RE: Day Four ~ Seven Day B&W Challenge ~ Original Photography ~
In ancient Egypt, mummies were made of cats...
This little bit of information is puzzling to me.
So...mummies in Egypt were made from cats? Which means olde-world cats were made up of rolls of cloth toilet paper? That is really odd.
I guess this means when someone had a relative or friend to mummify, they grabbed the cat, un-wound it, and then re-wound the cat-cloth around their friend/relative. What was INSIDE the cat, once you used up all it's outer layering? Just air? A naked cat? A cat-shaped wire framework like a zeppelin?
I bet the counterfeit mummy-cat trade was really hopping back then.
Another point to ponder. Were cats back then not fuzzy, like today? Were all mummies fuzzy at first, but then the hair fell off over time in the tomb? All mummies I see in the movies are smooth on the outside. There is no furry, fuzzy cat wrapping that I can see. Then again, these mummy movies were all filmed in black and white. So that makes sense.
The Maine Coone is the only native American long haired breed.
The Dorknoidish StinklePuss is the only long-haired American breed in this house. I'm not sure if she is a native or not. She just ran in the door one day and never left. I have absolutely no idea where she came from, beyond under the parked Subaru in the driveway, up by the front door.
I suppose it COULD have been Indiana. Every time someone comes to the door and you yell, "who'sthere", she comes running up to have a look.
The Maine Coon cat is America's only natural breed of domestic feline. It is 4 to 5 times larger than the Singapura, the smallest breed of cat.
In Siam, the cat was so revered that one rode in a chariot at the head of a parade celebrating the new king.
I don't know about Siam, but several years back I had a grey cat named Freeway.
He LOVED to ride on my bike. I would hold him like a warm sack of potatoes with one hand, and steer with the other. I'd pedal away down the block, and he'd purr faster than a water-dam generator, and marvel at the world going by as we whizzed up and down the block.
We became rather well-known in the neighborhood for our actions.
Most cats give birth to a litter of between one and nine kittens. The largest known litter ever produced was 19 kittens, of which 15 survived.
The average cat food meal is the equivalent to about five mice.
I'm fairly certain Stinky the Cat's average cat food meal is more like five BOWLS of mice.
Where in the world I would get five bowls of mice a day is beyond me, so I think I will stick to the Kibbles 'n Bits in the pop-top can. Just don't mention this whole 'bowl of mice' thing to Stinky the Cat. I'll never hear the end of it.
There are up to 60 million feral cats in the United States alone.
And I'm pretty sure about half of them live in the neighbor's back yard.
A cat can jump 5 times as high as it is tall.
I'm glad to see you use height rather than weight for this comparison. A tall cat can jump. A fat cat can't jump, except maybe to conclusions.
Mohammed loved cats and reportedly his favorite cat, Muezza, was a tabby. Legend says that tabby cats have an “M” for Mohammed on top of their heads because Mohammad would often rest his hand on the cat’s head.