CAT FACTS

• Owning a cat can decrease the occurrence of high blood pressure and other illnesses.

• All cats need taurine in their diet to avoid blindness.

• When a cat rubs up against you, it is marking you with its scent and claiming ownership.

• If you take a kitten away from its mother before it is 8 weeks old, she may not have enough time to train it to use a litter box.

• Only 1/12 of all cats born find homes.

• A 7 year old cat has only been awake 2 years of its life.

• Ernest Hemmingway Polydact cats

• Kittens have baby teeth which are replaced by permanent teeth around the age of 7 months.

• The cat's front paw has 5 toes and the back paws have 4 toes.

• A cat's heart beats at 110 to 140 beats per minutes, 2x as fast as a human heart.

• All cats are born with blue eyes.

• During her life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens.

• A cat will spend nearly 30% of its life grooming itself.

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

• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

• If your cat is frightened, put your hand over its eyes and forehead, or let him buy his head in your armpit to help calm him.

• A cat can rotate his ears 180 degrees.

• Cats need 5x more protein than dogs do.

• Cat's hearing is 5x greater than human's hearing.  His hearing diminishes after age 5.A cat will almost never meow at another cat.  Cats use this sound for humans.

• Cats see 6x better in the dark than humans.

• A cat can be either left-pawed or right-pawed, about 40% are ambidextrous.

• A cat can sprint at 30 mph and jump 7 times as high as its tail.

• A cat can easily produce 3 litters per year.

• A group of grown cats is called a "clowder".

• Cat's urine glows under a black light.

• Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination.

• Calico cats are nearly always female.

• A majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf.  White cats with one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye.

• 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.

• Cats have about 100 different vocalization sounds as compared to dogs with about 10.

• The heaviest cat on record weighed 45 lbs, 10 oz's.

• The giraffe, camel and cat are the only animals that walk by moving both their left feet, then both their right feet when walking.The Oldest cat on record was 34 when she died in 1957.

• An adult cat has 30 teeth, 16 on the top and 14 on the bottom.

• A group of kittens is called a "kindle"

• There are approximately 60,000 hairs per square inch on the back of a cat and about 120,000 per sq inch on its underside.

• A steady diet of dog food may cause blindness in your cat.

• The average life span of an outdoor cat is about 3 years.

• The average cat weighs 12 pounds.

• If a male cat is both orange and black it is sterile.

• There are about 500 million domestic cats in the world, with 33 different breeds.

• Normal body temperature for a cat is 102 degrees F.

• A cat can locate the source of a sound 10x faster that the best watch

"Only 1 out of 10 kittens born will be adopted... the remaining 9 will be euthanized.*

Only 1 out of every 12 cats born will ever have a permanent home*

" They live in the shadows —the alleyways, empty lots and condemned buildings—of almost every neighborhood. Their lives are short and usually harsh. They struggle to find food and water in an environment filled with the constant threats of disease, starvation, cruelty and predation. They are the abandoned, the lost and the wild—and they need our help."

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    "Time spent with cats is never wasted" ~COLLETTE