• Most domestic animals were domesticated by man, but the cat, it's said, is unique: it domesticated itself.
• A kitten, too, loses its baby teeth. Then grows 30 permanents.
• When a kitten bats at a ball of yarn, it almost invariably does so with the left paw.
• Catnip does nothing for kittens. Only full-grown cats.
• Most white cats with blue eyes can't hear. Among such, the females tend to be exceedingly timid.
• Cats can get acne.
• The commonest injury to cats in long falls is a nose-bleed.
• Leonardo da Vinci called the cat "nature's masterpiece."

Cats revisited...