16 Facts About Cats That You’ve Probably Never Heard Before

Let’s face it, out of all your friends, there’s only one person that loves cats. Most of us are dog lovers, and cats are just, whatever.That’s not to say they don’t make great house pets. We’re just saying that if there was a competition between a dog and a cat, the dog wins. But did you know there are actually a lot of interesting facts about cats?

A lot of us don’t take too much time to research on cats like we do with dogs, so there’s a lot of information out there that we don’t know about these felines. So, here are 16 facts about cats that you’ve probably never heard before.

1. A cat in Russia named Masha saved a baby’s life. It found the baby abandoned in a box outside in the winter. It went inside the box to keep it warm.

2. Did you know that at night, Disneyland employees work to keep the pest problem under control? Oh, the employees are stray cats.

3. Freddie Mercury was a huge cat lover. He’s solo album in 1985 was dedicated to his cats and “all the cat lovers across the universe, screw everyone else.”

4. The Guinness World Records have stopped awarding anything that discourages deliberate overfeeding, including the award for fattest cats.

5. Ever wonder why your cat always brings you dead animals? Well, they’re natural born hunters and they keep their keen hunting skills that their ancestors had.

6. Cats do a lot of communicating with their eyes. When they slowly blink at you or do a kind of wink, that means that they recognize you as their owner and trust you.

7. Physicist Jack Hetherington made his cat him the co-author of his paper because he accidentally wrote “we” instead of “I” throughout the paper and didn’t want to change it.

8. A lot of shelters don’t allow people to adopt black cats during the month of October, in fear that people will torture or sacrifice them on Halloween.

9. In 1879, people decided to try and get cats to deliver the mail in Belgium. It didn’t last long and wasn’t successful in the least.

10. Walter Wellman brought his cat when he and his friends tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an Airship. The first ever in-flight radio transmission was “Roy, come and get this goddamn cat.”