@catfacts

I post daily kool kat facts at 6:00 AM Mountain Standard Time.
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Cats have 30 vertebrae (humans have 33 vertebrae during early development; 26 after the sacral and coccygeal regions fuse)

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A female cat is called a queen or a molly.

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You check your cats pulse on the inside of the back thigh, where the leg joins to the body. Normal for cats: 110-170 beats per minute.

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Abraham Lincoln loved cats. He had four of them while he lived in the White House.

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The way you treat kittens in the early stages of it's life will render it's personality traits later in life.

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Ginger tabby cats can have freckles around their mouths and on their eyelids!

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Cats have about 130,000 hairs per square inch (20,155 hairs per square centimeter).

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In Ancient Egypt, when a person's house cat passed away, the owner would shave their eyebrows to reflect their grief.

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The smallest pedigreed cat is a Singapura, which can weigh just 4 lbs (1.8 kg), or about five large cans of cat food. The largest pedigreed cats are Maine Coon cats, which can weigh 25 lbs (11.3 kg), or nearly twice as much as an average cat weighs.

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A 2007 Gallup poll revealed that both men and women were equally likely to own a cat.

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A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.

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The cat's footpads absorb the shocks of the landing when the cat jumps.

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A group of cats is called a “clowder.”

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The most expensive cat was an Asian Leopard cat (ALC)-Domestic Shorthair (DSH) hybrid named Zeus. Zeus, who is 90% ALC and 10% DSH, has an asking price of £100,000 ($154,000).

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A cat's normal pulse is 140-240 beats per minute, with an average of 195.

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