Cats are said to have nine lives.
Cats ability to survive high falls have given them the reputation to have 9 lives, and Cat Woman is supposed to share some of the cat's characteristics - so she got 9 lives too.
A cat supposedly has nine lives. In fact, they have only one, but they are very good at escaping situations that would be fatal for many other creatures -- long entrapment, falls from extreme height, and so on.
They don't. Like all other living things, cats only have a single life to live. Some people think they have nine lives because of their ability to always land on their feet and survive drastic falls.
Since a cat has nine lives he only can eat 8 toads, because when he bites the toad number nine the poison in its skin kills the cat and therefore the cat cannot eat it.
Breakdown by species of number of lives: Human: 1 Cat: 9 Repton: 3
Nine lives of a cat
The number of years a house cat lives varies. The average age of a house cat is between 10 and 15 years.
Allegedly a cat has 9 lives.
The Eveready logo (cat and number 9) was to liken the reliability and longevity of the Eveready battery to the "9 lives" attributed to cats.
a cat has 9 lives to live
a cat that lives on the beach....
to balance their fall when dropping from great hights. those feet help it survive they say cats have 9 lives cause the could survive falls.