In 2020, at least 12 people got COVID-19 at a birthday party for a cat.

In 2001, a man slipped while feeding his cat, landed facedown, and drowned in the bowl.

Lena Dunham once thought she was petting her hairless cat but "it was actually my mom's vagina."

On December 22, 2001, a newborn cat named "CC" became the first cloned pet in history. Her name was a play on words, short for "CopyCat" or "Carbon Copy."

A Florida man caught with 1,000 images of child porn on his PC blamed a cat jumping on the keyboard.

When Professor Jack Hetherington needed a co-author for an academic paper he added his Siamese cat, Chester. Under "Compliments of the authors," he included his signature and an inky imprint from Chester's paw.

While filming Raging Bull, Robert De Niro was kicked out of the Beverly Hills Hotel after trying to deny that he was secretly keeping four cats in his room.

In 2012, an investment portfolio devised by a panel of professionals using traditional stock-picking methods was beaten by one selected by a cat who threw his favorite toy mouse on a grid of numbers allocated to different companies.

In high school, future ER and CSI star Jorja Fox had a morbid fascination for disturbing things. Required to dissect a cat for an anatomy class, Jorja asked for a pregnant one. Bad move: "By week's end I could barely stay in class."

In 1987, Walter Mondale's hip 26-year-old DJ daughter Eleanor managed a presidential campaign for Morris the Cat.