About Cats - Part II

1. Cats get an average of 16 hours of sleep per day.


2. Cats have 32 muscles in each ear and can turn their ear very quickly to catch noise.


3. Cats have an average of 24 whiskers, arranged in four horizontal rows on each side.


4. Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.


5. Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.


6. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed, or is that paws?


7. Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.


8. In the cat family, only cheetahs cannot retract their claws.


9. Jaguars are the only big cats that don't roar.


10. Julius Ceasar, Henri II, Charles XI, and Napoleon were all afraid of cats.


11. Kittens are born both blind and deaf.


12. Most cats have no eyelashes.


13. Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.


14. Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door.


15. Today there are about 100 distinct breeds of the domestic cat.