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When you find your cat glued to the window intently watching a bird, making a strange chattering noise and clicking his or her jaws oddly, your cat is merely acting on instinct. What your cat is doing is directly related to the killing bite that all cats (both domestic and wild cats) use to dispatch their prey.
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Cats have a special scent organ located in the roof of their mouth, called the Jacobson's organ. It analyzes smells - and is the reason why you will sometimes see your cat 'sneer' (called the flehmen response or flehming) when they encounter a strong odor.
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Ernest Hemingway once had some 30 cats at his home in Havana.
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Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
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93% of cat owners admit they talk to their cats.
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