Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
It has been scientifically proven that owning cats is good for our health and can decrease the occurrence of high blood pressure and other illnesses.
Stroking a cat can help to relieve stress, and the feel of a purring cat on your lap conveys a strong sense of security and comfort.
The life expectancy of cats has nearly doubled over the last fifty years.
The cat's front paw has 5 toes and the back paws have 4. Cats born with 6 or 7 front toes and extra back toes are called polydactl.
Ailurophile is the word cat lovers are officially called.
Cats wag their tails when it is in a stage of conflict. The cat wants to do two things at once, but each impulse blocks the other. For example: If your cat is in the doorway wanting to go outside, and you open the door to find it raining, the cat's tail will wag because of internal conflict. The cat wants to go outside, but doesn't want to go into the rain. Once the cat makes a decision and either returns to the house or leaves into the rain, the tail will immediately stop wagging.Don't pick a kitten or a cat up by the scruff of its neck; only mother cats can do this safely, and only with their kittens.
A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 cats in just seven years.More than 35,000 kittens are born in the U.S. each year. Spay or neuter your cat.
The average age for an indoor cat is 15 years, while the average age for an outdoor cat is only 3 to 5 years.
The oldest cat on record was Puss, from England, who died in 1939 just one day after her 36th birthday.
The greatest number of mice killed by one cat? 28,899! Towser, a
tortoise-shell tabby in charge of rodent control in Scotland, killed 28,899 mice
in her 21 years. This is about four mice per day, every day, for 21 years.
Towser died in 1987.
A falling cat will always right itself in a precise order. First the head will rotate, then the spine will twist and the rear legs will align, then the cat will arch its back to lessen the impact of the landing.
The most popular names for female cats in the U.S. are Missy, Misty, Muffin, Patches, Fluffy, Tabitha, Tigger, Pumpkin and Samantha.
AGES - Cats versus Humans
| CAT AGE | HUMAN AGE |
| 4 months | 7 years |
| 6 months | 10 years |
| 8 months | 13 years |
| 1 year | 16 years |
| 2 years | 24 years |
| 4 years | 32 years |
| 6 years | 40 years |
| 8 years | 48 years |
| 10 years | 56 years |
| 12 years | 64 years |
| 14 years | 72 years |
| 16 years | 80 years |
| 18 years | 88 years |
| 20 years | 96 years |
| 21 years | 100 years |
Cat Quotes
"One cat just leads to another."
-Ernest Hemingway
"For a man to
truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat."
-anonymous
"No matter how
much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."
-Abraham Lincoln