Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.
Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different.
A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping, they average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.
Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female’s urine.
Reports from owners of cats indicate that 7% of cats snore.
The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
A fall of 9.1m (30ft) can be survived my most cats.
Babies that are exposed to cats in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.
In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen; once, the find was made public the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals and cats were often buried with their masters, or in a special cemetary for cats.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats.
There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
