wolsey by Joan Redfern. (NA: Human Nature)

Eighth Doctor

 * The Doctor gave Wolsey to Bernice Summerfield. (NA: The Dying Days)
 * The Doctor enjoyed playing with and talking to Carolyn McConnell's pet cat Mina. (EDA: Vampire Science)
 * The Doctor was given a tabby cat by Donna. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor once met a cat who had been given the power of thought by the Bestiary of Legendary and Magical Creatures. (ST: Phoenix)

Ninth Doctor

 * The Doctor found and began talking to a cat he found in 1941. (DW: The Empty Child)

Tenth Doctor

 * Upon encountering a cat, the Doctor declared he was not a cat person after his recent experiences with the Sisters of Plenitude. Chloe Webber later drew the cat, trapping it in a picture for the Isolus to play with; along with the Doctor and all the other people and things in Chloe's drawings, it was restored by Rose Tyler. (DW: Fear Her)
 * Despite this, the Doctor seemed to have no qualms with petting the kittens of Thomas and Valerie Brannigan. (DW: Gridlock)
 * The Doctor and Rose encountered a cat called Mitzi, a test subject which had been sent into Hyperspace and ended up ruling the planet Photris. After freeing the humans on Photris from Mitzi's control, the Doctor and Rose took Mitzi to the Powell Estate where she would be found and adopted by a younger Rose and Jackie Tyler. (DWA: The Cat Came Back)
 * The Hervoken used the Necris to force cats to attack the Doctor. (NSA: Forever Autumn)

Eleventh Doctor

 * The materialisation of the TARDIS in 1890 France scared away a cat which had been resting in the alley. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor)
 * The Doctor psychically conversed with a housecat in order to glean more information about what was going on in 79B Aickman Road. (DW: The Lodger)
 * Later, Amy Pond, seen in the Doctor's "rewind", stroked the same housecat that was talked to by the Doctor. (DW: The Big Bang)