In my usual browsing the internet for a 101 things today, I came across this neat list of fun facts for cats and dogs.
Here are some interesting tidbits I thought you might like:
Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
It has been established that people who own pets live longer, have less stress, and have fewer heart attacks.
Some 39 percent of pet owners say they have more photos of their pet than of their spouse or significant other. Only 21 percent say they have more photos of their spouse or significant other than of their pet.
A cat can jump as much as seven times its height.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
A cat will almost never meow at another cat. Cats use this sound for humans.
(I never knew this but it makes total sense from all the time I've spent with cats)Using their swiveling ears like radar dishes, experiments have shown that dogs can locate the source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second.
Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal
Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
There are way more facts where those came from.
