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CATS, RABBITS, FROGS, AUDUBONS, ...

Facts About Cats

Cats are able te hear sounds that move faster than 45.000 hertz, like
the sound of bats. We can't hear anything higher 20.000 hertz.

Cats can see an ant at a distance of six meters(!).

While looking straight ahead they can also see sideways in an angle of
45 degrees, but only 2-dimensional.

In pitch-darkness their eyes become more like a kind of ears: the pupils
pick up acoustic vibrations.

A cat's nose has 17 million nerve cells, which he uses to trace all
smells/aromas in his environment. Even the food they eat is chosen by the
smell. A cat who has a cold, doesn't eat because he isn't hungry, but
because he can't smell the food.

Comparison: a dog's nose has 147 million nerve cells; we have 'only' 5
million nerve cells in our nose.

1. The 'owner' and the cat.

- 98,0 % of the cat-owners think their cat has a special personality.
- 76,0 % knows their cats' birthday.
- 48,5 % of these owners celebrates the birthday of their cats.
- 18,8 % of which wrap up a present for their cat.
- 63,2 % of the owners tell their problems to their cat.
- 78,8 % of the owners is convinced that the cats pass on their
problems to them too.

2. Cats around the house at dinner.

- 59,7 allow their cat to sit on the kitchen table.
- 61,4 % calls their cat when dinner is ready.
- 86,4 % give their cat pieces of their food/dinner.br>

3. Cats in the sleeping room

- 96 % of the cat-owners allow their cats in the sleeping room.
- almost 50 % of the cats are aloowed to sleep in the bed at night.
- 38% of those cats sleep on the pillow with the owner.

Note: younger cats prefer the pillows, older cats prefer to sleep at
the feet-site of the bed.

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Quotes About Cats

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."
Dave Platt

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
Anonymous {So true! My cats walks on me! - Lady Hawke}

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.

Cats have never forgotten this."
Anonymous

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull
a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez

"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."
English proverb

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
Ellen Perry Berkeley

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are G-d."

"One cat just leads to another."
Ernest Hemingway

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message
and get back to you later."
Mary Bly

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject
to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who
suffered from insomnia."
Joseph Wood Krutch

"People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their
next life."
Faith Resnick

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They
are all owned by cats."
Anonymous

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The
wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
Hippolyte Taine

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:
music and cats."
Albert Schweitzer

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart."
Ernest Menaul

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
Colette

"No heaven will not ever Heaven be;
Unless my cats are there to welcome me."
Anonymous

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."
Missy Dizick

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make
friends with strange cats."
Colonial American proverb

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any
harm to ask for what you want."
Joseph Wood Krutch

"Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit."
John S. Nichols

"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle
and will p**s on your computer."
Bruce Graham

"I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic."

"My husband said it was him or the cat ... I miss him sometimes."

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