Alfred caught a mouse!
I know cats have been doing this as long as there have been cats, but this is the first one our kittens have caught. I am thrilled that our cats are mousers. Since they are indoor cats, I can encourage their instincts and not have to worry about the birds and chipmunks.
I didn’t plan on writing about my cats today, but I’ve been trying to finish this post for the last fifteen minutes, and as you can see from the above picture, the cats have been very helpful. I’m convinced cats are aliens put on Earth to stop people from working. Their weapon is cuteness, and it’s very effective.
Instead of talking about my cats any more, I’m going to share some general cat facts. And no, my cats are not typing this post, they have their own Facebook page (Chapters and Cats) for their opinion.
Ten Crazy Cat Facts (from Care.com):
- A house cat’s genome is 95.6 percent tiger
- Cats are believed to be the only mammals who don’t taste sweetness
- Cats’ claws all curve downward, which means that they can’t climb down trees head-first. Instead, they have to back down the trunk
- Cats have 230 bones, while humans only have 206
- Cats are crepuscular, which means that they’re most active at dawn and dusk
- It turns out that Abraham Lincoln was a crazy cat president! He had four cats that lived in the White House with him
- A cat’s learning style is about the same as a 2- to 3-year-old child
- A cat’s purr vibrates at a frequency of 25 to 150 hertz, which is the same frequency at which muscles and bones repair themselves
- A group of kittens is called a “kindle”
- Collective nouns for adult cats include “clowder,” “clutter,” “glaring,” and “pounce”