Breeds

  There are about eighty to one hundred breeds of cats worldwide today.  Breeds are normally separated into long-haired and short-haired cats.  Some breeds of cats have disappeared over time. About two percent of domestic cats are purebred.  The remainder of them are random-bred, as breeders call them.

Pedigrees 

            Pedigrees show where a pure-bred cat comes from.  When a cat gets its papers depends on what organization that they register at.  Pedigrees are more for people who want their cats to have a perfect breeding past.  Pedigrees do not affect personality-all cats make good friends.

General Information on Cats

• Cats sleep most of the day - around eighteen out of twenty-four hours a day.
• Most cats live to be around nine to fifteen years old.
• Some cats do not like catnip while others may become addicted.
• Cats eat grass because it helps them throw up hair balls.
• A cat’s rough tongues used for licking their fur and breaking down food.
• Cat in Chinese is mio and in Italian it is gatto.
• The scientific name for cat is felis cattus.
• Cats bring their owners something they caught as prey because it is sort of like a present.

• Old cats run away to escape death.
• Declawing cats is actually illegal in many countries.
• The normal body temperature of a cat is about 100.2 degrees.

• Cats do no like to get wet because it would take hours to lick themselves dry.
• Cats sit on top of refrigerators so that they can watch their ‘territory.’
• Cat dander lasts a very long time.  It could be discovered in houses years after a cat is gone.
• Cats have thirty teeth.