- Cats can sleep 16 hours or more every 24 hours.
- Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10
- Cats are North America’s most popular pets: there are 73 million cats compared to 63 million dogs. Over 30% of households in North America own a cat
- A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance
- A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.
- The smallest wildcat today is the Black-footed cat. The females are less than 20 inches (50 cm) long and can weigh as little as 2.5 lbs
- Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear (humans have only 6). A cat can independently rotate its ears 180 degrees
- Cats have about 130,000 hairs per square inch (20,155 hairs per square centimeter)
- The heaviest cat on record is Himmy, a Tabby from Queensland, Australia. He weighed nearly 47 pounds (21 kg). He died at the age of 10
- A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head
- A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human
- A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute
- Grown cats have 30 teeth. Kittens have about 26 temporary teeth, which they lose when they are about 6 months old
- A female cat is called a queen or a molly
- The cat who holds the record for the longest non-fatal fall is Andy. He fell from the 16th floor of an apartment building (about 200 ft/.06 km) and survived.
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