That's why the Vikings gave cats as wedding gifts

The Key Marco cat: this hand-carved statue embodies the harmony of a lost civilisation with their gods

Cats in ancient Egypt: they were not simply worshipped and respected, but seen as an earthly representation of their gods

Sam, the unsinkable cat: amazingly, this cat has survived three shipwrecks!

A number of cats work in Scotland: while one has not caught a mouse in the course of her work, another has caught almost 30,000

Why were cats associated with witches? Interesting theories from the Middle Ages

Schrödinger's cat turns 87 this November: the beginning of the scientific popularity of cats

Meet the chief mousers of a Scottish distillery: how the two cats divide up the work