Cats spend between 30 and 50 percent of their day grooming themselves.
Cats get a high from catnip due to receptors in their nose and mouth.
A litter of kittens is called a kindle.
Grooming serves as a sign of affection between cats.
Cats don’t just purr when they’re happy, but also when sick, stressed out, hurt, or giving birth. Leave it to cats to be the animal that makes loud terrifying death noises when having sex, but purrs when popping out babies…
A group of cats is called a clowder.
Purring occurs at a frequency between 25 and 150 herts.
The Guinness Book of World Records no longer awards the world’s fattest pets because they don’t want to encourage obese pets. Cats had a lot to do with that.
Scientists aren’t completely sure why cats purr. A popular theory is that it stimulates muscles and bones without using a lot of energy doing something like exercising. Even evolution is on the side of the lazy geniuses.
In the1960’s ambassador Henry Helb lived in the Dutch Embassy in Moscow. His two siamese cats endlessly clawed a wall in his room, and it turns out there were 30 microphones planted in his bedroom wall by spies. Cats being bros.
David Teie is a composer who partnered with animal scientists to create an album called ‘Music for Cats’. It’s music for cats. If you want a fancy description, his website explains that it’s, “based on feline vocal communication and environmental sounds that pique the interest of cats,”
Famous historical figures Florence Nightingale, Pope Paul II, Mark Twain, and the Bronte sisters all owned (and therefore loved) cats.
Abraham Lincoln gets his own fact away from the other famous people because he really, really loved cats. So much so that when his wife Mary was asked if her husband had any hobbies, she responded with “Cats!” Can… can I say that’s my hobby?
The world’s oldest living cat is the white-and-orange named Rubble, who celebrated his Dirty 30 back in June.
There is a Guinness World Record for the world’s wealthiest cat. Back in 1988, British millionaire Ben Rea left his cat, Black, a cool $13 million. Don’t worry though, it was donated to 3 different cat charities.
1 in 200 cats has asthma.
Some people in Ancient Egypt faced the death penalty for abusing cats.
The word ‘ailurophile’ is a super obnoxious fancy word for ‘cat lover’ that I will now be using at parties to make myself sound cooler for having more cats than friends.
Cats are genetically predisposed to dislike sweets. Even if your cat loves food, they’re more likely to want to eat the savory things.
Experts aren’t certain, but it’s believed that cats hate water because the don’t like soggy fur.
Cats have 244 bones in its entire body, compared to humans with 206 bones.
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