All the Trivia You Could Ever Hope to Find about CATS! Cat "Tails"... In Japan, there is a myth that cats have the power to turn into super spirits when they die. Possibly because according to the Buddhist religion, the body of the cat is the temporary resting place of the soul of very spiritual people. Back in the late 1940s in Buenos Aires, a black female cat climbed a 40 foot tree where she resided for six years. Her name was Mincha and she wasn't lonely for companionship. She had three litters while living in the tree. The local Argentinians fed her by putting her food on poles. The Spanish word for cat door is gatera. In old Spanish homes, there was a gatera cut into the doors to give the kitties an easy way in and out of the house. It also provided a way for romance among the young to take place, when balconies were too high. The couple would lay on the floor, he on the outside, she on the inside and carry on conversations and flirt through the opening. Florence Nightingale owned more than sixty cats in her lifetime and often complained of mysterious "stains" on her paperwork. Folklore has it that the tabby cat got the M on the forehead as a gesture of thanks from Mary, the mother of Jesus. She gave this to the kitties to show her appreciation for the kitties purring the baby to sleep. According to one legend, the "M" marking on the forehead of the Tabby Cat was created by the prophet Mohammed as he rested his hand lightly on the brow of his favorite cat, a Tabby.  According to a Christian folk story, the Madonna rewarded the cat for purring baby Jesus to sleep by allowing all Tabbies to wear a letter "M" on their foreheads from then on.