The phrase "a small cat" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the size of a cat, typically in contexts where size is relevant, such as in a story or when discussing pets.
Example: "She adopted a small cat from the shelter, and it quickly became her best friend."
Alternatives: "a tiny cat" or "a little cat".
"I have a small cat at home, and snakes like cats".
They spot a small cat in the right hand top corner of the screen.
For English, because the rat is "the size of a small cat".
Even when you push a small cat to a corner, it will scratch you.
A male measuring three and a half inches can bite as hard as a small cat.
Last month, a Pittsburgh cam's bald eagles made national news when they fed a small cat to their eaglets.
Though Peyton describes her paintings as acts of devotion, stand close to the portrait of Cobain with a small cat-like creature on his shoulder, Kurt with Cheeky Num-num (1995), and it almost looks as though she has stained the painting and rolled it around in the dirt – they appear to be loved too much.
Quite a big job to put on such a small cats shoulders, you may think.
In the fictional city of Mitakihara, Japan, a middle school student named Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka Miki encounter a small, cat-like creature named Kyubey.
The animals, crammed on top of one another in bamboo cages, were just the latest haul in a small cat-trafficking market that sources from nearby China, Laos, and Thailand to satiate Vietnam's appetite for kitty flesh.
"In cat society, this sequence is usually performed by a smaller cat towards a larger one -- a kitten or young cat towards its mother or an older relative, a female towards a male," Bradshaw, who is foundation director of the Anthrozoology Institute at the University of Bristol, told The Huffington Post via email this week.
