Cats Don't Always Land on Their Feet: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the Cat World (Total Riveting Utterly Entertaining Trivia Series)

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Every little fact cat lovers could want to know about the mysterious creatures that live in their homes is contained in this collection. For example, cats use at least a hundred different sounds to communicate and can pronounce thirteen vowel sounds and seven or eight consonant sounds; housecats typically blink twice a minute; and in ancient Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death Cover Copyright Contents A Word from the Authors One - Cats Through History Two - Notables & Top Cats Three - Catty Words Four - Ailurophiles Five - Ailurophobes Six - Cats by the Numbers Seven - Cat Curiosities Eight - Cats, fo' Show Nine - Felines, Nothing More Than Felines Ten - Your Housecat's Scary Cousins Eleven - Cats & Culture Twelve - Who Put the Cat in Communicate Thirteen - Old Cat Tales Fourteen - Catalog of Cat Parts Fifteen - Life in a Cat House Sixteen - Sex Kittens Seventeen - Playing the Cat Skills Eighteen - Good Advice Acknowledgments Selected References About the Authors To Our Readers Backcover