Cat Pictures Videos, Amazing Facts, Breeds of Cat, Persian cat

Cats are one of the most valued indoor pet. House Cats have life span of around 12 to 15 years.  With more than 73 cat breeds. See Videos and images of the most famous of them including Persian, Siamese, Ragdoll, British shorthair and Siberian cats.
Well-known of belongs to the family of lions. They are small and loving in nature. However related to carnivorous family of animals. Unlike other carnivorous animals, they are private hunter. They do not share their hunted prey. They have sharp teeth that are suitable for hunting small prey. That means they are flesh eating. Their flexible body structure is equipped with rapid reflex system.

It take about 34 cats to create a fur coat.

 

Cats sleep almost 16 hours a day

Contents :

• Video
• Amazing Quick Facts
• General information
  1. Eating and Hunting behavior
  2. Senses of cats
  3. Living with humans
  4. Reproducing habit
• Breeds of Cat:
  • Persian cat
  • Siamese cat
  • Ragdoll cat
  • British shorthair cat
  • Siberian cat
• Images of cute cats

Amazing Quick Facts:

• Sleeps 12 to 16 hours a day.
• It take about 34 cats to create a fur coat.
• Typical Weight ranges from 3 kg to 5 kg.
• Normal body temperature of cat is 38.6 degree centigrade.
• Pulse rate of cat is 120-140 heat beats per minute.
• Cats can breathe 16 to 40 times a minute.
• Give birth to 3 to 5 kittens at a time.
• May give birth to 150 kittens in their life span.
• House cats were categorized different species from wild cats in 1758.

Eating and Hunting Behavior

• They are lonely hunters.
• Hunts prey which are mainly small in size. Examples are birds, rats, mouse,
• Don’t share their prey with other cats except mom cat with their kitten.

Senses of Cats

Vision

• They have fabulous night vision eyesight.
• Poor color sense. Can best sense only two colors; Blue and yellowish green.
• Their eyes have six times more light sensitivity as compared to humans.

Hearing

• Greatly equipped with hearing organs.
• Wide variety of sound frequency; 55 Hz to 79 kHz.
• Can hear Ultrasounds.

Smell

• Power of smell Double the times as of human.
• Affectionate smelling plants are silver vine, valerian.
• Cannot taste sweetness. have around 470 taste buds as compared to humans have 9000.
• prefers to eat food at 38 degree

Living with humans

• Considered second most popular pet after fishes in USA.
• Studies show that they have contained by humans and domesticated as pet since 10,000 years ago.
• population of pet cats exceed 500 million.
• Communicate with human by purring, hissing and meowing.

Reproducing habit

• Male of this species get matures for sex and mating at age of 5 to 10 months.
• Female get ready to start breeding at age of 5 to 7 months.
• Can give 3 to 5 kitten birth at a time.
• When the female are ready to mate, this time is called Heat time. It lasts for 5 to 7 days.
• Multiple males fight to mate a female. Only winner gets the chance to mate.

Breeds:

Persian

• This breed is distinguished due to its longs hairs.
• The first documented ancestor was imported to Italy in 1620 by Iranians.
• Hairs are fluffy , soft and thick.
• Popular breed in united states.
• Mostly, the recent breed are flat faced.
• typical age is 10 to 12 years.

Siamese

• The most intelligent breed of all cats.
• They are also called moon face.
• Face, legs, limbs and tail are usually blackish.
• Originally from Canada
• Most popular in Europe and North America.
• They have blue almond shaped eyes.

Ragdoll

• This breed is developed by American breeder named Ann baker in mid 1960.
• Their body is relatively bigger. Often called Dog-like Cats.
• Their hairs are Semi long , soft and thick.
• Their eyes are blue.
• Typical weight range 3.6 to 6.8 kg.

British shorthair

• They have British blue or solid grey blue color.
• Their eyes color are copper.
• Most ancient breed of Cats.
• Very calm temperament and cool nature.
• Also regarded as Happy cats.
• Although they are not so active. Their life expectancy is longer for around 14 to 20 years.

Siberian

• Known to be most agile jumpers of this species.
• Impressive long tail.
• Relatively larger Round eyes with sweet expression on face.
• Their front legs are shorter than their hind legs.
• This breed is safest among others,  for many allergy suffers.
• Originally relates to Russia.

 

 

 

 

Images of cute cats

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Finally, we will say that Cat is the most clean pet around. Al most all breeds of Cat love grooming themselves whenever they are free.