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The taste buds on a cat's tongue are specialized to detect the amino acids in meats, but are less able than ours to detect the carbohydrates in plants and grains. |
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A prehistoric horse called Eohippus was approximately the size of a house cat |
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Lions and tigers have been known to breed; their offspring are called Tions and Ligers |
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Cheetahs are the only kind of cat in the world that cannot retract their claws |
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A cat's jaws cannot move sideways
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In Ancient Egypt, when a cat died, people shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of respect
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Slippers, a gray cat with six toes on each paw, was favored by President Theodore Roosevelt and was allowed to appear at diplomatic dinners
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The cat uses its tail like a tightrope walker uses a long pole - as a counterweight to aid balance. Even though the tail is useful for this, it is also used for communication purposes. Cats born without tails do manage, though. There are other methods of balancing
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Kittens are born both blind and deaf, but the vibration of their mother's purring is a physical signal that the kittens can feel - it acts like a homing device, signaling them to nurse |
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Kittens can clock an amazing 31-mile per hour at full speed, and can cover about three times their body length per leap |
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A curved tail on a cat is usually an indication that the cat is feeling curious |
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If a cat's tail is fluffed out and hanging low, it is often a sign the cat is frightened |
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You can very often tell a cat is angry if it is twitching its tail from the tip |
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A wagging cat tail does not mean the same thing as a wagging dog tail. If a cat is wagging its tail, it often means the cat is in the middle of making a decision about something |
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Cat colours: Agouti:
A salt-and-pepper pattern made by light and dark banded hairs, seen on ticked tabbies and as background on mackerel, classic and spotted tabbies.
Awn hairs:
The stiffer of the two types of fine hair in a cat's insulating secondary or undercoat.
Bicolor:
A coat made up of any color or pattern and white.
Blue:
A coat color in many breeds that is any variation of gray, from slate to ash.
Calico:
A coat pattern that combines the red and black patches of the tortoiseshell pattern with patches of white.
Cameo:
A coat color distinguished by the white base and the red tip on each hair. Divided into shell, shaded and smoke depending on the extent of the tipping.
Champagne:
A creamy light brown coat color.
Chocolate:
A rich, "milk chocolate" brown coat color.
Cinnamon:
A reddish brown coat color.
Cobby body type:
The sturdy, round and compact body shape best exemplified by the Persian and the exotic.
Conformation:
Configuration of the cat’s body, from fine to heavy boning; shape of skull, and eye, ear and tail size, shape and placement.
Cream:
A light buff-red coat color; sometimes called “diluted red.�?
Crossbreed:
Offspring of two different breeds or the act of mating two different breeds.
Double coat:
A thick coat, the result of guard and awn hairs of equal length.
Down hairs:
The shorter and less coarse of the two types of hair in the insulating undercoat.
Fawn:
A pale, warm, pinkish beige coat color; sometimes called “diluted cinnamon.�?
Foreign body type:
The long, slim, moderately tubular and elegant body shape best exemplified by the Siamese and the Abyssinian.
Guard hairs:
Outer hairs that make up the protective topcoat and provide color and shine. The longest of the three types of hair.
Himalayan:
Colorpoint Persian. Sometimes considered a breed; sometimes classified as a variety of Persian.
Lavender:
A pale, pinkish gray coat color. Sometimes referred to as the combination of the blue and chocolate dilution systems.
Lilac:
A pinkish gray coat color; also called lavender.
Mascara lines:
The dark lines of color running from the edges of the eye toward the cheek of a cat.
Odd-eyed:
Eyes of two different colors, one of which is usually blue. Occurs most often in white or white-spotted cats.
Particolor:
A coat comprised of two colors, such as red and black or blue and cream.
Patched:
As in patched tabby. A particolor coat overlaid with a tabby pattern. Also referred to as “torbie.�?
Pedigree:
Direct line of ancestry going back several generations or the official document attesting to ancestry.
Pointed pattern:
A coat pattern in which the color is darker on the extremities, including the legs, tail, ears and mask, than on the rest of body, as in the Siamese.
Red:
A coat color actually closer to orange.
Ruddy:
A brownish-red coat color often used to describe black or sepia brown ticked tabbies such as Abyssinians and Somalis.
Sable:
A dark brown, almost black, coat color.
Seal:
A dark brown coat color; the most common color of pointing in Siamese.
Shaded:
A color pattern in which a silvery white cat is heavily tipped in black or red, mostly over its back. Can also occur in black on a golden background.
Shell:
Similar to shaded, but with less tipping, giving a more delicate pattern.
Silver:
Silver-white color of hairs closest to the body in tipped.
Single coat:
Minimal down and awn hairs. The guard hairs lie close to the skin in both long and shorthaired varieties.
Smoke:
A coat that appears to be solidly colored until it is parted, revealing that the color extends no more than two-thirds of the way down the shaft of each hair. The remaining hair to the base should be pure white.
Tabby:
Coat pattern distinguished by stripes and/or patches of color, including spots or blotches; also includes ticked coats.
Ticking:
Two or three alternating bands of distinct light-to-dark coloration on individual hairs.
Tipped:
Individual coloration of hairs in which dark tips become progressively lighter toward base. Shading limited to tips.
Torbie:
see Patched.
Tortie:
see Tortoiseshell.
Tortoiseshell:
An irregularly patched or intermingled pattern of red and black (or blue and cream) usually found only in females; also called tortie.
Undercoat:
Layer of insulating fur made up of awn and down hairs. Comprised of only down hairs in some cats.
Van:
A bicolor pattern with color limited to extremities and one or two spots on torso. |
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Poor kitties, I like black cats, infact I like all cats
Margaret
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