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It's pretty tough ticket to get 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.320 if you're a listener, sir, you can come to our show. Yeah, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:58.720 oh yeah, totally, even though it conflicts with the Hamilton's performance. Yeah, 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.120 that's what I said. So, like we said, s Y 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.520 s a live dot com power by squarespace, where you 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.360 can find all the tour deeds. We'll see you soon 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.839 in Brooklyn. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:20.359 Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:26.760 I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and Jerry's 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.560 over there, and this is stuff you should know. The 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.280 podcast the annoying podcast apparently the what the annoying podcast? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:43.000 Cat Me Owning is annoying. Oh, it's like there's rusty 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.480 nails in my blood vessels. You don't like cats, do 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.320 you know? I'm just kidding out climate cat um. I 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.280 think people are like our heart cuts. Or conversely, people 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.160 are likerry dogs. I think those people are weird maybe 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.040 not humans. Yeah, I mean I get the preference. I 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.240 have both, as you know, and as everyone knows. Two dogs, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.120 two cats, and I'm gonna be talking about my cats 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.240 a lot. So Lauran and the Whiz the wizard yet 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.840 I call him the Whiz. It's my pet name for him. No, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.320 we call him the Whiz or wizzled with an L. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.840 I haven't reached the point where I'm he's comfortable with 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.440 me calling him that. Oh, sure he is. Well, we 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.000 have tons of nicknames, like everyone does for their pets. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.360 I even made a list one time. You made a 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.160 list of pet nicknames for our pets, just so we 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.760 had them all down. Do you have that on your 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.680 refrigerator or something. Let's just have a tattooed on your 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.920 arms on the old hard drive on the laptop. What 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.280 were you drinking when you did this? Uh? Milk? By 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.200 the way, let me just say I now to have 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.000 tried the Crown Royal Northern rye. Would you think it 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.160 is the bomb? It is very good? Yeah, mind's gone? 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:00.160 Is it really? Yeah? Yeah, mine's getting there. I'm not surprised. Um. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.080 All right, let's get into this. And if you don't 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.520 like hearing cat stories for me, then this might not 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.560 be the show for you. Yes, you're ready. I'm ready. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:18.520 C A T cat is defined. So let's talk history 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.120 with cats. That's where we usually like to start. It's good, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.159 feels normal. Um. For a very long time, everybody thought 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.720 egypt were was the culture, the group of humans that 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:32.520 domesticated cats. Although if you've listened to our Animal Domestication episode, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.359 you probably had your mind blown a little bit or 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:40.640 your suspicions confirmed that cats are not technically domesticated animals. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:46.440 Yeah there's they're technically a feral species still, but some 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.480 of them will deign to hang out with humans, you know, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.480 for the most part, though, they're not strictly a domesticated animal. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.960 That's just semantic. So at this point, what I'm saying 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.239 is that everybody thought that the Egyptians were the first 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.960 to quote unquote domesticate cats. Yeah, and you know, we 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.080 think that for good reasons, because Egyptians love their cats. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.200 They were worshiped, they were mummified. If you look at 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.240 Egyptian artwork, there's cats all over the place. There was 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.719 a cat deity named Bustatt. Yeah, that was the cat 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.640 headed deity. That'd be a great cat name, and apparently 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.039 like the cult, Oh yeah, it really would be like 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.800 modern cat name. And speaking of modern cat names, we 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.240 found out that, um, the Egyptians may have been the 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.960 first to really revere cats, but they were far from 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.279 the first humans to live with cats. The Egyptians what 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.400 they went back to three four thousand years maybe five 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.919 thousand tops. We found evidence that in the Fertile Crescent 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.880 something like twelve or so thousand years ago, when people 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:51.000 first started toying around with agriculture, they started storing the 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.440 grain that they harvested from agriculture, and the cats said, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.799 I like these piles of grain that are attracting rodents. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.440 I don't need to be a fierce wild animal anymore. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.800 I'm just gonna hang out where these peeps are. Yeah, 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.120 and they they formed what can only be described as 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.080 a symbiotic relationship with humans because humans, all of a sudden, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.480 we're like, these crazy cats are doing us a kindness, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.200 and so in turn, maybe we should start feeding them. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.400 Is that a reference for to the trivia night? No, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:25.920 what was the kindness of group of Oh remember therets? 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.279 I think it might have been. I can't remember, but 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.640 it is no business affarets A business affairts a kindness 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.320 I can't remember. I can't either, But that's a fascinating 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.039 topic though, the groups of animals and their names. I'm 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:43.280 sorry for interrupting. Uh. So they said, Hey, they're doing 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.800 us a kindness. I'm gonna start feeding them. Maybe they'll 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.080 hang around more. And hey, maybe uh, when we go 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.760 on a ship. We've got a lot of mice and 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.680 rat problems on ships. Maybe we should put them on 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.840 our ships too, because they're great mouser's And before you 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.800 know it, cats were all over the world doing countenances 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.960 to humans my life, killing rodents. But like you said, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.240 it was symbiotic, Like we're the ones who piled up 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 the grains at the first place. You know, they owed us. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.800 But the point is that our history with cats goes 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:19.960 back far, far farther then, uh, just ancient Egypt. And 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.760 you so, like I said, speaking of great cat names, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.400 you said Bestat would be a good one. Agreed, But um, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.360 I found that all cats are descended from the African wildcat. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.520 It turns out, and the African wildcat is uh Felix 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.640 Sylvestris Libika, which means Felix the cat and Sylvester the 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.800 cat both were very appropriately named cats. I wanted to 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.040 know that. Well. I wonder if that's where they got it. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.160 I bet surely you think can't be that coincidental. Felix 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.480 has say for sure, Sylvester I might be sure about 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.080 that too. Yeah, I think you're right on the money. Boom. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.920 You should have looked it up. I bet that you 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.040 could find that out pretty easy. I'm so comm but 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.520 I didn't even need to look it up. I'm not 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.080 gonna waste the finger motion. Uh So they found cats 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.200 and burial sites on Cyprus, which is an island, which 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.920 means people brought him there. Cats didn't swim to Cyprus 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.280 hate swimming for the most part. Yes. Uh. And then 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.520 as you said, that symbiotic relationship was carried on all 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.880 the way into the New World, because nothing much happened 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.240 from you know, the time of the Fertile Crescent until 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:30.680 the New World. Yeah, like nothing, right, But um, the 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.920 cats made their way over apparently as early as Columbus's 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:40.040 voyages to the America's or the Caribbean, I should say supposedly. Uh, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.800 the kiddies wrote on the Mayflower and settle at Jamestown. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.520 And there's a false uh. Remember we did a show 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.920 on Isaac Newton. Um, there is a false legend that 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.400 he created the kitty door. Oh it's not true. Huh. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.320 It's not true because it was actually written about in 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.760 the Canterbury Tales, specifically in the Miller's Tale, and there 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:05.880 are actual images of fifteenth century doors in France with 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.880 what they called cat holes. It makes sense. I mean 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.000 that the flap like just cut a hole in that 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:12.480 door so the cat can go in and out. And 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.560 the reason why they thought about this so early when 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.880 they started building doors, I'm guessing that they started building 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.160 cat doors in those doors pretty quickly after that, because 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:27.320 the idea of keeping a cat indoors only is extremely new, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.600 like we're talking like the last sixties seventy years maybe. Um. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.360 Prior to that, uh, it was you had a cat 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.120 that wandered freely inside or outside the house or just 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.360 stayed outside all together. And it took the invention of 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:46.040 m clay kitty litter, h refrigeration so you can refrigerate 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.680 meat more easily, so you have more surplus of meat 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.440 that you could share with an indoor cat. And then 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.439 spaying and new during apparently were the three advancements that 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.240 allowed cats to be kept indoors. Cats, believe it or not, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.240 worked for the United States Postal Service as late as 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.960 the early twentie century. Uh. They were used as mousers, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:12.800 of course, mouser's Mouser's neither one, Mauser's lieutenant Mauser's uh. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.080 And then at one point they they said, you know what, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.120 We're gonna actually hire cats in the form of giving 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.320 these post offices an allotment for food. And the cats 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:28.960 immediately went on strike. Oh teaser for the next episode. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.880 But they were they were actually used by the us 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.880 PS and um technically paid in food. That's great. Yeah, 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.679 in their warehouses, I guess, and they're in their postal warehouses. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.400 So h you mentioned the kitty letter being a big invention. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.080 It was invented by a man named Ed Lowe. I 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.079 think he was a Minnesotan but ended up in Michigan. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.720 Uh in seven is neighbor. You know people use things 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.679 like ashes and sand. Yeah, saw the newspaper. Yeah, if 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.520 you wanted to keep your cat inside. And as neighbor 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.400 came by in and said, hey, my sand is frozen 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.760 because I'm in Michigan's and cold. It has to be 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.040 for your stand to freeze pretty cold, I guess. Uh 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:15.600 So he said, you know what, I got this full 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.800 Owner's earth clay. Why don't you use that? And it 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.640 works so well. He packaged it and sold it as 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.440 a kitty litter. That was right. Originally was kitty litter, right, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.920 And it was just kiln dried clay. That's it, right, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.640 broken into small pieces, I think. So, I mean yeah, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.200 Fuller's Earth style, and um, he started giving it away 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.959 at first, and like you know, you had to really 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.320 educate the populace at this point. And that's just the populace, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.360 the pet owner, pet store owners, that one wants this, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.120 and he apparently told one pets are owner, just give 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.640 it away when somebody comes in and they want kittie later, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.480 give them this for free. And uh, apparently that little 0:11:55.480 --> 0:12:00.000 marketing technique worked very well. Same with the slinky. Oh yeah, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.240 what did they give it? Awave him away for free? No, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.040 there's some other like the inventor himself demonstrated him. That's 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.320 what it was at K. A. O. Schwartz, which is 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.320 what ed Loo did. And and pet store owners said, wait, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.200 you're saying I should keep my cat indoors where it 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.000 can poop and p Yeah, here's a box. Put in 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.400 this box. But apparently they were already doing that somewhat 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.840 because people were using sawdust and stuff or frozen sand. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.800 But it wasn't the norm like you said. Um, and 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.760 then spaying and neuter ring, of course, is what you mentioned. Uh. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.560 If you've ever had a cat that goes into heat 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.199 because you did not spare neuter and that cat is 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.000 an indoor cat, you're in for trouble. Oh yeah, like 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.600 your drapes are toast well, I mean they're just gonna 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.040 be spraying, which we'll get too later. H the when 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.559 I was in I have a story I wish I 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.520 could tell in full for my college days. But I 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.160 can't um, but needless to say, I was a young, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.319 dumb college student and didn't I wasn't educated on spaining uttering, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.640 and I had a cat going to heat. It's no 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.840 fun there. They go crazy and they're allowed and they 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.400 want nothing more than to get outside and have the sex. Yeah, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.040 so we'll just stop the story there. Boy, is it 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.080 a good one. Do you know how many people are 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.960 going to write in asking like just tell me, just me, 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.840 I'm special, I won't judge you. So that is the 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.720 long storied history of cats. Yes, and uh I talked 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.679 to Holly from Stuff You miss in History class for 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.800 this self proclaimed crazy cat lady. Yeah, she and Tracy 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.200 are very much both in the cats, and they did 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.720 a show on the history of cats, which I bet 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.160 is very much more in depth than what we discovered. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.200 So I would certainly hope still go check that out. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.199 Did an eleven minutes show on cats, on the history 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.280 of cat. I'm sure it was very detailed, so I 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.440 would suggest listening to that for even more inside. So 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.840 let's talk cat anatomy. Right, when you look at a cat, 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.760 usually think, well, it's basically the same thing as a dog. No, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.400 that's not true. There's a lot of different differences between 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.960 cats and dogs. Cats, for example, have about twoty four 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.280 bones bones. Twenty seven of them are in their tail, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.320 which is very lucky because cats use their tail to 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.680 do amazing things like balance and to turn over when 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.440 they're falling, which is that with the tail helps with 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.000 it's part of it. Which is a legend that a 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.880 cat always lands on its feet, supposedly, which gave rise 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:33.560 to the idea that cat has nine lives. Um, But no, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.040 cats can also not land on their feet sometimes. Yeah. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.600 They how about We'll say this, Cats really really want 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.480 to land on their feet and try their hardest to 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:46.000 and do most of the time. Yeah, which is good. Uh. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.120 They the tail also helps them get in and out 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.920 of tight spaces. Uh. And the cat is notable for 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.600 not having a collar bone. Um, it's a detached clavicle. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.920 So when you see a cat walk, whether it's a 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.480 a puma or a kid cat, um, you see there 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.680 those you know, those shoulder blades movies and rhythm with 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.960 the legs, and that's I think. One of my favorite 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:14.800 things about cats is that jaguar looks like your house cat. Yeah, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.320 like same behaviors, same they do the same things. Well, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.320 if you go and look at an African wildcat, what 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.920 all cat the last common ancestor of all house cats, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:31.000 all domestic cats. Um, they look like a large tabby cat, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.520 same kind of coloring, same features, same everything. So they 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:39.200 clearly haven't diverged that much from their lineage, you know. Yeah. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.000 And also would probably be in big trouble on a 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.320 safari because when I look at those big cats, I think, man, 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.640 they would just let me in there to get you know, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.440 get them around the mouth and get a little scratch 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.800 going like they would just they'd love me. You're the 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.960 kind of guy that they find like dead and Maldan 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.640 a zoo enclosure in the morning when they open up. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.680 I just wanted to pet it. Uh happened Sometimes what 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.240 people want to pet the animals, so they go in yeah, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.840 get yeah, take drugs or get wasted and go hang 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.320 out in zoos after hours. Like the guy who was 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.480 killed by Tillicum the Orca. Yeah, one of the guys 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.560 who was killed by Tillica. Yeah, he like took off 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.960 his clothes and tried to ride till it come and 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.320 that did not work out. Well, Tim said, get off 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:27.720 me with great force. She said, come here, you who 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.800 thought we were going to talk about a killer whale 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.320 in the cat episode? I don't know. You never know. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:38.120 So back to cat anatomy, chuckers, Um, let's talk cat hair. Yes, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.760 cats have four kinds of hair. Yeah, most people probably 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.680 thought you were gonna say three, or maybe even one 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:50.320 or two. That's true. Uh, down hair on a w 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:55.400 N hair, guard hair, and the brussee yeah, a k 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.040 A whiskers, but your kind of hair. Yep. So the 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.400 down hair is the closest to their body and it 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.760 keeps them warm. And the next you have on, which 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.440 is the middle coat and it's kind of an insulating coat. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.919 Then you have the guard hair, which is what you 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.480 think everything is on a cat, what you see, and 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.320 it protects the lower coats, it keeps it dry and 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:21.639 all that stuff. Um, and the brissa those are the whiskers, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:27.240 and they're actually just amazing feats of biology. The briss 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.640 cat whiskers are UM. Cats use them to sense movement 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.360 and everything from like the ground or a door jam, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.640 or even changes in air pressure around them. They're extremely 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:44.920 sensitive touch um appendages basically, Yeah, so they'll you mentioned 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.439 the air pressure that helps them navigate at night. So 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.639 a cat can be running through your living room and 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.720 come upon your couch and literally since the air coming 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.240 around the couch. And no, don't run into the couch 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.159 like the dumb dog does every day. Yeah, because the 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.000 dog has whiskers too, but they're not feeding them the 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.679 same information that the cat's whiskers are. The whiskers do 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.760 fall out and are replace You should never ever ever 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.320 trim or cut or pull whiskers. No, and you should 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.480 spank a child that does. And what let the cat 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:26.360 watch there may be a time out, okay. Uh. They 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.560 also indicate mood. If the cat's whiskers are pulled back, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.360 it probably means they're upset or angry or they want 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.280 to scrap. Uh. If they're just puffed out normally, that 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.879 means they're pretty happy. And they're roughly the width of 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.560 the cat's body. So the cats will use these. Um, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.320 if you've ever seen a cat like, let's say there's 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.960 a cat hole in your door, or they want to 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.000 go behind the couch, they'll stick their head in first 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.840 and say can I get through this with my big 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.800 fat body right? Or my whiskers tingling? And the way 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.560 that their fat bodies can get through though two is 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.600 um because of that detached the detached shoulders that you 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.440 mentioned earlier too, that's right, that's how they can basically 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:12.480 go from um horizontal too. That's when they angle them 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.040 almost at a ninety degree angle to where they were 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.680 standing or where their head is. They can go through 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.560 some pretty tight spots, they can, Yeah, And they can 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:27.000 also get caught and wedged and trapped in tight spots sometimes, yeah, 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:28.960 which is no good. The Wizard got out one time 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.199 and got in the attic and we couldn't find him, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.560 and it was very scary, and uh, I went up. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.560 We finally looked in the attic and it was in 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.560 the summer, and he was kind of trapped and wedged 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.280 in between like this wood and and he was like 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.080 panting the attic in the summer, and is not a 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.560 place you want to be very when you're trapped. How 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.040 long is he gone for? Not that long? I mean, wait, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.960 don't answer, that's a cliffhanger. We'll answer that right after 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:25.879 these messages, So chuck, Yeah, how long was the Wizard 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.560 gone for? Seven days and seven nights. That's a long time. Now, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.240 it was just a few hours, I think, but it 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.479 was so hot that it was. Yeah, we felt like, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.920 you know, bad very bad parents. Yeah, I mean he 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.440 got into mischief. Well yeah he got the tape him 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:46.080 to the fridge. Curiosity almost killed my cat. Jerry laughed 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.360 at that. She's listening. Uh, cats paws, We're not done 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.639 with anatomy because cats paws are pretty remarkable. Uh. They 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.120 unlike dogs that can turn their paws, they can make 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:02.680 a little fists and flex yeah more than a dog can. Uh. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.119 And they are obviously great for climbing things, um, and 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:12.359 for self grooming, heat detection, temperature regulation, killing mice and 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.280 moles and chipmunks, and bring him to the doorstep saying 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.520 look what I did. Check this out. I'm a good kiddie. 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:23.199 I strangled it with my paws that are offendable. Uh. 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.240 And um, the claws are obviously not always out. Um. 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.680 They are there, retracted back in and they use them 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.800 as needed. So you found some really, um, really interesting 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.600 article from the Humane Society of the US on cat 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:44.040 claws that I could almost not make it through. I 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.280 was cringing so much. Yeah it was really rough man. So, um, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.760 you said that a cat the cat's claws are retractable, right. Um, 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.000 So the claws go back into the skin sheath and 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.520 they come out when they're ready for some action. Um. 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.160 And to de claw cat is not to just clip 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:07.720 the clause because just like human's fingernails, they grow, which 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.800 is one reason why cats scratch, which is to basically 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.640 file down their what amounts of their fingernails their claws. Um. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:16.680 And the fact that they do this on the couch 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:18.960 is what leads some people to get them de claus 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.280 So you can see this vicious cycle coming up right. Well, 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.000 declawing a cat is way more than clipping it's toenails. 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.720 It's nothing like that. It's more akin to, as this 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.760 article puts it, cutting off humans fingers at the first 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.280 knuckle at the last, not the one the knuckle closest 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.040 to the end of the finger. Yeah. We try not 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.600 to get too opinionated, but I've always preached don't declaw 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.879 it's uh. I think it's cruel. The cats need their 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.719 claws for a variety of reasons. Um, there's no medical 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.399 benefit to declawing a cat. It is purely for humans 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.439 who don't want to take the time to train their 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.879 cat to not scratch their couch. Yeah, and the humans, 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:03.520 it makes the point that the average person can easily 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:08.200 train their cat to scratch different places. Um. They suggest 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.000 things like make sure your cat has a number of 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:16.040 different scratching posts from different types of materials in different 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:20.320 positions like vertical and horizontal, um, and put them near 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:23.159 the things uh that they scratch, like if they scratch 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.040 the arm of the couch, put a post near there. 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:30.000 And you know, cats respond to know and just like 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.160 dogs do. Right, you tell a cat no, and then 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:36.680 you rub some catnip on the scratching post and they'll say, well, 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.080 that's wonderful. That's what they say. They have the stuff. 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:42.840 I think instead the cats not saying well that's wonderful, 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:46.160 they're saying, you win this round, and they're biding their time, 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.000 is what they're really doing. There are these clear sticky 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:52.560 tapes you can put on your furniture that they don't like, 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.960