An adult cat has 30 teeth, 16 on the top and 14 on the bottom.

The heaviest cat on record is Himmy, a Tabby from Queensland, Australia who weighed nearly 47 pounds (21 kg). He died of respiratory failure at the age of 10.

The Garfield comic strip created by Jim Davis has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length live-action/CGI animated films and three fully CGI animated direct-to-video movies.

House cats can run at top speeds of around 30 miles per hour. This is a comparable maximum running speed to those of white tail deer, warthogs and grizzly bears. It is also the top speed achieved by track star Usain Bolt.

Cats are never mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, although they are mentioned once in the deuterocanonical Book of Baruch which is found in the Septuagint and in the Vulgate Bible.

On October 18, 1963, on the French rocket Véronique AGI 47, Félicette, a black and white female cat found on the streets of Paris, was launched into space. The non-orbital flight lasted fifteen minutes, reaching a height of 97 miles. Félicette was safely recovered after the capsule parachuted to Earth. The British press of the time dubbed her the "Astrocat".

Head rubbing, a behavior cats learn as kittens with their mother, has several motivations. It's an affectionate gesture that can also be used as a form of greeting. The cat is also marking you with his scent in a show of affiliation. It's a cat's way of marking its people and its environment.

The Abyssinian is a breed of domestic short-haired cat with a distinctive "ticked" tabby coat, in which individual hairs are banded with different colors.

All of these foods are toxic to cats in high enough quantities.

It is their short, dense coat which has been the hallmark of the Russian Blue for more than a century. The dense coat stands out from the body and you can draw patterns in the coat that will stay until you smooth them out again.