Eewgg! Kitty spittle and dander fluff. Though I must say I feel bad for anyone that is allergic to our four-legged friends. They CAN be a bit of fun now and then.
As for the bath part -- Ha Haa, Good One!! I'm pretty sure I'd rather be wrapped in brambles, rolled down a steep rocky hill, soaked in brine-water, then run over by two fat circus bears* on a tandem bicycle, than try to give Stinky the Cat a bath.
*Brutus and BoBo B. -The Bicycling Bear Brothers
A cat cannot see directly under its nose.
That is very interesting. I've never seen a cat trip over it's feet or take an UN-expected tumble. I wonder what their secret is? All those whiskers? Forward-facing backup cameras?
Which begs another question. Do cats ever mess with their friends? Two Tom's walking down an alley, one looks over at the other while they're moseying and says "Look, over there, it's a fat mouse"...just to see if he can make his friend trip over an ash-can lid. Since he KNOWS his buddy can't see down below his nose. It COULD happen.
Like birds, cats have a homing ability that uses its biological clock, the angle of the sun, and the Earth's magnetic field. A cat taken far from its home can return to it. But if a cat's owners move far from its home, the cat can't find them.
Now that you mention it, I've never seen a cross-eyed cat, so this makes total sense. Nature is SO amazing.
Siamese kittens are born white because of the heat inside the mother's uterus before birth. This heat keeps the kittens' hair from darkening on the points.
So more of a Kitty Bun in the Top-Rack Broiler thing, rather than the Oven, eh? Those wacky, white Siamese kitties. Always up to something.
Which begs the question: Do dark-colored cats come from a cooler uterus? And do we call them a 'refridge or 'cooler' cat from now on?
Like humans, cats tend to favor one paw over another
Does this mean the cat can 'bat' at something faster with it's dominant paw? For example: if the cat is going after a mouse...does the mouse stand a better chance of getting away if he/she/it always stays to the side of the cat that is NOT dominant?
So, in the case of a right-pawed cat...the mouse should always be heading to the left when it skitters across the kitchen floor. Not to the right.
Then again, how would the mouse really KNOW this information about the cat? All the mice I've seen, spend their time under the refrigerator or in a cupboard or other odd, out-of-the-way place. And so they don't really see the cat for very long. At least long enough to know its correct 'paw'. I think this needs a bit more research before I'm throwing all in behind this particular Cat Fact.
Heat occurs several times a year and can last anywhere from 3 to 15 days.
Does this choice pertain to just the front paws, or the BACK ones too? It would be VERY difficult to decide which one is your 'favourite', when you have so many to choose from. For Example: Does a cat that likes his or her back left paw best, then bat at things with THAT paw? How awkward would that be! And what about scratching itself? Which will it use most? The favourite paw? But this might be awkward. This will keep me up late at night, once again. You are very good at doing that, M. Catfact