On National Trivia Day I decided to share some cat trivia. Most of it’s pretty interesting:
Cats were being taken in as pets around 3100 BC in ancient Egypt.
The first cat show was held in 1895.
A cat was taken into space in 1963.
The play CATS debuted in 1982
The concept of the Crazy Cat Lady emerged in 2009
We started celebrating Happy Mew Year in 2016
There are between 30 and 100 million homeless cats in the US.
There are around 58 million pet cats in the US.
Cats can make around 100 different sounds.
The word’s oldest cat lived to be 38 years old.
Each cats nose has unique designs much like our fingerprints.
Cats came to America via the Mayflower and other ships.
A cat named Stubbs was elected mayor of Talkeetna, AK and he held that position for 20 years until his death.
