8 Cool cat facts!

8 Cool cat facts!

1. On average, cats spend 2/3 of everyday sleeping.

2. Unlike dogs, cats don’t have a sweet tooth. This could be due to a mutation in a key taste receptor.

3. The technical term for a hairball is a “bezoar”.

4. Cats can be left-pawed or right-pawed. Female cats tend to be right-pawed, while male cats are usually left pawed. Interestingly, left-handed humans also tend to be male.

5. Cats make about 100 different sounds while dogs make only about 10.

6. A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.

7. The oldest pet cat was found in a 9,500-year-old grave on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Contrary to popular cat facts, this predates Egyptian pet cats by 4,000 years.

8. Cats are North America’s most popular pets: cats outnumber dogs 73 million to 63 million. Over 30% of North American homes have a cat.