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.
Cool! Thank you for this interesting info!!
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