While scent-marking, he repeats, "This is mine, this is mine, and all of this is mine". In early episodes, Cat exhibits typical feline behaviours such as sleeping, eating vast amounts of food, playing with 'shiny things', preening and marking his territory, for which purpose he carries a small spray-can, of which the contents are unknown (possibly urine, seeing as this is how cats mark their territory), in his pocket. However, hearing this from Rodon makes Cat realise that Red Dwarf is his home and the Dwarfers are his family.ĭave Lister gives Cat his favorite, Krispies ( Red Dwarf Smegazine) Over three decades later when Cat met his own people, his brother Rodon would tell him that he was left behind on Red Dwarf because he wasn't "cool" enough, explaining Cat's lifelong obsession with being "cool". The Cat Priest described Cat's parents as the Idiot and the Cripple. It appears that Cat was mainly raised by a blind Cat Priest in Supply Pipe 28, though a brief mention is made of Cat's mother in the original novel, when a young Cat tried to sleep with her and she attacked him. His species expanded and evolved into a humanoid form over three million years while sealed in the cargo hold of Red Dwarf while Dave Lister was in suspended animation. In the first Red Dwarf novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, it is explained that Cat does have a name, but he figures he is the centre of the universe and if they don't already know his name he's not going to tell them (in the failed American pilot episode, his real name is stated as being Woo-fen, although of course this is not canon).Ĭat is a Felis sapiens, a humanoid descendant of a modern domestic cat called Frankenstein who had been Dave Lister's pregnant pet cat. The character has no name other than "The Cat" (used in the third person) or simply "Cat" when spoken to directly. Cat and Kochanski reverted back into their childhoods by the Time Wand