Cats have been rated as the most intelligent animals under primates. Cats’ brains weigh about one percent of their total body weight. Human brains weight two percent of our total weight.
Cat Intelligence
Category: Cats
Why Do Cats Turn Around?
When a cat turns around before laying down, this is an instinct left over from the days when they slept in tall grass. The turning action pushed the grass down into a nest.
Another reason that your editor hasn’t seen documented may be that they scan a 360-degree view of their area to make sure there are no visible dangers before settling down to sleep
Giving Medicine to a Cat
If you need to give liquid medicine to a cat, don’t try to feed it to the cat. This would only result in a battle. Instead, spill the medicine on the kitty’s fur. The cat will lick it off in the process of cleaning.
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When A Cat Walks Across a Computer Keyboard
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Cats and Taste
It is often reported that cats cannot taste sweet flavors. Actually, they can sense sweetness, but do not have much interest in sugary things. What is particularly interesting about their sense of taste, is that they have a special taste for the flavor of water, which we humans cannot taste.
If Your Cat Scratches Furniture
If your kitty-cat scratches up valuable furniture, tape balloons to it. The cat will never scratch there again.
Fat Cat
One of the world’s fattest cats was “Tiger” a part-Persian who weighed over 42 pounds (19 kg), as much as a small child.
The picture above is not Tiger, but he may have looked something like that.
Siamese Cats
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There were no Siamese cats in the United States until 1878.
Siamese cats are subclassed by the color of their points. They are seal point, chocolate point, lilac point, and blue point.
How To Train Your Cat To Use a Human Toilet
You’ve probably heard of cats that use the toilet just like their people do. How do people train their cats to use a toilet? Some people will give you complex instructions involving special equipment. It is actually quite easy as long as you are patient, and requires nothing special. Follow these seven steps:Step 1: Move the litter pan into the bathroom.
Step 2: Move the litter pan closer and closer to the toilet, until it is right next to it.
Step 3: Raise the litter pan higher and higher on books or bricks until it is level with the toilet seat.
Step 4: Move the litter pan on top of the toilet seat.
Step 5: Replace the litter pan with a sheet of plastic taped to the toilet seat. Cover the middle of the plastic with kitty litter.
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Step 6: Retape plastic onto the seat such that it sags lower and lower into the bowl.
Step 7: Remove the plastic.
Of course, all these steps should be done gradually, getting your cat completely comfortable with each new situation before progressing to the next. It helps if you have two or more bathrooms in your house!
Why Are Cats Meticulous?
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Why are cats so meticulous about keeping clean? They lick off all blood and odor-causing matter to prevent attracting flies and large predators that would be interested in the odor of blood.
Cat Whiskers
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Cats’ whiskers have a function similar to curb feelers which were common on cars in the 1950’s. These were springy rods that stuck out a short distance from the lower parts of the cars, and would make a rubbing noise when they touched a curb. When a cat pokes its head into a small tunnel or opening in the bushes, the whiskers are used to gauge the dimensions. If the opening doesn’t rub the whiskers, the cat’s body will fit through.
Cats Will Not Walk on Aluminum Foil
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Cats will not walk on aluminum foil. This is good to know when you are trying to protect something that your cat would tend to walk on, such as a part-done jigsaw puzzle.
Cat and Tower of London
A man named Sir Henry Wyatt was sentenced to the Tower of London, at a time when prisoners generally starved to death. Sir Henry’s cat seemed to understand the situation because she snuck into the Tower, bringing him a freshly-killed pigeon, every day. When the king heard of this, he must have felt sad for the kitty, because he immediately set Sir Henry free.
Introducing a Second Cat
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If you have to introduce a second cat into your house, your first kitty cat may have trouble getting used to the new intruder. If you put a little perfume or essential oil on both cats, so that they will smell the same as each other, they tend to trust each other more.
The Cost of Cat Food
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Americans spend almost three billion dollars a year on food for their kitty-cats, yet, for comparison, America spends only 700 million dollars on drug prevention and treatment programs.
Cat Lifespans
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The average life of an indoor cat is 17 years. The average life of a cat that lives outdoors is 2 years.
Do Cats Pretend They Are People?
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Do cats pretend they are people? Consider Anya. She is full-grown, and just less than a year old. When her owner steps out of the shower and turns off the water, she steps into the wet bathtub, shakes her feet a little bit, and then just sits there facing the shower-head for about five minutes. What is she thinking? When Anya’s owners ask her to “do a somersault,” she usually complies. She will tip her head down to the rug, and then roll over. She seems to like to please her owner. One day her owner was fooling around with 360 degree pirouettes, like dancers do. Anya saw that, and then turned around exactly 360 degrees two separate times within a few minutes.
Cats and Dogs Quote
“In order to keep a true perspective on one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.” – Dereke Bruce
This quote is quite famous, showing up in a number of quotebases, but no one seems to know who Dereke Bruce is. If you look for him via Google, Yahoo or Amazon, nothing relevant comes up, other than this quote. Yours truly, your author, might be responsible for that. As you may know, I have been publishing insightful and fun trivia for years. I believe I found this quote in a 1980’s vintage Omni Magazine, and first published it in Almanac 1989. In the past several years, it has been picked up and repeated throughout the Internet.
