You know how humans like sweet things? Well, cats don’t have our sweet tooth, even though dogs do. Scientists have found that cats both large and small possess a genetic mutation that causes the sugar detectors on their taste buds to be inoperative. This is a rare trait among mammals.
Even though there are over 500 million domestic cats in the world, there are only forty recognized breeds. Most people can’t name them all.
Cats have brains that are more biologically alike to human brains than “man’s best friend” due to both having identical areas that are responsible for emotions.
Even though cats make around 100 different noises, dogs only make about ten.
Female cats are more often than not right-pawed, and male cats tend to use their left paw more. Left-handed people lean more towards being male in the human world.
The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, has links to cats. During the Venetian Inquisition, Pope Innocent VIII declared that cats were evil and related to witchcraft, thereby killing and diminishing the feline population in Europe to extremely low digits. This allowed rats to grow and increase in number, giving the fleas carrying bacteria that caused the plague another way to spread the disease. Revenge is sweet.
A group of cats is called a “clowder”.
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