Every June, the United States celebrates National Adopt a Cat Month, encouraging people to open their homes up to cats who need it — and there’s a good number of musicians who would probably vouch for that as loving cat owners themselves.
Some of the biggest names in pop, country and hip-hop have sassy, cuddly, playful, pointy-eared companions waiting for them at home each day, from Katy Perry to Doja Cat, Adele, Kesha and more. And then there’s Taylor Swift, who’s so obsessed with her felines, she’s incorporated them into her music multiple times — singing “guess I’ll just stumble on home to my cats” on “Gorgeous,” and “Karma is a cat, purring in my lap ’cause it loves me” on “Karma.”
A lot of stars also make their own social media accounts for their pets, allowing followers to nurture fandom not just for them, but for their animals, too. Justin Bieber’s kitties have a following of nearly 300,000 on Instagram, for example, while Ed Sheeran’s cats are close behind in numbers.
And just like non-famous humans, many musicians have their own favorite breeds of cats. Swift is known for her love of Scottish Folds, while Bieber paid a pretty penny ($35,000!) in 2019 for a pair of spotted Bengals. Other singers are content with more common types of felines, such as Black cats and Tabbies.
No matter the breed or amount of followers, though, the cats featured on this list are loved through and through by their famous owners. Keep reading to see which musicians are certified cat lovers, from Adele to Sabrina Carpenter and more, below.
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Adele
In 2018, Adele used National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day as a chance to show off her black cat on X. “Had this joker for almost a year now,” she wrote at the time. “He’s the most beautiful cat, so glad we saved him.”
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Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani
One of music’s biggest couples welcomed a new feline into their family when a tiny grey kitty showed up at their house in September 2024. “He was hardly alive + so sick, but with a lot of love + nurturing, he became a healthy kitten,” Stefani wrote on Instagram, sharing a video of Corn Shelton meowing on her porch and cuddling with another cat.
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Britney Spears
Spears may be a well-documented fan of dogs and horses, but the pop star also has a soft spot for cats. In 2021, she wrote, “I really want a small cat 🐈 !!! I’ve never owned a cat …. They seem suspiciously smart to me 😼 !!!! We have one thing in common we both like milk 🥛🤷🏼♀️😂😜 !!!!”
The next year, Spears introduced her spotted kitty, Wendy, to fans on Instagram in May 2022.
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Carole King
The singer-songwriter posed with her tabby cat Telemachus for the cover of her 1971 album, Tapestry. The classic album topped the Billboard 200 for 15 weeks and won a Grammy for album of the year.
Photographer Jim McCrary took the famous shot of King sitting on a window ledge in her Laurel Canyon home, dressed simply in a gray sweater and blue jeans, with a cat sitting beside her. It was McCrary’s idea to include the cat, who was sleeping across the room. As Valerie Nelson recounted in a Los Angeles Times obituary of the famed photographer, “When King assured him that her pet was docile, he carried the tabby and its pillow to the window ledge and into the frame. By the third click of his camera, the cat had slipped away but McCrary had what he needed: a picture of both the barefoot songstress and her whiskered feline that became the cover of King’s landmark 1971 Tapestry album.”
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Doja Cat
Doja Cat didn’t choose her stage name at random — she’s always been a fan of cats. The rapper has a coven of kitties at home, including an Oriental Shorthair named Ray, a Lykoi named Irving Saint John and a black cat named Alex.
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Ed Sheeran
Sheeran has long been a cat lover, and he even made an Instagram account for his two fur babies, Calippo & Dorito. He also had a cat named Graham, who passed away in 2019.
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Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding has left quite the digital pawprint, in that she’s posted many photos of felines over the years. “I’m obsessed now,” she told Ellen Degeneres in 2013, before she even owned a cat of her own. “I never thought I was gonna be one of those people who was gonna post photos of a lot of animals, and now I am. I’m Catwoman.”
The “Love Me Like You Do” singer has since owned at least three cats — spotted Bengals named Lennon and Wallace and another kitty named Eve.
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Jennifer Lopez
J. Lo introduced fans to her kitty, Hendrix, during holiday season in 2021 — sharing a video on X of the Devon Rex sitting near her Christmas tree and slowly zooming in on his face.
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Justin Bieber
Justin and Hailey Bieber are proud cat parents to their $35,000 Savannahs, Tuna and Sushi. The couple even has an Instagram account dedicated to the spotted kitties.
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Kesha
Kesha is a proud self-proclaimed cat lady — what else do you call someone with a dual stroller for kitty walks outside? Among the pop star’s fur babies are Mr. Peep$ — who stars in her “Little Bit of Love” music video and is credited as a co-director — and Mr. Fluffy Pant$.
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Katy Perry
Perry is a cat lover through and through — the members of her fanbase are even called Katy Cats. For many years, the pop star was a pet mom to a feline named Kitty Purry, who died in 2020.
“Kitty Purry crawled through my then-boyfriend’s window 15 years ago, fully pregnant and seeking shelter,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Two litters and many moons later, this street cat became a lovable mascot to many.”
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LISA
LISA of BLACKPINK loves her feline friends, of which she has many. Just look at the Instagram page she has dedicated to her five kitties, who often eat and play together. (The K-pop star also has a dog named Love who shares the page with his cat siblings.)
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Macklemore
The love Macklemore has for his kitty Cairo is well-documented. In addition to making an Instagram account for the Tabby and proudly showing off his athletic abilities in 2014, the rapper also filmed a tutorial on how to properly hold a cat.
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MGK
MGK (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) and Megan Fox expanded their family in 2022 by adding a spotted kitty named Whiskey to the mix. The next year, the couple adopted two more felines: Tickets and Na’avi.
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Miley Cyrus
In addition to many dogs — and one pig — Cyrus’ large pack of pets includes three kitties named Keke, Lilo and Shanti Om Bb. “Heaven,” she wrote in 2016 of laying down with a feline on her stomach.
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Sabrina Carpenter
Carpenter has shared posts on social media about her cats multiple times over the years, and she grew up with felines at home before she became a pop star (exhibit A: a viral video of a young Sab demonstrating her “animal communication” skills).
One of the star’s kitties can be seen in a TikTok video posted by the “Espresso” singer after a day of Christmas baking.
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Taylor Swift
Swift is one of music’s best-known cat lovers, with the pop star owning two Scottish Folds — Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson — and a Ragdoll named Benjamin Button. The kitties often make cameos in the pop star’s social media accounts, commercials and music videos, with Benji even appearing with his mom on the cover of Time in December 2023.