Dogs are also included in the same category as cats, because many people keep them in their houses and gardens, but we will delay talking about dogs, because the Bedouin keep them more, so we will discuss them under the heading of wild animals.
The tomcat (male cat) represents a man who protects the members of the household and wards off enemies from them, because cats ward off the 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 person indicated by it will die or fall sick or cease to be beneficial, or he will separate from a friend who is useful. It may also indicate that thieves will enter his house and steal something. The female cat indicates the same things. If the cat takes something or destroys something, that is indicative of a thief.
We have seen above the interpretation of the dream of a woman who dreamt that a tomcat entered her husband’s stomach and took something from 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 the reasoning behind that.
A man dreamt that he had a cat which entered some land in which there were walnuts on the floor and it started breaking the walnuts and bringing the shelled nuts to him, but they smelled bad. He said: You have a slave who robs graves and brings the shrouds to you. He said:You are right.
A cat may be indicative of good luck. A man said: I dreamt that a cat climbed 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 Allah says:
