Things That You Probably Don’t Know About Felines

1. Lots of people assume that cats are ambidextrous because of their agility while in fact most cats are either lefties or righties. However the percentage of ambidextrous cats is much greater than the percentage of ambidextrous humans. 
2. In terms of food cats are just like humans don’t like their food to be too hot or too cold. In fact they love it when their food is with room temperature. Many scientists consider cats to be the Goldilocks of the animal kingdom.
3. Unlike dogs, cats see in color and have a much better sight than humans. Even more during the night cats require much less light than humans to be able to see perfectly. This is why a lot of people refer to the night vision goggles as cat eye goggles.
4. Not many people know that a group of cats is called a “clowder” and a group of kittens is called a “kindle”. It is from here that the fancy e-book reading device got its name.
5. Contrary to the common belief cats do not communicate with each other by the meow sound that they make. Cats use the meow sounds only to gain the attention of humans. In fact when it comes to sounds cats have a great diapason of different sounds which they can produce.
6. Cats are so intuitive that they can understand the mood of humans by the tonality of their voices.
7. The inventor of the cat door is one of the most renowned physicists and mathematicians in the history of mankind, Sir Isaac Newton.
8. Cats do always land on their feet but the thing that you probably don’t know is that all cats perform the same movements when falling so that they can fall on their feet.
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Cat hair is much easier to clean than dog hair. In fact cat hair is so easy to clean that you simply need to use rug cleaning machines to clean your home rug. If you don’t own such machines you can get rug cleaning machines from your local home depot.

Little Known Facts About Dogs

1. Dogs cannot hold their bladder until they are about four months old. This is why puppies often urinate during the night even after you have walked the otside in the afternoon.
2. Dogs have an amazing internal clock. It allows them to know when exactly you are coming home from work, when it’s bed time, diner time, walk time and etc.
3. Many people think that only cats bathe without realizing that dogs do it as well. The difference is that dogs do it more rarely and thus the common misconception.
4. A little known fact is that Dalmatian puppies are born pure white. The black spots begin to form during the first year.
5. In contrast to the common belief dog’s favorite game is not fetch. The favorite game of dogs is keep away. Keep away is the game in which you try to take something from your dog. This is why dogs give their owners a hard time giving back the ball when they fetch it.
6. Most people believe that dogs are colorblind while they are not completely colorblind. Dogs cannot differentiate between green and red because they have lesser retinal cone cells. However they can see yellow and blue partially. This means that dogs see in a dichromatic manner.
7. Dogs have amazing olfactory senses. In fact their sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than the olfactory sense of men. This is why dogs can detect a specific scent from miles away.
8. The fastest dog breed is the Greyhound. Greyhounds can speed up to over 64 kilometers per hour.
9. Dog hair is one of the hardest things to clean. To completely remove fallen dog hair from a rug one must use rug cleaning machines or hire a cleaning company that uses such machines. The contact details of firms that use rug cleaning machines can be found in the cleaning section of the yellow pages.