Have you kitties ever noticed that humans think they are, ahem, superior to us? I am not sure where they got that idea. Let’s look at the facts:
- Humans are practically deaf. While we cats hear at 65 kilohertz (khz), human hearing barely reaches 20 khz. All that listening to rock ‘n’ roll does not help either.
- As if their hearing wasn’t bad enough, human ears are basically otherwise useless — they are pretty much immobile since the outer ear only has 6 muscles. Meanwhile, our outer ears have 32 muscles and can move independently of one another! That’s why humans have to make such silly faces to express emotion, while we do it subtly and with style.
- Humans are nearly night blind, while we cats only need one-sixth of the light humans do to see. I’m surprised they don’t trip over themselves after dark.
- Humans must blink their eyes to keep them lubricated. This is not necessary for us kitties, which means we will always win in a stare-down.
- We are psychedelic! Our urine glows when you shine a blacklight on it. Human urine does not fluoresce — how blah!
- With less than 20 million olfactory cells, a human can smell really bad and not realize it! We cats have between 60 and 80 million olfactory cells, so we know when the litter box needs changing why sooner than humans do.
- We purr; humans can’t. They have to think up all sorts of remedies for healing, many of which do not work, while we can just lie there purring away and it’ll help mend a broken bone, and sometimes a broken heart.
Maybe I should turn these facts, and a few others, into a poster! That way, you kitties can hang them somewhere obvious so it will be a constant reminder to your humans — what do you think?
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Definetly want an infographic with these facts, we can never overstate our superiority over humans.
We get the Gold!
I agree wholeheartedly, cats ROCK!!! Can you even imagine how sad it is to have ordinary urine…how do we cope? 😉
FAB post! Really really interesting! We are soooo superior, they’re not even contenders. Rather sad, really.
(yanno, this would make a pawesome infographic…hmmm….mebbe your mom and ours can get together!)
a poster sounds like a lovely idea
Sparkle, I have already instructed my Human to commit these to memory.
I gived you a little award on my blog today–YOU, not that B girl, MOL!! XOXOXO
Oh Wow! I always wondered about my pawrents! But they do have thumbs. I guess that makes up for my Mommy’s drawbacks. now if I could only get Daddy to go easier on that aftershave stuff..
Kozmo at the Cat From Hell
a poster would be a great idea, Sparkle! that way we can hang them all over the place and really rub in how much better we are 😀 Consider this for a bookmark too.
Pip, Smidgen, Minnie, HOllie
You bring up some excellent points Sparkle! There is a reason humans used to worship us in Egypt!
There’s no question that us cats are superior to humans! We hope our mom read this.
We always knew we were superior to Humans. Thanks for confirming it to our mum for us
Paws down we win!
Superiority reigns supreme.
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥
We know right where we’d hang a poster….
Ditto on the black light, LOL. ~ TBT
Note to self: Buy black light.
; ) Glogirly
(LOVED this post today!)
Excellent points, dear Sparkle. Now if we could just figure out how to work the can opener…
a poster would be a pawsome idea!!
That part about the human’s sense of smell is rather disconcerting…I better head into the shower………..NOW…….
It’s just that darn ooposable thumb thing that’s holding you back…..
We know we’re superior and now our mommy knows why I’m always on the nightstand waiting for treats when she thinks she was being sneaky and waking up “quietly” so I wouldn’t know it. Ha!
Purrs,
Angel
I know that those are all the right reasons why kitties are superior and by the way, my mom is healing from her broken heart with my purrs!
xox
I wonder who tried making human urine fluoresce?
Great list! And I just thought of one you can add: Cats have a tail for all sorts of cool uses like mood and balance and general purpose awesomeness.
We think a poster is a really great idea. And you’re so right – we kittehs ARE much superior to hoomins.
I think the poster is a great idea, they always need reminding!
Our Mum knows she’s the “inferior” being here – we’ve told her so many times that she can now remember she’s a very poor third here.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Definitely make a poster! Have a great weekend!
Was there ever any doubt about the superiority of *our* species? 🙂
Being dominant on the planet doesn’t equal being “superior.” So we, and our human, believe with all our hearts.
Yes, I always knew we were superior! You should make an infographic with all that info!
Yeahhh.. and for these reasons they should give us more cuddles and tuna.