Dead Cat is a familiar in The Binding of Isaac.

+9 extra lives.

Grants a familiar that follows Isaac.

Sets Isaac's red heart containers to 1.

Does not remove Soul Hearts or Black Hearts unless picked up as a character that cannot use red hearts.

Does not remove Bone Hearts unless picked up as The Forgotten.

Upon death respawns Isaac in the previous room and sets his red heart containers to 1 again.

The item is removed from Isaac's inventory after it respawns Isaac 9 times.

Can drop from the Super Pride mini-boss.

This page shows the latest information as of the new Repentance+ (Online Co-op) DLC.
To see information about this item for the previous Repentance version, check this page instead.

This item contributes towards the Guppy transformation. Collecting 3 items from this set will grant Isaac flight and spawn a Blue Fly 66% of the time when a tear hits an enemy.

Dead Cat can be found in the following item pools:

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Below is the Internal Item Description as shown in-game.
Note that some stat changes are not displayed here. Please see the main description for the full effects.

Dead Cat

• Grants 9 extra lives, but reduces red heart containers to 1
• Abyss: x1 locust 1.5x Isaac's damage

• Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.