Hello feline worshipers! This page is dedicated to all the cool cats out there. Miss Tabitha, Ginger, Priscilla, Fireball, Aphrodite, Gigit, Biscotti, and Cabbit,(my cats!)all helped put this page together. Here you'll find lots of kewl kitty facts, health tips, quotes, and more!
In one ancient city, over 300,000 cat mummies were found.
The first cat show was in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London.
Today there are about 100 distinct breeds of the domestic cat. 
Genetic mutation created the domestic cat which has been tame from birth.
Like birds, cats have a homing ability that uses its biological clock, the angle of the sun, and the Earth's magnetic field.
A cat taken far from its home can return to it, but if a cat's owners move far from its home, the cat can't find them.
Hunting is not instinctive for cats. Kittens born to non-hunting mothers may never learn to hunt.
Mother cats often teach their kittens to use the litter box.
Among other tasks, cats can be taught to use a toilet, come, sit, beg, eat with their paws, heel, jump through a hoop, play a piano, play dead, roll over, open a door, hide food in boxes, shake, and fetch.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
When cats are asleep, they are still alert to incoming stimuli. If you poke the tail of a sleeping cat, it will respond accordingly.
In Great Britain, black cats are thought to bring good luck.
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 can't taste sweets.
The chlorine in fresh tap water irritates sensitive parts of the cat's nose. Let tap water sit for 24 hours before giving it to a cat.
The average cat food meal is the equivalent to about five mice.
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. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.
Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
Ten human years translate to about 60 cat years. A one year old cat is similar in age to an 18 year old human.
Oldest Domestic Cat = The average life expectancy for a neutered, well looked after cat is now 15 - 17 years for a male and 17 - 19 years for a female. Puss, owned by Mrs. Holway of Clayhidon, Devon, UK, lived to be 36 years old. He died in 1939. A Devon Rex named "Grampa Rex" reportedly lived to be 40 years old, this age was confirmed by his vet.
Largest Domestic Cat = Himmy, owned by Thomas Vyse of Redlynch, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, still holds the title of being the heaviest recorded cat. When he died at the age of 10 in 1986, he weighed 46lbs 15 L oz (21.3 kg). Imagine him jumping on your knee whilst you're watching TV ! A neutered male tabby, his neck measured 15in (38.1cm), his waist 33 in (83.8cm) and he was 38 in (96.5cm) long. Another cat named Poppa came very close to Himmy's record. He was a male tabby, owned by Gwladys Cooper of Newport, Gwent, UK and weighed 44 ? lbs (20.19 kg) a year before he died in 1985.
Smallest Domestic Cat = Tinker Toy, owned by Katrina & Scott Forbes of Taylorville, Illinois, USA holds this record. He is a male blue point Himalayan - Persian and measures just 2 ins (7cm) tall and 7 ins (19 cm) long.
Largest Pet Litter = This record goes to a Tonkinese cat owned by V. Gane of Church Westcote, Kingham, Oxon, UK who gave birth to 19 kittens in one go in 1970.
Best Mouser = Towser, a female tortoiseshell owned by the Glenturret Distillery Ltd, Crief, Tayside, UK holds this title. When she died in 1987 at the age of 24, she had caught a total of 28,899 mice - an average of 3 per day.
Best Climber = In 1950, a four month old kitten owned by Josephine Aufdenblatten from Geneva, Switzerland walked into the record books by following a group of climbers to the top of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. The height of which is 14,691 ft (4478m).
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