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Cats have been known - one of the most popular pets. How they managed to enslave the most intelligent of animals - human, mystery, because they just do what they are sleeping, playing with candy wrappers and beg for food. Perhaps the love of humanity to cats - something like singular feline magic that makes us serve the furry impudent, who do not want to tear ass on the couch, even to clean up the dishes. If you consider yourself a "kennel" is strictly forbidden to read more, and cat lovers on the other hand, it is essential to read a selection of possible closer - "cat owner" will find it a lot of curious.





1. Cats varnish much neater than dogs

Instead of simply draw water language, as does a dog, a cat, when lapping milk or other liquid touches the rough tip of the tongue to the surface and pulls him into the jaws together with the image column of liquid, closing his with the jaw to prevent moisture spill back.
Cat able to lap at a speed four times a second, each time receiving about 0, 1 mL of liquid - thus, a minute it can drink about 5 tablespoons (24 ml).



2. Modern cats are often obese

In recent years, the problem of excess weight is increasingly applies not only to individuals but also their furry pets. According to the research of the Association of the prevention of obesity in domestic animals, about 54% of dogs and cats in varying degrees of overweight. This means that among domestic cats around the world about 324 million "fatties».
The most common problems with being overweight in domestic cats start due to lack of motor activity and loving owners which indulging their pets, give them too much food. The usual adult cat requires from 180 to 220 calories per day, and for example, the middle cup and cat food contains about 400 calories.



3. Cats are not smarter than dogs ...

Contrary to a common misconception, the mental abilities of cats is usually not higher than that of dogs. According to data published in 2010 in the journal «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences», for the last 60 million years of the dog's brain significantly increased in size, even though cats are not seen anything like it.
In 2009, the experiment was conducted, the purpose of which was to put an end to the dispute "cat owner" and "dog lover" who is still smarter - dog or cat? Of course, comparing mental faculties not entirely correct - they are two different species, and each is good at something his own, being one of the most important arguments in favor of the dispute, scientists thought that cats and dogs can bring to man.
Given that dogs take part in the operations, for example, to rescue people from the rubble, or let's say, the smell can be found in the luggage of the attacker explosive or narcotic substances, and the representatives of the cat family all this done can not (or more likely - just do not want ), it is not surprising that the intelligence of dogs was considered more prominent than in cats. But if you think about - whether from the big dog crazy enable pushed around? After all, cats at this time of quiet sleep and the most serious problem for them may not be the search for the tourist, who has got an avalanche, and the owner, banning pet sharpen claws on the furniture.



4. ... but still the cat in its own reasonable

Let the dog much more actively interact with people, you should not assume that cats can only eat, sleep and make you regularly change the filler in cat litter. In domestic cats, like their relatives living in the wild has all the necessary skills to for example, outsmart prey or deceive the enemy.
In 2010, the staff of the Wildlife Conservation Society managed to shoot hunting Margay Margao, which live in the forests of the Amazon. Wanting to get to dinner one of the smaller monkeys, tamarins, cat quite accurately imitated the cries of the animals, and when some tamarins get closer, ambushed. Only the warning cry of the leader of one of the monkeys rescued from punishment, but it can be assumed that as a result of patient Margao still made his own, or went to look for another, less capricious prey.



5. Cats live 10 th minute

Cats are able to remember any obstacle in their environment, only about 10 minutes - a conclusion was made by experts on the basis of a study conducted in the year 2007.
During the experiment, scientists have created artificial barriers that fluffy subjects had to be overcome. It turns out that if you stop a cat after she forelegs stepped over the obstacle and did not give her to continue the path for 10 minutes, the animal forgets that it is necessary to cross the barrier and hind legs too, although if you stop it for a short while, the barrier will be "taken" almost immediately.
Visual memory cats is much shorter muscle - if you divert your pet from the obstacle before it begins to overcome it, the cat forgets unsolved problem after a few seconds.



6. Cats control you

This was confirmed without exception, owners of cats - pets are not just meow and purr, and thus try to establish contact with the owner. In the process of evolution and living side by side with these people cry Crafty developed a special tone that a person perceives as unbearably shrill and nasty. Of course, most cats enjoy this method of training people when they want to get something edible and usually reach the desired result.



7. Cat parasites can turn you into a neurotic and kill

Cats are not only able to control people, and infect them with parasites that have a direct impact on the human personality. Cats microorganisms of the species Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted by rats and mice, which are under the influence of the parasite behave very foolishly themselves are looking for places where they can encounter with cats. If furry pet has managed to eat an infected mouse will germs and certain of its owner, which is fraught with the development of toxoplasmosis - a disease that can significantly change a person's behavior.
A study conducted in 2006, the year found that after infection Toxoplasma gondii in humans increases the level of anxiety, it slowed reactions, neurotic traits, but for a person with a weak immune toxoplasmosis may even be fatal.



8. In our time, there is a "feline population explosion»

They are all the consequences of increasing the mean annual temperature for cat lovers is the most joyous of the fact that the increase in the duration of periods of heat automatically extends the cats breeding season, which means that the kittens will be born with the time any more. Unfortunately, many of them at risk of being stray, as a sharp increase in the number of those wishing to make a cat is not observed.
Back in 2007, the experts noted the increase in the birth rate in cats, which is due to the fact that winters are becoming shorter, and the trend continues to this day. If you already have a cat and you can not afford to take a couple more, but the thought of that lovely furry babies have drowned or let the cat shelter, for you bear remains sterilized animal and a problem with the feline overpopulation, at least, for you personally, will be solved.

Source: www.factroom.ru/facts/54508