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11 facts about Cats
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1. There are about 400 millions of cats around the World, according to the Lyon University research. Australia is the most concentrated place, in proportion there are 10 men against 9 cats. France is the most cat owner country. Frenchmen take care of 8 millions of cats. But, you will meet no cat in Peru and Gabon.
2. According to the “Guinness Book of Records”, the heaviest recorded cat in the world is Australian cat Himmy; he died when he put on 21 kg. His waist was 84 cm! The previous record holder, Spice from Connecticut weighted 20 kg.
3. The world’s smallest cat is a Himalayan cat Tinker Toy from Illinois. His weight is 680 grams, length- is 18 cm and height is 7 cm!
4. They calculated, that just one cat hunting mice, saves around 10 ton of grain a year. In Austria life pension (meat, milk and broth) is prescribed for a cat has been guarding a storehouse for several years.
5. Cats distinguish smells better than dogs that are why the British set up a special “Cats Corps” during the First World War. One of the missions was to notify army about toxic gas. By the way, these cats were trained on the board of submarines.
6. Do you know that there is a Cat Temple in Kagoshima (Japan)? It was built in commemoration of 7 cats that a high-rank officer took with himself in 1600 in the war. Cats worked as clocks-by mydriatic pupil of the eye or miotic pupil the Japanese identified what time was it. Nowadays this Temple is favorable most of all for watchmakers.
7. Cats can mutter, spit, mew and even cough and grunt. According to the investigation of the French scientist, Dupont du Nemar, cats are able to pronounce 7 consonants: M, N, G, H, F, V and R.
8. Every year cat’s races at 150 m are held in Little-Rock, the USA. Grand-Prix is 2000 $.
9. The richest cats do live in the Great Britain. They come into a fortune of some hundred thousands of pounds from their owner. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds fined then for “systematic killing of feathery”.
10. The most famous cat in the Great Britain is Wilberforce, who lived at 10 Downing St between 1973 and 1987 and served four British Prime Ministers. Especially Margaret Thatcher caught his fancy. Usually she brought something delicious to her favorite pet.
11. The most fabulous record was established by an Argentinean cat – Mino. She climbed up a tree and did not get down for 6 years, until she died. She had kittens 3 times during this period and they all lived on the tree. Obviously, cats that impregnate her could get down without any assistance.
By Terzovia
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