Give me some funny/interesting info about cats!?

Question

Cats are my favrotie house pets. And I was just wondering if therer are some freaky facts about them. Best facts gets the +10.

Answer 1

Heres a fun one cats have less taste buds then humans, which explaines why they can eat mice! A male cat can hear a female cat in heat up to 5 miles away! Good idea to get her fixed eh? or you'll have every tom in a 5 mile radious spraying everything on your property... Cats purr when they are in pain to self medicate. Too much catnip can put a cat into a trance like state ( I have first hand witnessed that, a kitten was all limp, his tounge was sticking out of him mouth and we thaugh he was dead, then he came around...)

And no matter how fast asleep your cat is they can hear the can opener!

Answer 2

You know the way cats rub to your legs? It's not because they love you, as you might think at first. They actually leave their smell on you (every cat has a different smell, it's like chemical fingerprints) to say to other cats "this human is mine".

I had a cat (someone stole it:))) and she had an hour of "madness" every day - it's because the hunter instincts are stronger around noon (lunch time) and had a lot of energy: she ran like mad around the house, climbed on the furniture, jump on my legs and bite - yes, cats bite, too - then go to sleep.

Oh, and did you know that cats only see black, white, gray and blue, and any mix of these co lours? It kept me wondering for a month after I found this out how does the world look through a cat's eyes.

I could write a lot more, but long answers are a little bit boring so.. that's it! (hope it's interesting enough).

Answer 3

They only have 2 blood types. American cats are type A, generally speaking, as are most cats in the world. However, there is an interesting pocket in Europe of cats with a different blood type (often called B). Most of them are in Britain.

Answer 4

Here are some facts from cats about US:

Why fight it?

Just admit that you are owned by a cat, have a laugh at how well trained you are, and get over it!


Excerpts From "A Cat's Guide To Human Beings"

1. Introduction: Why Do We Need Humans?

So you've decided to get yourself a human being. In doing so,
you've joined the millions of other cats who have acquired these
strange and often frustrating creatures.

There will be any number of times, during the course of your
association with humans, when you will wonder why you have
bothered to grace them with your presence.

What's so great about humans, anyway? Why not just hang around
with other cats? Our greatest philosophers have struggled with
this question for centuries, but the answer is actually rather
simple:

THEY HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS.

Which makes them the perfect tools for such tasks as opening
doors, getting the lids off of cat food cans, changing television
stations and other activities that we, despite our other obvious
advantages, find difficult to do ourselves. True, chimps,
orangutans and lemurs also have opposable thumbs, but they are
nowhere as easy to train.

2. How And When to Get Your Human's Attention

Humans often erroneously assume that there are other, more
important activities than taking care of your immediate needs,
such as conducting business, spending time with their families or
even sleeping.

Though this is dreadfully inconvenient, you can make this work to
your advantage by pestering your human at the moment it is the
busiest. It is usually so flustered that it will do whatever you
want it to do, just to get you out of its hair. Not
coincidentally, human teenagers follow this same practice.

Here are some tried and true methods of getting your human to do
what you want:

Sitting on paper: An oldie but a goodie. If a human has paper in
front of it, chances are good it's something they assume is more
important than you.

They will often offer you a snack to lure you
away. Establish your supremacy over this wood pulp product at
every opportunity. This practice also works well with computer
keyboards, remote controls, car keys and small children.

Waking your human at odd hours: A cat's "golden time" is between
3:30 and 4:30 in the morning. If you paw at your human's sleeping
face during this time, you have a better than even chance that it
will get up and, in an incoherent haze, do exactly what you want.

You may actually have to scratch deep sleepers to get their
attention; remember to vary the scratch site to keep the human
from getting suspicious.

3. Punishing Your Human Being

Sometimes, despite your best training efforts, your human will
stubbornly resist bending to your whim. In these extreme
circumstances, you may have to punish your human.

Obvious punishments, such as scratching furniture or eating household
plants, are likely to backfire; the unsophisticated humans are
likely to misinterpret the activities and then try to discipline
YOU. Instead, we offer these subtle but nonetheless effective
alternatives:

· Use the cat box during an important formal dinner.

· Stare impassively at your human while it is attempting a
romantic interlude.

· Stand over an important piece of electronic equipment and feign
a hairball attack.

· After your human has watched a particularly disturbing horror
film, stand by the hall closet and then slowly back away, hissing
and yowling.

· While your human is sleeping, lie on its face.

4. Rewarding Your Human: Should Your Gift Still Be Alive?

The cat world is divided over the etiquette of presenting humans
with the thoughtful gift of a recently disemboweled animal.

Some believe that humans prefer these gifts already dead, while others
maintain that humans enjoy a slowly expiring cricket or rodent
just as much as we do, given their jumpy and playful movements in
picking the creatures up after they've been presented.

After much consideration of the human psyche, we recommend the
following: cold blooded animals (large insects, frogs, lizards,
garden snakes and the occasional earthworm) should be presented
dead, while warm blooded animals (birds, rodents, your neighbor's
Pomeranian) are better still living. When you see the expression
on your human's face, you'll know it's worth it.

5. How Long Should You Keep Your Human?

You are only obligated to your human for one of your lives. The
other eight are up to you. We recommend mixing and matching,
though in the end, most humans (at least the ones that are worth
living with) are pretty much the same. But what do you expect?

They're humans, after all. Opposable thumbs will only take you so
far.

~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~
Wishing you all the very best life has to offer.
Helene Malmsio

Answer 5

There are some cats who have floppy ears!

The Scottish Fold is a breed of cat with a natural mutation to its ears. The ear cartilage contains a fold so the ears bend forward and down towards the front of their head.

Answer 6

I'll tell you a funny story about my cousin's Manx. I swear, it's true!!! Manx can be very posesseive of their humans, I know, I have one who chews up my ankles if I am gone overnight. My cousin had to have her Manx declawed because he was so possessive of her attention, that whenever her husband would get romantic, the cat would attach himself to her husbands balls with his front claws! TRUE STORY! I swear, I crack up every time I think about that man running around his bedroom nude with a 12 lb cat attached to his sac! (I really am sorry for the crudeness, there really wasn't a more delicate to tell that one. LOL)

Answer 7

when my cat was about 20 weeks old, she saw this bird outside the window and she chirped at it, then launched herself onto the window screen and it fell. she looked like "what did i do?" and then ran off really fast. it was funny to watch but tricky wasn't too happy afterward. luckily it didn't fall on top of her. another thing is that before my cat goes to sleep every time she turns around once before she sits down. weird, huh?

Answer 8

Well, I had two cats that developed a taste for apricot jam and cantaloupe! They were both well fed cats. Also brothers. Maybe it was a taste that ran in the family!

Answer 9

I used to have a beautiful cat -black and white-with a black nose- named Ralph- he passed away three days before his 6th birthday this past february- he loved to turn the light switches on and off- i miss him .

Answer 10

if you give em too much cat nip they run around and get all hyper its really cute! my cat broke into the catnip thing once and took it all then she started running around like crazy!