The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on Les peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise (The heartbreak of an English cat) by Honoré de Balzac.

The first performance using the original English text was at Santa Fe on 13 July 1985.

A group of bourgeois cats has formed the Royal Society for the Protection of Rats.

Avowed pacifists as well, the society has been raising a young orphan mouse, Louise.

There is a love triangle between Lord Puff, his wife Minette, and Tom.