Cats Facts

The most expensive cat was an Asian Leopard cat (ALC)-Domestic Shorthair (DSH) hybrid named Zeus. Zeus, who is 90% ALC and 10% DSH, has an asking price of £100,000 ($154,000).

Cute kittens

The most traveled cat is Hamlet, who escaped from his carrier while on a flight. He hid for seven weeks behind a pane. By the time he was discovered, he had traveled nearly 373,000 miles (600,000 km).

There are up to 60 million feral cats in the United States alone

The oldest cat to give birth was Kitty who, at the age of 30, gave birth to two kittens. During her life, she gave birth to 218 kittens.

In the 1930s, two Russian biologists discovered that color change in Siamese kittens depend on their body temperature. Siamese cats carry albino genes that work only when the body temperature is above 98° F. If these kittens are left in a very warm room, their points won’t darken and they will stay a creamy white

A female cat is called a queen or a molly.

Cats are extremely sensitive to vibrations. Cats are said to detect earthquake tremors 10 or 15 minutes before humans can.

The largest cat breed is the Ragdoll. Male Ragdolls weigh between 12 and 20 lbs (5.4-9.0 k). Females weigh between 10 and 15 lbs (4.5-6.8 k).

A cat called Dusty has the known record for the most kittens. She had more than 420 kittens in her lifetime.

Cats spend nearly 1/3 of their waking hours cleaning themselves.

In just seven years, a single pair of cats and their offspring could produce a staggering total of 420,000 kittens.

A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.

If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.

A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.

The normal body temperature of a cat is between 100.5 ° and 102.5 °F. A cat is sick if its temperature goes below 100 ° or above 103 °F.

The first cartoon cat was Felix the Cat in 1919. In 1940, Tom and Jerry starred in the first theatrical cartoon “Puss Gets the Boot.” In 1981 Andrew Lloyd Weber created the musical Cats, based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

The first cat show was organized in 1871 in London. Cat shows later became a worldwide craze.

In the 1750s, Europeans introduced cats into the Americas to control pests.

A commemorative tower was built in Scotland for a cat named Towser, who caught nearly 30,000 mice in her lifetime.

The tiniest cat on record is Mr. Pebbles, a 2-year-old cat that weighed 3 lbs (1.3 k) and was 6.1 inches (15.5 cm) high.

The lightest cat on record is a blue point Himalayan called Tinker Toy, who weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces (616 g). Tinker Toy was 2.75 inches (7 cm) tall and 7.5 inches (19 cm) long.

The heaviest cat on record is Himmy, a Tabby from Queensland, Australia. He weighed nearly 47 pounds (21 kg). He died at the age of 10.

The oldest cat on record was Crème Puff from Austin, Texas, who lived from 1967 to August 6, 2005, three days after her 38th birthday. A cat typically can live up to 20 years, which is equivalent to about 96 human years.

Cats have about 130,000 hairs per square inch (20,155 hairs per square centimeter).

One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.

In Japan, cats are thought to have the power to turn into super spirits when they die. This may be because according to the Buddhist religion, the body of the cat is the temporary resting place of very spiritual people.

A cat lover is called an Ailurophilia (Greek: cat+lover).

Ailurophobia: the hate or fear of cats .

Two members of the cat family are distinct from all others: the clouded leopard and the cheetah. The clouded leopard does not roar like other big cats, nor does it groom or rest like small cats. The cheetah is unique because it is a running cat; all others are leaping cats. They are leaping cats because they slowly stalk their prey and then leap on it.

A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.

A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.

Facts About Cats II

There are more than 500 million domestic cats in the world, with approximately 40 recognized breeds

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Most cats give birth to a litter of between one and nine kittens. The largest known litter ever produced was 19 kittens, of which 15 survived.

The richest cat is Blackie who was left £15 million by his owner, Ben Rea.

Cats prefer their food at room temperature.

Cats not only walk on their toes but they have 5 toes on their front paws and 4 toes on the their back paws

The world record for the cat with most toes belongs to Jake who has 28 toes, with 7 on each paw. (Cats with more than 5 toes on a paw is called poly-dactyl cats)

According to Hebrew legend, Noah prayed to God for help protecting all the food he stored on the ark from being eaten by rats. In reply, God made the lion sneeze, and out popped a cat.

The cat who holds the record for the longest non-fatal fall is Andy. He fell from the 16^th floor of an apartment building (about 200 ft/.06 km) and survived.

A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human

A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance

A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound

Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability

Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second

When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would mourn by shaving off their eyebrows. They also held elaborate funerals during which they drank wine and beat their breasts. The cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and the tiny mummy was placed in the family tomb or in a pet cemetery with tiny mummies of mice

Smuggling a cat out of ancient Egypt was punishable by death. Phoenician traders eventually succeeded in smuggling felines, which they sold to rich people in Athens and other important cities.

The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.

Killing a cat was punishable by death in ancient Egypt

In 1888, more than 300,000 mummified cats were found an Egyptian cemetery. They were stripped of their wrappings and carted off to be used by farmers in England and the U.S. for fertilizer

During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Pope Innocent VIII condemned cats as evil and thousands of cats were burned. Unfortunately, the widespread killing of cats led to an explosion of the rat population, which exacerbated the effects of the Black Death (plague epidemic killing an estimated 25–60% of Europeans from 1348 through 1351) 

Amazing Facts About Cats

The cat was seen as a sacred animal in ancient Egypt and the history of domestic cats dates back to 8000 years back.

While it is commonly thought that the ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, the oldest known pet cat was recently found in a 9,500-year-old grave on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This grave predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more.

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Cats are North America’s most popular pets: there are 73 million cats compared to 63 million dogs. Over 30% of households in North America own a cat

The smallest cat is the Singapore and weighs only 4 pounds

Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs can only make 10.   

The term “puss” is the root of the principal word for “cat” in the Romanian term pisica and the root of secondary words in Lithuanian (puz) and Low German puus. Some scholars suggest that “puss” could be imitative of the hissing sound used to get a cat’s attention. As a slang word for the female pudenda, it could be associated with the connotation of a cat being soft, warm, and fuzzy  

Approximately 40,000 people are bitten by cats in the U.S. annually. 

Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in Asia.  

The first cat in space was a French cat named Felicette (a.k.a. “Astrocat”) In 1963, France blasted the cat into outer space. Electrodes implanted in her brains sent neurological signals back to Earth. She survived the trip.

A cat can run about 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up

The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.

A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.

A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive

Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different.

25% of cat owners blow dry the cat's hair after giving it a bath.

A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways. 

A fall of 30 feet can be survived my most cats.

In the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats were not disciplined enough to do this.

During the Middle Ages, cats were associated with witchcraft, and on St. John’s Day, people all over Europe would stuff them into sacks and toss the cats into bonfires. On holy days, people celebrated by tossing cats from church towers.

A group of cats is called a “clowder

Wisdom Quotes II

"Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.'

{LEONID ANDREYEV},

"There's little comfort in the wise."

{RUPERT BROOKE}

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

{WILLIAM COWPER}

"Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another."

{EDMUND BURKE}

"It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

{PHILIP MOELLER}

"Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful."

{NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI}

 

"Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving."

{JOHN FLETCHER}

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

{JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU}

"wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."

{DAVID HUME}

"In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago."

{NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE}

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

{WILLIAM BLAKE}

 "Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread."

{AUSTIN O'MALLEY}

 

"The road to true wisdom has seldom been spanned by mortals."

{EDWARD COUNSEL}

"Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."

{DAN BROWN}

"Wisdom comes only through suffering."

{AESCHYLUS}

"The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew."

{JOHN MILTON},

Man's highest blessedness,

In wisdom chiefly stands;

And in the things that touch upon the Gods,

'Tish best in word or deed

To shun unholy pride;

Great words of boasting bring great punishments,

And so to grey-haired age

Teach wisdom at the last."

{SOPHOCLES},

 

"You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom."

{ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES}

 

"Justice without wisdom is impossible."

{JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE}

"The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave."

{JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY}

"The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind."

{JOHN GODFREY SAXE}

"The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

{IVAN PANIN}

 

"If we drink from the fountain of wisdom, We thirst for its waters e'er more."

{ARDELIA COTTON BARTON}

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