Cat Facts

rescuecatsrule · Dec 28, 2007

Post any little known cat facts you know here.

Cats can't drink cows milk - they can't digest the lactose (I think it's spelt) in the milk. Cat milk is fine for them.

They can't eat chocolate either - it's poisonous to them (apparently)

yosemite · Dec 28, 2007

Weeeeeellll, not ALL cats are lactose intolerant. Chocolate is more dangerous to dogs I believe. So, I'm not sure where the line would be drawn between fact and fiction.

rescuecatsrule · Dec 28, 2007

I'm just saying what I've heard.

Beauty can't have cats milk OR cows milk, because cats milk makes her hyper. Cows milk, I've been told, has too much lactose in it and most cats, if not all, can't digest it. A volunteer at the rescue centre I work at told me.

hissy · Dec 28, 2007

they can drink cows milk, but they shouldn't. some of them can't digest the liquid well and it can cause diarrhea and stomach upset. i have in a pinch fed bottle babies diluted cow's milk but only as a last resort.

rescuecatsrule · Dec 28, 2007

What I meant was they can't digest the amount of lactose in cow's milk.

I know for a fact Beauty can't have cats milk for the reason I've said above.

icklemiss21 · Dec 28, 2007

Some cats ARE fine with it though, so it isn't really a fact.

Some facts

Heat periods usually last 4-8 days
Gestation (pregnancy) is usually 62-64 days
Cars are capable of around 100 different vocalisations

luvmy2cats · Dec 28, 2007

Cats are wierd.

Umm, a cats vomit reflex is in their back by the base of the tail. I found that one out from the vet.

mbjerkness · Dec 28, 2007

Originally Posted by luvmycat1

Cats are wierd.

Umm, a cats vomit reflex is in their back by the base of the tail. I found that one out from the vet.

that is weird I have never heard of that, I know that some people say cats should have cow's milk, but my Grandmother, used to feed a very large colony of feral cats, she had two old metal wash tubs she would fill one with cat food, leftovers,meat leftover from the store they owned. and the other one she would fill with milk, her friend had a cow that produced too much. those cats used to go crazy for the milk,

they'd trip over each other to be the first one in, I saw more than one cat take a bath in it

lillekat · Dec 28, 2007

Originally Posted by rescuecatsrule

Post any little known cat facts you know here.

Cats can't drink cows milk - they can't digest the lactose (I think it's spelt) in the milk. Cat milk is fine for them.

They can't eat chocolate either - it's poisonous to them (apparently)

Then technically my pair should be dead. They do both. And Chocolate is poisonous to dogs

Natural yoghurt is great for settling bad kitty tummies.

I'm sure we all know that all tri colours are female.... and that all white cats with blue eyes carry the genetic marker for deafness (if they aren't completely deaf themselves)

"All red cats are male" MYTH!

stacyd1987 · Dec 28, 2007

Originally Posted by luvmycat1

Cats are wierd. Umm, a cats vomit reflex is in their back by the base of the tail. I found that one out from the vet.

Um, thanks for the warning... Lol! But then why do they always beg for us to scratch their tail bases?

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs because of the caffeine, I think. Probably the same reason cats shouldn't eat it too, they get enough from catnip to get wild and crazy!

Also, kittens can drink cow's milk though it's not recommended. As they grow up, many cats become more lactose intolerant thought there are the few that can still drink cow's milk. (At least, from what I've heard on Animal Planet.)

bonnie1965 · Dec 28, 2007

I know my two cannot drink milk, they are more lactose intolerant than I am

I have never fed them chocolate because I have heard the same thing about it being poisonous. And, of course, they really don't need either milk or chocolate

callista · Dec 29, 2007

Siamese cats have been known to live over 30 years.

A cat has whiskers on its forelegs!

luvmy2cats · Dec 29, 2007

Originally Posted by Callista

A cat has whiskers on its forelegs!

I've noticed that on the back of Popsies front legs. I always wondered what they were.

allat · Dec 29, 2007

I have a cat that likes cheesecake, the plain kind. She also hangs around when I have cereal and milk. Prob'ly for the milk. Now I've heard about the lactose problem, and I'm thinking maybe I could give her a drop of that new kind of prep milk the one LACTOSE FREE. And see how she reacts. Well, I hope.

allat · Dec 29, 2007

Have you noticed also, that cats have long whiskery type eyelashes? Graduating in size, from short to long- about 5+ (she didn't hold still for me to count) on each eye.

bonnie1965 · Dec 29, 2007

Cats do not always land on their feet.

Remember that old Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? When I was about 8 years old, I saw an episode where a mother cougar was running from something and she fell a long way and did not land on her feet. Her back was broken. I remember Marlin Perkins explaining the myth. Not sure why that stuck with me, I can still see it

glitch · Dec 29, 2007

My cats right now prolly couldn't land on all fours if their lives depended on it!! They are clumsily cute!! LOL

spyral · Dec 30, 2007

So, what would happen if we stick a slice of toast with butter to a cat's back and we throw it to the air? The cat, by law, will land on its feet, but the toast, (by law too) will land on the butter's side. Against this problem of physics laws, the nature chooses the best (and laziest, I think) way of taking a solution: the cat may just not fall.
The cat with the toast, once it's free in the air, will float at its cat-toast equilibrium point, where butter repulsion forces and cat forces are in balance. This point can be adjusted by removing some butter from the toast, adding it, or cutting some hairs from the cat. In theory, this will cause the cat to remain stationary, however, in reality, due to varied nature of gravity and the non-uniform profile of Earth, the cat will simply spin around its center of gravity at ever-increasing speed.

In fact, most civilized species in the universe already use this principle in order to build their UFO's. Thus, the buzzing that you can hear when you see an UFO is actually the purr from the cats.

True story.

bonnie1965 · Dec 30, 2007

Originally Posted by Spyral

So, what would happen if we stick a slice of toast with butter to a cat's back and we throw it to the air? The cat, by law, will land on its feet, but the toast, (by law too) will land on the butter's side. Against this problem of physics laws, the nature chooses the best (and laziest, I think) way of taking a solution: the cat may just not fall.
The cat with the toast, once it's free in the air, will float at its cat-toast equilibrium point, where butter repulsion forces and cat forces are in balance. This point can be adjusted by removing some butter from the toast, adding it, or cutting some hairs from the cat. In theory, this will cause the cat to remain stationary, however, in reality, due to varied nature of gravity and the non-uniform profile of Earth, the cat will simply spin around its center of gravity at ever-increasing speed.

In fact, most civilized species in the universe already use this principle in order to build their UFO's. Thus, the buzzing that you can hear when you see an UFO is actually the purr from the cats.

True story.

OMG, I hope this is supposed to be funny

butzie · Dec 30, 2007

LOL Spyral! Do they eat buttered toast on those UFOs?

Actually, I saw some nature program that talked about why cats, when they are up in the air, do a summersaulting move that rights them up so they land on their feet. They had slow-action pictures that showed how the cats did it.
Fascinating.

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