Cats hate the water because their fur does not insulate well when it’s wet.
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Cats are the most popular pet in the 
#USA. There are 88 million cats kept as pets!
The first programming language I learned was Python. I learnt it myself from Gérard Swinnen's book to write automated tests for a pirate-themed board game I had invented (graphics made with Inkscape and GIMP).
Although the development was stuck at ~87% completion and never finished, Python and automated testing became my speciality and paved my career.
It turns out that Abraham #Lincoln was a crazy cat president!
He had four cats that lived in the 
#WhiteHouse with him.
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If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Only 24% of cats who enter animal shelters are adopted.
Spanish-Jewish folklore recounts that Adam’s first wife, Lilith, became a black #vampire cat, sucking the blood from sleeping babies. This may be the root of the superstition that a cat will smother a sleeping baby or suck out the child’s breath.
People often think that they’ve stumbled over a purebred as a stray or in a shelter, but Hogan says that this is very uncommon. “Ninety-nine times out of 100 what you have found on the street will not be purebred anything,” she says. “Very seldom do breeders sell #kittens that are not already spayed or neutered,” as purebred cats need to meet very strict standards.
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In tigers and tabbies, the middle of the tongue is covered in backward-pointing spines, used for breaking off and gripping meat.
Cats have a strong prey drive, and they will often bring their owners "gifts" of small animals they have caught.
A cat’s jaw can’t move sideways, so a cat can’t chew large chunks of food.
Cats recognize individual voices.
If cats are fighting, the cat that’s hissing is the more vulnerable one, says Wilde.