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January 22 has been designated National Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day, giving you an opportunity to work out what your cat wants to know. Come along with Tidbits as we answer your questions about cats!

CAT FACTS • Attab was a Moslem general and contemporary of Mohammed who had a city named after him: Attabieh. Attabieh became a sector in Bagdad famous for its richly colored striped silk cloth, also called attabieh. The word was passed into other languages as ‘attabi’ and came into English as ‘tabby.’ Cats with striped coats similar to striped silk became known as tabby cats.

• A male cat is called a tom cat because of a popular story published in 1760 called “The Life and Adventures of a Cat.” The hero of the story was named Tom. • The word for cat in the ancient Egyptian language was ‘miu’ and in Chinese it's ‘mao.’ In Arabic it's ‘qittah’ which is very similar to the English kitty. In German it's ‘kata’; in French ‘chat’; in Polish ‘kot’; and in Spanish ‘gato.’

• A single pair of breeding cats, assuming all offspring survive, can produce 65,536 cats in five years.

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• There are 41 breeds of pedigree cats recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association. Breeds of the domestic dog differ greatly in size, form, and shape. But in the domestic cat family, there is no equivalent of the Great Dane or dachshund. The smallest full grown cat weighs three pounds; the largest about 18 pounds, for a differing factor of six. However, a St. Bernard can weigh 300 times as much as a Yorkshire terrier.

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9. What is Kramer’s first name in 4. Do cats see in color or black the TV sitcom “Seinfeld”? and white?

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Whiskers also help a cat maneuver in the dark.

Cats living in dark environments such as cellars grow longer whiskers than cats living in the light. A cat has an average of 24 whiskers, twelve on each side.

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• The claws of a cat are the sharpest and most hooked of all mammal claws. A cat must scratch at things such as furniture, trees, or scratching posts not to "sharpen" its claws, but to remove the old sheaths that cover the claws.

A cat also scratches because there are scent glands on the underside of the footpads, so scratching is also a method of marking its territory. A cat without claws is not only psychologically damaged but is also unable ever again to climb, hunt, or defend itself.

• Cats can jump ten times the length of their bodies. When dropped upside-down from a height of only ten inches, a cat can right itself in mid-fall and land on its feet.

CAT HABITS • Cats trample your lap with their paws because when they were kittens drinking milk from their mother, that action stimulated the flow of the milk.

• A cat rubs its head against things to mark them with its scent. Cats have scent glands in their forehead and around their mouths.

• Not all cats bury their poop. In a study of feral cats, it was found that the dominant tom cat in the area will leave his poop unburied in a very prominent spot where every cat in the neighborhood will be aware of it.

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The scent immediately begins to wear off. A cat prefers to return to its marking posts frequently to see if anybody else has been there, and to renew its scent. That is why a cat perpetually wants to go outside, then comes in again, only to want out once more.

• Cats will typically sleep 16 hours out of every 24. That means that a nine-year-old cat has only been awake for a total of three years.

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• Cats in the wild will normally kill prey immediately with a single bite. But domestic cats that don't do much hunting may consider the capture of prey a momentous occasion and will prolong the experience as long as possible. This could explain why they play with their prey before killing it.

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• One study attempted to discover if farm cats would catch more mice if they were not fed anything besides what they caught. The results were inconclusive because cats fed extra food stayed at that farm, but cats that were never fed moved to other farms where they could get better hand-outs.

• Cats can't see in total darkness, but they can see in a lot less light than humans. One researcher performed an experiment in which cats were taught there was a treat hidden behind a lighted doorway, but no treat was behind the unlighted doorway. He then gradually reduced the amount of light. He found that cats were still able to distinguish the lighted doorway even when it looked dark to humans. Cats consistently chose the correct door even when there was only onesixth of the amount of light needed for humans to distinguish it.

• Cats and monkeys were both used in an experiment in which they were presented with two boxes. One box had a buzzer buzzing or a bell ringing, and the other did not. The treat was in the box making noise. It took the monkeys an average of 437 trials to learn the rules of the game and figure out where the treat was hidden.

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• It was 20th-century British journalist, travel writer and literary critic Dame Rebecca West who made the following sage observation: "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

• The infamous Ouija board may be surrounded by controversy, but the origin of its name is not mysterious; the creators simply combined the French word for "yes" -- "oui" -- with the German affirmative -- "ja."

• Everybody is afraid of something, right? And whatever the fear, there's doubtless a name for it. For example, erythrophones are afraid of blushing, peccatophobes are afraid of sinning, and aichmophobes are afraid of needles.

If you're afraid of going insane, you're lyssophobic; if it's disease that frightens you, you're nosophobic; cremnophobia is a fear or precipices. There's even a word to describe the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth: arachibutyrophobia. And finally, you may at this point be suffering from sesquipedalophobia -- the fear of long words.

• Located in the Sierras at 8,000 feet above sea level, the town of Bodie was once the secondbiggest city in California. These days, it's deserted for most of the year, but every summer more than 200,000 people travel to the upper altitudes just to see the slowly decaying town, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the ghosts that reputedly inhabit every crumbling building that remains.

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• Dalmation puppies are born all white. Their spots arrive later.

• Whereas humans have four different blood types, there are eight different blood types among dogs.

• Dogs do not have an appendix.

• Tallest breed: Irish wolfhound (31 inches at the shoulder). Smallest: Chihuahua (6 inches at the shoulder). Heaviest: St. Bernards, mastiffs (up to 200 lb.). Fastest: Greyhound, whippet (45 mph).

• The American Kennel Club recognizes 184 dog breeds in the United States. They are split into seven types: toy / hound / herding / sporting / non-sporting / working / terrier.

• The most popular breed in the U.S. and Britain is the Labrador retriever.

• The smartest breeds are generally thought to be border collies, golden retrievers, Labradors, poodles, Doberman pinschers, and German shepherds.

• Less intelligent breeds include Afghan hounds, chows, and Chihuahuas • Longest ears: basset hounds.

• The phrase “man’s best friend” may have originated from a courtroom speech in Missouri in 1870 when a farmer sued a neighbor who shot his dog.

• The most common command is ‘sit.’

• It costs about $1,500 per year to maintain a dog.

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• The chow is the only breed with a black tongue instead of a pink tongue. However, chow puppies are born with pink tongues that turn black after a few months.

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• Dogs can hear both higher and lower on the frequency spectrum than humans can. They can also pinpoint sound direction faster, and can hear sounds that are four times as far away as what humans can hear. Dogs with upright ears have better hearing than dogs with droopy ears. Droopy ears were bred into dogs in order to protect their ear canals from grass seeds and bugs when running through brush.

• A dog’s acute sense of smell is 10,000 to 100,000 times sharper than a human’s. The part of the brain devoted to processing scent is four times larger in a dog’s brain than in a human’s. People have 5 million scent-detecting cells, but dogs have 220 million. They can detect bladder cancer in a urine sample, and detect a chemical odor change in a person who is about to suffer a seizure.

• Why is a dog’s nose wet? It’s covered by a thin layer of mucus that helps them absorb scent. They then lick their noses to sample the scent through their mouth.

• Although dogs have a better sense of smell and hearing than humans, their sense of taste is awful. They only have 1,700 taste buds whereas humans have 9,000.

Cats come in last with only 473. This helps explain why dogs so willingly eat garbage: ‘smells interesting, can’t taste it.’

• The myth that dogs see only in black and white has been disproved. They can see some colors such as blue and yellow but tend to have the same sort of red-green colorblindness that some humans have. Dogs have better night vision than humans.

• The breeds that bark the most are beagle and border collie.

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• On Jan. 26, 1500, Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon, who had commanded the Nina during Christopher Columbus' first expedition to the New World, sights the coast of Brazil during a voyage under his command, the first European explorer to do so.

• On Jan. 25, 1759, Scottish poet Robert Burns is born. The day is still celebrated by Burns fans with high-spirited "Robert Burns Night" feasts, featuring haggis and other Scottish delicacies, as well as enthusiastic drinking, toasting and speechmaking.

• On Jan. 29, 1936, in Cooperstown, New York, the Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

Today it has elected 278 individuals, including 225 players, 17 managers, eight umpires and 28 executives and pioneers.

• On Jan. 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi, the world's chief advocate of non-violence, is assassinated in New Delhi, India. Assassin Nathuram Godse was hanged in 1949 against the wishes of Gandhi's sons, who argued that the execution stood against everything Gandhi believed in.

• On Jan. 31, 1950, President Harry Truman publicly announces his decision to support development of the hydrogen bomb. The discovery of a Soviet spy in the U.S. nuclear program forced Truman to approve massive funding to build the world's first "superbomb."

• On Jan. 27, 1965, the Shelby Mustang GT 350 is launched. The Shelby, a Mustang modified for racing, featured a 306 horsepower V-8 engine and today is a valuable collector car.

• On Jan. 28, 1973, a cease-fire goes into effect in Saigon, Vietnam, but military operations quickly resumed after each side claimed the other had violated the truce. What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations, averaging 2,980 combat incidents per month. © 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE The Nine Lives cat food mascot, a cat named Morris, was so popular that a full-time secretary was hired to answer his fan mail and mail out 8x10 glossy photos autographed with his paw print.

He was greeted on the Mike Douglas talk show with a standing ovation, and his life story, entitled "Morris: An Intimate Biography" was published in 1975. He was widely mourned when he died at the age of 17 in 1978.

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• I was painting recently and had a half-can left over when I was done.

To preserve the paint, I cut out a circle of wax paper and laid it directly on the surface of the paint, then sealed the can properly. This keeps a layer of scum from forming. Just remember to remove it before you shake or stir the paint when you need to touch up. — C.L. in Rhode Island • Save the plastic lids from coffee cans to use as coasters for your plants.

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• “Brown your pork or beef before putting it in the slow cooker. It leaves a nice finish on the meat, and flavor too. The extra pan to clean and the couple of minutes it takes are really worth it.” — P.E. in Nebraska • Trying to cut calories? Here’s a flavorful and low-fat solution: saute both meat and vegetables in broth. It will do the job of an oil in keeping the food from burning, but it will do so with no fat and add a rich flavor and dimension to your dinner.

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