- Groups of kittens are called “kindles.”
- Groups of adult cats are called “clowders.”
- A cat’s front paws have five toes, the back paws only have four toes.
- Cats are the most popular pet in North America.
- A cat has 230 bones and a human only has 206 bones.
- A female cat is called a “molly” or a “queen.”
- Cats can only sweat through their paws.
- Cats have thirty-two muscles in each ear.
- Cats can hear and smell better than dogs.
- Dogs can only make ten sounds, a cat can make 100 different sounds.
- A cat’s sense of smell is fourteen times stronger than humans.
- Cats normally sleep for sixteen hours or more a day.
- Cats can jump five times it height.
- Cats can’t taste sweet foods.
- Cats can see in the dark.
- A cat normally has twelve whiskers on each side of their face.
- A cat lover is called a Ailurophilia.
- Most cats don’t have eyelashes.
- Cats can’t move their jaws sideways.
- A cat’s urine glows under a black-light.
- Cats need five times more protein than dogs do.
- Cats can here up to 100,000 megahertz, while humans can only hear up to 20,000.
- Just like dogs, cats can learn tricks too.
- Cats sleep for seventy-five percent of the day, which is equivalent to eighteen hours.
- A cats eyes contain tapetum lucidum a special membrane that reflects light,t hats why a cats eye glows in photographs.
- Cats spend a lot of their day grooming themselves.
- Cats use there tail for counterbalance, allowing them to always land on their feet.
- A cats rough tongue is used for combing fur.
- Casts do not usually meow at other cats.
- Often times cat’s eyes are blue when born, but usually change color as they grow.
- Unlike dogs, cats do not have a sweet tooth.
- Cats can not climb head fist down a tree.
- Cats rub against humans to mark them as their territory.
- On average a cat gives birth to litters between one to nine kittens.
- A cat has about twelve whiskers on every side of its face.
- Cats can rotate their ears 180 degrees.
- Cats sleep so much because their growth hormone is only released during their sleep.
- Cats can only sweat through their paws.
- The cat flap door was invented by Isaac Newton.
- Abraham Lincoln had four cats in the White House.
- Cats can hear ultrasonic sounds.
- Cats are members of the Felidea family.
- Cats have a sense of smell fourteen times stronger than humans.
- Its has been proven that a cat can lower one’s blood pressure by simply petting a cat.
- A cat’s whiskers can determine whether the space they’re entering is big enough.
- The oldest cat on record lived to be thirty-four years old.
- The heaviest cat on record weighed forty-six pounds.
- Cats cannot produce their own fat, so fat has to be incorporated in its diet.
- Cats can jump five times its height.
- The largest litter of kittens ever recorded was nineteen.
- The largest cat in the world is a Maine coon named Rupert. Rupert weighs twenty pounds and is expected to put on another eleven ponds.
