Amazing Cats

Best Climber
In 1950, a four month kitten climbed 14,691 feet to the top of the Matterhorn in the Alps

Longest
Verismo’s Leonetti Reserve Red (Leo) – a Maine Coon who weighs in at 35 pounds and measures 48 inches from nose to tail

Shortest/smallest
Tinker Toy – As of 1997, the smallest domestic cat ever; a male blue point Himalayan 2.75″ tall, 7.5″ long

Largest breed
The largest cat breeds are the Ragdoll and Maine Coon. Males weigh 12 to 20 pounds, with females weighing 10 to 15 pounds

Least fur breed
The Sphynx cat, a hairless breed, came into existence in 1966.

Most toes
Jake has 27 toes; another cat, Mooch, is recorded as having 28 toes.

Unusual
A cat named Five Toes, was born with two tongues.

Most mice killed
As of 1997, Towser held the record for most mice/rats killed: 28,899.  Towser worked for the Glenturret Distillery, and a statue was erected in the distillery grounds in her honor.

First munchkin
Blackberry, a female

Longest fall
Andy, companion of Florida Sen. Ken Myer; fell 16 stories (about 200 feet) and survived

Richest
- Brownie and Hellcat became two of the richest cats in the world when owner Dr. William Grier left them $415,000 in the 1960′s
- Ben Rea left his cat Blackie £15 million in his will.

Heaviest
- Himmey, a neutered tabby living in Australia who weighed 46 lbs, 15.25 oz; died of heart failure
- Poppa – an 11-year-old tabby who wieghed 44.5 lbs
- Tiger  – a long-haired part-Persian weighing 43 lbs.

Lightest
Mr Peebles is the world’s smallest fully-grown cat, weighing in at just 3 lbs. (Guinness World Records)

First recognized pedigreed breed
American Shorthairs were the first pedigreed breed recognized in the United States.

First exhibitor
Mrs. Poodles, the first Siamese exhibited at an English cat show (in 1871)

Most toes
Jake, an Ontario, Canada cat with 28 toes, with 7 on each paw (Guinness World Records)

Longest whiskers
– Mingo, a Maine coon in Turku Finland – with whiskers measuring 6.8 inches in July 2004. (Guinness World Records)
- Ellie, living in Woodland Hills, Californiaa brown/black Maine Coon, had the longest single whisker on a cat (measuring 6.5 inches) on Febraury 15, 2004. (Guinness World Records)

Most expensive wedding
In September 1996, two rare “diamond-eyed” cats, Phet and Ploy, were married in matching pink outfits at a ceremony in Thailand’s biggest discotheque. It cost Phet’s owner, Wichan Jaratarcha, 410,979 Thai Bhat ($16,241).

Most kittens in a litter
Tarawood Antigone, a brown Burmese who holds the records for having 19 kittens in one litter on August 7th 1970 .  Four were stillborn.  Another large letter was born to a Persian named Bluebell, who gave birth to 14 kittens, all of which survived.

Most kittens in a lifetime
Dusty, who delivered a total of 420 kittens in her life.  She gave birth to her last litter on June 12th 1952.

Oldest mother
Kitty, in Staffordshire England, gave birth for the last time at age 30.  In her life, she had 218 kittens.

Oldest cat living
The oldest cat living is claimed to be Cream Puff who was born on August 3, 1967

Oldest cat
- Puss, 36 years old; died on Nov. 29, 1939
- Ma, a tabby who was 35 when she was euthanized Nov. 5, 1957
- Grampa, 34 years old, a Rex Sphinx; died April 1998

Longest travel home
Sugar’s family, the Woods, left him behind when they moved; he left his new owners and found the Woods’ new house 1,500 miles away

Most traveled cat
Hamlet escaped from his cage on a flight from Toronto, Canada, and traveled 600,000 miles in seven weeks, until he was caught in February 1984.

Longest survivor
On Dec. 9, 1999, 80 days after an earthquake struck Taiwan, killing an estimated 2,400 people, a cat was discovered alive in a collapsed building in Taichung. It was taken to veterinary hospital, where it made a full recovery.

Longest time separated from owner
Ted, a gorgeous black cat who had an ID microchip implanted under his skin, was returned to his owner Chris Inglis 10 years after he jumped out a window and vanished.

Most cats owned
Jack and Donna Wright of Kingston, Ontario, hold the world record for most cats owned: 689 at one time.

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