It didn't have any wheels and sat on its belly like a cat crouching to catch a bird.
In the mid-1990s the University of Kentucky Wildcats wore some denim-style uniforms that resembled the kind of thing you would put on a cat on its way to a Garth Brooks concert.
The anarchic cartoon about a warring cat and dog, with its memorable theme tune and wobbly dog animation won a cult following, which continues today.
The good news for human firefighters is that at least a few of their traditional tasks still remain beyond the robosnake's capabilities -- well, until it's able to climb a tree and rescue a stranded cat without breaking its neck, that is.
It should, its manufacturers hope, be able to distinguish a cat from a cat burglar, or detect barely breathing bodies under several metres of rubble after an earthquake.
Through its Asian dealers, Cat could eventually become a private utility, leasing the engines and charging for hourly usage (as it is doing in Cambodia through a joint venture with Canada's Jupiter Power).
At Scarborough Magistrates' Court on 19 December Wilson admitted an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 of abandoning a cat and making no provision for its needs, and two counts of theft.
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Cat is adding capacity to its tractor plant and building a combine factory.
The stores were run by by CAT plc, which also operates a shop and restaurant on its Dyfi Valley site.
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In January Cat completed its purchase of remaining shares in Shandong SEM Machinery, a leading maker of wheel loaders in China.
The cat is now a trendy pink (it was red in its previous incarnation) and sports a flower instead of a bow.
Tigers are more tricky, but for many big cat enthusiasts, it is the experience of seeing a jaguar in its natural environment that takes the top feline spot.
You had merely to lead them to the plate-glass porch door and point out a squirrel or a cat running on the railing, or the automatic pool vacuum flipping its tail in the water as it carried on, side to side, end to end.
Caterpillar (CAT) comfortably towers over one of its relatively Lilliputian rival, Terex, a diversified global manufacturer of a wide array of equipment for the construction and infrastructure industries.
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Cat is adding capacity to its DeKalb, Ill. tractor plant and is building a combine factory in Omaha.
Cat's home market accounts for better than 40% of its sales, versus only a fifth in long dormant Japan for Komatsu.
Among them: Pets.com (with its crooning sock puppet), Outpost.com (flying gerbils) and Furniture.com (a smug, talking cat named George).
The traders are going to like the look of that Microsoft dead cat bounce, but for investors it is not a pretty thought to imagine that Apple is on its way back to normality.
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