FUN FACTS about our Feline Friends

You might think your cat is just a purr machine, but do you know how incredibly awesome they truly are? Brace yourself for mind-blowing cat trivia: they have a bonus organ for tasting smells and they invented "meow" just to chat with us humans! Get ready to be dazzled by these cool cat facts!

• Cats are believed to be the only mammals who don’t the ability to taste things that are sweet.

• Cats can jump up to 6 times higher than their body length.

• Cats claws are curved downwards. This means that they can climb up a tree, but they are unable to climb back down head first they have to shimmy down.

• The rough tongues that cats have not only aide in grooming but it also allows them to clean a bone of any meat.

• Cats use their tails for balance.

• Cats are one of the few species that will actually starve themselves to death if they do not like the food they are given.

• Cats are actually lactose-intolerant.

• Cats have an estimated 100 different vocalizations where dogs only have an estimated 10.

• Meowing is a communication specifically between humans and cats.

• Cats are one of the few species that engage in midwifing.

I hope you enjoyed this little tid-bit and now hopefully you know a little sometime more about your feline pal.