I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill
I'm aloof, I like to run around outside, but I also like to curl up in warm spots. I eat fish. - Megan Coughlin on why she'd make a good cat
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names... - T.S. Eliot
The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. - Michael McGarel
Felines are congenators of the offspring "Felidea". Interestingly enough, the feline group separated from the other animals a minimum forty million years ago, which makes cats one of the ancient corporeal antecedents. Felines have got certain individual characteristics which are unparalleled to the cat group.
cats are complete carnivores. They need a high-level of protein in their daily diets, roughly thirty percent, and lack the stomach to succeed on things like fruits, grains or fruits. The fact of the matter is, suppose you were to create a animal to live from preying on creatures for sure you would find it difficult executing more skillful than the designing of the feline. If you know cats at all, you are aware thry pocess strong jaws, drawn out, piercing teeth also claws that recede into their fingernails when when used. The cat has extremely acute hearing. Cat's eyes are accommodated for visual sensation in darkness for hunting down just before dawning and just after nightfall, the prime hunting periods.
In ancient Egypt, cats were thought to be special animals. In fact, Egypt is the first place where people kept cats as pets! Some of the most powerful gods were associated with cats. One time, RA, the sun god, saw a giant serpent eating everything; it was even going to eat the Tree of Life. Ra turned Himself into a cat and killed the snake. Two of Ra's daughters, BAST and SEKHMET, almost always appear as cats or with feline heads. Bast (left) is identified with smaller cats; she is a playful goddess. Sekhmet (right) is fiercer, and has a lion's head. Both are protectors. (Sekhmet's picture respectfully borrowed from All Things Sekhmet....More