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Domestic cats are very effective predators. They can ambush and dispatch prey using tactics similar to those of leopards and tigers by pouncing; they then deliver a lethal neck bite with their long canine teeth that severs the victim's spinal cord, or asphyxiate it by crushing the windpipe.

Cats have highly specialized teeth and a digestive system suitable for eating meat. The premolar and first molar together compose the carnassial pair on each side of the mouth, which efficiently functions to shear meat like a pair of scissors. While this is present in canines, it is highly developed in felines. The cat's tongue has sharp spines, papillae, useful for retaining and ripping flesh from a carcass. These papillae are small backward-facing hooks that contain keratin and assist in their grooming. Cats eat almost no vegetable matter. Whereas bears and dogs commonly supplement their diet of meat with fruits, berries, roots, and honey when they can get them, cats feed exclusively on meat, usually freshly killed. Cats, including the great cats, have a genetic anomaly that prevents them from tasting sweetness, which is probably related to their meat-only habits.

Cat Nip Fun facts.

About two thirds of cats have a fondness for catnip. While they generally don't consume it, they will often roll in it, paw at it, and occasionally chew on it. The effect is usually relatively short, lasting for only a few minutes. After two hours, susceptible cats gain interest again. Several other species of plants cause this effect, to a lesser degree.

Shit Just Got Real

Indoor cats may be provided a litter box containing sand or similar commercial material. This arrangement serves the same purpose as a toilet for humans. It should be cleaned daily and changed often depending on the number of cats in a household and the type of litter.

Some cats may be toilet trained, eliminating the litterbox and its attending expense and odor. Training will involve two or three weeks of incremental moves, such as moving and elevating the litterbox until it is near the toilet. For a short time, an adapter, such as a bowl or small box, may be used to suspend the litter above the toilet bowl. When training is complete, the cat uses the toilet by perching over the bowl.

Om Nom and Om No.

Cats being fussy eaters mostly happens when the vomeronasal, or Jacobson's, organ becomes sensitized to a specific food, at which point the cat will reject any food that doesn't fit the pattern it is expecting. Additionally, cats have been known to develop a fondness for "people food" such as chicken, French fries, pizza, bread, ice cream, carrot juice, olives, tomato soup, and carnitas burritos, as well as cat diet exotica such as corn kernels and diced cantaloupe. But many "people foods" are not good for cats; chocolate, for example, can be fatal due to the presence of theobromine.