January 23 is Measure Your Feet Day Speaking of feet...here are some cat paw facts you might not know.. Each of your cats paws contains about 27 bones, although there are fewer bones in the hind paws than there are in the front. Your cat is a digitigrade walker, which means that instead of walking on her heels and the balls of the feet like we do, she walks on the balls of the feet and the fingertips. The small size of her paws and the softness of her pads make it easy for her to move silently through all kinds of terrain. Cats have glands tucked between their paw pads that secrete oil with a scent only cats can detect. When your cat scratches a surface such as a scratching post, a tree, or your couch, she deposits some of her scent -- almost like a graffiti tag that reads “Fluffy was here!” The pigment that colors your cat’s fur also colors her skin, so when you look at your cat’s paw pads, you’ll see that they’re often the same colors as your cat. Black cats have black pads, gray cats have grayish pads, orange cats have orange pads, and when it comes to multicolored cats, anything goes.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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