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After being handled, cats lick themselves to smooth their fur and get rid of the “human” smell.

Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.

An adult cat has thirty teeth and around twelve whiskers.

Adult cats with no health problems are in deep sleep 15 percent of their lives. They are in light sleep 50 percent of the time.

Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible.

Cat urine glows under a black light.

Cats are attracted to automobile antifreeze because of its sweet taste.

Cats bury their feces to cover their trails from predators.

Cats can donate blood to other cats.

Cats can get “age spots”. These are black spots on the skin that are often seen around the lips, eyes, and nose; and usually start when the cat is three to five years of age.

Cats can get bored. They show their boredom by excessive licking, chewing, or biting.

Cats can have freckles. They can appear anywhere on a cat’s skin and even in its mouth.

Cats can learn tricks. They just sometimes choose not to.

Cats can see color. Studies have shown that cats can distinguish between red and green; red and blue; red and gray; green and blue; green and gray; blue and gray; yellow and blue, and yellow and gray.

Cats can see up to 120 feet away. Their peripheral vision is about 285 degrees.

Cats have AB blood groups just like people.

Cats have about 100 different vocalization sounds. In comparison, dogs have about 10.

Cats have amazing hearing ability. A cat’s ear has 30 muscles that control the outer ear (by comparison, human ears only have six muscles). These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so the cat can hear in all directions without moving its head.

Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat’s can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.

Cats love to hear the sound of their own name and your voice, so talk to them often.

Cats only need a sixth the amount of light that humans do to see. However, their daytime vision is only fair compared to that of humans.

Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.

Human painkillers such acetaminophen (Tylenol) are toxic to cats. Chocolate is also poisonous to cats.

If your cat is in the habit of rolling over and exposing his stomach, you can be sure he feels perfectly safe with you. It’s also a way of demonstrating his pleasure in your company.

In ancient Egypt , the entire family would shave their eyebrows off as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.

In relation to their body size, cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.

In the 9th century, King Henry I of Saxony decreed that the fine for killing a cat should be sixty bushels of corn.

It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one’s blood pressure.

Many cats are unable to properly digest cow’s milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhea.

Orange and lemon rinds are offensive to cats. A light rubbing of orange peel on furniture will discourage your cat from using it as a scratching post.

Perhaps the oldest known female cat was Ma, from Devon , who was 34 when she died in 1957.

Sir Isaac Newton, who first described the principle of gravity, also invented the swinging cat door for the convenience of his many cats.

The average canned or dry cat meal is the nutritional equivalent of eating five mice.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

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