Cats

• 78% of cats never travel with their owner.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
• A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.
• Black cats are considered lucky in England.
• Cat whiskers can detect movements 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
• Cats cannot taste sweets.
• Cats have AB blood groups just like people.
• Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
• Cats, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high possibility of having six toes.
• In 1888, as estimated 300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for fertilizer.
• In 1993, there were an estimated 64 million cats in the United States.
• In four years, one female cat could be responsible for the birth of 20,736 cats.
• In the Middle Ages, during the festival of Saint John, cats were burned alive in town squares.
• Most cats have no eyelashes.
• Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.
• Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat falling of the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occuring, relax and correct itself.
• The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
• The average house cat weighs in at 11 pounds.
• The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

Dogs

• 500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris.
• A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
• A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.
• A dog's nose is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in it.
• Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.
• Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
• Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat throught the pads of their feet.
• Dalmatian dogs originate from Dalmatian coast of Croatia.
• Dog saliva is cleaner than a human saliva.
• Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
• Germany and Switzerland only have one dog for every ten families.
• Greyhound dogs have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.