Onscreen and on the page, milk is portrayed as the ideal food for cats. It's a favorite of the titular cat Tom in the popular cartoon “Tom and Jerry" and the family of posh cats in the 1970 Disney ...

In the 1970 Disney movie The Aristocats, the genteel felines enjoy a bowl of milk from time to time. Other cartoons depict cats enjoying bowls of full-fat dairy, a privilege that some humans know ...

Milk and cats have become one of the most iconic duos in pop culture. From classic cartoons to storybooks, the image of a cat lapping up a bowl of milk seems perfectly normal and even healthy. It’s a ...

From these origins, cats and milk became further embedded in the collective zeitgeist through depictions of milk-loving cats in art, books, movies and cartoons. There's even the classic trope of the ...