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n. (plural of house cat English)
Usage examples of "house cats".
For their part, the house cats returned his gaze, affirming that each and every one of them knew their place in the hierarchy of felinity without a word, or a hiss, having to be spoken.
But then, she felt sorry for the wildlife that house cats preyed on, and the rabbits and opossums and skunks and domestic pets flattened on the road.
These could therefore be distant descendants of his own, but they wouldn't realize that, and he did not feel it prudent to treat them as anything but common house cats.
As he approached it several large house cats streaked out of the doorway.
She liked house cats, but she didn't want him to be one, she realized.
Ahlitah leaped after the rat, which, used to dodging and doing occasional battle with stray house cats, expired of heart failure at the sight of the pouncing black-maned behemoth.
They were stalking a dead tree, like house cats the size of houses.
By the time we finally did, all eight of the house cats had already collected around the door, and were mewing away.
Wild ancestors of domestic cattle, donkeys, pigs, dogs, and house cats were native to North Africa but also to Southwest Asia, so we can't yet be certain where they were first domesticated, although the earliest dates currently known for domestic donkeys and house cats favor Egypt.
By their expressions, Aes Sedai and Warders alike, you might have thought villages sinking into the ground were as common as house cats.