As of 2024, there were an estimated 373 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the world. As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as a domestic cat or house cat. Play cat sounds right here.
See also: Cat (disambiguation), cat, Larry (cat), Schrödinger's cat, Sphynx cat.