Cat's paw

Cat's paw or Catspaw may refer to:


 * "Cat's paw", an idiom, meaning "the dupe (or unwitting tool) of another", derived from Jean de La Fontaine's fable "The Monkey and the Cat"

Arts and entertainment

 * Catspaw (rock opera), a 1974 Australian rock musical written by Dorothy Hewett
 * Catspaw (TV series), a 1978 Australian series
 * "Catspaw" (Star Trek: The Original Series), a television episode
 * The Cat's-Paw, a 1934 film with Harold Lloyd
 * Cat's Paw (1959 film), a Looney Tunes cartoon
 * Catspaw (comics), April Dumaka, a superhero character in DC Comics
 * Cat's Paw (adventure), for the role-playing game Marvel Super Heroes
 * Catspaw, a 1988 science fiction novel by Joan D. Vinge
 * Catspaw, a 2021 album by Matthew Sweet

Nature

 * Cat's Paw Mussel, one of a few species of Epioblasma mussels
 * Catspaw, informal name of some species of the plant Anigozanthus (Haemodoraceae)
 * Cat's Paw Nebula or Bear Claw Nebula, common names for NGC 6334
 * Cat's paw (wave), in Earth sciences, a pattern of shallow ripples (capillary waves) on the surface of water

Technology

 * Cat's paw (knot), a knot used for connecting a rope to an object
 * Cat's paw (tool), a hand tool for extracting nails