Did you know that: 

• The average domestic cat spends over 10,000 hours purring in its lifetime?
   

• In Italy, a sneezing cat is a good omen?
   

• A group of kittens is called a Kindle and a group of grown cats is called a Clowder?
   

• Cats were so highly revered, in ancient Egypt, that if a human killed one, either intentionally or unintentionally, he would be sentenced to death.
   

• Cats spend nearly 30% of their life grooming themselves.
   

• Cats are unable to chew as they cannot move their lower jaw sideways or grind their teeth. Food is usually swallowed whole and processed by their digestive juices.
   

• Cats are carnivores and cannot survive on a purely vegetarian diet as their body requires taurine, an essential amino acid present in meat.
   

• Like humans, cats need to stay hydrated and should ideally drink two and a half times the amount of food they eat.
   

• Most cats have three different types of hair in their coat---an outer layer of guard hairs, a middle layer of awn hair, and an undercoat of down hair.