Your Dexterity and Wisdom scores increase by 2, and your Strength and Intelligence scores decrease by 2

Unfortunately, Cats don't live too long. They reach maturity at age 2 and often live until 14, rarely lasting until age 20.

Cats are very small felines. Being around 8-10 inches tall and weighing around 10 pounds. Your size is tiny.

Your base walking speed is 40 feet. Your base climbing speed is 30 feet.

You cannot use shields or wear any armor other than leather and can only wield simple weapons.

You have been blessed with excellent vision, granting you dark vision, allowing you to see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Since you are too small for a backpack, when picking starting equipment, replace most of the items (backpacks, packs, clothes) with a pouch containing any 3 items that can fit in there. They can be any 3 items just as long as they are valued under 25 gp each. These could be trinkets you have collected throughout your adventures, or gifts from your master. (you will have to manually add them to your inventory during character creation)

Using your naturally provided, readily available sharp teeth, you can make an unarmed strike that deals 1d6 piercing damage. This damage increases to 2d6 at 3rd level, 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 10th level, and 5d6 at 15th level. The target of this attack must succeed a dexterity saving throw to avoid damage.

Using your handy claws, you can attack someone by swiping at them with your claws dealing 1d4 slashing damage. This damage increases to 2d4 at 3rd level, 3d4 at 6th level, 4d4 at 10th level and 5d4 at 15th level.

Once per short rest, you have the ability to target an enemy. You will gain advantage on your next attack roll against that opponent, but you can not attack anyone else until you have attacked the target.

You have the ability to complete short rests much quicker than others, and can even take a short rest on your master, whether in their arms, or in their backpack while they move. This only applies to your master, but you can rest on other people if they aren't moving.

You have proficiency in Perception and Stealth.

You gain immunity to falling damage.

As a cat, you do not have the ability to communicate languages in any form, whether reading, writing or speaking. Even if you are proficient in a language, you still cannot use it. You can however be trained by your master to recognize and respond to certain words in a language they are proficient in.

You can freely communicate with Tabaxi and other animals, and can be communicated with by humanoids who know the speak with animals spell. To communicate with you using speak with animals, the spell does not need to be used, just as long as the spell caster knows they spell, they can communicate freely with you.

This also applies if you know the comprehend languages spell, where you can understand what other humanoids are saying, this however does use the spell slot.