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In the English speaking world it is often used as a term for a hangover, with the sufferer's groans of discomfort being likened to a wailing cat. In fact, the German language uses the term "Kater" (tomcat) for this situation. Katzenjammer may refer to: Katzenjammer (band), a Norwegian pop/folk band; Katzenjammer Kabarett, a French rock band
German: mampf mampf mampf, hamm hamm, mjam schlürf, gluck schluck Gujarati: gudgud Hebrew: אָממ אָממ (amm amm) שלוּק (shluk) צחצוח (tsikhtsúakh), שקשוק (shikshúk refers to "shaking teeth") Hungarian: hamm nyam-nyam, csám-csám glu-glu, glugy-glugy sika-sika Icelandic: kjams nammi namm glúgg glúgg Indonesian: krauk ...
As of 2024, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 73.8 million cats owned and around 42.2 million households owning at least one cat. [ 198 ] [ 199 ] In the United Kingdom , 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats as of 2020.
Outside of Russia, the Siberian cat was first mentioned in the 1864 edition of the German book Brehms Tierleben, where Brehm describes a long-haired cat breed as "a red Tobolsk cat from Siberia" ("eine rote Tobolsker Katze aus Sibirien"). [20]
Cat species vary greatly in body and skull sizes, and weights: The largest cat species is the tiger (Panthera tigris), with a head-to-body length of up to 390 cm (150 in), a weight range of at least 65 to 325 kg (143 to 717 lb), and a skull length ranging from 316 to 413 mm (12.4 to 16.3 in).
Bergstutz or Stollwurm. In the folklore of the Alpine region of south-central Europe, the Tatzelwurm (German: [ˈtatsl̩ˌvʊʁm]), Stollenwurm, or Stollwurm is a lizard-like creature, often described as having the face of a cat, with a serpent-like body which may be slender or stubby, with four short legs or two forelegs and no hindlegs.
A bilingual pun: Where do cats go when they die? In English PURRgatory, in Spanish PurGATOrio. A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be ...
It is not certainly known how Lämmchen relates to Munk, only that the German Rex mutation - on the same gene as in the Cornish Rex - is recessive, meaning it will only show when both alleles are "Rex", and that Munk is the first thoroughly documented Rex cat, though as stories of "children cuddling curly coated kittens" [1] attest, Rex alleles turn up every now and then.