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Special
Cats and Dogs Fact File Trivia
3601/ At the end of the Beatles'
song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle,
audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his
Shetland sheepdog.
3602/ Every year in the United
States, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times
the amount spent on baby food.
3603/ Lassie was played by several
male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were
thought to look better on camera. The main "actor"
was named Pal.
3604/ Seventy percent of people
sign their pet's name on greeting cards and 58 percent include
their pets in family and holiday portraits, according to a
survey done by the American Animal Hospital Association.
3605/ Some 39 percent of pet
owners say they have more photos of their pet than of their
spouse or significant other. Only 21 percent say they have
more photos of their spouse or significant other than of their
pet.
3606/ The calories burned daily
by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race
average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925
"Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed
medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria
epidemic.
3607/ The last member of the
famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in
1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
3608/ There are more than 100
million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend
more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
3609/ Using their swiveling ears
like radar dishes, experiments have shown that dogs can locate
the source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second.
3610/ A cat will never break
a sweat because it has no sweat glands.
3611/ A cat uses its whiskers
to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The
whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to
judge the precise width of any passage.
3612/ Adult cats with no health
problems are in deep sleep 15 percent of their lives. They
are in light sleep 50 percent of the time.
3613/ At night a cat can gather
into the extra-large corneas and lenses of its eyes more than
six times the amount of light than humans can. Seeing far
better than humans do at night time and tending to focus best
at a distance of eight to twenty feet makes cats excellent
night time hunters.
3614/ Cardinal Richelieu was
so fond of cats that he shared his home with 14 of them. Specially
appointed attendants cared for them, and upon his death, the
Cardinal left all his worldly wealth to his feline companions.
3615/ Cats are attracted to automobile
antifreeze because of its sweet taste.
3616/ Cats are the only domestic
animals that walk directly on their claws, not on their paws.
This method of walking is called "digitigrade."
When cats scratch furniture, it isn't an act of malice. They
are actually tearing off the ragged edges of the sheaths of
their talons to expose the new sharp ones beneath.
3617/ Cats have about 100 different
vocalization sounds. In comparison, dogs have about 10.
3618/ Cats purr at about 26 cycles
per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
3619/ Orange and lemon rinds
are offensive to cats. A light rubbing of orange peel on furniture
will discourage your cat from using it as a scratching post.
3620/ The Persian cat has the
longest and thickest fur of all domestic cats. The topcoat
may be up to 5 inches long.
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