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Onion, a common seasoning for human-consumed meat, can cause anemia in cats.

Siamese cats were bred specifically for guarding sacred buildings. Their assertive, terriotorial demeanor made them good attack cats, and their long, lean frame allowed them to lie atop narrow ledges over the entrance and pounce down on any strangers entering the sacred place.

Many Siamese cats today still retain these traits. Pet Siamese have been known to attack or yowl at strangers entering their owner's home, or climb atop bookshelves and other tall furniture and then pounce down on people walking by.

Because cats is a fairly recently domesticated animals, there are very few genetic mutation humans have bred into as we have with dogs.

One example of a bred mutation in domesticated cats is the Siamese cat. The unique coloring of the Siamese cat is due to a specific genetic mutation that causes pigment of more exposed areas of the body - areas that lose body heat the fastest - to form in higher concentration than in other parts of the body. Normally this gene isn't triggered until right before birth. So kittens with this gene will be born with only nominal markings which continue darken and expand throughout the first two years of life.

This same genetic mutation has appeared in domesticated rabbits.

My siamese (mix) cat is named Nimitz. after the Adm. C. Nimitz of WWII fame. He propogatee the Island hopping idea in the pacific to help win that portion of the war. He was also highly decorated in many countires. A class of Submarines were named for him.

The first sub in a new class designates the name of that class....

USS Nimitz the Nimitz class subs

All variations of coat colors in domesticated cats are a variation of the standard grey tabby coloration they inherited from their wild cat ancestors.

In most solid colored coats, you can see faint tabby "ticking" in the hair shafts when held to bright light. Solid colors are created when pigment is produced in excecss so the ticking doesn't contrast as much.

White coats and patches of white are caused by a seperate gene that turns off the pigment cells. Otherwise every white or partly white cat is genetically capable of having a fully colored coat.

Calico and tortoise-shell coats occur mostly in females because it require a special gene, called the "bar gene," in duplicate. Since it only occurs on the X chormosome, two X chromosomes are required. Calico and tortoise-shell males are the result of the animal having one Y and two X chromosomes, which is extremely rare.

Feral dogs breeds refer to breeds that are more closely related to wild dogs than other domesticated dogs, or breeds of dogs that developed with little human selection and intervention.

Some feral dog breeds include pharoah hounds of North Africa, aborginal dogs of Latin America, Asia, Pacific islands, and sub-Sahara Africa, the Rhodesian ridgeback of South Africa, and the Catahoula Leopard Hound and the Carolina Dog of the Southern United States. Many feral breeds are difficult to train due to having a stronger sense of independence.

The Rhodesian ridgeback is believed to be a cross between European domestic breeds and the Southern African Hottentot hunting dog, a feral aborginal breed. Ridgebacks get their distinctive "ridge" along their back from the Hottentot. They were once know as "lion dogs" because they were use to hunt lions.

Since we're on the subject:
Dogs have no ability to perceive size. That's why you'll see a chihuahua go after a german shepard.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

The reason firehouses have weird stairs is because horses used to pull the engines and they figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.

A t shirt maker in Miami made t shirts in Spanish and they said I saw the pope but he didnt do it right and they said I saw the potato.

Elephants can make sounds so low they fall outside the human range of hearing. Before this was discovered, people thought elephants possessed a type of elepahant ESP because they were frequently observed being able to communicate to each other in ways that couldn't involved sight or, as was thought, sound. For example, it was observed that an upset mother could "alarm" her calf of danger in some mysterious way even when the mother was outside the calf's line of sight. It was later learned that mother elephants vocalize a distinct low rumble that alarms their calves which we human simply cannot hear.

Hyenas' closest relatives are cats.

When you increase your speed, your stopping distance increases in proportion, and the force of impact is squared.


Your seatbelt holds you to your seat in the event of a crash, in line with Newton's theory of inertia, which states that a body will continue in the same direction and at the same speed unless another force compels it to change either vector. Your seatbelt is held in tight by the buckle and the clip to the side of the seat, and its strength is the force that holds you back in the event of an accident. It also prevents you from flying through the windscreen when you brake suddenly. Hence why they are so important and why you should wear them.

Cheetahs can only sprint for a minute because their core temperature rises to a critical level if they run longer.

The cheetah have the largest heart for its body size of any cat, which enables it to accelarate amd run faster than any other land animal.

Jaguars have the strongest jaws of any cat, strong enough to crack open a tortoise shell.

Tigers have a natural affinity for water.

Leopards evolved into nocturnal hunters to avoid competition from lions, who hunt during the day.

Snow leopards have the longest tail for its body length of any cat, and this enable it to have superior balance in its mountain habitat.