Cat & Dog Trivia -

The next time you and your friends are chatting about your fur babies, enjoy the stage with your extra cat & dog knowledge here. Just when we thought we knew everything there was to know about our little friends and buddies, we learned this:

Cats have no sweat glands.
Cats can jump as much as 7 times their height.
Cats have only 4 toes on each back paw, but 5 toes on each front paw.
While dogs have only 10 vocal sounds, cats have more than 100 vocal sounds.
A pack of adult cats is called a clowder. A pack of kittens is called a kindle.
A full-grown cat can sprint at nearly 30 miles per hour and run about 12 miles per hour.
A cat’s tongue is scratchy because it is lined with small elevated backward hooks that assist the animal in holding its prey in place. Those little backwards hooks are called papillae.
A study at the University of Michigan found that a cat’s memory can last as long as 16 hours-exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.

Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of their feet. They can only expel heat by panting.
Dogs have approximately 100 different facial expressions, most are made with the ears.
Dogs have around 10 different vocal sounds.
By swiveling their ears, dogs can locate the source of a sound in 6/100^th’s of a second.
The dog was one of the first animals domesticated by humans more than 10,000 years ago.
Dogs have no appendix.
When running at full speed, most domestic dogs can reach about 19 miles per hour speeds.
There are more than 200 different dog breeds.