It will forever remain a mystery why Carl Barks drew so few cats and humanlike cat characters in his comic book stories. In real life cats are as common as dogs, and the latter were represented in abundance. It would have been only natural for Barks to have incorporated more humanlike cat characters in his stories, because cats have a more facetted appearance than dogs; they often seem more agile, more expressive, and more cunning. Still, cats are so rare in the stories that most of them are actually shown in this page.

THE DOMESTIC
Some of the primary characters have had cats at one point, but the only cat-person in the duck universe seems to be Magica de Spell who is seen with different cats (and ravens, for that matter) throughout 'her' stories. Strangely, the one place you would expect a number of cats to be seen is at Grandma Duck's farm, but in his frequent stories that tok place there Barks only drew one.
WDCS065 Donald's Tabby	FC0422 Daisy's Fraidy Cat	U$25 Scrooge's Clementine
WDCS182 Grandma's Only Cat	U$36 Magica's White-faced Cat	U$43 Magica's Black Cat

THE STRAYS
A few times Barks showed us stray cats in different sorts of cameo roles. Some of the cats were just present for a gag, while others were important contributors to the story's plot. Here they are.
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U$15	WDCS171	WDCS294

THE BIG ONES
Cats can also come from more dangerous species as seen below. Barks drew several stories in which lions took an active part, and he also presented us with a few other carnivorous felines.
WDCS203 Bodyguard Lion	FC1055 Pussycat Lion	WDCS157 Zoo Lion
WDCS198 Trained Lions	WDCS261 Circus Lion (hungry!)	U$61 Wild Lions
U$54 Temple Tigers	MOC4 Wild Tiger	U$09 Racing Tiger (rheumatic!)
U$39 Panther	WDCS227 Wildcat	FC0422 Jaguar

THE CAMEOS
Now for the humanlike cat characters. As mentioned in the introduction Barks did not use that many humanlike cat characters in his stories despite their obvious potential. In fact, the four stories mentioned below are the only ones in which humanlike cat characters played an important role in the plots. Many readers of comic books may often be in doubt as for the very similar appearance of a certain humanlike animal character; is he a dog or is he a cat? In Barks' stories the answer is relatively straightforward: If the character has hanging ears it's a dog, if the character has pointy ears it's a cat.
FC0029 The Mummy's ring Perhaps Barks thought of the ancient Egyptians holy cats, when he decided to make the Bey a cat.	FC0029 Too Many Pets In another story in the same comic Barks needed a sly looking crook, and he probably thought that a cat would do the trick.
MOC20 Darkest Africa The professor in this story is some sort of a cat (pointy ears), but his complexion leads one to presume that he might be from a different species - such as a puma.	FC0199 Sheriff of Bullet Valley It has been argued that this is Black Pete in disguise, but he is not for various reasons: He has normal scalp hair, and he joyfully kills Donald*. Pete was never that ruthless.

THE ULTIMATE
Black Pete must be one of the busiest characters in Disney's comic books, because he is dividing his time between the mouse universe and the duck universe. Barks used him in a little more subtle way, though, as he usually gave him different names in order to blur his true identity. He is presented here in chronological order with his names in the stories.
FC0009 Pirate Gold Black Pete	WDCS045 Rival Boatmen J.P. Diamondtubs	FC0062 Frozen Gold Pete de Fox
WDCS108 'The Jumping Frog' Snake Eyes McViper	U$28 Inventors' Contest Pierre de Fraud	WDCS267 The Log Jockey Black Pierre