9 Reasons Doctor Who Hates Cats

He's Time's Champion, defending the universe against a wide range of menaces, from Krynoids to Krotons and Sutekh to The Silence. But when it comes to the world's favourite pet, the good Doctor - or rather his production team - has a lot to answer for. Humanity's feline friends get pretty short shrift in the world's longest running sci-fi series. Time and time again the cat has suffered at the hands of poor storytelling, bad costume design and a basic misunderstanding of what it is they actually do. Doctor Who's fudging of the furry issue has even impacted on popular characters and transcended the small screen to wreak havoc on the printed page. Like a feral moggy playing with a ball of wool in a used litter tray, the situation is a complete calamity. So, armed with a pussy poo shovel, a pair of scissors, some rubber gloves and an industrial strength hoover, this article aims to get to the bottom of why the TARDIS team gets it so wrong in this fundamental four-legged field. It'll look at the classic and revived series, as well as further afield, to demonstrate that the programme has done kitten-kind a disservice, and created an imbalance that simply meow-st be addressed. They famously have nine lives, so here are nine reasons why Doctor Who hates cats...