Imagine a silent ballet in the wild: massive paws pressing softly into the earth, tails flicking, golden eyes scanning the ...

The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats.

The cat in Kirsten Hubbard’s DEAR STRAY (Nancy Paulsen Books, 32 pp., $18.99, ages 3 to 7) is a “sticky, scratchy, spiky” kitten picked out at a neighborhood animal shelter by a girl who is ...