Amazing Cat Facts PartII
Amazing Cat Facts Part II
2. Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw. Cats are the only animal that walk on their claws, not the pads of their feet.
3. Besides smelling with their nose, cats can smell with an additional organ called the Jacobson's organ, located in the upper surface of the mouth.
4. FELIS CATUS - that’s the scientific name for a cat that lives in our houses.
5. A cat uses its whiskers to measure how wide an opening is -that way they can work out if they can fit into spaces
6. Chocolate can make your cat very sick.
7. Cats use their tail to keep their balance.
8. Cats have 32 muscles in each ear so they can listen in all directions .
9. Cats have protractible claws-this means their claws can come in and out of their toe pads.
10. A feral cat is an unsocialized cat. Either it was born outside and never lived with humans, or it is a house cat that has strayed from home and over time has thrown off the effects of domestication and reverted to a wild state. Feral cats are not adoptable because they are not socialized to humans.
11. Americans spend more annually on cat food than on baby food.
12. In 1987 cats overtook dogs as the number one pet in America.
13. A group of youngsters (kittens) is called a kindle; those old-timers (adult cats) form a clowder.
14. Black cat superstitions are as American as apple pie. In Asia and England, black cats are considered lucky.
15. The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws.
16. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
17. In cats, the calico and tortiseshell coats are sex-linked traits. All cats displaying these coats are female or occasionally sterile males.
18. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
19. Cats with white fur and skin on their ears are very prone to sunburn.
20. Abraham Lincoln loved cats. He had four of them while he lived in the White House. Napoleon was terrified of cats.
21. The average cat food meal is the equivalent to about five mice.
22. In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
23. In ancient Egypt, mummies were made of cats, and embalmed mice were placed with them in their tombs. In one ancient city, over 300,000 cat mummies were found. While mourning, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.
24. Today there are about 100 distinct breeds of the domestic cat.
25. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. When cats are asleep, they are still alert to incoming stimuli. If you poke the tail of a sleeping cat, it will respond accordingly.
26. A cat has four rows of whiskers on each side.
27. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
28. A cat can jump seven times as high as it is tall.
29. Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
30. Ancient tradition holds the belief that the sand cats were companion to the prophet Mohammed and his daughter.
31. Their claws are very dull since they have nothing to sharpen them against in the desert.
32. The sand cat is solitary and primarily nocturnal. The male and female come together only for mating. Felis margarita has a loud mating call, which resembles the barking of a small dog. Its other vocalizations include meowing, growling, hissing, spitting, screaming and purring.
33. Cats don’t wag their tails when they’re happy, they wag them when they are excited or mad.
34. Cats are very independent-they wash themselves with their tongue, they don’t need to be walked like a dog, and they can use a litter box if they don’t go outside.
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