{"id":33395,"date":"2019-12-26T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rexpetcare.com\/?p=33395"},"modified":"2019-12-26T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:34:21","slug":"25-curiosities-about-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/25-curiosities-about-the-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"25 curiosities about the cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cats are one of the pets most chosen by us to accompany us in life and it is that these cats have something that drives us crazy, I do not know if they will be their sympathy, their physical appearance or their character so mysterious and changing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they are animals, regardless of whether we like them or not, that cause us a great intrigue.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, today we bring you some curiosities that surely you did not know about this special animal species.<\/p>\n<p>Health and morphological curiosities<br \/>\nmorphological curiosities cats<\/p>\n<p>It is common for cats to have allergies. However, what you surely do not know is that they may have an allergy to us, either because of the smoke from cigarettes or dandruff, among other elements.<br \/>\nNot only can they smell through the nose, but also through Jacobson&#8217;s cavity, located behind the front teeth.<br \/>\nThe brain of cats is 90% similar to that of humans and has about 300 million neurons, a big difference with that of dogs that only has 160 million neurons.<br \/>\nCats can&#8217;t taste sweet things<br \/>\nPurring does not always mean that the cat is happy, but can also emit these sounds in painful or stressful moments when they are sick.<br \/>\nThey can distinguish the color red, green and blue<br \/>\nCats with blue eyes are usually deaf. And if you have only one blue eye, you are usually deaf in the ear on the side of that eye.<br \/>\nMales have 120 spike-like structures on their penis that point backwards. These, it is believed, serve to stimulate female ovulation or keep the penis in place during mating.<br \/>\nThey vocalize 100 different sounds.<br \/>\nThe whiskers of cats are 4 groups of nerve endings that serve to determine and measure distances and to detect air.<br \/>\nMales only have two colors, only females can have more than two colors in the fur.<br \/>\nCats tend to obey women better because they perceive treble sounds better.<br \/>\nThey can jump up to 6 times its length. And they are more likely to survive in a high fall than in a smaller one, since cats need more time to be able to place their legs for impact.<\/p>\n<p>Behavioral curiosities<\/p>\n<p>curiosities behavior cats<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They sleep for 16 or 18 hours a day<br \/>\nThey can relax their stress by scratching any vertical object.<br \/>\nThey can drink water with their legs. They wet their legs and lick themselves to drink the liquid. If your cat usually does this it is because he is not comfortable with his drinking fountain.<br \/>\nTo demonstrate their safety and affection, they turn upside down<br \/>\nWhen walking, move the front and rear legs on the same side at the same time. There are very few animals that walk like this. We only have camels and giraffes<br \/>\nGenerally males are left-handed and right-handed females<br \/>\nAdult cats only meow to communicate with humans, but never to communicate with each other.<br \/>\nCats greet each other by rubbing their nose<br \/>\nHistorical curiosities<br \/>\nhistorical curiosities cats<\/p>\n<p>Cats appeared before dogs, but were domesticated later.<br \/>\nThe first cat dates approximately 30 million years ago.<br \/>\nIn Ancient Egypt, cats were worshiped and if a family cat died, family members, as a sign of grief, shaved their eyebrows.<br \/>\nA cat was mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, for 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cats are one of the pets most chosen by us to accompany us in life and it is that these cats have something that drives us crazy, I do not know if they will be their sympathy, their physical appearance or their character so mysterious and changing. Of course they are animals, regardless of whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rexpetcare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}