Cats

Dogs are also included in the same category as cats, because manypeople keep them in their houses and gardens, but we will delay talkingabout dogs, because the Bedouin keep them more, so we will discussthem under the heading of wild animals. The tomcat (male cat) represents a man who protects the members ofthe household and wards off enemies from them, because cats ward offthe harm of mice and scorpions. It is also indicative of a slave, brother,child, spouse or master. If a person dreams that a tomcat died, the personindicated by it will die or fall sick or cease to be beneficial, or he willseparate from a friend who is useful. It may also indicate that thieveswill enter his house and steal something. The female cat indicates thesame things. If the cat takes something or destroys something, that isindicative of a thief. We have seen above the interpretation of the dream of a woman whodreamt that a tomcat entered her husband's stomach and took somethingfrom it. Ibn Sireen told her: A black thief will enter your husband's store and take five hundred and fifty-six from it, and he mentioned thereasoning behind that. A man dreamt that he had a cat which entered some land in whichthere were walnuts on the floor and it started breaking the walnuts andbringing the shelled nuts to him, but they smelled bad. He said: Youhave a slave who robs graves and brings the shrouds to you. He said:You are right. Another man said: I dreamt that a cat brought me loaf after loaf ofbread from some house and I was prostrating to it. He said to him: Awoman stole something from that house and give it to you, and youthanked her for it. He said: You are right. A cat may be indicative of good luck. A man said: I dreamt that a catclimbed into my lap and sat in it. I interpreted that as meaning that hewas going to have good luck, on the basis of the Verse in which Allahsays: "They say: 'Our Lord! Hasten to us Qittanaa (i.e. our Recordof good and bad deeds so that we may see it).'[Saad 38:16] I was appointed to a high position after that.