Cat's Health A guide to understanding your cat's health - from a cat loving science writer. Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. In ancient Egypt murdering a cat resulted in a guaranteed death sentence for the human offender.
Feline vision is about ten times less acute than that of humans.
But they make up for this in the smell department. Cats have roughly 200 million odor-sensitive cells in their little noses compared to a measly 5 million in our nostrils. For cats smell is a big issue. This explains why what you perceive as a simple change of food or litter type can result in outright rebellion from your cats. Cats do not chew their food - they chop it up and swallow it.