The Most Amazing Facts

1. A cat’s nose has a unique pattern - like the human fingerprint!
2. Who invented the cat flap? Amazingly, it was the man who discovered the principles of gravity, Isaac Newton!
3. Americans spend more on cat food every year than they do on baby food!
4. In 1879, the Belgian Post Office tried to use 37 cats to deliver the mail. It worked for a while, but the cats weren’t disciplined enough to keep it up!
5. People often wonder why there is not mouse-flavored cat food. This is because cat food companies have tried to make it, but in tests cats didn’t actually like it!
6. Ancient Egyptians worshipped cats. If a cat died, the family who ‘owned’ the cat would shave off their eyebrows as a sign of mourning.
7. If you suffer from high blood pressure, you should get a cat - it has been proven that stroking a cat helps lower it!
8. Studies have shown that cats respond most readily to names that end with an ‘ee’ sound!
9. A cat called Towser worked at the Glenturret Distillery in Scotland and caught nearly thirty thousand mice in twenty-four years. When she sadly died, she was replaced by a cat called Amber. Amber never caught a single mouse.
10. During the second world war, a cat was awarded the Dickin Medal for Bravery - this is the animal version of the Victoria Cross!