The Cat who saved a drowning Lamb

In October 2003, a cat saved a lamb from drowning in a swimming pool in Icomb, Gloucestershire. The lamb had strayed from a nearby field and fallen into the pool, but because pools are steep-sided, it couldn't escape and was in danger of becoming exhausted as it struggled to escape. Black-and-white "Puss Puss" meowed and dashed back and forth to the pool to alert her owners to the problem.

Puss Puss had accompanied gardeners Adrian Bunton and Karen Lewis while they worked on a private garden in Icomb. Puss Puss's persistent meowing, told them something was wrong.

Puss Puss was very agitated, meowing, calling and crying and generally being an utter pest. She dashed back and forward between them and the pool until they got the hint and rescued the lamb.

Worlds Smallest Cat The most recent smallest cat on record is Mr Peebles. Verified by Guinness, the domestic short hair resides in Pekin, Illinois. He is only 6.1 inches tall and 19.2 inches long and weighs 3-pounds. He is full size, and fully grown.

Cats are the only four-footed animal, with the exception of camels and giraffes, that walk by moving their front and hind legs first on one side and then the other. Only four cats really roar: lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars.

The top two rows of a cat's whiskers can move independently of the lower two rows. This allows maximum perception of the cat's immediate surroundings.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

The lightness of a feline's tread can be attributed to the fact that they walk on their toes--the soles of their feet rarely touch the ground. The pillow-like balls of their paws allow them to prowl noiselessly in the wild.

Domestic cats spend about 70% of their day sleeping and 15% of the day grooming. Non-pedigree cats generally live longer than pedigree cats. Cats were domesticated about 3,000 B.C. in Egypt.

With powerful leg muscles especially in their hind legs, the domestic cat has been known to reach running speeds of up to twenty-five miles an hour. A frightened cat can run up to 30 mph -- while the fastest human can only run up to 27.89 mph.

A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

The cat’s skeleton is quite close to that of the human, but it’s lack of a shoulder blade allows freedom of movement of the foreleg, which can be turned in almost any direction and a cat also has around 290 bones and 517 separate muscles.

A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

Cats outnumber dogs by millions as house pets. In the US alone, there are about sixty million. In the US, thirty seven percent of houses have at least one pet cat. In the UK, about twenty five percent of houses have at least one pet cat. In Australia, twenty six percent of houses have at least one pet cat. There are about five hundred million pet cats in the world

The earliest ancestor of the cat was the miacis, which lived over fifty five million years ago. The miacis had a long body and tail, short legs and looked somewhat like a weasel. The ancestor of all domestic cats is African wild cat. All domestic cats are members of same species, Felis Catus.

A cat can run about 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.

Cats are one of the oldest mammals on the earth.

African wild cats were found in fossil form as early as thirty eight million years ago. The average life span of a cat is twelve years, this can vary with health, diet and breed.