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• The word cat refers to a           
  family of meat-eating animals that include tigers, lions,
  leopards,            and panthers.
  
• Cats have five toes on each front           
  paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
  
• Cats are sometimes born with extra           
  toes. This is called polydactly. These toes will not harm the cat,           
  but you should keep his claws trimmed just like any toe.
  
• Cats have true fur, in that they           
  have both an undercoat and an outer coat.
  
• Newborn kittens have closed ear           
  canals that don't begin to open for nine days.When the eyes open,           
  they are always blue at first. They change color over a period of           
  months to the final eye color.
  
• Most cats have no eyelashes.
  
• Cats have a full inner-eyelid, or           
  nictitating membrane. This inner-eyelid serves to help protect the           
  eyes from dryness and damage. When the cat is ill, the inner-eyelid           
  will frequently close partially, making it visible to the observer.
  
• A cat cannot see directly under its           
  nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
  
• You can tell a cat's mood by looking          
    into its eyes. A frightened or excited cat will have large, round           
  pupils. An angry cat will have narrow pupils. The pupil size is           
  related as much to the cat's emotions as to the degree of light.
  
• It is a common belief that cats are           
  color blind. However, recent studies have shown that cats can see           
  blue, green and red.
  
• 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.
  
• Cats with white fur and skin on           
  their ears are very prone to sunburn. Frequent sunburns can lead to           
  skin cancer. Many white cats need surgery to remove all or part of a           
  cancerous ear. Preventive measures include sunscreen, or better,           
  keeping the cat indoors.
  
• A cat can jump even seven times as           
  high as it is tall.
  
• The cat's footpads absorb the shocks          
    of the landing when the cat jumps.
  
• Cats lack a true collarbone. Because          
    of this lack, cats can generally squeeze their bodies through any           
  space they can get their heads through. You may have seen a cat           
  testing the size of an opening by careful measurement with the head.
  
• If left to her own devices, a female          
    cat may have three to seven kittens every four months. This is why           
  population control using neutering and spaying is so important.
  
• A cat is pregnant for about 58-65           
  days.
  
• Mother cats teach their kittens to           
  use the litter box.
  
• The way you treat kittens in the           
  early stages of it's life will render it's personality traits later           
  in life.
  
• Contrary to popular belief, the cat           
  is a social animal. A pet cat will respond and answer to speech ,            and
  seems to enjoy human companionship.
  
• When well treated, a cat can live           
  twenty or more years but the average life span of a domestic cat is           
  14 years.
  
• Neutering a cat extends its life           
  span by two or three years.
  
• Cats, especially older cats, do get           
  cancer. Many times this disease can be treated successfully.
  
• Cats can't taste sweets.
  
• Cats must have fat in their diet           
  because they can't produce it on their own.
  
• Some common houseplants poisonous to          
    cats include: English Ivy, iris, mistletoe, philodendron, and yew.
  
• Tylenol and chocolate are both           
  poisionous to cats.
  
• Many cats cannot properly digest           
  cow's milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhea.
  
• The average cat food meal is the           
  equivalent to about five mice.
  
• Cats can get tapeworms from eating           
  fleas. These worms live inside the cat forever, or until they are           
  removed with medication. They reproduce by shedding a link from the           
  end of their long bodies. This link crawls out the cat's anus, and           
  sheds hundreds of eggs. These eggs are injested by flea larvae, and           
  the cycles continues. Humans may get these tapeworms too, but only            if
  they eat infected fleas. Cats with tapeworms should be dewormed            by a
  veterinarian.
  
• Cats can get tapeworms from eating           
  mice. If your cat catches a mouse it is best to take the prize away           
  from it.
  
• Though rare, cats can contract           
  canine heart worms.
  
• The gene in cats that causes the           
  orange coat color is sexed linked, and is on the X sex chromosome.           
  This gene may display orange or black. Thus, as female cat with two            X
  chromosomes may have orange and black colors in its coat. A male,           
  with only one X chromosome, can have only orange or black, not both.
  
• If a male cat is both orange and           
  black it is ( besides being extremely rare ) sterile. To have both           
  the orange and the black coat colors, the male cat must have all or           
  part of both female X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome           
  combination will render the male cat sterile.
  
• Cats have AB blood groups just like           
  people.
  
• A form of AIDS exists in cats.
  
• The color of the points in Siamese           
  cats is heat related. Cool areas are darker.
  
• Siamese kittens are born white           
  because of the heat inside the mother's uterus before birth. This           
  heat keeps the kittens' hair from darkening on the points.
  
• People who are allergic to cats are           
  actually allergic to cat saliva or to cat dander. If the resident            cat
  is bathed regularly the allergic people tolerate it better.
  
• Studies now show that the allergen           
  in cats is related to their scent glands. Cats have scent glands on           
  their faces and at the base of their tails. Entire male cats            generate
  the most scent. If this secretion from the scent glands is            the
  allergen, allergic people should tolerate spayed female cats the           
  best.
  
• Cats do not think that they are           
  little people. They think that we are big cats. This influences            their
  behavior in many ways.
  
• Cats are subject to gum disease and           
  to dental caries. They should have their teeth cleaned by the vet or           
  the cat dentist once a year.
  
• Many people fear catching a           
  protozoan disease, Toxoplasmosis, from cats. This disease can cause           
  illness in the human, but more seriously, can cause birth defects in           
  the unborn. Toxoplasmosis is a common disease, sometimes spread           
  through the feces of cats. It is caused most often from eating raw            or
  rare beef. Pregnant women and people with a depressed immune            system
  should not touch the cat litter box. Other than that, there            is no
  reason that these people have to avoid cats.
  
• The ancestor of all domestic cats is          
    the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
  
• In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was           
  a crime punishable by death.
  
• In ancient Egypt, mummies were made           
  of cats, and embalmed mice were placed with them in their tombs. In           
  one ancient city, over 300,000 cat mummies were found.
  
• In the Middle Ages, during the           
  Festival of Saint John, cats were burned alive in town squares.
  
• The first cat show was in 1871 at           
  the Crystal Palace in London.
  
• Today there are about 100 distinct           
  breeds of the domestic cat.
  
• 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.
  
• Cats bury their feces to cover their          
    trails from predators.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Abraham Lincoln loved cats. He had           
  four of them while he lived in the White House.
  
• Julius Ceasar, Henri II, Charles XI,          
    and Napoleon were all afraid of cats.
  
• Cats have an average of 24 whiskers,          
    arranged in four horizontal rows on each side.
  
• The word "cat" in various           
  languages: French: chat; German: katze; Italian: gatto;           
  Spanish/Portugese: gato; Yiddish: kats; Maltese: qattus;           
  Swedish/Norwegian: katt; Dutch: kat; Icelandic: kottur; Greek:            catta;
  Hindu: katas; Japanese:neko; Polish: kot; Ukranian: kotuk;            Hawiian:
  popoki; Russian: koshka; Latin: cattus; Egyptian: mau;            Turkish: kedi;
  Armenian: Gatz; Chinese: mio; Arabic: biss;            Indonesian: qitta;
  Bulgarian: kotka; Malay: kucing; Thai/Vietnamese:            meo; Romanian:
  pisica; Lithuanian: katinas; Czech: kocka; Slovak:            macka; Armenian:
  gatz; Basque: catua; Estonian: kass; Finnish:            kissa; Swahili:
  paka.
  
• Statistics indicate that animal           
  lovers in recent years have shown a preference for cats over dogs!
  
• Cats can be taught to walk on a           
  leash, but a lot of time and patience is required to teach them. The           
  younger the cat is, the easier it will be for them to learn.
  
• Purring not always means happiness.           
  Purring could mean a cat is in terrible pain such as during           
  childbirth. Kitten will purr to their mother to let her know they            are
  getting enough milk while nursing. Purring is a process of            inhaling
  and exhaling, usually performed while the mouth is closed.            But don't
  worry, if your cat is purring while your gently petting            her and
  holding her close to you - that is a happy cat!
  
• The catnip plant contains an oil           
  called hepetalactone which does for cats what marijuana does to some           
  people. Not all cats react to it those that do appear to enter a           
  trancelike state. A positive reaction takes the form of the cat           
  sniffing the catnip, then licking, biting, chewing it, rub &           
  rolling on it repeatedly, purring, meowing & even leaping in the           
  air.
  
• Of all the species of cats, the           
  domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically           
  while walking. All species of wild cats hold their talk horizontally           
  or tucked between their legs while walking.
  
• A happy cat holds her tail high and           
  steady.
  
• Almost 10% of a cat's bones are in           
  its tail, and the tail is used to maintain balance.
  
• Cat families usually play best in           
  even numbers. Cats and kittens should be aquired in pairs whenever           
  possible.
  
• Baking chocolate is the most           
  dangerous chocolate to your cat.
  
• You check your cats pulse on the           
  inside of the back thigh, where the leg joins to the body. Normal            for
  cats: 110-170 beats per minute.
  
• Jaguars are the only big cats that           
  don't roar.
  
• A cats field of vision is about 185           
  degrees.
  
• Cats have individual preferences for          
    scratching surfaces and angles. Some are horizontal scratchers while           
  others exercise their claws vertically.
  
• The Maine Coone is the only native           
  American long haired breed.
  
• The Maine Coon is 4 to 5 times           
  larger than the Singapura, the smallest breed of cat.
  
• Tabby cats are thought to get their           
  name from Attab, a district in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq.
  
• Retractable claws are a physical           
  phenomenon that sets cats apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.           
  I n the cat family, only cheetahs cannot retract their claws.
  
• Not every cat gets "high"            from
  catnip. Whether or not a cat responds to it depends upon a            recessive
  gene: no gene, no joy.
  
• A cat can sprint at about thirty-one          
    miles per hour.
  
• In ancient Egypt, when a family cat           
  died, all family members would shave their eyebrows as a sign of           
  mourning.
  
• Cats have been domesticated for half          
    as long as dogs have been.
  
• A cat's whiskers are thought to be a          
    kind of radar, which helps a cat gauge the space it intends to walk           
  through.
  
• A cat can spend five or more hours a          
    day grooming himself.
  
• All cats have three sets of long           
  hairs that are sensitive to pressure - whiskers, eyebrows,and the           
  hairs between their paw pads.
  
• Both humans and cats have identical           
  regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
  
• A cat's brain is more similar to a           
  man's brain than that of a dog.
  
• A cat has more bones than a human;           
  humans have 206, and the cat - 230.
  
• Cats have 30 vertebrae--5 more than           
  humans have.
  
• The cat has 500 skeletal muscles           
  (humans have 650).
  
• Cats have 32 muscles that control           
  the outer ear (compared to human's 6 muscles each). A cat can rotate           
  its ears independently 180 degrees, and can turn in the direction of           
  sound 10 times faster than those of the best watchdog.
  
• Cats' hearing stops at 65 khz           
  (kilohertz); humans' hearing stops at 20 khz.
  
• In relation to their body size, cats          
    have the largest eyes of any mammal.
  
• Cats have 30 teeth (12 incisors, 10           
  premolars, 4 canines, and 4 molars), while dogs have 42. Kittens            have
  baby teeth, which are replaced by permanent teeth around the            age of 7
  months.
  
• When a cat drinks, its tongue -           
  which has tiny barbs on it - scoops the liquid up backwards.
  
• Cats purr at the same frequency as           
  an idling diesel engine, about 26 cycles per second.
  
• Cats step with both left legs, then           
  both right legs when they walk or run.
  
• Cats walk on their toes.
  
• Cats take between 20-40 breaths per           
  minute.
  
• Normal body temperature for a cat is          
    102 degrees F.
  
• Cats respond most readily to names           
  that end in an "ee" sound.
  
• A cat will tremble or shiver when it          
    is extreme pain.
  
• When a domestic cat goes after mice,          
    about 1 pounce in 3 results in a catch.
  
• Declawing a cat is the same as           
  cutting a human's fingers off at the knuckle. There are several           
  alternatives to a complete declawing, including trimming or a less           
  radical (though more involved) surgery to remove the claws.           
  Preferably, try to train your cat to use a scratching post.
  
• Cats with long, lean bodies are more          
    likely to be outgoing, and more protective and vocal than those with           
  a stocky build.
  
• A steady diet of dog food may cause           
  blindness in your cat - it lacks taurine.
  
• It has been scientifically proven           
  that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.
  
• If your cat snores, or rolls over on          
    his back to expose his belly, it means he trusts you.
  
• Cats respond better to women than to          
    men, probably due to the fact that women's voices have a higher           
  pitch.
  
• Florence Nightingale owned more than          
    60 cats in her lifetime.
  
• When your cats rubs up against you,           
  she is actually marking you as "hers" with her scent. If            your cat
  pushes his face against your head, it is a sign of            acceptance and
  affection.
  
• Tests done by the Behavioral           
  Department of the Musuem of Natural History conclude that while a           
  dog's memory lasts about 5 minutes, a cat's recall can last as long           
  as 16 hours.
  
• Has your cat ever brought its prey           
  to your door? Cats do that because they regard their owners as their           
  "kittens." The cats are teaching their "kittens"            how to hunt by
  bringing them food. Most people aren't too delighted            when a pet
  brings in their kill. Instead of punishing your cat,            praise it for
  its efforts, accept the prey, and then secretly throw            it away.
  
• Cats can predict earthquakes. We           
  humans are not 100% sure how they do it. There are several different           
  theories.
  
• A queen (female cat) can           
  begin mating when she is between 5 and 9 months old.
  
• A tomcat (male cat) can begin          
    mating when he is between 7 and 10 months old.
  
• Tomcats can mate at anytime, while           
  quenns can only mate during a period of time called heat or
  estrus.
  
• Heat occurs several times a year and          
    can last anywhere from 3 to 15 days.
  
• At 4 weeks, it is important to play           
  with kittens so that they do not develope a fear of people.
  
• Kittens remain with their mother           
  till the age of 9 weeks.
  
• It is estimated that cats can make           
  over 60 different sounds.
  
• The cat's footpads absorb the shocks          
    of the landing when the cat jumps.
  
• Ailurophile - that's what we're           
  officially called. It's what cat lovers are known as.
  
• A cat that bites you for rubbing his          
    stomach is often biting from pleasure, not anger.
  
• The more cats are spoken to, the           
  more they will speak back. You will learn a lot from your cat's wide           
  vocabulary of chirps and meows.
  
• Cats often overract to unexpected           
  stimuli because of their extremely sensitive nervous system.
  
• Kittens who are taken along on           
  short, trouble-free car trips to town tend to make good passengers           
  when they get older. They get used to the sounds and motions of           
  traveling and make less connection between the car and the visits to           
  the vet.
  
• Cats, just like people, are subject           
  to asthma. Dust, smoke, and other forms of air pullution in your           
  cat's environment can be troublesome sources of irritation.
  
• Since cats are so good at hiding           
  illness, even a single instance of a symptom should be taken very           
  seriously.
  
• There is a species of cat smaller           
  than the average housecat. It is native to Africa and it is the           
  Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes). Its top weight is 5.5           
  pounds.
  
• A tortoiseshell is black with red or          
    orange markings and a calico is white with patches of red, orange           
  and black.
  
• The Ancient Egyptian word for cat           
  was mau, which means "to see".
  
• Cats that live together sometimes           
  rub each others heads to show that they have no intention of           
  fighting. Young cats do this more often, especially when they are           
  excited.
  
• In 1987 cats overtook dogs as the           
  number one pet in America.
  
• Kittens lose their baby teeth!! At           
  three to four months the incisors erupt. Then at four to six months,           
  they lose their canines, premolars and molars. By the time they are           
  seven months old, their adult teeth are fully developed. This is one           
  of the ways a vet (or you) can tell the age of a kitten.

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- A beaver can hold its breath underwater for 45 minutes.
- A 70-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole no bigger than a silver dollar because it has no backbone.
- An African ostrich egg weighs almost 30 pounds and is so strong that a 200-pound man can stand on it without it breaking.
- A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
- The largest rodent in the world, the capybara from South America, can weigh over 170 pounds.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- If a female ferret goes into heat but can't get any sex, she can die.
- The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
- The longest recorded life-span of a tapeworm, to date, is 35 years.
Hummingbirds don't walk, but they are the only birds that can fly backwards.


- Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms, this is equal to a 6-foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
- The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 feet in length.
- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal, and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
- The leg muscles of a locust are about 1,000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
- The air temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and adding 40.
- Penguins can jump almost 6 feet into the air.
- A shrimp's heart is in its head.
- There are more sheep in New Zealand than people.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- Ants cannot chew their food; they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 feet in length.

- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
- The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.
- There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
- The giraffe clean its own ears with its own 50cm-tongue.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Hummingbirds don't walk, but they are the only birds that can fly backwards.
- Bengal tigers are the most water loving of the big cats. They will even chase prey into the water.
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
- A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
- When it is born, a kangaroo is only 1 inch long.
- Armadillos, opossums, and sloths spend about 80 percent of their lives sleeping.
- The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knees.
On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
- Some millipedes (Apheloria Virginiensis) are able to secrete cyanide.
- Dolphins, like humans, have sex for pleasure.
- Panamanian golden frogs don't have outside ears – their lungs pick up sound waves and direct them to their eardrums.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
- The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale.
- Shark is the only animal, who never gets ill with cancer.
- If a cow is listening to music, it gives more milk!
- Clams born to be males. They can change to become a female, but the changes is irreversible.
- The monarch butterfly can detect its lover's scent eight kilometers away.
- 99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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• Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.
• Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
• More than 100 million people hold hunting licence's.
• Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutists, jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799.
• In 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the top of Everest.
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• Billiards great, Henry Lewis once sank 46 balls in a row.
• Golf-great Billy Casper turned golf pro during the Korean War while serving in the Navy. Casper was assigned to operate and build golf driving ranges for the Navy in the San Diego area.
• Four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.
• Mark McGwire's record-setting 70 home runs in the 1998 season traveled a total of 29,598 feet, enough to fly over Mount Everest.
• Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
• Not all Golf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. There are also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
• Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.
• The Iditarod dog sled race - from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska - commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome following a diphtheria epidemic.
• In July 1934 Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he hit for his 700th career home run.
• In 1969 a brief battle broke out between Honduras and El Salvador. Although tensions had been rough between the two countries, the reason for the war was El Salvador's victory over Honduras in the World Cup Soccer playoffs. Gunfire was exchanged for about 30 minutes before reason could prevail.
• Horse racing is one of the most dangerous sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.
• Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
• Gene Sarazen, a golfer from several generations ago, set the record for the fastest golf drive: 120 mph.
• Michael Sangster, who played in the 1960s, had tennis' fastest serve, once clocked at 154 mph.
• In 1964 for the 10th time in his major-league baseball career, Mickey Mantle hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game - setting a new baseball record.
• Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
• Australian Rules football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.
• Baseball cards have been around since 1886. Modern cards, with high-resolution color photographs on the front and player statistics on the back, date from 1953. The photos are taken in the spring, with and without team caps, just in case the player is traded to another team.
• Because of fears that the Japanese, who had attacked Pearl Harbor less than a month earlier, might attach California, the Rose Bowl game of 1942 between Oregon State and Duke University was moved east to Duke's hometown in Durham, North Carolina. It didn't, however, help the home team. Oregon won, 20-16.
• Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in one race.?
• The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.
• Olympic Badminton rules say that the birdie has to have exactly fourteen feathers.
• Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
• Will Clark, professional baseball player, is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
• The 1990 New York Yankee pitching staff set an all-time record with the fewest complete games, three.
• Rick and Paul Reuschel of the 1975 Chicago Cubs combine to pitch a shutout, the first time brothers do this.
• At 101, Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.8 seconds setting a new world record for runners 100 years old or older.


• The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.
• Superfly Jimmy Snuka was the first E.C.W. World Champ.
• Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.

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