Drawing the nose cat is unique as a fingerprint in man.  The cat's heart to twice the speed of a human (from 110 to 140 beats per minute).  The smallest cat breed - Singapore. Males weigh about three and cats weigh about two pounds. Of all the cats, the smallest is the Rusty-spotted (Red pyatnisaya cat - Prionailurus rubiginosus).

This species lives in India and Sri Lanka.  Its dimensions are about half that of a normal house cat - about six inches in length, weighing less than 1.4 kg. The largest cat, not a lion, and tiger (Panthera tigris). Males weighing 300kg and grow higher than three meters, not counting the almost meter tail! Tiger can eat 40kg of meat in one sitting.  Cat hunting for mice, rescues a year to 10 tons of grain. In England, cats are used to protect grain stores and other pischvyh warehouses, they were formally put on rations. Cats also protect mice from books and other relics of the British Museum. A cat in Austria, who had served on the protection of warehouses a few years, laid a life pension, which is issued with milk, meat and broth.  In a world of more than 500 million domestic cats, which are divided into 33 main species  According to the University of Lyon (France), the world's 400 million domestic cats. Give the palm to Australia, where 10 residents have nine cats. On the Asian continent first place for Indonesia, there are more than 30 million furry animals, and in Europe - for France, whose people have in their custody eight million cats. However, there are countries such as Peru, Gabon, where the domestic cat is almost never  Do not pick a kitten or cat by the scruff of the neck. Only cats can do this without harm, and only with their kittens  Cats in a litter, usually, 1-8 kittens. The average cat can produce 3.2 litters per year  Cat for his life may have more than 100 kittens.  In the cat skeleton 290 bones, the body consists of 517 muscles.  The cat's ear is rotated 180 degrees. In each ear muscle in the cat 32 to operate the ear they use twelve or more muscles.  
If 14, then 70 human years.  The average lifespan of a domestic cat - 15 years, while for the wild - from 3 to 5 years.

 Normal body temperature for cats is about 38 degrees. It is slightly larger than in humans.  People who have pets live longer and are less prone to stress and heart attacks.  Cat kills prey moving, but not necessarily for food. Understanding that the hunt - it's production of food is an acquired skill.  The first cat show was held in 1895 at Madison Square Garden in New York.  Giraffe, Camel and Cat are the only animal-pacers, while walking they go first left foot, then right. This guarantees a walking speed, agility and silence.  It is believed that a white cat on the threshold before the wedding - a sign of good luck. In America, white cats - a symbol of good luck, bad luck black. We have a sign that black cats protect the house from thieves.  Cats can distinguish colors. Experiments have shown that cats can distinguish between red and green, red and blue, red and gray, green and blue, green and gray, blue and gray, yellow and blue, and yellow and gray!  Cats are not very well distinguish fine details.  Eye color can change a kitten with age.  Cats rub against a person to "kill" other people's smells. The smell comes from glands that are located between the eye and ear and at the base of the tail.  Cats - the laziest mammals. They sleep 16 hours a day. Seven-year cat was awake for only two years of life!  Cats, when not sleeping, caring for a 30% of the time.  If the edges of the cat is not detectable, it is too thick.  Whiskers help the cat to determine whether it will climb through the hole!  Cats love to heights. If a cat falls, its inner ear that controls balance, helps her to land on their feet.  Egyptians shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning, when losing a favorite cat.  The adult cat 32 teeth.  In Jewish folklore it is said that cats appeared, because Noah was afraid that the rats would eat all the food in the ark. He prayed to God for help. God made the lion to sneeze - and there was a cat!  Cats smell is 14 times stronger than humans!  In addition to the nose, cats can pick up odors with a so-called "tube Jacobson", located on the upper sky behind the front incisors. The cat uses it, when fully focus on some particularly interesting scent, drawing in his breath, slightly raising his upper lip and nose.  The cat just sweat pads.  Cats can publish about 100 different sounds. For comparison - only about 10 dogs.