Cats and Facts

—Domesticated and feral housecats are thought to have caused the extinction of 33 species.

—The average cat sleeps for 70 percent of its life.

—Since 1955 Disneyland has been continually accommodating around 200 cats and allowing them to rove the park at night to control the rodent population.

—Police in Misiones, Argentina found a lost one-year-old boy in the company of seven cats.  The officers speculated that the boy survived several nights of freezing temperatures by cuddling with the animals.  He also ate food that the cats had scavenged.  The cats became defensive and hissed at the officers who found the boy.    

—A single pair of cats and their offspring is capable of producing 420,000 kittens in only seven years.

—Cats can jump seven times as high as their tail.

—Adolf Hitler had an intense fear of cats.

—Cats have only one life.

Pictured is 20 pounds of housecat (named Carmel).

--Mitchell Hegman