Fun Cat Facts

How many cat facts do you know? Test your knowledge!


Cat Fact #1
The average life-expectancy of an indoor cat is 12-16 years or longer.
A cat who lives outdoors, lives an average of 2-5 years. 

Cat Fact#2
In approximately seven years, an un-spayed female cat and one un-neutered male cat and their offspring can result in over 400,000 kittens. 

Cat Fact #3
Cats start to purr at one week old.


Cat Fact #4
Cats have 5 toes on their front paws and 4 toes on their back paws.  The exception is if the cat is polydactyl meaning they have extra toes.

Cat Fact #5
A cat uses his whiskers to determine whether or not they can fit through an opening.  (This is why you should never cut a cat's whiskers.)

Cat Fact#6
Cats step with  both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run.  They only other animal to do this are the giraffe and the camel.  

Cat Fact #7
The rigid pattern on a cat's nose pad is as individual as a human fingerprint.

Cat Fact #8
A cat has 12 whiskers on each side of it's face.

Cat Fact #9
A cat can easily jump up to 5 times its own height in a single bound, and still lands gracefully.

Cat Fact #10
There are more than 500 million domestic cats in the world, and the number is growing fast.