In honor of National Trivia Day (January 4), I thought I’d share some cat trivia—what fun! Here are a few things I found interesting. Of course, some of it we already knew, but some of it was a complete surprise to me
One such bit of trivia reveals the various 
ways a cat uses its tail. They say for balance and to express her mood. Olivia actually overuses her tail. In fact I’ve seen her reprimand it a time or two as if it actually has a mind of its own. She uses it sometimes to scold me—if she’s sitting next to me and I’m not petting her, she might slap that tail against me—slap-slap. Sometimes she pets me with her tail. Such sweet caresses.
Did you know that cats have something in common with giraffes and camels? No other animal shares this trait—they walk using both right feet, then both left feet. That’s a strange bit of trivia. Here’s another: Cats share 95.6 percent of their genome 
(DNA) with the tiger.
There are reported to be 200 feral cats living at Disneyland and 700 million estimated in the United States. Gads, that’s a sinful number, especially with all that so many individuals and organizations do in today’s world to conquer the homeless cat problem. And this huge number isn’t even offset to any degree by the number of cats in homes, cats that are loved and cared for. They number only 88 million. Good, but, sadly, not good enough.
Here’s an interesting bit of trivia that sets the cat above the dog—cats have as many as 100 different vocal tones where a dog has only 10.
Here’s the link to more such trivia if you’re as fascinated by it as I am.
https://www.foundanimals.org/cat-trivia-41-cat-facts-national-trivia-day
