to serve food

(poetic) a mountain where the first-person speaker resides / (by extension, poetic) Synonym of 比叡山 (Hiei-zan): Mount Hiei, where Saichō erected Enryaku-ji, the first Tendai monastery

seagull

panda / Abbreviation of 熊麝香猫.

everyone and their dog; literally “cats and ladles too”

(idiomatic) so busy there are not enough hours in the day; lit. to want to borrow even the paw of a cat

a Schrödinger's cat

(idiomatic) tiny, not enough room to swing a cat; literally, “a cat’s forehead”

a calico cat

Alternative spelling of 猫被り