2 posts tagged “cats”
A site that made it into Digg considered how Cats view the bed. If you have observed cats, you have to agree with it. However if there is one change I would make it would be the expand the napping quarters, to a cat the entire bed is for napping. In fact the entire house is for napping too.
The Author of the map and blog included these facts
1. Cats don’t have a clavicle bone, allowing them to pass through any space no bigger than their head.
2. Cats move both legs on one side, and then both leg on the other, a trait they share with camels, giraffes and a select few other mammals. Nobody knows what the connection is, if any.
3. Typically, cat’s claws are sharper on the forefeet are sharper than on the hind feet.
4. Most cats have five claws on their front paws and four or five on their rear paws, but cats are prone to polydactyly. Famously, the cats hanging around Hemingway’s house in Key West are six-toed.
5. Cat’s night vision is superior to humans, but their day vision is inferior.
6. The official name for cat’s whiskers is vibrissae.
7. Due to an ancient mutation, cats can’t taste sweetness.
8. Blue-eyed cats with white fur have a higher incidence of genetic deafness.
9. Cats expend nearly as much fluid grooming as they do urinating.
10. Cats will almost never meow at other cats; that sound is reserved mostly for communication with humans.
Number 10 is especially true at Tuna Time in our house.
The site can be found by going here.
Actually, neither one of them are mine, Theo belongs to my son and Eowyn belongs to my daughter. My son lives here so he hangs out with Theo. My daughter on the other hand, lives in Waterloo and attends Wildred Laurier University. She lives off campus but the place is rather small and besides one of her roommates have an allergy to cats.
As you can see, they are both doing what cats do best, sleep.
By the way, my daughter is the one whose computer I installed Ubuntu on and started my adventure in this marvellous operating system.
