Cats Revisited

If a cat were to eat nothing but mice, it would need 12 a day at 30 calories per mouse to get its minimum daily caloric requirement. Your cat has more muscles in its tail than you've got in your head. What a cat wants when it purrs, so say the experts, is attention...that's all. Cats purr when injured, when content, when giving birth. And speaking of purring, wanna know how a cat can purr continuously without stopping between breaths? Two vocal cords. One purrs on the inhale, the other on the exhale. A falling cat first tenses up, but then it somehow senses when it gets to peak velocity, so it relaxes and spreads its legs. That's why a cat is more likely to survive a 20-story fall than a 10-story fall. A cat laps milk with the underside of its tongue. Cats' eyes are the biggest of all mammals' eyes...in proportion to body weight. The whiskers of a walking cat point forward. Slightly downward if the cat is calm. Slightly upward if the cat is excited.