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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.
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@MI5 @Beenherebefore Haha I pretty sure the cat population is measured by poop in gardens 
@Chattymuch All 3 of mine got a stomach bug once. Wasn't a fun time but shares in the carpet cleaner brand I use shot through the roof!
@jonsie Ahh that's brilliant! Just play around the cat
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@Martin-O2 Laminate flooring stops that sort of 'accident' being a problem. .....I have it in every downstairs room and it's a godsend. Not just for the cats, I might add!! Any type of spillage or walked in mud is just mopped up. Job done...
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@Cleoriff wrote:
@Martin-O2 Laminate flooring stops that sort of 'accident' being a problem. .....I have it in every downstairs room and it's a godsend. Not just for the cats, I might add!! Any type of spillage or walked in mud is just mopped up. Job done...
And there you have the advantage of a hairy cat: a self-cleaning mop!
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When one of our cats (Bilbo or Choots ) were being sick it was a matter of picking them up by the scruff of the neck and gently hurling them into the back garden....
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@jonsie wrote:
When one of our cats (Bilbo or Choots ) were being sick it was a matter of picking them up by the scruff of the neck and gently hurling them into the back garden....
Didn't that spray vomit around the place ?
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@Chattymuch Yep they do seem to prefer the carpet. I think they just like to have you clean up after them
@jonsie @Beenherebefore Not if your quick enough! It tends to take them a minute to get going so if your on the ball you can get them to a safe zone.
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@jonsie wrote:
When one of our cats (Bilbo or Choots ) were being sick it was a matter of picking them up by the scruff of the neck and gently hurling them into the back garden....
I find that just trails the vomit all over the place.......as they are hurtling...or should that be 'hurling'?
