{"id":1201,"date":"2015-06-05T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petcarefacts.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2015-06-05T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T16:30:09","slug":"10-conversation-starters-about-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/history-and-society\/10-conversation-starters-about-cats","title":{"rendered":"10 Conversation Starters About Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever met someone and been at a complete loss at what to say?\u00a0 Beyond the whole \u201cHi, my name is\u2026\u201d intro, it can be tricky to find interesting topics of conversation with a stranger. Why not put a spin on things, and talk about animals?\u00a0 You could start with \u201cJust to be clear, I am NOT a crazy cat-lady\u2026. But I did just learn a few interesting things about felines, that I bet you\u2019ve never heard.\u201d Launch into a battle of wits, and see who knows more pet facts! \u00a0 Here is some ammunition below, and some suggestions on how to introduce the topic in casual conversation.<\/p>\n

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  1. Cats cannot taste anything sweet.\u00a0 (Sample conversation starter suggestion: \u201cCaramel vanilla latte, huh? It\u2019s a good thing you are not a cat, or you wouldn\u2019t taste a thing. They have no palate for anything sweet!\u201d)<\/li>\n
  2. Did you know that cats can run up to 30 miles per hour, which is faster than the human record holder at 27 mph?<\/li>\n
  3. All the crazy cat people in the world should move to Alaska. Why?\u00a0 Because in the city of Talkeetna, a cat is their mayor.\u00a0 It should be called TalCATna. (This lame joke might win you sympathy!)<\/li>\n
  4. Cat eyes<\/a> are nearly 6 times stronger than human eyes.\u00a0 Though they can\u2019t see in complete darkness, they can detect detailed objects with the most minimal levels of light.<\/li>\n
  5. Adolf Hitler hated cats; Abraham Lincoln loved them and kept 4 cats in the White House.\u00a0 (Case in point- good people love cats!)<\/li>\n
  6. Cats aren\u2019t the only animals that purr! So do rabbits, guinea pigs, squirrels, lemurs, gorillas and elephants. (And they don\u2019t just purr because they are happy;\u00a0 they purr when stressed, anxious, or when they don\u2019t feel well, or when they want to calm down.)<\/li>\n
  7. An idle diesel engine makes the same frequency as a cat purring (roughly 26 purrs per second), and they purr continuously by breathing in and out through the voice box.<\/li>\n
  8. Cat brains have nearly 1,000 times more storage than an iPad.<\/li>\n
  9. Felines can hear ultrasonic noises, such as the nearly silent communications rodents use amongst each other. These sounds are undetectable to the human ear, but they do not escape cats (which is why not many rodents do either!).<\/li>\n
  10. Are you a cat person or dog person? (Then, once they have responded, ask what they think about the following comment: Recent studies have shown that dog-people tend to be more social, energetic and athletic,\u00a0 while cat people are more thoughtful, intellectual and sensitive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Try to avoid launching into a full-on monologue listing these facts off one by one, or the cat-fanatic warning you gave at the beginning will go right out the window.\u00a0 But because animals are universally entertaining and loveable,\u00a0 it could be a good way to connect with someone.\u00a0 It is always positive to stand out as an interesting individual who has more to offer in a conversation than just their job description.\u00a0 The more we observe cats, the less we seem to understand their inscrutable ways;\u00a0 and there is always something to learn.\u00a0 So next time you are out and about, bring some of these cat facts with you, and see where the conversation goes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have you ever met someone and been at a complete loss at what to say?\u00a0 Beyond the whole \u201cHi, my name is\u2026\u201d intro, it can be tricky to find interesting topics of conversation with a stranger. Why not put a spin on things, and talk about animals?\u00a0 You could start with \u201cJust to be clear, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-and-society","tag-cats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/couple-talking-at-bar.jpg?fit=650%2C433&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xKys-jn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrofile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}