Feline Facts

The word cat in different languges:

word language

Qit or Besseh Arabic

Mao Chinese
Miw Egyptian

Pussi Eskimo

Chat French

Kater (m) or Katze (f) German

Gali or Gata Greek

Muca Gypsy

Neko (cat) Koneka (kitten) Japanese

Feles, Felix Latin

Pisica Romanian

Kot (m) Koshka (f) Kotyonok (kitten) Russian

word	language
Qit or Besseh	Arabic
Mao	Chinese
Miw	Egyptian
Pussi	Eskimo
Chat	French
Kater (m) or Katze (f)	German
Gali or Gata	Greek
Muca	Gypsy
Neko (cat) Koneka (kitten)	Japanese
Feles, Felix	Latin
Pisica	Romanian
Kot (m) Koshka (f) Kotyonok (kitten)	Russian

More Kitty Facts

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

Most Calico and Turtoiseshell cats are females, the gene usually is only carried in females. Sometimes if a male carries the trait, it will die before birth.

Cats have 2 sets of blinking eyelids.

The average house cat weighs 11 lbs.

Chocolate is poisonous to cats.

In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable to death.

The first cat show was in 1871, the Crystal Palace, London.

Cats are thought to sleep 16-18 hours a day, but only 9 of those hours are actually spent sleeping. The cat spends the rest of the hours are just resting.

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