Today is international cat day!

[Martin-O2]

Today is international cat day! 

As many of you know I'm a big fan of kitties so to celebrate international cat day I've gathered some amazing and interesting cat facts from across the Internet. Feel free to add any unusual cat facts of your own below.

• Cats sleep for two-thirds – almost 70% – of their lives, usually spending between 13 and 16 hours of the day asleep.

• There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world.

• A group of cats is called a “clowder.

• A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.

• When a cat chases its prey, it keeps its head level. Dogs and humans bob their heads up and down.

• Isaac Newton invented the cat flap. Newton was experimenting in a pitch-black room. Spithead, one of his cats, kept opening the door and wrecking his experiment. The cat flap kept both Newton and Spithead happy.

• A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats. 

• All cats have claws, and all except the cheetah sheath them when at rest.

• A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.

• Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.

• The richest cat is Blackie who was left £15 million by his owner, Ben Rea.

• A cat has the ability to jump up to six times its length.

• The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.

• Approximately 40,000 people are bitten by cats in the U.S. annually.

• Domestic cats purr at a frequency of 20 to 30 vibrations per second.

• A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.

[MI5]

Well if there are over 500 million of them around, no one is gonna miss a few

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:
Well if there are over 500 million of them around, no one is gonna miss a few

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I missed one of mine when a post mortem showed he had been poisoned and probably died in agony...

But hey....just shows the cruelty of people...

[MI5]

Yeah, like people who conceal razor blades in meat and leave them around for dogs to find or throw them over garden walls where dogs live!

[Anonymous]

I can't abide animal cruelty at all 

It is said that a domestic cat will starve itself rather than eat something it doesn't want to 

My Marty is on Sheba atm... he's been through Wiskas & Felix ... & ... won't eat supermarket cat food at all

One day, I shall be able to post a photo of him on the forum ... he's on my Facebook page

[Cleoriff]

There you go @Anonymous Marvellous Marty....

[Cleoriff]

PS...I just looked at your pictures. Found the one above. Right click Copy Image....come onto the forum....Right click paste....and there you have it.....

[Anonymous]

Awww @Cleoriff

thank you very much for posting a photo of my Marvellous Marty :womanvery-happy: 

& thank you for letting me know how to post 

thank you to @Martin-O2 as op 

[Beenherebefore]

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@Anonymous wrote:

My Marty is on Sheba atm... he's been through Wiskas & Felix

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Well I'm amazed that got through the Community Word Police 

[Anonymous]

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@Beenherebefore wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

My Marty is on Sheba atm... he's been through Wiskas & Felix

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Well I'm amazed that got through the Community Word Police 

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[jonsie]

Last night in the bar......and the game went on.....