The official name for a cat lover is an ailurophile, and you share company with famous people such as Doris Day, Abraham Lincoln and Ernest Hemingway, who had more than 60 cats.
Cat lovers are the easiest people in the world to thrill with a gift, because anything cat-related will be welcome. Of course, you can't go wrong if you choose a cat figurine of their favorite cat breed. The list below might give you some ideas.
Fun List of Cat Figurines for Famous People:
Sir Winston Churchill: Orange Tabby Cat
Rutherford B Hayes: Siamese Cat
Amy Carter, the daugher of Jimmy Carter: Siamese Cat
Florence Nightingale: Persian Cat
Raymond Chandler: Black Persian Cat
Edward Lear: Tabby Cat
Edgar Allan Poe: Tortoiseshell Tabby Cat
Author Karl Van Vetchen: Orange Persian Cat
Author Colette: Gray Angora or Russian Blue Cat Peter Gethers: Scottish Fold Tabby Cat
James Dean: Siamese Cat
Marilyn Monroe: White Persian Cat
Horace Walpole: Tortoiseshell Tabby Cat
Marie Antionette: Angora Cat
Fred Astaire: Black Cat Figurine
Terry Garr: Orange Tabby Cat Figurine
Pablo Picasso: Siamese Cat Figurine
Enrico Colantoni: Calico Cat Figurine
Ronald Reagan: Tortoiseshell Cat Figurine
Gene Shallit: Maine Coon Cat Figurine
For the cat lover who appreciate interesting tidbits...
Here are Some Cat Facts
Abraham Lincoln's cat, Tabby, was the first White House cat.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways
A cat’s sense of smell is fourteen times more sensitive than a human’s.
Cats can compress or elongate their spine, making them smaller to sleep in snuggly places or longer to leap across wide open spaces.
A cat has 250 bones in his body, compared to 206 in our bodies. Think about how much bigger you are than your cat, and you'll understand why cats have a lot more places where they can bend and twist than we do.
Cats have no ability to taste sweet things.
The Persian is the most popular breed of cat, followed by the Siamese and the Maine Coon Cat.
If cats could read, they would need reading glasses. That's because their close-up vision directly in front of them is fuzzy. Instead, they have super peripheral vision, and can detect the slightest movement in prey that’s yards away.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, which is the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
Scientists are still baffled as to where in a cats body a purr originates from.
The largest litter of kittens on record was born to a Siamese-Burmese mother, who had 19 kittens.
The first commercially cloned kitten, named CC (short for "Carbon Copy") was sold in December 2001.
