The felines, beloved and tender animals, tend to be loving animals, very intelligent, grateful and unique. Then curiosities about the cats, that perhaps you did not know.
Cats sleep from 16 to 18 hours a day. But still asleep, they are alert to any stimulus.
Most white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Those who have a blue eye, are deaf in the ear of that same side. White cats with yellow eyes do not have that problem.
Cats can not taste sweet flavors.
Each cat year represents approximately six human years. Thus, a twenty-year-old pussycat would correspond to a venerable old man of one hundred and twenty.
Both the tricolor (calico) and the reddish-brown (tortie) fur are given almost exclusively in females; seeing them in a male would be a very rare genetic anomaly.
For cats, acute sounds are friendly, while bass sounds are aggressive.
The cats consider that they are the owners of the house where they cohabit with the human.
The whiskers are used by cats to measure distances and are a total of 24, grouped by 4 in 4. The whiskers of the cat are not hair but nerve terminals that serve as detectors of the air, which combined with their sense of smell, contribute to sharpen the identification of any smell.
After eating the cats are washed immediately (it is a survival instinct that leads them to act like this so that predators do not smell the food and thus can be attacked).
The cats have 5 claws on the front legs, but on the hind legs they have 4.
The smell of onions and vinegar is hated by cats.
The tongue of the cat is formed by small hooks, which are useful for catching and tearing the food as well as for grooming.
The diet of the cat must contain a certain amount of fat, since its organism does not produce it.
It was believed that cats were unable to distinguish colors. However, recent studies show that they can see blue, green and red.
The purring not always means tranquility. The cat also purrs when it is sick or scared, and it is said that it does so to calm itself.
Cats can emit one hundred different types of sounds, while dogs only ten. Each cat has its own meow and purr; although they are similar to others, they always have some difference.
The cat walks and runs moving the front and rear legs on the same side. Only the camel, the giraffe and the cat have this particularity.
The average life of a cat is 12 to 15 years. It reaches maturity at approximately 5 years old and its third age starts at about 10 years old.
Very sweet and affectionate animals!