15 Facts About Cats

For the cat lover, it's good to know the facts below:

1. Adult cats have about 30 teeth in its mouth, while a kitten has 26 teeth.

2. Cats with white fur and blue eyes are usually born deaf, although they developed other senses instead.

3. The cat's whiskers are very sensitive and can sense changes in air pressure that even the small ones.           This capability makes the cat can use it as an alternative guide to move in the dark when he can not see.

4. Although cats have five fingers on the front foot, they only had 4 fingers on the back foot. However, in some cats can be born with lots of fingers to the bone even with an additional 7.

5. At 6-month-old cat, was equivalent to 10 human years of age.

6. If you need a UV light to see, just use cat urine, because urine they glowed in the dark.

7. You know, cats (Felis Catus silvestrid-), especially cats home is one of the most powerful predators in the world. Cats are capable of killing or eating several thousand species, beat the big cats (such as lions, tigers, and the like) are only able to prey on less than 100 species. However, because of its size is small, it is not harmful to humans. But still it is very dangerous if a cat is infected with rabies.

8. Cats have been associated with human life since at least 3500 years ago. When the ancient Egyptians have been using the cat to repel rodents and rodent pests other than their crop. But, believe it or not, in this world there is only 1% of the population of cats in the world including pure lines or cat race. The rest is a cat the result of mixing of different races or what we commonly refer to as the cat home. Therefore, cats cat races including the most sought after and expensive.

 9. Cats typically weigh between 2.5 to 7 kg and rarely exceed 10 kg, except to be fed in excess.

10. In captivity, cats can live for 15 to 20 years, where the oldest cat ever known was 36 years old! Wild cats that live in the modern urban environment can only live for 2 years or even less than that.

11. Cats are very clean, including animals. They often take care of themselves by licking their hair. Saliva they have a strong cleaning power, but can trigger allergies in humans.

12. Cats are a strong animal to sleep. Sleep time varied between 12-16 hours per day, with an average 13-14 hours. But not rare cat who slept for 20 hours in a day.

13. Believe it or not, in the middle ages cats are considered associated with witches and often killed by fire and thrown from a high place. Some historians believe that the outbreak of the Black Death or bubonic plague spread rapidly in Europe in the 14th century was due to superstition. That is because the number of cat killings carried out thus increasing the population of mice carrying bubonic plague.

14. In the eyes of a cat no reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum, which causes the cat's eyes glow at night. This reflecting layer absorbs light 6 times more powerful than the human eye, allowing the cat to be able to see in the dark.

15. In Indonesia, the cat is often written with the word "Meow". In the English language used in the United States, the cat is often written with a "Meow". In the UK alone, the cat is written "Miaow". If the Japanese are often written with the word "him".