Cats

Cats are four-legged felines that say "meow". Along with dogs, they are considered a favored pet amongst most breathing humans and have a tendency to curl up at your feet, play with balls of string and tear up your carpet. Larger breeds of cats, sometimes known as great cats, include lions and tigers, but not bears (oh, my).

Like with any common animal, cats have made a marked presence in television fiction. In the sitcom series 30 Rock, an animal handler named Maria was in charge of wrangling cats for the NBC Studios crew to use on the fictional variety series TGS with Tracy Jordan.

On the TV series ALF, the Tanner family own a pet tabby cat named Lucky. The family's unwanted visitor, the alien known as ALF finds cats to be highly delicious and tries to eat Lucky at every given opportunity. Naturally, the Tanners frown on such a practice and discourage ALF from trying to eat their cat. Fortunately for them, Lucky is very fast and always manages to avoid ALF's hungry advances.

On the children's animated series The Smurfs, the evil warlock Gargamel had a pet cat named Azrael who assisted him in his neverending quest to find Smurfs to capture and eat.

Cats have a strong connection to the occult and are often used as familiars for witches. Witches can use cats for a variety of reasons, such as sending them out as spies and being able to perceive the world through the cat's eyes. On the WB Network television series Charmed, the main characters from the series, the Halliwell Sisters, also known as the Charmed Ones, came into possession of a cat named Kit, who had formerly belonged to a deceased witch named Serena Frederick. (Charmed: Something Wicca This Way Comes)