STRANGE AND MAD FACTS ABOUT CATS

SCOTTISH SAILOR ALEXANDER SELKIRK ONCE

SURVIVED FOR 4 YEARS ON A DESERTED ISLAND

THANKS TO FERAL CATS THAT PROTECTED HIM

FROM LARGE RATS DURING THE NIGHT

A CAT NAMED EMMY LIVED ABOARD THE RMS EMPRESS

OF IRELAND AND SHE NEVER MISSED A VOYAGE.

ON MAY 28, 1914, HOWEVER, SHE REFUSED TO BOARD.

THE SHIP LEFT WITHOUT HER AND THEN SANK THE

FOLLOWING DAY

DOMESTIC CATS WILL TRY NOT TO DRINK FROM A

WATER BOWL THAT IS NEXT TO THEIR FOOD. THIS

IS BECAUSE IN THE WILD, WATER NEXT TO THEIR

KILL COULD BE CONTAMINATED

CATS WILL HEAD-BUTT PEOPLE THAT THEY TRUST

OR THAT MAKE THEM FEEL SAFE

IN MOST US STATES, DECLAWING CATS IS LEGAL

BUT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IT IS NOT

KOKO THE GORILLA GOT A PET CAT FOR HER BIRTHDAY

IN 1985 AFTER SHE REQUESTED TO HAVE ONE

AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT

TALKEETNA, ALASKA HAD A CAT AS MAYOR

FOR 15 YEARS

CATS SLEEP FOR 70% OF THEIR LIFETIME. HUMANS,

BY CONTRAST, ONLY SLEEP FOR 30%.