@petfacts

Ailurophile is the word cat lovers are officially called.

All cats have three sets of long hairs that are sensitive to pressure - whiskers, eyebrows,and the hairs between their paw pads.

Humans have kept dogs as pets for over 12,000 years.

The richest cat is Blackie who was left £15 million by his owner, Ben Rea.

In ancient China, people kept warm by putting dogs up their sleeves.

If a cat is frightened, the hair stands up fairly evenly all over the body; when the cat is threatened or is ready to attack, the hair stands up only in a narrow band along the spine and tail.

Dogs are naturally submissive to any creature with higher pack status, human or canine.

Cats have been domesticated for half as long as dogs have been.

A cat has approximately 60 to 80 million olfactory cells (a human has between 5 and 20 million).

A cat called Dusty has the known record for the most kittens. She had more than 420 kittens in her lifetime.

Many cats cannot properly digest cow's milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhea.

Cats can predict earthquakes. We humans are not 100% sure how they do it. There are several different theories.

In just seven years, a single pair of cats and their offspring could produce a staggering total of 420,000 kittens.

Is it a duck... or a dog? The Newfoundland breed has a water resistant coat and webbed feet. This dog was originally bred to help haul nets for fishermen and rescuing people at risk of drowning.

Long, muscular hind legs enable snow leopards to leap seven times their own body length in a single bound.