If You're Stoned Right Now, These 6 Cat Facts Will Totally Blow Your Mind
Spark up, sit back and enjoy the wild world of cats.
1. House cats don't do much with their days. 70 percent of the time they're asleep, and they spend the other 15 percent self-grooming
Yep, you can take solace in the fact your cat is (probably) lazier than you. What does your cat do with the remaining 15 percent of its time? Who knows. Maybe Mr. Squiggles is taking guitar lessons.
2. Meowing is used solely for communicating with humans
Young kittens will occasionally meow to indicate basic needs to their mothers, but grown cats will only growl, hiss etc. to each other. Meowing is likely an evolutionary technique cats developed to earn regular care from humans. It's much easier to survive by meowing to your person for a can of shreds than having to hunt mice and birds.
Meowing can be simply a way of seeking attention, or it can be due to a much more serious need. Either way, it's reserved for you.
3. Felines have their own versions of some of the most devastating human diseases
Cats have been know to exhibit symptoms of dementia (aka Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome, or CDS), usually beginning around age eight. Like with the human form of the disease, there is no cure. Cats can also get Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) and Feline AIDS, which both exhibit symptoms similar to their human-affecting counterparts. Cats can also get herpes, leukemia, hepatitis and diabetes.
4. Cats can carry a parasite that will literally make you go insane
It's called Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite can affect humans in a variety of ways, but is most frequently associated with a rise in generally dangerous behavior. The parasite is transferred via a cat's feces, which is why pregnant women are instructed to stay away from litter boxes.
5. Cats can survive by drinking salt water
Just in case you needed further proof that cats are superior to humans. For cats, salt water is drinkable because their kidneys are highly efficient and can expel the salt from the water. Human kidney's can't do that. Check and mate, cats.
6. Cats sweat through the pads on their paws
Actually, the only way a cat can sweat is through its foot pads. Apparently, this is because cats evolved as desert animals.