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*Curl Up Move: The cat curls up, waiting for the dog to come. As soon as the dog is close, the cat is ready and starts shredding the dog up, scraping the dog with his/her feet, tearing the dog up with his/her front claws, also biting with the mouth and hissing. | *Curl Up Move: The cat curls up, waiting for the dog to come. As soon as the dog is close, the cat is ready and starts shredding the dog up, scraping the dog with his/her feet, tearing the dog up with his/her front claws, also biting with the mouth and hissing. | ||
*Combo Scratch: The cat jumps from the fence onto the dog, and starts using his/her claws to rip up the dog. | *Combo Scratch: The cat jumps from the fence onto the dog, and starts using his/her claws to rip up the dog. | ||
| − | *The Painful Move: The cat gets out his/her claws, leaps at the dog's face from some object like a fence, and claws the dog up. People think that bigger creatures are ALWAYS better, but it's not true. | + | *The Painful Move: The cat gets out his/her claws, leaps at the dog's face from some object like a fence, and claws the dog up. People think that bigger creatures are ALWAYS better, but it's not true. [[:citation needed]] |
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== Breeds == | == Breeds == | ||
Revision as of 18:18, August 6, 2008
| Cat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom Information | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum Information | |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Sub-phylum | Vertebrata |
| Class Information | |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Order Information | |
| Order | Carnivora |
| Family Information | |
| Family | Felidae |
| Genus Information | |
| Genus | Felis |
| Species Information | |
| Species | F. silvestris |
| Subspecies | F. s. catus (Domesticated cat) |
| Population statistics | |
Cats are a group of carnivorous mammals with sharp teeth and retractable claws (except in the case of the cheetah) on their paws, originally distributed worldwide apart from Australasia, Madagascar and Antarctica. Several of the larger kinds of cat can be dangerous to humans.
The domestic cat, believed to derive from the African wildcat, has been used to control vermin or kept as a pet for thousands of years, and worshipped as a god by the ancient Egyptians, amongst others. Today the domestic cat remains extremely popular as a pet; there are an estimated 76 million pet cats in the United States.
Species of cat include the lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, puma, ocelot, lynx, caracal, serval and many smaller breeds.
Overview
Cats are known as the definitive pet. Cleans itself, knows how to catch their food. Probably gave humans the idea for a "vaccum." Is intelligent and curious. Likes to lay around a lot, sort of like a couch potato.
Can get annoyed if you stroke him/her too much. Cats can attack dogs, and cats are faster than dogs. Cats are the best hunters, no wonder, they have the best sense of smell, sight and hearing ever, and are really silent. They can run very fast, and if there was a dog after them, cats can do things dogs can't. A cat can climb trees, whereas dogs don't have claws that sharp. Cats know how to escape dogs, and sometimes even scare them off. To escape, they just walk on the fences, climb the trees until they are at their catflap. The dog is probably in the way, so the cat launches himself/herself off the fence, jumps onto the dog, and into the catflap. Mine does anyway. To scare them off, cats have very sharp 'fangs', and their claws beat all! Cats have special moves in attacks, not just the boring old scratching and biting.
- Curl Up Move: The cat curls up, waiting for the dog to come. As soon as the dog is close, the cat is ready and starts shredding the dog up, scraping the dog with his/her feet, tearing the dog up with his/her front claws, also biting with the mouth and hissing.
- Combo Scratch: The cat jumps from the fence onto the dog, and starts using his/her claws to rip up the dog.
- The Painful Move: The cat gets out his/her claws, leaps at the dog's face from some object like a fence, and claws the dog up. People think that bigger creatures are ALWAYS better, but it's not true. citation needed
Breeds
There are over 50 cat breeds, among them the Abyssinian, the American Bobtail, the American Shorthair, the Balinese, the British Shorthair, the Burmese, the Cornish Rex, the Egyptian Mau, the Manx, the Nebelung, Norwegian Forest Cat, the Persian, the Russian Blue, the Siamese and the Turkish Angora.