“Bet ya Didn’t Know” Facts About Cats

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1. 1. 1. Cats’ kidneys can filter salt out of water. This means that cats could drink sea water if fresh water is not available. Apparently kitty doesn’t have to worry about his blood pressure.

      2. Killing a cat in Egypt 4000 years ago brought the death penalty. Personally, I think that should apply today as well!

      3. Contrary to popular belief, cats shouldn’t be given milk to drink because they are lactose intolerant. After a kitten has been weaned, the lactase (the enzyme that enables lactose digestion) in the stomach begins to disappear.

      4. The reason why kittens sleep so much is because their growth hormones that are only released during sleep.

      5. Some cat experts believe that cats find their way home using magnetized cells in their brains that act like a compass. I believe this might also have something to do with their memories.

      6. Scientists discovered in 2005 that cats don’t have one of the proteins required to taste sweet things. Now if I could find and remove that protein in humans, I could make a fortune!

      7. Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, whereas dogs can usually only make around 10.

      8. Cats are the only animal besides the giraffe, Icelandic pony and camel that step with both left legs and then both right legs.

      9. Cats use their whiskers to measure if they are able to fit through a space. If this were true for humans, there are a bunch of folks out there who would need whiskers 3 feet long!

      10. Males cats are usually left pawed, whereas females tend to be right pawed. This just proves that the girls are always right!

      11. Like humans, cats have short term and long term memories, with the ability to remember what happened 16 hours ago. Unlike me, they don’t have to make a concerted effort to remember where they parked their vehicle!

      12. Sir Isaac Newton is credited with the creation of the cat flap, because his experiments kept being interrupted by his own cat coming through the door.

      13. A cat’s brain is 90% similar to a human’s, with the overall structure and the sections that control emotion being almost identical. This makes their brains more similar to ours than to a dog’s.

      14. Cats can’t see directly in front of their nose. This makes me wonder if some of the vehicles on I-95 are being driven by cats!

      15. Cats are able to jump up to six times their own length. This is why, even if you remove the chairs, the remains of your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner left on the table is still fair game to your cat.

      16. A kitty paid the ultimate price in service to his country in 1960. $20 million was spent by the CIA training cats to spy. After five years of training and a small transmitter and microphone inserted into one cat for his first mission, he was run over by a taxi while taking a few steps towards a known Soviet meeting place. I think this was an assassination pure and simple.

      17. Cats aren’t the only animals that purr. Gorillas, elephants and squirrels do it too. Frankly, I don’t think I could sidle up to a purring gorilla!

      18. A cat’s hairball is technically known as a ‘trichobezoar’. ‘Tricho’ means hair and a ‘bezoar’ is a lump formed from material unable to digest in the abdominal tract. Bezoars were once thought to possess certain magical properties by acting as an antidote to some poisons. Where do people come up with this idiocy? I can’t speak for any of you, dear hearts, but I’d choose to die of poisoning rather than swallow a fur ball!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

Allie

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