Five Fun Cat Facts

1- Female cats tend to be right-pawed, while male cats tend to be left-pawed.

2- A house cat's top speed on land is 39 mph (or 49 km/h).



3- Most cats are actually lactose intolerant, and drinking milk gives them upset tummies.




4- Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door for his cat named Spithead.

5- Over 30% of households in North America own at least one cat.


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Cat Paw photo by cloudzilla (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cloudzilla/391395459/) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons