Cat A cat was a type of predatory and usually small feline mammal . Cats came in a variety of colours and shapes and were commonly domesticated as pets . ( PROSE : " Human Nature " ) The Tenth Doctor once claimed the cats on Earth weren ' t native to the planet , but were aliens . Rather than the prosaic names their human " owners " tended to give them , their actual names were much grander like " Great Hunter Grimalkin Greycoat Lionheart " . Donna believed he was pulling her leg . ( COMIC : " Autopia " ) Cats on Earth were extinct by the year 2157 . ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " ) Cats in Earth culture . Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat , glueing it to a fish , and calling it a mermaid . The Ninth Doctor compared the Slitheen ' s Space Pig with this trick while explaining the Space Pig ' s true nature to Toshiko Sato . ( TV : " Aliens of London " ) Multiple pictures of cats with sunglasses existed on the internet . Miss Quill scrolled through them during class on her iPad . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Cats and the Doctor . The Doctor ' s relationship with cats varied . First Doctor . A cat tried to attack the First Doctor and his companion s while they were shrunk to a small size . ( TV : " Planet of Giants " ) Fourth Doctor . The Fourth Doctor used the story of " Puss in Boots " to befuddle a P - series Genesis III . He claimed the computer was unable to comprehend a talking cat . ( PROSE : " Inter - Galactic Cat " ) Fifth Doctor . The Fifth Doctor found a cat while searching for a Kaled mutant on Earth . ( TV : " Resurrection of the Daleks " ) Erimem brought a stray cat named Antranak onto the Doctor ' s TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " The Eye of the Scorpion " ) The Fifth Doctor disdained it . ( AUDIO : " No Place Like Home " , " Nekromanteia " ) Sixth Doctor . The Sixth Doctor usually wore a coat with one of several cat brooch es on its left lapel . ( TV : " The Twin Dilemma " ) The coat occasionally had a variable number of cat - shaped patches sewn into its lining . He sometimes touched his cat brooch for luck . ( TV : " Attack of the Cybermen " ) One of his cat badges seemed to change its expression to match the Doctor ' s mood . ( WC : " Real Time " ) Charley Pollard noted that the Sixth Doctor " had a way with cats . " He countered that cats had a way with him . ( AUDIO : " The Condemned " ) Whilst fighting off a transformation into an Androgum in 20th century Spain , the Sixth Doctor noticed a stray cat and was tempted to eat it . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) The Sixth Doctor wore cat cufflinks . ( AUDIO : " Trouble in Paradise " ) Seventh Doctor . The Seventh Doctor and Ace encountered a mysterious black cat - like extraterrestrial that was transporting humans to another world . The two initially thought it was a house cat until its alien nature was identified . This was actually a Kitling . ( TV : " Survival " ) The Doctor was given a pet cat named Wolsey by Joan Redfern . ( PROSE : " Human Nature " ) Eighth Doctor . The Eighth Doctor gave Wolsey to Bernice Summerfield . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) The Eighth Doctor enjoyed playing with and talking to Carolyn McConnell ' s pet cat Mina . ( PROSE : " Vampire Science " ) The Eighth Doctor was given a tabby cat by Knight Donna . ( PROSE : " Legacy of the Daleks " ) When the Eighth Doctor was infected by Zagreus , among the avatars manifested by the Doctor ' s TARDIS to aid him was a Cheshire Cat straight out of " Alice in Wonderland " . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) The Eighth Doctor once met a cat who had been given the power of thought by the Bestiary of Legendary and Magical Creatures . ( PROSE : " Phoenix " ) The Eighth Doctor discovered a cat aboard the TARDIS that had come aboard without his knowledge . After it jumped on the TARDIS console , the Doctor kicked it out on an alien planet , to Tamsin ' s dismay . He defended his actions by asserting that the cat was already an alien , and thus could survive adequately on an alien world . The cat turned out to be a highly intelligent creature . He also claimed that cats were popular among his people on Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " Nevermore " ) Ninth Doctor . The Ninth Doctor stroked the cat that stayed at the Imperial Club in London 1924 . ( PROSE : " The Clockwise Man " ) The Doctor picked up and began talking to a cat he found in 1941 London , complaining about his companion s ' tendencies to wander off . ( TV : " The Empty Child " ) Tenth Doctor . On encountering a ginger cat , the Tenth Doctor declared he was not a cat person , due to being once " " threatened by one in a nun ' s wimple . " " Chloe Webber later drew the same cat , trapping it in a picture for the Isolus to play with . Along with the Doctor and all the other people and things in Chloe ' s drawings , it was restored by Rose Tyler . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) The Tenth Doctor and Rose encountered a cat called Mitzi , a test subject which had been sent into Hyperspace and ended up ruling the planet Photris . After freeing the human s on Photris from Mitzi ' s control , the Doctor and Rose took Mitzi to the Powell Estate where she would be found and adopted by a younger Rose and Jackie Tyler under the name Puffin . ( PROSE : " The Cat Came Back " ) The Tenth Doctor petted the kitten offspring of Thomas and Valerie Brannigan , and even hugged a former member of the Sisters of Plenitude before coming to his senses . ( TV : " Gridlock " ) After that , he got over his cat hatred — despite previous statements , " he seemed to be getting on OK with this one " . Just as he was coming around , though , the Hervoken used the Necris to force cats to attack the Doctor . ( PROSE : " Forever Autumn " ) After Rose Tyler was tapped in Pete ' s World , the Tenth Doctor got a ginger cat and declared he would name it Rose . ( COMIC : " A Rose by Any Other Name " ) Eleventh Doctor . The materialisation of the Eleventh Doctor ' s TARDIS in 1890 France scared away a cat which had been resting in the alley . ( TV : " Vincent and the Doctor " ) The Eleventh Doctor conversed with a house cat to glean information about what was going on in 79B Aickman Road . ( TV : " The Lodger " ) Amy Pond stroked the same house cat . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) The Eleventh Doctor mentioned " a basket of kittens " as one of the things people could think about to avoid fear which might attract the Minotaur . ( TV : " The God Complex " ) Other cats . A cat of a Lord President of Gallifrey was eaten by a monstrous mouse , generated by the Rani ' s experiments . This was among the reasons for her exile . ( TV : " The Mark of the Rani " ) Frobisher took on a job to find a domestic cat of unknown variant . ( AUDIO : " The Maltese Penguin " ) Jasper was a sapient cartoon cat , manifested from the mind of a young girl on the Crooked World . ( PROSE : " The Crooked World " ) In 2007 when ghosts appeared all over the world , Suzy Monroe wanted to film them for the TV show " Ghostwatch " . She was trying to have a look at some viewers ' sightings . At one of the viewers sightings Suzy saw a black and white cat which she fondled . No ghost appeared and Suzy left . Meanwhile Sheila G wrote an SMS to " Ghostwatch " and asked why her cat was scared of the ghosts . ( WC : " Ghostwatch " ) Amy Pond ' s favourite childhood cat was called " Biggles . " ( TV : " The Girl Who Waited " ) Estelle Cole owned a cat named Moses . ( TV : " Small Worlds " ) Luke Smith and Clyde Langer once encountered an alien disguised as a kitten , which caused them to be late for school . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow People " ) The person who owned Roger Davey ' s house before him owned a cat , and had a cat flap put in . This was later used by some Adipose to escape from his house . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) Rose Tyler ' s flat in the Powell Estate had a cat flap . Jackie Tyler bolted it shut to keep strays out . ( TV : " Rose " ) The Rutan Elizabeth Winters took the form of a cat when she wanted to be inconspicuous . ( GAME : " The Gunpowder Plot " ) Sarah Jane Smith owned a cat which she had inherited from her Aunt Emily . ( PROSE : " Farewells " ) Behind the scenes . In " Scream of the Shalka " , a story , a Time Lord that was known as the Ninth Doctor once met a homeless cat lady . After she mentioned a cat she lost in 1987 , he said the cat " must have used up his nine lives , rather like me " .