A cats is a funny pets. A cat is a small, mainly carnivorous animal, felis catus, member of the family Felidae, popular as a household pet, and valuable for killing mice and rats.
Like other members of the cat family, the domestic cat has retractile claws; keen hearing and smell; remarkable night vision; and a compact, muscular, and highly supple body.
Cats possess excellent memory and exhibit considerable aptitude for learning by observation and experience. The natural life span of a domestic cat is about 15 years.
Your Funny Cats Fact:
**The word cat refers to a family of meat-eating animals that include tigers, lions, leopards, and panthers.
**ats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
**Cats have true fur, in that they have both an undercoat and an outer coat.
**Newborn kittens have closed ear canals that don't begin to open for nine days. When the eyes open, they are always blue at first. They change colour over a period of months to the final eye colour.
**Most cats have no eyelashes.
**It is a common belief that cats are colour blind. However, recent studies have shown that cats can see blue, green and red.
**A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye.
**Cats with white fur and skin on their ears are prone to sunburn.
**A cat can jump seven times as high as it is tall.
**A female cat can have three to seven kittens every four months.
**The average life span of a domestic cat is 14 years. Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
**Many cats cannot properly digest cow's milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhoea.
**The colour of the points in Siamese cats is heat related. Cool areas are darker.
**Cats bury their faeces to cover their trails from predators.
**Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
**Besides smelling with their nose, cats can smell with an additional organ called the Jacobson's organ, located in the upper surface of the mouth.
**Cats have an average of 24 whiskers, arranged in four horizontal rows on each side.
**Retractable claws are a physical phenomenon that sets cats apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. In the cat family, only cheetahs cannot retract their claws.
**A cat can spend five or more hours a day grooming itself.
**In relation to their body size, cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.
**Declawing a cat is the same as cutting a human's fingers off at the knuckle.
**It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.
**If your cat snores, or rolls over on his back to expose his belly, it means he trusts you.
**Tomcats can mate at anytime, while queens can only mate during a period of time called heat or estrus. Heat occurs several times a year and can last anywhere from three to 15 days.
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