Editing Mitten (section)

=== Domestic cats === 
A nursery rhyme "[[Three Little Kittens]]", attributed to [[Mother Goose]], narrates a woeful tale of childhood mitten loss through the fanciful title characters:

<poem>The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,
  And they began to cry,
"Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear,
  That we have lost our mittens."
"What! Lost your mittens, you naughty kittens!
  Then you shall have no pie."<ref>{{Cite web |title="The three little kittens, they lost their mittens" |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46968/the-three-little-kittens-they-lost-their-mittens |access-date=2 February 2021 |website=Poetry Foundation}}</ref></poem>

In the English-speaking world "Mittens" is a [[Popular cat names|popular name for a cat]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Room |first=Adrian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jc8pAQAAMAAJ |title=The Naming of Animals: An Appellative Reference to Domestic, Work, and Show Animals, Real and Fictional |date=1993 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-89950-795-8 |page=21 |language=en}}</ref> – whether because of the nursery rhyme, or because some cats' fur patterns create [[Bicolor cat|contrasting colours]] on their feet, creating the impression they are "wearing mittens".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stephens |first=Gloria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhdZCoQpP64C&pg=PP24 |title=Legacy of the Cat |date=2001 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-0-8118-2910-6 |language=en}}</ref> In the 1907 children's book ''[[The Tale of Tom Kitten]]'' by [[Beatrix Potter]], the title character has a sister named Mittens.

The 1959 [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] song "[[My Favorite Things (song)|My Favorite Things]]", from the musical ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', includes the lyrics: "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens/Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens".

[[Mittens (cat)|Mittens]] is a domestic cat in Wellington, New Zealand, who wanders the city's central business district and is fondly regarded by locals and tourists.

In the 2008 Disney animated film ''[[Bolt (2008 film)|Bolt]]'', Mittens (voiced by [[Susie Essman]]) is a feral cat who helps the title character, a white shepherd dog voiced by [[John Travolta]], find his way home.