1. Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination.
2. Charles A Lindbergh left his kitten Patsy, at home in 1927 when he made his famous transatalantic flight because it was "too dangerous a journey" to risk her life. But a kitten named Jazz crossed the Antlantic on the first dirgible flight from England to America.
3. Bouhaki, the earliest cat name on record, dates back to Egyptian writings of 2000 B.C. In the hieroglyphs of that period, bou signified "house" and "hak"
was a symbol for "divine ruler."
4. In ancient Egypt, entire families were forced by law to shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when a family cat died.
5. There are approximately 60,000 hairs per square inch on the back of a cat and about 120,000 per square inch on the underside.
6. The largest litter ever documented was produced by a Burmese/Siamese mother. There were 19 kittens in the litter.
7. Besides smelling with their nosees, cats can smell with an additional organ called the vomeronasa organ (or Jacobson's organ), located in the upper surface of the mouth.
8. Sir Isaac Newton is credited witht he invention of the cat flap door.
9. Cats ears can be rotated because they are connected to 30 muscles. There are only 6 muscles connecting the human ears. ( we can't rotate ours)
10. The first modern cat show, featuring 2 dozen show classes, was held in London in 1871.
11. At top speed, a domestic cat can run over 30 MPH.
12. A cat named Towser, elimitated 28,899 mice while she was employed by the Glenturret Distillery near Crieff, Tayside, Scottland
13. Every cat's nose pad, has a unique characteristics. Just as no 2 humans have the same fingerprints, it's a fact that no 2 feline noseprints are never alike.
14. Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
15. Back in the late 1940's in the Buenos Aries, a black female cats climbed a 40 foot tree where she resided for 6 years. Her name was Mincha and she wasn't lonely for companionship. She had 3 litters while living in the tree. The local Argentininas fed her by putting her food on poles.
2. Charles A Lindbergh left his kitten Patsy, at home in 1927 when he made his famous transatalantic flight because it was "too dangerous a journey" to risk her life. But a kitten named Jazz crossed the Antlantic on the first dirgible flight from England to America.
3. Bouhaki, the earliest cat name on record, dates back to Egyptian writings of 2000 B.C. In the hieroglyphs of that period, bou signified "house" and "hak"
was a symbol for "divine ruler."
4. In ancient Egypt, entire families were forced by law to shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when a family cat died.
5. There are approximately 60,000 hairs per square inch on the back of a cat and about 120,000 per square inch on the underside.
6. The largest litter ever documented was produced by a Burmese/Siamese mother. There were 19 kittens in the litter.
7. Besides smelling with their nosees, cats can smell with an additional organ called the vomeronasa organ (or Jacobson's organ), located in the upper surface of the mouth.
8. Sir Isaac Newton is credited witht he invention of the cat flap door.
9. Cats ears can be rotated because they are connected to 30 muscles. There are only 6 muscles connecting the human ears. ( we can't rotate ours)
10. The first modern cat show, featuring 2 dozen show classes, was held in London in 1871.
11. At top speed, a domestic cat can run over 30 MPH.
12. A cat named Towser, elimitated 28,899 mice while she was employed by the Glenturret Distillery near Crieff, Tayside, Scottland
13. Every cat's nose pad, has a unique characteristics. Just as no 2 humans have the same fingerprints, it's a fact that no 2 feline noseprints are never alike.
14. Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
15. Back in the late 1940's in the Buenos Aries, a black female cats climbed a 40 foot tree where she resided for 6 years. Her name was Mincha and she wasn't lonely for companionship. She had 3 litters while living in the tree. The local Argentininas fed her by putting her food on poles.
