International cat day

To mark International Cat Day, we looked through our photo archive and put together a gallery of cats from around the world.  From feral cats on the hunt to domesticated cats providing companionship, our gallery features images of cats living in Peru, Syria, Egypt, China, Italy, Romania and the United States.

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British short hair cat 'Amber von der Feenlichtung' waits during an international dog and cat exhibition in Erfurt, Germany, Saturday, June 16, 2018. More than 4,000 dogs and more than 100 cats and their owners from 21 countries take part at the exhibition and the competitions. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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oIn this Sunday, March 12, 2017, picture a Don Sphinx cat reaches for a judge while being evaluated, in Bucharest, Romania. More than 1,500 dogs and 150 cats from twelve countries were evaluated during a three day pet show and competition in the Romanian capital.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A cat dressed up with a collar and tie looks out from a window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016. Swedish Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren arrived at the embassy Monday to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about allegations concerning possible sexual misconduct committed in Sweden six years ago. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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A stray cat sits in the moonlight on rocks of an embankment of the Naples Bay, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

An Abyssinian cat reacts during an international cat beauty show in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, April 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

In this Aug. 15, 2014 photo, Maria Torero's son Fabian, 7, plays with the hospice's cats. Maria Torero, cares for 175 cats with leukemia at her home in Lima, Peru. The home is permeated with the stench of urine, which cannot be eliminated with even the strongest air fresheners. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A cat looks at a chicken and its chicks, in Caykara, on the Turkey-Syria border, across from the Syrian city of Kobani, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat runs at Al-Azhar Park, one of the bustling city's few public parks in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Abyssinian cat 'Nara von der Loreley' looks through a transparent foil prior to the competition during the International pedigree dog and purebred cat exhibition in Erfurt, Germany, Saturday, June 20, 2015. Dogs and cats from 21 countries take part at the exhibition and the different competitions. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 photo, A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat bread in the old city of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)

Separated by a pane of glass, a white cat on the inside of a Brooklyn brownstone tries to play with a black cat sitting on the exterior window sill Monday, March 1, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

In this June 14, 2012 photo, Natalia Lerner, who immigrated to Israel in 1991 from the city of Tyumen in Siberia, presents her cat to the judges of a cat competition in the central Israeli city of Holon. Cats are prominent in Russian culture, and most members of Israeli cat societies are immigrants from the former Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A motorcycle rider carries his cat Chiquinho on his bike, near Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A cat attempts to climb a tree at a park in Beijing, China, Wednesday, June 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A cat carries a sparrow it had caught at the Zasavica marsh, 90 kilometers west of Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A marooned resident peers from his upper floor window with his cat following flooding which was spawned by typhoon Sanba (local name "Karen") Saturday Sept.15, 2012 at San Juan city, East of Manila, Philippines. The rains flooded low-lying areas of metropolitan Manila forcing the cancellation of classes and the evacuation of hundreds of residents in affected areas. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Selma, the turtle grabs the attention of a stray cat, while on her daily walk out, near Taksim square, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits on a shoulder of a man attending gay rights demonstration near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013 photo, bicyclist Rudi Saldia and his cat Mary Jane pose for a portrait during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia. Saldia often buzzes around Philadelphia with his year-old feline Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on YouTube. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A woman holds her cat as worshipers attend a mass in the Saint Anton church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. It is the animal patron saints day in which thousands of people all over Spain bring their pets to churches to be blessed.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

A woman pets her cat during the International Cat Exhibition in Sofia, Saturday, April 30, 2011. Some 170 cats take part in a two-day exhibition, aimed at awarding and stimulate the breeding of pure-bred cats.(AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

A cat looks at a herd of goats at a compound for the displaced in western Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. An estimated 1.55 million people are currently displaced inside Iraq, according to the International Organization for Migration. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

A cat is stranded on a rock surrounded by rapids at the base of Akron Falls in Akron Falls Park in Akron, N.Y., Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Kittens are held by their owner waiting for the evaluation of a judge at an international cat beauty show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Up to 300 cats mainly from countries in central and eastern Europe entered the two day competition. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat looks on next to a restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat sits by a man reading a newspaper at a park in Tokyo Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 photo a cat investigates a fish in the port of the southern Spanish city of Barbate, Spain. Hundreds of angry fishermen and their families are protesting an EU decision scrapping an accord that let them work in Moroccan waters, likening it to a death-knell for their economically depressed town in southern Spain. The demonstrators waved red-and-white union banners and chanted Monday Jan, 9, 2012 as they marched through Barbate, a fishing-dependent town of 20,000 in the southern Andalusia region. The fishermen are also staging a one-day strike. EU lawmakers voted last month not to renew an accord that let European vessels fish in Moroccan waters. Among other complaints, the lawmakers called the euro36 million ($47 million) a year pricetag too expense and said the agreement led to over-exploitation of fishing stocks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Joyce Kavanagh pets her cat as she sits in her room at the Silverado Senior Living Center Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Encinitas, Calif. At the senior center, residents are encouraged to bring their pets. Everything from miniature horses to chinchillas  can be found on the grounds, and residents benefit from frequent contact with the pets. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Missy, the stable cat, is licked by a diary cow during feeding time at Madersbacherhof Farm in Brixlegg, in the Austrian Alps, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. The cat lives in the stable with the diary cows who are kept inside for the duration of winter. (AP Photo/Rob Taggart)

A Persian kitten, shortlisted for the Best in Show award, is seen while being examined by a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. The contest, significantly less enjoyed by the cats than by the many visitors, was entered by more than 200 felines.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat rubs his head against a wall, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A British Shorthair kitten plays with a toy while being evaluated at an international feline beauty show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 8, 2014. The two-day international feline beauty contest drew hundreds of cats from several countries. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru/Mediafax) ROMANIA OUT

A cat sleeps next a Kalashnikov weapon on a Hamas security check point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Feb. 28, 2015 photo, a street cat that survives on fish scraps nestles on a net being repaired by Manuel Batista de Moraes at the dock in the Vila Pinheiro slum, part of the Mare complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 76-year-old fisherman no longer goes out on the water and makes his living mending fishing nets. It’s a constant task, he said, because the trash that fishermen encounter rips the nets apart. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A Syrian migrant woman kisses the paw of Tabush, a male cat that made the trip from Syria to Greece with its owners at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Saturday, March 5, 2016. The regional governor of the Greek region of Central Macedonia called on the Greek government Saturday to declare a state of emergency for the area surrounding the Idomeni border crossing saying that up to 14,000 people are trapped in Idomeni, while another 6,000-7,000 are being housed in refugee camps around the region, meaning the area was handling about 60 percent of the total number in the country. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A cat stops and warm up under the sunlight, in Rome, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

A Bangladeshi woman cleans the doorway to her home as a cat sits nearby early in the morning in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)