- Feline facts so you can get to know more about your cat.
What do you know about your cat? There are so many things to learn about them!
A house cat’s genome is 95.6% tiger, meaning they share
many traits like scent marking by scratching, prey play, prey stalking, pouncing, chinning, and urine marking.
Cats are known to be the only mammals who don’t taste sweetness.
Cats are nearsighted. However, their peripheral vision and night vision are much better than ours.
Cats are supposed to have 18 toes. This is five toes on each front paw and four toes on each back paw.
Cats can jump up to six times their length. Did you know this about your cat?
Cats’ claws all curve downward. This means that they can’t climb down trees head-first and instead have to back down.
Cats’ collarbones don’t connect to their other bones. Their collarbones are buried in their shoulder muscles.
Cats have 230 bones. Humans have only 206.
Cats have an extra organ that allows them to taste scents on
the air. This is why your cat may stare at you close to your face with your mouth open and may even “lick the air.”
Cats have whiskers on the backs of their front legs, as well as their faces.
Cats have nearly twice the amount of neurons in their cerebral cortex as dogs.
Cats have the largest eyes relative to their head size of all the mammals. This is a fun fact about your cat.
Cats make very little noise when they walk around. The thick, soft pads on their paws allow them to sneak up on their prey and you.
Cats’ rough tongues can lick a bone clean of any shred of meat. Wow, this is a cool fact about your cat!
Cats use their long tails to balance themselves when they’re jumping or walking along narrow ledges.
Cats use their whiskers to “feel” the world around them to see which spaces they can fit into.
A cat’s whiskers are generally about the same width as its
body.
Cats walk like camels and giraffes, moving both of their right feet first, then both of their left feet. These are the only animals that walk this way.
Male cats are more likely to be left-pawed, while female cats are more likely to be right-pawed.
Though cats can notice the fast movements of their prey, it often seems to them that slow-moving objects are actually fixed.
Some cats are ambidextrous, but 40% are either left- or right-pawed.
Some cats can swim. Such an interesting thing about your cat, does your cat like water?
There are cats who have more than 18 toes. These extra-toed cats are referred to as “polydactyl.”
A cat’s average lifespan increased by a year over during the time between 2002 and 2012, according to a study.
According to The Huffington Post. cats typically sleep for 12 to 16 hours a day.
They are crepuscular, meaning they’re most active at dawn and dusk.
Felines are very picky when it comes to their “bathroom.” This is to say, if you have more than one cat, you should really have a litter box for each cat.
Cats can spend up to a third of their waking hours grooming. Wow, does this surprise you about your cat?
Cats live longer when they stay indoors.
Do you let your cat go outside? Let me know what you think of all these facts in the comments and watch for more cat facts to come!