Cat Trivia

• It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure.
• In 1987, cats overtook dogs as the number one pet in America (about 50 million cats resided in 24 million homes in 1986). About 37% of American homes today have at least one cat.
• 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.
• In an average year, cat owners in the United States spend over $2 billion on cat food.
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• A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
• The heaviest cat on record weighed 46 lbs.A cat's brain is more similar to a man's brain than that of a dog.
• 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 is much more sensitive than humans and dogs.
• 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.
• Most cats do not have eyelashes.
• A cat sees about 6 times better than a human at night, and needs 1/6 the amount of of light that a human does
• And guess who is a famous cat lover?...alas, they don't allow cats in the Vatican, so his cat lives in Germany.
  
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