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RE: Day Four ~ Seven Day B&W Challenge ~ Original Photography ~
Stinky the Cat likes to drink from the bathroom sink. But only if we put new cold water in it after putting down the plug. Water greater than 1.7 hours old is not acceptable. I think she likes the process more than anything.
A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.
Stinky the Cat is not very bony, she is kind of fat. But her head is often in places it should not be.
The first cat show was in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London.
We first named Stinky the Cat Buttercup, and took her to the store in a harness, and sat out front on a bench, in the hopes we could adopt her out. No one was interested.
Then we re-named her Stinky. We did not try to give her away after that. She seemed to greatly enjoy her one day out though.
I would say taking Stinky the Cat to the store is KIND OF like a cat show. We didn't parade her around for the judges, like in "Best of Show", but she did get heavily scrutinized by judgemental-looking shoppers as they got tangled up in her leash on the way into the store. I think that counts...
A cat called Dusty has the known record for the most kittens. She had more than 420 kittens in her lifetime.
Stinky the Cat is smarter than Dusty. She knows not to back into any Tom's in the neighborhood with her tail in the air. Who wants to have 420 kittens anyway? That's a LOT of kitty litter!
Stinky the Cat says there's better things to do in life than procreate like a rat on steroids...like eat too late at night. Or pull screens from windows. Or sleep on totally clean laundry. Or sit on my chest while I do sit-ups, "just to add some weight and help out with the program".
A cat will tremble or shiver when it is in extreme pain.
People who are allergic to cats are actually allergic to cat saliva or to cat dander. If the resident cat is bathed regularly the allergic people tolerate it better.
Ha ha, that's a good one. But let's get real here. I wouldn't try to give Stinky the Cat a bath if my life depended on it, I had an industrial floor-mop to hold her down in the tub, and I was dressed in 12th Century Armor from King Ferdinand himself.
A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
I'm pretty sure Stinky the Cat's heart beats even faster than that. She is in excellent shape. From all the running around and pullups she does.
Lions are the only cats that live in groups, called prides. Every female within the pride is usually related.
Stinky the Cat has a lot of pride too. Whenever we un-intentionally insult her, she looks away and acts very interested in totally UN-interesting things. Like the vacuum cleaner in the OFF mode. Or a small dust bunny with a rubber band stuck in it in the corner of the living room. Or maybe those "door doinger" thingies. (The little 5 inch spring sticking out of the wall with a rubber cap on the end to keep the bedroom doorknob from hitting the wall.) Like to see a lion ignore THOSE things.
Also...We do not know any of the cats related to Stinky the Cat.
A cat can sprint at about thirty-one miles per hour.
How fast do they go when they are just light jogging?
If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.
Ancient Egyptian family members shaved their eyebrows in mourning when the family cat died.
Ironic. We often call Stinky the Cat an Egyptian Fell Dog.
When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would mourn by shaving off their eyebrows. They also held elaborate funerals during which they drank wine and beat their breasts. The cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and the tiny mummy was placed in the family tomb or in a pet cemetery with tiny mummies of mice.
You said that first part already. Stinky the Cat does not repeat herself.
However, in regards to Part II...there are no mummified mice in our house. Last night Stinky the Cat jumped into a drawer when I opened it. She thought she saw a mouse. She hates mice with a passion. No mouse would ever get to the mummy stage in this house. Stinky the Cat would see to that, pronto.
Purring does not always indicate that a cat is happy and healthy - some cats will purr loudly when they are terrified or in pain.
Stinky the Cat only purrs when she is happy. Sometimes she purrs so loud and hard, she chokes on her cat drool. I want to laugh, but don't want to give her a complex.
Stinky the Cat does not purr when she's mad at me. She just looks at inanimate objects really close up with her back to me, as if to say, "I'm not listening".
Ailurophile is the word cat lovers are officially called.
Crazy Cat Man" is what the neighbors call me. Do you think that's a bad thing? Stinky the Cat still seems to love me. So I will not lose any sleep over this one.
Many people in China consider cats a "warming" food that is perfect to eat during the winter
Golly. Why would I want to eat my cat? I would not try to eat Stinky the Cat, even if I was very hungry. First, she would catch wind of the plan, and I have to go to sleep at night.
And second, her breath smells like that Rottweiler on a hot summer's day. I would rather eat liver and gizzards and other things like that, than a cat that smells like a large, sweaty dog.
Also, I like Stinky the Cat. A lot. Why would I want to eat her? That is exactly why they make doughnuts, and french fries and chicken fried steak and other healthy foods. Jeesh louheesh.
In the 1750s, Europeans introduced cats into the Americas to control pests.
Stinky the Cat has never met a European. I'm sure she would like them. "Kitty Kitty Kitty" probably sounds the same in every language.
As for the pest part, the only one Stinky the Cat controls is the electric meter-reader. I think he is a bit afraid of her. But he is not a pest to us, because we like having electricity for our devices, so we don't really have much of a problem, except once a month.
When a cat drinks, its tongue - which has tiny barbs on it - scoops the liquid up backwards.
Tell me about this one too. Stinky the Cat licks my face sometimes when I am asleep. It hurts. Especially the eyelids. I think it is these barbs you're always talking about on here. All I ever say to Stinky the Cat in retort is: "go drink from the sink with your pokey barbs, Stinky". It seems to fall on deaf ears.
PS. I think this fact might be incorrect. I have picture evidence from Robert the Cat drinking from a puddle. It is more of a cupping action with the tongue. I think someone hoodwinked you on this barb thing. Might ask for a small % refund from the Little-Known Kitty Fact Company of Whereverville, USA.
Cats' eyes shine in the dark because of the tapetum, a reflective layer in the eye, which acts like a mirror.
Hey, I told you about the tapetum lucidum 27 minutes ago. Besides me needing to get a life and stop answering cat facts all night long on a Saturday, I think I need to buy you a new set of "cat facts" books. You can't just mirror what I talk about here. That's not fair. I don't have the resources you do. I have to rely on my wits and the wisdom of Stinky the Cat here...
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles (eight kilometers) away.
Since Stinky the Cat's meow'r is broken, she can't be heard beyond the kitchen sink. But as in life, sometimes in cat-land, actions speak louder than words. Maybe that's why she always opens up the new cat food bag at night while we sleep, after we bring it home. Her way of saying "You have yours, this is my refrigerator. Stay out".
There are approximately 60,000 hairs per square inch on the back of a cat and about 120,000 per square inch on its underside.
And 78 million on my down comforter...
Julius Ceasar, Henri II, Charles XI, and Napoleon were all afraid of cats.
The Ancient Egyptian word for cat was mau, which means "to see".
I'm wondering what the ancient Egyptian word for 'particularly nutty cat' is. I'm thinking something like The Stink-Meister Meister-Stink.
Julius Ceasar, Henri II, Charles XI, and Napoleon were all afraid of cats.
As we've discussed before, Jim the neighbor is not afraid of Stinky the Cat. But he IS very terrified of Black Cat Pantera that used his leg as a territorial marking post. Maybe that is why Jim moved to Iowa.
A cat can sprint at about thirty-one miles per hour.
Stinky the Cat can run a MARATHON, at 32 miles an hour, backwards, in the snow, uphill, with her eyes closed.
A steady diet of dog food may cause blindness in your cat - it lacks taurine.
There are approximately 60,000 hairs per square inch on the back of a cat and about 120,000 per square inch on its underside.
Back of the cat. Front of the cat. Pish posh. Considering the number of fur-balls Stinky the Cat hock's up on a regular basis, I'd say there must be more than twice that many fur-hairs on the IN-side of the average cat.
A cat's whiskers are thought to be a kind of radar, which helps a cat gauge the space it intends to walk through.
When I was very young, way before Stinky the Cat, I came home from a trip to the barber's, and decided I would try my hand at the cat. I took our cat Suzy into the dark pantry closet, and trimmed her whiskers for her.
When I exited the pantry, I looking like I'd tangled with a really long bobwire fence. I was also doled out a very large and painful amount of punishment for that dumb little maneuver.
Luckily, cat's whiskers grow back.
I still feel bad about that today.
I also wonder now and then if that had anything to do with the diaper truck incident years later??
Today there are about 100 distinct breeds of the domestic cat.
So many cats, so few kibbles...
Isaac Newton invented the cat flap. Newton was experimenting in a pitch-black room. Spithead, one of his cats, kept opening the door and wrecking his experiment. The cat flap kept both Newton and Spithead happy.
What IS a cat flap? The back-door on a small pair of red, kitty long-handles? Never seen a cat in long under's in my life. Go figure.
Then again, he WAS Sir Isaac. He probably had access to some pretty top-notch cat clothier's.
Cats can judge within 3 inches the precise location of a sound being made 1 yard away.
We might want to re-think this. It appears to be highly variable in cats. I can call Stinky the Cat from 200 yards, or 6 inches away....she still never hears me. Unless there is food involved somehow.
A cat lover is called an Ailurophilia (Greek: cat+lover).
In my neighbor hood, Stinky the Cat calls them ''highly intellectual".
A happy cat holds her tail high and steady.
An un-happy cat will hold her tail "any darn way I want".
In ancient Egypt, mummies were made of cats, and embalmed mice were placed with them in their tombs. In one ancient city, over 300,000 cat mummies were found.
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 strongest climber among the big cats, a leopard can carry prey twice its weight up a tree.