PET BEHAVIOR
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
18 Cat Facts Behavior
Get to know the 18 cat facts behavior for your pet cat so you will get clear message for what they are up to.
- Cats are small predatory carnivorous animals with the Latin name Felis silvestris catus.
- According to The Ecology Global Network, there are 600 million species of small cats in the world.
- Cats are generally friendly, loving and docile animals. They do not include wild animals, although sometimes they bite or scratch. This is natural as a form of self-defense.
- If the cat meows softly, it means he is greeting you, don’t forget to give a spoiled touch. If your cat meows loudly and noisy, it usually means that the feline is hungry.
- Race cats are animals whose lineages are officially recorded, such as Angora, Siamese, Persian, Manx, Sphynx, Bengal, and Maine Coon.
- It turns out that cats are mammals that cannot recognize sweet taste. Usually mammals have receptors at the ends of taste cells called T1R2 and T1R3 to taste sweet. However, these taste cells do not function properly in cats.
- Cats can actually spend 15-20 hours of sleep per day. They spend 70% of their lives for sleeping to get more energy to hunt as they are small predatory animals that live among humans.
- Cats who like to sniff, stalk, and pounce on their prey have a 95.6% gene for tigers.
- According to a research, having a cat can also reduce the risk of cardiovascular or heart disease. The study found that people who own cats have a lower risk of dying from heart disease and stroke
- Some types of food that can be consumed by cats in addition to canned food are fruit and vegetables. The fruits that cats like include bananas, strawberries and melons. While the vegetables are pumpkin and carrots.
- The male cat’s reproductive organs consist of the testis (sperm-producing) and the penis. Meanwhile, female cats’ reproductive organs consist of ovaries (egg-producing), fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vagina, clitoris, vulva and nipples.
- Some pet food forbidden for cat are raw eggs, meat and fish. These raw materials are at risk of contamination with E. coli and Salmonella bacteria which can cause diarrhea, vomiting and weakness in cats.
- Cats actually cannot recognize the face of the hooman aka the owner and they also don’t care what the owner’s face looks like.
- Cats are basically afraid of flat, hard and long objects. This include cucumbers, bamboo slices, wooden stick and others.
- Female cats experience sexual maturity starting at the age of 6-8 months, called sexual maturity when the female cat begins to experience heat. The cycle of estrus (estrus) is a regular reproductive cycle experienced by female animals.
- A healthy cat is able to jump as far as 6 times its body length. For example, the length of your pet cat is 65 centimeters. So that means he can jump as far as 390 centimeters.
- Cats have the instinct to know that his age is not long. Therefore if he already knows that he will die, he will look for a place that is quiet and far from human reach.
- Loud sounds like thunder, screams or fireworks can make a cat uncomfortable. Cat ears are sensitive so they can hear sounds about 1.6 octaves higher than humans.
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