{"id":3321,"date":"2019-03-15T02:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2019-03-15T02:45:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T10:45:02","slug":"frivolous-friday-interesting-facts-about-your-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3321","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Friday \u2013 Interesting Facts About Your Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/catwhiskers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/catwhiskers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/catwhiskers-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/catwhiskers.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I don\u2019t know where this site\u2019s been all my life, but I found it and I\u2019m fascinated. It\u2019s \u201c101 Interesting Cat Facts,\u201d put together by Karen Lehnardt for FactRetriever. If you love obscure facts on a variety of topics, you might want to look at some of their other posts on people, mammals, food, geography, and much more. Here\u2019s the link to Cat Facts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factretriever.com\/cat-facts\">https:\/\/www.factretriever.com\/cat-facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a teaser, did you know that cats live to about 20\u2014which would be the equivalent to 96 years for a human.<\/p>\n<p>In seven years, a single cat pair can produce 420,000 kittens.<\/p>\n<p>Cats can make about 100 different sounds\u2014dogs can make only 10.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of keeping pet cats may be older than originally thought by about 5,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>The first cat in space was sent up by France in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The largest litter of kittens was 19\u201415 of them survived.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular breed of cats is Persian, Maine Coon, and Siamese.<\/p>\n<p>Cats typically have 12 whiskers on each side. (I don\u2019t know about you, but I plan to count whiskers this evening while cuddling with Sophie and Lily.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know where this site\u2019s been all my life, but I found it and I\u2019m fascinated. It\u2019s \u201c101 Interesting Cat Facts,\u201d put together by Karen Lehnardt for FactRetriever. If you love obscure facts on a variety of topics, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}