Cat Miscellaneous

Do cats like music? If it is soft, music won't bother your cat, but if you turn up the volume. It will surely upset him, cats don't like noises or shouts. In fact, cats have a nice developed hearing than men. Your cat can perceive sounds that you can't hear. when a paper ball drops to the floor, making a weak rustle. The cat knows exactly where to find it. He has a hearing so sharp that the can distinguished the mice footsteps above all the sounds around him.

Maybe now you have an idea of how cats must feel about noises. This is why, he will flee from the room and will disappear for a couple of hours.

Can cats really see colors? For some time, it was believed that cats could only see gray tones, however, now we know that they can be distinguished very well some colors as for example: red from green, blue from green or yellow from blue. In cats life, colors don't have very much importance. His eyes are orientated mainly through contrast's between clear and obscure. Their function similarly as the photographic camera. in sunlight, the pupils contract to the maximum and, in the dark, they dilate to perceive the smallest source of light. This way, a cat can see six times better than you.

In fact, the cat can also hear with his eyes. This have nervous terminations that transmit to the brain noises that men can no longer perceive. for it, blind cats can sometimes catch flies.

Can cats dream? Sometimes, observe your cat while sleeping. Does he move his legs or tail? do his ears tremble lightly? Then he does dream. Sometimes, he also grunts or purr's during his sleep. although , we don't know what the cats dream about. it is possible that he dreams he is catching a mouse or, maybe that he is being caressed lovingly. Cat dreams last about six minutes.

Why do cats sleep so much? A day has 24 hours. Of this, your cat sleeps about 16. However, they don't sleep those hours at once, during the day he dozes off several times a day. That a cat needs to sleep so many hours is due to its way of feeding. At hunting mice, he consumes much energy and, gets tired. the same happens with th domestic cat that plays to hunt his toy mouse.