The cats arrived at Haneda airport on March 20, 1967.

Despite that, it has been suggested that feral cats have been present in Australia since before European settlement, and may have arrived with Dutch shipwrecks in the 17th century, or even before that, arriving from present-day Indonesia with Macassan fisherman and trepangers who frequented Australia's shores.

Michael Heseltine duly obliged with his massive operation and arrived in person by RAF Helicopter at dawn dressed in full camouflage gear to see his handiwork, when a horse, several cats and dogs, a chicken, two Quakers, around thirty activists, and about ten children, were all who were discovered on the site.

Apparently, however, Miller has relied heavily on the anatomy in dogs and cats, and he has been criticized for using pathologic human material in his normal study ( Loosli, '38 ).

Stilts and Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat -- rather large, as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two heads and two tails.

They want to be fat cats, Pam thought, and lighted a cigarette and leaned back on a chaise and considered pulling her thoughts together.

More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.

Testing on certain animals like cats have concluded that they do not possess any faculty which allow their minds to grasp an insight into cause and effect.

An abstraction can be seen as a process of mapping multiple different pieces of constituent data to a single piece of abstract data based on similarities in the constituent data, for example many different physical cats map to the abstraction " CAT ".

The members of this group are known as catnip or catmint because of their effect on cats — the nepetalactone contained in nepeta binds to the olfactory receptors of cats, typically resulting in temporary euphoria.

" A lot of cats are out there doing it, on the Web and all over.

At one location in Southern California, coyotes began relying on a colony of feral cats as a food source.

Although no other instances of lion predation on chimpanzees have been recorded, the larger group sizes of savanna chimps may have developed as a response to threats from these big cats.

* Dorabase, a spin-off about robot cats who play on a baseball team.

Rumours abound of large wild cats such as cougars roaming wild on the moor, but little evidence has been forthcoming and until anything more substantial is available these reports should be filed under the general heading of cryptozoology.

Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

By 5 million years ago, the bone-crushing hyenas became the dominant scavengers of Eurasia, primarily feeding on large herbivore carcasses felled by sabre-toothed cats.

In September 2010, IKEA launched an advertisement for UK & Ireland called " Happy Inside " which had 100 cats lying on IKEA furniture in the flagship IKEA store in Wembley, London.

The AQIS announced on June 6, 2009 that the alternative of radiation processing for cat food is no longer acceptable and that irradiated dog food is required to be labeled " Must not be fed to cats ".

The campaign was so negative on both sides that a reporter described the contest as " two alley cats over truth in advertising ".

* The very small Little Spotted Kiwi, Apteryx owenii is unable to withstand predation by introduced pigs, stoats and cats, which have led to its extinction on the mainland.

* Outsiders: very advanced, fragile aliens shaped like cats o ' nine tails that, according to Ringworld, probably evolved on a cold, low gravity world resembling Nereid.

Until the 1980s most multihull sailboats ( except for beach cats ) were built either by their owners or by boat builders on a semi-custom basis.

Similar rules apply to the pronunciation of the-s in dogs and cats: it depends on the quality ( voiced vs. unvoiced ) of the final preceding phoneme.

It lies behind the bad science in nature-documentary voiceovers: lions are mercy-killers of the weak and sick, mice feel no pain when cats eat them, dung beetles recycle dung to benefit the ecosystem and so on.

French zoologist Frédéric Cuvier initially described the red panda in 1825, and classified it as a close relative of the raccoon ( Procyonidae ), though he gave it the genus name Ailurus, " cat ", based on superficial similarities with domestic cats.

Popular topical themes are animals, dogs, cats, butterflies, birds, flowers, art, sports, Olympics, maps, Disney, scouting, space, ships, Americana ( topics relating to the US ), stamps on stamps, famous people, chess, Chinese new year, and many others.

The loss of endemic vegetation, birds and other fauna, much of it within the first 50 years of discovery, can be attributed to the impact of humans and their introduction of goats, pigs, dogs, cats, rats as well as the introduction of non-endemic birds and vegetation into the island.

While wild cats, dogs, feral pigs, black rats, Polynesian rats and mice are present, the island has no known populations of possums, mustelids ( weasels, stoats or ferrets ), hedgehogs, brown rats or deer, thus being a relative haven for native bird and plant populations.

Stories of " mystery big cats " on the island of Maui have been circulating since the late 1980s.

The arrival of people, along with a suite of other introduced species such as rats, pigs and cats, quickly spelt the end for this species and all the other island forms that have become extinct.

Many cats with such colouration are supposedly present on the island of Malta, which may have given rise to the use of the adjective in this context.

A near-constant presence is the large number of stray cats that inhabit the island.

It formerly bred on the larger island, but was exterminated by introduced cats, Brown Rats, and human persecution.

Invasive species such as rats, feral cats and pigs have been either removed or controlled in many remote islands in the tropical Pacific ( such as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ), around New Zealand ( where island restoration was developed ), and in the south Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

There were about 300 left on the island of Martha's Vineyard, off Massachusetts, but by 1890 this number had declined to 120-200 birds, mainly due to predation by feral cats and poaching.

Stoats, rabbits, mice, rats, cats and hedgehogs remained a problem on the island, but the Department of Conservation ( DOC ) aimed to eradicate them beginning with the poisoning of black rats, brown rats and mice and in August 2011, both Rangitoto and neighbouring Motutapu Islands were officially declared pest-free with both islands now also boasting populations of newly-translocated saddlebacks.

Bay cats are endemic to Borneo and widely distributed on the island.

The cats are predominantly found in the subtropical forests that cover the island, no higher than 200 meters above sea level, and prefer areas near rivers, forest edges, and places with low humidity.

Other types of wild cats will primarily hunt small mammals such as rodents and rabbits, but because there are no other carnivores to compete with the Iriomote cat on the island, there is no need for them to isolate themselves from the various habitats and food sources that are available.

To distinguish between the Iriomote cat and other cats on the island, locals also gave other cats nicknames such as for stray cats and or for house cats.

Upon arriving on the island, Togawa learned that because there wasn't enough food on Iriomote, people would cook Iriomote cats that had been caught and use the meat in soup.

Following the announcement, some members of the society believed the samples to show simple mutations while others believed them to be the remains of wild cats that had previously been brought to and left on the island by foreign ships.

He traveled to Naha for these discussions, which covered the possibility of offering the two captured Iriomote cats to the emperor with the stated purpose of increasing national knowledge about Iriomote and for the promotion of industrial development on the island.

During the second survey of the island, conducted from 1982 – 1984, it was estimated that 83 – 108 Iriomote cats lived on the island.

The third survey, conducted from 1993 – 1994, estimated that 99 – 110 of the cats were on the island.

In response, Crown Prince Akihito said that he wished for a way that would allow for the preservation of the cats and the continued habitation of people on the island.

Eradication of the mongoose and feral cats and dogs is needed as well as better control of pets by local island residents.