My heart belongs with kitty because my daughter was born in the Year of the Cat, 1999. The Chinese zodiac has a dozen animals, so the creatures recycle every 12th Lunar New Year. Because Lunar ...

The Lunar New Year is almost upon us ... But the Vietnamese calendar overlaps with only 10 — replacing the Chinese rabbit with the cat — which accounts for the different animals this year.

The Lunar New Year is sometimes called the Chinese ... to choose the zodiac animals and their order. In the Chinese version, the cat and rat were riding across a river on an ox when the rat ...