10 Cat Facts Even Cat People Don’t Know
After reading this we’ll guarantee you’ll never want to be a nursing cat momma.
1. A litter can have lots of baby daddies…
One litter of kittens can be fathered by more than one cat.
2. Outdoor cats get street cred, but they usually only live about 3 years!
The average age for an indoor cat is 15 years, while the average age for an outdoor cat is only 3 to 5 years.
3. Cats sway their tails as a sign of affection…
“Gettin’ tail” has a whole different meaning to cats.
If your cat is near you, and it’s tail is quivering, this is the greatest expression of love your cat can give you.
4. The whiskers on a cat’s face are used to help him navigate in restricted spaces or in darkness…
This is where trimming stray hairs is not accepted.
5. Most cats don’t have eyelashes…
This little kitty won’t be applying mascara in the mirror anytime soon…
6. A group of cats is called a “Kindle”
Definitely not something you can stick in your purse
7. Choose the wrong name and you could be wrangling the neighbors cats too!
The (2010) most common cat names in the U.S. are: Max, Chloe, Bella, Oliver, Tiger, Smokey, Tigger, Lucy, Shadow and Angel.
8. Kitten teeth are sharper than adult cat teeth
Nursing would NOT be an option if it were our choice… Kittens develop 26 needle-sharp milk teeth. These baby teeth are replaced during the first 6 months of life with 30 adult teeth.
9. Cats have 32 muscles in just one ear!
Shocking, I tell you…
10. The nose pad of a cat is ridged in a pattern that is unique, just like the fingerprint.
Cat! I know it was you, your nose-prints are all over the crime scene!
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Dariana a year agoOk, so the ‘group-of-cats-is-a-kindle’-thing. A group of KITTENS is called a kindle (aka a litter of them). A few days ago my husband and I were trying to figure out what a group of cats is called (a pride? Haha) and I posted the results of my study on Facebook a few days ago: [Husband] was wondering what a group of cats would be called, and a quick Google search brought up ‘clowder’. Sceptical, he asked me to search the OED for ‘clowder’, which claimed it was an obscure variant of ‘clutter’—and the sole example of which was a 19th century line mentioning (go figure) ‘a clowder of cats’. This then made me go to etymonline, which also noted ‘clowder’ as a form of ‘clutter’. Wiki and almost all the online dictionaries show clowder as a group of cats (though it should be noted Wiki does not cite that particular part of the ‘cat’ page). So I take it as a ‘clutter’ of cats, which, if you have a bunch of them underfoot, is quite a clutter. Though I’m endlessly interested in whether we’ve been using ‘clowder’ as a group of cats since the 19th C example or if it’s a modern phenomenon spread by poor researching.
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summerkindofgirl a year agoI still aspire to be a house cat. And I want a whole kindle of friends.
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Chris Fow Cohen a year agoHate to sound superior, but only the tale shake was news. Now, however, I shall be insufferable (or more insufferable) to my non-cat cohorts. Thanks, BuzzFeed, for making me an even more annoying know-it-all.
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CameronHodge a year agoOutdoor cats can live very long lives, but they are the exception to the rule. I thought it was more common knowledge that having an outdoor city cat cuts its average lifespan in more than half.
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childeharold a year agoTo the contrary, I would definitely stick #6 in my purse and keep walking.
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deaddrift a year agoI’m amazed that more folks can’t see the obvious truth that whiskers are mostly used to gain a tactile sense of prey, and other items that are close to the nose and mouth. What does your cat do when you offer it a treat, or when it’s sniffing something new, or when it’s capturing prey? It pricks its whiskers forward to engage the sense of touch during this activity, to supplement the senses of sight, scent, and sound. To me its a no-brainer. My cat knows if she can fit through small spaces by cramming here head and shoulders in there and finding out. She is definitely not measuring gaps with her whiskers. And like most cats she sees very well in the dark.
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maxinecallejau a year agoI knew a couple of these. The outdoor cat lifespan is the card I used to pull to get my parents to let me take in stray kittens.
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