Category Archives: Cat Facts

If your cat is sufficiently hydrated, they can withstand an external temperature of 133° F. To give you an idea of how extreme this is, humans can tolerate an external temperature of about 104° F, depending on their water intake … Continue reading →

Cats can only sweat through their paws since they lack sweat glands on & around their bodies.

The front paws claws are sharper than the rear paws because the front claws can retract and the rear cannot. Due to this, the rear claws become filed down after time.

There are approximately 130,000 hairs per square inch on a cat.

Cats display ambidexterity doing all kinds of things–grooming, crouching into small places, or even playing in the kitty litter–but they actually can have a left or right dominance. However, it is unknown if the left-paw cats are the weird ones… … Continue reading →

That’s, like, a lot of licking.

All cats walk on their toes. Must be something with that thing called evolution (or Jesus if you don’t believe in it).

Petting a cat can lower your blood pressure. Don’t believe me? Google it. Or check it out here. This is probably why cats have been used in Animal Assisted Therapy since it became a type of therapy in the 1990’s. … Continue reading →

Vets say that cats purr by vibrating their vocal cords and a muscle in their larynx has to open and close over the air passage about 25 times per second to create the sound.