First cat photography
One of the first photographs of a cat ever taken, 1880s.
while the term photography was coined in the early 19th-century, Greek mathematicians had been making pinhole cameras since the 4th century BCE. With such a long history, photography is full of firsts, from the world's oldest photograph to the first photo uploaded to Instagram
When a cat drinks, its tongue - which has tiny barbs on it - scoops the liquid up backwards.
Some Siamese cats appear cross-eyed because the nerves from the left side of the brain go to mostly the right eye and the nerves from the right side of the brain go mostly to the left eye. This causes some double vision, which the cat tries to correct by “crossing” its eyes.
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).
The heaviest cat on record is Himmy, a Tabby from Queensland, Australia. He weighed nearly 47 pounds (21 kg). He died at the age of 10.
The way you treat kittens in the early stages of it's life will render it's personality traits later in life.
The strongest climber among the big cats, a leopard can carry prey twice its weight up a tree.
A 2007 Gallup poll revealed that both men and women were equally likely to own a cat.
Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible as cat families interact best in pairs.
Cats, especially older cats, do get cancer. Many times this disease can be treated successfully.
The world’s rarest coffee, Kopi Luwak, comes from Indonesia where a wildcat known as the luwak lives. The cat eats coffee berries and the coffee beans inside pass through the stomach. The beans are harvested from the cat’s dung heaps and then cleaned and roasted. Kopi Luwak sells for about $500 for a 450 g (1 lb) bag.