Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) stated regarding the cat: "When it puts its mouth into a vessel, a person should wash it seven times." The narrator of this narration, Laith bin Abu Sulaym, is not a hafiz, and this narration is "mawquf," and it is not authentically transmitted from Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him). It is more likely that this is the statement of Ata himself.