Excerpts from the 365 Smiles For Cat Lovers - Every Day Thoughts - The Meaning of Meow - 2007 flip calendar.
A black-and-white cat that belongs to the Clintons, Socks, received approximately 75,000 letters and parcels each week while in the White House. "Socks Goes to Washington" the First Cat's autobiography, was published in 1993.
Abraham Lincoln was a cat lover. He had four cats while living in the White House. His cat, Tabby, was the first White House cat.
In ancient Egypt a person could receive the death penalty for killing a cat.
Famous expatriate author Ernest Hemingway had 30 pet cats.
Misty Malarky Ying Yang was a Siamese cat that belonged to President Carter's daughter, Amy. He was First Cat from 1977 to 1981.
Beerbohm, a tabby, was London's longest-serving theater mouser. Beerhohm servedat the Globe Theater from the mid-70s to 1995.
The record for most kittens in a lifetime is held by Dusty. She gave birth to 420 kittens!
Composer Henri Sauguet's cat, Cody, was claimed to be fond of Claude Debussy compositions. The cat became ecstatic when Debussy songs were played on the piano.
Famed English author Thomas Hardy had a Blue Persian named Cobby that was given to him late in life. Cobby vanished after Hardy died in 1928.
Ernest Heminway trusted his cat Mr. Feather Puss so much he allowed the cat to babysit his child.
Felix the Cat was the first animated character to be the subject of a marketing campaign.
The word grimalkin, which is defined as "a domestic cat; esp. an old female cat," originally appeared as the name of the first witch's familiar in Shakespeare's MacBeth.
The staff of the Savoy Hotel in London places a wooden cat named Kasper at tables to avoid seating unlucky parties of 13.
Morris, of 9 Lives fame, was originally called Lucky because he was rescued from an animal shelter near Chicago.
Elizabeth Taylor once gave a Siamese cat named Marcus as a gift to James Dean.
The Master's Cat was a kitten of Charles Dickens' favorite cat, Williamina, and the only kitten of the litter he kept. It is said he would snuff Dickens' reading candle to ge attention.
President Rutherford B. Hayes received a Siamese cat from the American Consul in Bangkok. The cat, Siam, was the first Siamese cat to arrive in the United States.
Famous feline heroine, Scarlett, rescued all five of her kittens from a burning building in New York in 1996.
Sizi lived with humanitarian Albert Schweitzer at his clinic in Africa. Although Schweitzer was left-handed, he would write prescriptions with his right hand if Sizi was sleeping on his left arm.
Teddy Roosevelt had a variety of pets during his stay in the White House. One was a gray tabby named Slippers who had six toes on each foot.
Hodge was Dr. Samuel Johnson's favorite cat. Johnson bought fresh oysters each day to feed his pampered pet.
Nelson, another of Winston Churchill's cats, sat in a chair next to the Prime Minister in both the Cabinet and dining rooms. Nelson was named after Lord Nelson, but wasn't nearly as brave.
Hamlet, a white cat with gray patches and a tabby tail, ws the title character of Val Schaffner's Algonquin Cat. Hamlet was also the mascot of the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan.
Heathcliff, an animated rival of Garfield, was named after a character in Wuthering Heights.
Edgar Allen Poe took his cat, Catarina, everywhere he went. She frequently sat on his shoulder as he wrote, and inspired The Black Cat.
A black-and-white cat named Humphrey was a longtime mascot of the Prime Minister's residence in London.
French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was afflicted with Ailurophobia, or the fear of cats.
The heaviest domestic cat in recorded history, Himmy, was a tabby that weighed 46 pounds, 15.25 ounces.
Calvin, a Maltese stray who took over Harriet Beecher Stowe's house, reportedly sat on Stowe's shoulders while she wrote.
