do cats really have 9 lives?
By milkfish
@milkfish (371)
Philippines
October 2, 2007 7:40pm CST
I'm just wondering, why do we say cats have nine lives, and not 8 or 7? could somebody please enlighten me on this?
3 responses
@Grungegrrrly (11)
• Brazil
3 Oct 07
I guess it's because cats are so smart that they could get themselves out of a dangerous situations easily, unlike us clumsy humans. Therefore giving them more lives. Now why 9 lives, beats me...All I know is that here in Brazil they say cats have 7 lives.
@prEttyNbluE (299)
• Philippines
3 Oct 07
It's just an expression. Maybe, nine is the favorite number of the person who started it. Im not a cat lover so i don't give too much attention on it. :-)
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
3 Oct 07
I don't know why the number 9, but cats do tend to land on their feet, they are very acrobatic and an animal that is not a feline would not survive.
