Cats can hear high-pitched or faint noises that humans cannot detect
Cats can tell the difference between musical tones
A cat uses more than a dozen muscles to turn its ears as much as 180 degrees
Leave the cat alone if its ears are bent back - that's a sure sign the cat is angry or upset
Happy cats keep their ears held high
The Pilgrims were the first to introduce cats to North America
The first breeding pair of Siamese cats arrived in England in 1884
The first formal cat show was held in England in 1871
The first formal cat show in American was in 1895
The Maine Coon cat is America's only "natural" breed of domestic feline
There are approximately 100 breeds of cats
In relation to their body size, cats have the largest eyes of any animal
A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour
The heaviest cat on record weighed 46 pounds
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run
The cat's front paws have 5 toes, but the back paws have 4
Some cats are born with as many as 7 front toes and even extra back toes (called polydacty)
Cats walk on their toes
If a cat is frightened, the hair stands up fairly even all over the body
When a cat is threatened or ready to attack, the hair stands up only in a narrow band along the spine and tail
Cat families usually play best in even numbers
Cats can't produce fat on their own, so they must have it in their diet
Cat's urine glows under a black light
The two most popular names given to cats of the US are "Tiger" and "Samantha"
People who like cats are called ailurophiles
People who fear and/or hate cats are called ailurophobes
A cat's sense of smell is 14 times stronger than a human's
Cats have 244 bones in their bodies! (About 40 more than humans!)
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear
Cats aren't hunters by nature; their mothers teach them to hunt
To drink, a cat laps liquid from the underside of its tongue, rather than
from the top
The bottom two rows of whiskers on a cat can move independently of the top
two rows
Whiskers tell a cat whether the space they are entering is big enough for it
Cats have about 100 different vocalization sounds. In comparison, dogs have
about 10
A cat's brain is more similar to a human's brain than that of a dog
Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion
A cat can jump five times as high as its tail
A cat will spend nearly 30% of her life grooming herself
If your cat snores, or rolls over on her back to expose her belly, it means
she trusts you
Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound
Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they
do through urinationn
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