Cats - Did you know that …?

- Like humans, cats can be right-handed or left-handed.

- A cat can jump seven times its height.

- The cat cannot see immediately under her nose, so the goodies you throw on the floor will remain untouched if she is not careful when you throw them.

- The cat's body contains 230 bones, while the humans have only 206.

- Cats have four rows of mustaches.

- The cat's sprint can reach 49 km / h.

- Cats can see 6 times better in the dark than humans, thanks to a layer of cells with light-absorbing extra-reflective properties called tapetum lucidum.

- Cats use their mustaches to see if a place is wide enough to sneak inside. Thus, her mustache serves as a kind of antenna that helps her measure the correct width of a passage.

- Rarely does a cat meows to another cat, this sound is used to communicate with humans.

- The cat is cleaned with its tongue and paw when it has been in danger or after fighting with another cat. This gesture is supposed to calm the animal by performing a natural and instinctive activity.

- The cat does not sweat because it does not have sweat glands.

- A cat spends about 30% of its life taking care of its appearance.

- The arched back of the cat is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with the threat. The bow is so sharp because the cat's spine has about 60 vertebrae, while the man has only 34.

- The cat's brain is much more like a human brain than a dog's.

- The cat's hearing is one of the finest in the animal world. While they can hear sounds at a frequency of 65 kHz, human hearing stops at only 20 kHz.

- The cat's heart rate is between 110 and 140 beats per second, twice as much as the human heart.

- The cat's jaw can't move back and forth.

- The normal body temperature of the cat is 38.6 ° C.

- The cat's tail, respectively its position, communicates a lot about her feelings and intentions. Thus, the raised tail means happiness, its wrinkling is a sign of threat, and when the cat keeps its tail down and close to the body, it means that it feels insecure.

- The cat's tail plays a vital role in maintaining balance and the "straightening reflex", which allows it to always land on its feet, even from very high altitudes.

- The cat's tongue is very rough because it is covered by the papillae-like hooks, pointing backward, which helps it to grab its prey better and hold it in its mouth.

- The female cat can mate when it reaches the age of 5 months, while a cat can mate when it is between 7 and 10 months old.

- Cats need to eat fat because their bodies can't produce it. Never feed cats food for dogs, as they need 5 times more protein than dogs.

- Cats love to hear their name and the owner's voice as often as possible, so it's a good idea to talk to them.

- Cats do not have a bone structure around their neck and therefore can slip their body through any hole they enter with their head.

- Cats have a better memory than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan have concluded that while the dog's memory does not last more than 5 minutes, cats can be kept for up to 16 hours, surpassing monkeys and orangutans in this respect.

- Cats have an extremely well-developed hearing. Their ears have 30 muscles that control the outer ear (by comparison, the human ear has only 6). These muscles rotate 180 ° and that is why cats hear the same in all directions, without having to turn their head.

- Cats can vocalize about 100 different sounds, compared to dogs, whose vocal cords can only emit 10 sounds.

- Cats have blood type AB, just like humans.

- Cats have a third eyelid, which is rarely seen. If it is seen, this may be a sign of a health problem.

- Cats have the ability to use the biological clock, the angle of the sun and the Earth's magnetic field.

- A 15-year-old cat has probably spent 10 years of its life sleeping.

- A frightened cat can run at 31 mph faster than a performance sprinter.

- Most blue-eyed white cats are deaf. White cats that have only one blue eye are deaf only to their corresponding ear.

- Abraham Lincoln was a great cat lover. While living in the White House, he had four. Tabby, as one of them, was called, was the first cat to cross the threshold of the White House.

- Adult cats without health problems sleep deeply 15% of their lives and are awake 50% of the time.

- After they are taken in their arms, the cats lick their fur, to make it silky again and to get rid of the "human" smell. It is also said that licking has the effect of calming the animal.

- Felinophobia is the fear of cats. Julius Caesar, Henry II, Charles XI, and Napoleon all suffered from this disease and almost fainted in the presence of a cat.

- All cats are born with blue eyes.

- Cats belong to the category of cats. They separated from other mammals at least 40,000,000 years ago, making them among the oldest families of mammals.

- Americans spend more money on cat food than baby food.

- An adult cat has 30 teeth and about 12 mustaches.

- The ancient Egyptians believed that Bast was the mother of all cats on earth and that cats were sacred animals.

- During the night, the cat can gather in its enlarged cornea six times more light than humans. Because they see better than humans at night and focus much more on distant objects or animals, cats are extremely efficient night hunters.

- The superstition about the black cat originated in America. In Asia and England, it is considered to bring good luck.

- Both humans and cats have identical regions of the brain responsible for emotions.

- Cardinal Richelieu loved cats so much that he kept them in the house.

- Cat families are happiest when they are an even number of members. Cats or kittens should be purchased in pairs, if possible.

- Cat scratch disease, a curable disease, but sometimes extremely painful, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, it can be caused by a number of other scratches, not just those from cats.

- Cat urine glows in the dark.

- Some cats are born with extra fingers on their paws. This abnormality is called polydactyly.

- When cats scratch furniture, this is not an act of malice; they sharpen their claws.

- Cats sleep an average of 16 hours a day more than any other mammal.

- Cats bury their feces to hide from predators.

- Cats can donate blood to other cats.

- Cats can get black "spots of old age", which usually appear around the bottle and the eyes, when the cat has reached an age between 3 and 5 years.

- Cats can get bored. This is visible when they lick, chew or bite excessively.

- Cats distinguish colors. Studies have shown that they distinguish between red and green, red and blue, red and gray, green and blue, blue and gray, yellow and blue and yellow and gray.

- Cats see accurately up to about 36 meters away, and their viewing angle is 285 ° (compared to humans, which is about 200 °).

- Cats have 13 ribs.

- Cats need one-sixth the amount of light that humans need to see. However, their daytime vision cannot be compared to that of humans.

- Cats spin at a rate of 26 sounds per second, the same frequency as a normal speed diesel engine.

- Cats walk with both left paws and then with both right, whether they walk or run. The only animals that do this are giraffes and camels.

- Cats move 500 muscles to jump and sprint.

- Despite their reputation as capricious, cats consume about 127,750 calories a year, almost 28 times more than their body and the same amount of fluids. In case you were wondering, cats can't survive on a vegetarian diet.

- Contrary to expectations, cats and not dogs are the most common pets in the United States. There are about 66 million cats and 58 million dogs, while parrots are in third place with 14 million.

- An average of 30,000 dogs and cats are killed every day in animal shelters in the United States.

- The American writer Ernest Hemingway once had 30 cats in his house in Havana.

- Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character after which a balloon was built in a parade.

- Florence Nightingale has had 60 cats in her lifetime.

- The sedatives that people use to relieve or eliminate pain are toxic to cats. Chocolate is also poisonous to them (as it is to dogs!).

- Left in a natural environment, a cat can have between 3 and 7 kittens every 4 months. This is why spaying cats is so important.

- If the cat rolls in front of you, exposing its stomach, you can be sure that it has complete confidence in you. Also, it is also a way to show the pleasure you feel when you are around them.

- In 1888, about 300,000 mummified cats were discovered in Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at a price of $ 18.43 per tonne and transported to England for use as fertilizer.

- In addition to the nose, cats can use to smell Jacobson's organ, located in the upper part of the mouth.

- In ancient Egypt, the whole family raised their eyebrows in respect and mourning when their cat died.

- Cats generally live longer than dogs between the ages of 12 and 14. However, some cats can reach the age of 20, or even more. The longevity of a cat depends on its diet, environment, veterinary care, and a number of other factors. It is also extremely important if the cat lives inside a house, or is allowed to go outside (usually, cats that live outside live around 8 years old). The general consensus is that at the age of 7, a cat can be considered to have reached the age of two, and from the age of 10 onwards, it is old.

- In proportion to their body size, cats have the largest eyes of mammals.

- In the ninth century King Henry I of Saxony decreed that the fine for killing a cat be 6 baskets of corn.

- It has been shown that people who have a pet live longer, are less stressed and less exposed to strokes.

- It has been scientifically proven that caressing a cat reduces blood pressure.

- Although it is believed that cats do not distinguish colors, it has been shown that they can see blue, green, and red.

- The stomach of many cats is not able to digest cow's milk; both plain milk and its products cause diarrhea.

- Many of the cat's bones are in the tail.

- More than 30% of Americans have a cat.

- Most cats have 5 toes on their front paws and only 4 toes on their hind paws.

- Sterilizing a cat can prolong its life by 2-3 years.

- Never lift a kitten's neck, only his mother can do it in a safe way that does not hurt him.

- Newborn kittens have their ear canals blocked and do not start hearing until after 9 days.

- Yellow or orange blankets are aggression for cats. Therefore, a bright orange object, placed next to the furniture, can keep the cat away, cutting off his desire to scratch the furniture at that point.

- People who are allergic to cats are actually allergic to their saliva and dust particles that accumulate in their fur. Therefore, if cats are washed regularly, these people can significantly reduce their intolerance.

- The oldest cat of all time is known as Ma, from Devon, who was 34 years old when she died in 1957.

- The torso is part of the socialization repertoire of each cat, made, it seems, by the jerky movement of the air, obtained with the help of diaphragm contractions. Surprisingly, the torso can be produced even when it is obvious that they are nervous or stressed, probably as a way to calm down. But most of the time, cats twist when they are satisfied and calm, and the sound is produced for the first time even when they are small and suck milk from their mother.

- Siamese cats originate in Siam, today's Thailand. Legend has it that they were companions of the king or of the priests guarding the temple. There are traces of the presence of the Siamese in Egypt and Burma, but this hypothesis has caused much controversy. The Siamese were first brought to England in the early 19th century.

- Sir Isaac Newton, who first described the laws of gravity, is also the inventor of the mobile cat door, due to the fact that he himself had many such animals in the house.

- The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African wild cat, whose species has survived to the present day.

- The average amount of food for cats that they receive from canned food or dry food is equivalent to a "meal" consisting of 5 mice.

- The cat was domesticated more than 4000 years ago.

- The color of Siamese cats' fur is related to body temperature, respectively the colder parts are darker. Siamese kittens are born white due to the heat in the cat's uterus before giving birth. It is this heat that prevents the entire fur that covers their body from darkening in color.

- The domestic cat is the only one of its species able to keep its tail upright while walking. All wild cats keep their tails in a horizontal position or between their legs. The tail held up means happiness, straight, is a warning sign, while the tail held between the legs is evidence of insecurity.

- The heaviest cat ever weighed 20,865 kg.

- The only pet not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

- The punishment applied 4,000 years ago in Egypt for killing a cat was death.

- Persian cats have the largest and thickest fur of all domestic cats.

- It is proven that cats can find their owners in places they have never been before. There are stories that seem to contain serious documentation at the base, describing the "journeys" of hundreds and even thousands of kilometers of cats in search of their owners.

- The English expression equivalent to “raining with a bucket” is to rain cats and dogs, and its origin dates back to the 7th century. In England, due to torrential rains, many street animals drowned and their bodies floated on the streams that flooded the streets. This phenomenon gave the impression that it was really raining with dogs and cats, hence the expression.

- Van, a very old and rare breed of Turkish cat, differs from all other types of cats by its passion for water. Also known as the "swimming cat", Van is a strong, fast, and agile cat.

- There are more than 5 million domestic cats worldwide. Regarding the number of breeds, opinions are divided: the Association of Animal Breeders, which has a world record, claims that there are 35 breeds, while the International Association of Cats has registered 38.

- If you catch your cat clinging to the window, watching a bird intensely, making a strange sound, and clinking its jaws, you should know that it simply acts on instinct - what it does is directly related to the deadly bite instinct that all cats (wild or domestic) use it to catch prey.

- Winston Churchill loves cats. Jock, his cat, seems to have been on his toes when he died.

- The cat's mood can be easily detected if you look it in the eye. When she is frightened or agitated, her pupils are large and round, and if she is nervous, they will be narrow. The size of the pupil is related to both the mood of the animal and the intensity of the light.

- Young cats can distinguish between two sounds at a distance of only 45 cm from each other and 18 m from it.