FUN CAT FACTS

Treats should be no more than 5-10% of the diet.
Cats require taurine, an essential amino acid, for heart and eye health. The food you choose should be balanced for the life stage of your cat or kitten. Properly balanced foods will contain taurine.
Unlike humans, cats cannot detect sweetness–which likely explains why they are not drawn to it at all.
Despite imagery of cats happily drinking milk from saucers, studies indicate that cats are actually lactose intolerant and should avoid it entirely.

Cats only sweat through their paws and nowhere else on their body.
A cat’s smell is their strongest sense, and they rely on this leading sense to identify people and objects; a feline’s sense of smell is 14x better than a human’s.
A cat only has the ability to move their jaw up and down, not side to side like a human can.
Polydactyl cats (a cat with 1-2 extra toes on their paws) have this as a result of a genetic mutation.

Rubble, a domestic cat, owned by Michelle Foster of Devon, England, is currently the oldest living cat. Rubble was born in May 1988 which makes him 31 years old.
The longest fur measures in at 10.11 inches and belongs to a cat called Sophie, from Oceanside, California.
Himmy who lived in Cairns, Queensland, is the heaviest recorded cat, weighing in at 46.8lbs.
Eighteen toes are the normal number for cats. A five-year-old moggy from Ontario, Canada is in the Guinness World Records for having the most toes. Jake has a total of twenty-seven toes.