11/03/09
- Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination.
- Charles A. Lindbergh left his kitten, Patsy, at home in 1927 when he made his famous transatlantic flight because it was “too dangerous a journey” to risk her life. But a kitten named Jazz crossed the Atlantic on the first
 dirigible flight from England to America.
- Bouhaki, the earliest cat name on record, dates back to Egyptian writings of 2000 B.C. In the hieroglyphs of that period, bou signifed “house” and “hak” was the symbol for “divine ruler.”
- In ancient Egypt, entire families were forced by law to shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.
- There are approximately 60,000 hairs per square inch on the back of a cat and about 120,000 per square inch on its underside.
- The largest litter ever documented was produced by a Burmese/Siamese mother. There were 19 kittens in the litter.
- Besides smelling with their noses, cats can smell with an additional organ called the vomeronasal organ (or Jacobson’s organ), located in the upper surface of the mouth
- Sir Isaac Newton is credited with the invention of the cat flap-door.
- Cat’s ears can be rotated because they are connected to thirty (30) muscles. There are only six (6) muscles connecting human ears – we can’t rotate ours. [More info on the cat's ears]
- The first modern cat show, featuring two dozen show classes, was held in London in 1871.
- At top speed, a domestic cat can run over 30 mph.
- A cat named Towser eliminated 28,899 mice while she was employed by the Glenturret Distillery near Crieff, Tayside, Scotland.
- Every cat’s nose pad, or nose leather, has unique characteristics. Just as no two humans have the same fingerprints, it’s a fact that no two feline noseprints are ever alike.
- Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
- Back in the late 1940s in Buenos Aires, a black female cat climbed a 40 foot tree where she resided for six years. Her name was Mincha and she wasn’t lonely for companionship. She had three litters while living in the tree. The local Argentinians fed her by putting her food on poles.
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I’m being anal here…but no. 12 is incorrect. The distillery is in Scotland, not England. Crieff is located near Perth in Tayside, not far from Dundee.
Also, I will make my family shave their eyebrows too
Who counted all those dead mice? MOL
I’m the “divine ruler” of our house. Aren’t you?
That just goes to show how speical us kitties are.
Catsinating!
Especially #14 – I’d like to learn more about that…
Thanks for the great post!
I think we should have a photo stroll of close-ups of our super-unique nose pads!
That looks like Tripper’s nose pad!
Atz, yoo shur know yer nozepads!!!!
Lancelot: that’s a sooper dooper idea!
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Towser was a female–not a male, as you said, and she died at the age of 24.
#7 – I guess that’s why they make that hilarious face when they’re REALLY smelling something, especially for a longer time than normal. I call it the “smelly face”, because I know it means they just smelled something interesting…kills me every time
Grate facts! Funny dat “divine ruler” was “hak” which is also what cats is offin known fur sayin… hak, hak, hak!
LOL
So, how long a hallway does we need to reach 30 mph when playin THOE?
Purrs
60, 000 hairs per square inch on a cats back??Really? I find that *almost* unbelievable!
‘7 smelling with the palate when lions do this its called flaming!
Mmm, Jessie17, that’s “flehming”.
And Mincha, how’d ya do it? C’mon mi amiga, ‘fess up — you used tuna juice to lure those guys up there, didn’t ya?
Burmese/Siamese mix is a Tonkinese. Why didn’t you call the prolific mother cat a Tonkinese??
That was really good!! I had no idea about the saliva=urination or how dense their hairs (fur) really are…although I could have guessed by the shedding, lol! But I’ve seen mine sprint and it’s amazing how fast these little guys can go!
dat’s tripper’s noze, i rekognize the frek-el
No wonder my Mom and I share our emotions. We has parts of the same brain.
Admit it, we’ve all had ‘conversations’ with our cat and know exactly what’s being said! My fave is the soft touch of the paw to the face – yes, they caress too.
you mean a cat has 60,000 hairs on my couch.
Alyssa, that is too good.
Princess Sugar Pie loves your “Cat Facts” article.
Love, Purrs & Nose Taps,
Princess Sugar Pie
I would like to add that me Mumm has promised to name our next male cat after the name of the first cat on record…she declares though that the eyebrow shaving is not going to happen although since Grampa has some that stick way out sometimes, she thought it would be a purrrrfect idea to shave his……..
Bouhaki……..we must go adopt another cat today, humans, Today….Meow, meow., I get to pick Bohaki, Bouhaki, Bouhaki, meow, today…maybe a hairless, all those hairs…now, she is going to bathe and brush me , ouch, no, not that Mom….not that bottle…the other one, watch my eyes ! ……
Did they not have Firemen back in the 1940’s to get the cat out of the tree? haha. If the males that visited her for 6 years could get down, so could she!
I don’t care if I look funny with no eyebrows! when it happens
I’m not surprised about the emotion areas in the brain being so similar, me and Al and Al’s daddy are all pining for Willow.. no eyebrow shaving but we planted a rosebush over her…
,i didn’t shaved my eyebrow when my kitten died, i mourned for her for days, then got a new kitten and named it to the ‘thing’ that killed her, for precautions, (oh, my kitten accidentally ended ended up at the washing machine, we found her, tried to save her but it was too late she died),
So the cat that lived up the tree was fed by food on poles, how was it knocked up 3 times….
Me thinks the cat that lived up in the tree was knocked up by a “very long pole” :>)