Facts About Cats II

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

beautiful cats

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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Wisdom

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

{Epictetus}

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

{Warren Buffet}

"Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow."

{Rumi}

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.''

{Lyndon B. Johnson}

"Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living."

{Kevin D. Weeks}

"Life is "trying things to see if they work."

{Ray Bradbury}

"If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm."

{Warren Wendel Wiersbe}

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."

{Baruch Spinoza}

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."

{Powell Davies}

"Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice."

{Sophocles}

 

"There are many gates to the house of wisdom."

{Edward Counsel}

"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions."

{Eckhart Tolle}

 

"Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul."

{Edward Counsel}

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

{Aeschylus}

"The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity."

{Sophocles}

"Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost."

{Edward Counsel}

"Second thoughts are ever wiser.''

 {Euripides}

 

"Full wise is he that can himself know."

{Geoferey Chaucer}

 

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

{Hermann Hesse}

 

"Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought."

{Edward Counsel}

Wisdom Quotes

"Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say 'yes'."

 {Eleanor Roosevelt"

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

{Marie Curie}

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

{M. Scott Peck}

"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."

{Robert Neelly Bellah}

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."

{Buddha}

"There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion."

{Seth Godin}

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

{Napoleon Hill}

"In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart."

{Roberta Sage Hamilton}

Thinking man

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

{Sally Kempton}

"The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."

{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

{Pearl Bailey}

"The universe is transformation."

{Louise Erdrich}

"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it."

{Stephen Covey}

"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."

{Ellen Goodman}

"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."

{Bertrand Russell}

"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure."

{Cesar Chavez}

For Mother With Love

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
{Laurie Anderson}

"Look in those eyes... Listen to that dear voice... Notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand ! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all gifts. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the anxiety of that tone and look, however slight is your pain. In after life you may have friends, fonds, dears, but never you will have again the inexpressible love & gentleness levished upon you which none but a mother bestows."
{Macaulay}

"I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money."{Joe Louis}
 
"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."
{Tenneva Jordan}

"The best medicine in the world is a mother's kiss."
{Anonymous}





 "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
{Mark Twain}

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."
{Stevie Wonder}

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool Mom."
{Unknown}

"You couldn't fool your mother on the fool-ingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."
{Homer Simpson}

"All I am I owe to my mother."
{George Washington}

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
{W.R. Wallace}

"God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers."
{Jewish Proverb}

"To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.
{Arlene Benedict}
 
"God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues."
{Ganeshan Venkatarman}
 
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
{George Eliot}

"Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children."
{William Makepeace Thackeray}
 
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others."
{Cardinal Mermillod}
 
"Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries."
{Unknown}
 
"My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it."
{Marc Chagall}

"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother."
{Sarah Josepha Hale}

"The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
{Barbara Kingsolver}
 
"Mothers are instinctive philosophers."
{Harriet Beecher Stowe}

"A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters."
{George Herbert}

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
{Henry Ward Beecher}

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
{Unknown}
 
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
{Irish proverb}

"A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved."
{Kate Samperi}
 
"Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all."
{Katherine Butler Hathaway}
 
"For all the ways you've helped me grow I want to say I love you so."
{Unknown}
 
"Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well? ....My mother.
{Ann Taylor}

"A mother understands what a child does not say."
{Jewish proverb}

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
{Erich Fromm}

"Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean."
{Erich Fromm, psychologist}

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
{Pablo Picasso}

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
{Margaret Mead}

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."
{Groucho Marx}

"Mother is the word for God in the eyes of children everywhere...
{Eric Draven}

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
{Robert Frost}

"When it comes to love, Mom's the word."
{Unknown}

Words For Mothers

"I miss thee, my Mother!  Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart."
{Eliza Cook}

"The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated."
{Washington Irving}

"A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review." {Robert Brault}


"I cannot forget my mother.  [S]he is my bridge.  When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely."  
{Renita Weems}

"A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." 
{Keith L. Brooks}


"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."  
{Oliver Wendell Holmes}

Mother

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.  Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world."
{Kate Douglas Wiggin}

"If I was damned of body and soul,
 I know whose prayers would make me whole,
 Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine."
 {Rudyard Kipling}

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
{James Joyce}


"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."
{Mark Twain}

"It's not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it."
{From the television show The Golden Girls}

"The mother's heart is the child's school-room."
{Henry Ward Beecher}


"Women know
  The way to rear up children (to be just)
  They know a simple, merry, tender knack
  Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,
  And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
  And kissing full sense into empty words.
  {Elizabeth Barrett Browning}

 "Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart."
{Author Unknown}

"How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it."
{Jules Michelet}


"The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her."
{Francis Thompson}


"My mom is literally a part of me.  You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors."
{Carrie Latet}

"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother."
{Moorish Proverb}


"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
{Abraham Lincoln}


"No painter's brush, nor poet's pen
  In justice to her fame
  Has ever reached half high enough
  To write a mother's name.
  {Author Unknown}


"Women who miscalculate are called mothers."
{Abigail Van Buren}


"A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done."
{Author Unknown}


"Mirror, mirror on the wall,
  I am my mother after all."
 {Author Unknown}


"One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage.  To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon.  Bare hands - a kind of mad courage."
{Robert Fulghum}

"One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
  Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
  The throne of God, burn through eternity -
  Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
  {Nathaniel Parker Willis}

"No one in the world can take the place of your mother.  Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right.  She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones."
{Harry Truman}

"Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.  {Robert Brault}

"Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
  Ripe on a plate.
  And while you live,
  Relentlessly she understands you.
  {Phyllis McGinley}
 
 "All mothers are working mothers." 
{Author Unknown}


"Because I feel that in the heavens above
  The angels, whispering one to another,
  Can find among their burning tears of love,
  None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
  Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
  You who are more than mother unto me."
  {Edgar Allan Poe}


"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
{Oprah Winfrey}


"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
{Irish Proverb}