The Strongest Cat Breed In The World

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Unfortunately, you're not going to be able to swing by your local Strong Cat competition and grab the pick of the muscular litter, and literature about domestic cats with massive lats — or as the should be called, powerhouse cats — is limited at best. However, speed and agility might suffice as an analog to raw strength because a weak, flabby cat would lack ability to run at a high velocity and nimbly navigate obstacles.

According to The Spruce Pets, the Egyptian Mau is the fastest of domestic cat on the planet. "Heavily muscled and strong," per Hill's Pet Nutrition, this highly athletic breed's top speed is about 30 miles per hour, making it fast enough to get ticketed in a school zone. Domesticated an estimated 4,000 years ago, the feline was worshiped by ancient Egyptians. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the sun god Ra is depicted as "a spotted Tabby cat," and as The Spruce Pets points out, the Egyptian Mau is the "only naturally occurring spotted breed of domestic cat." Even more awesome, Egyptian images depict this sunny deity "slaying the snake demon Apophis with a knife," according to the Egyptian Mau Society.

In other words, the Egyptian Mau lucked out doubly by having the body of a Greek feline god and the status of an Egyptian one. And since it's also a snake-slayer, one can only assume that in the annals of cat mythology, a feline version of Perseus, i.e. Purr-seus, decapitated Medusa.

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