Cats walk with their feet. There is a big meat pad under each foot and a little toe pad under each toe. Five toes on the front foot and four toes on the back foot. The soft meat pads under the soles of the feet and toes have played an excellent buffering role, making the cat crawl forward quietly to attack its prey. There is a horny claw firmly hidden in the toe hair. The claws are triangular groove-shaped, and only extend when catching prey, so as to firmly grasp the prey. Cats use their front paws in a way similar to human hands-lifting food, testing temperature, slapping objects, etc. Cats have very strong hind legs. When it jumps or runs, its hind legs show amazing strength. Cats' claws are very useful. When fighting with other animals or the same kind, it is often used as a "weapon". When you meet a strong enemy who can't fight back, you can climb trees, wooden pillars or other objects with your claws and escape quickly.
For kittens 3-4 months after birth, claws cannot be retracted or completely retracted, especially Siamese cats. For cats kept indoors, the owner should trim the claw tips regularly, otherwise it will scratch the family, or scratch the sheets, bedding and sofa.
The cat's tail, like other animals, plays a role in balancing posture. Besides. The cat's mood can be implied from the action of its tail. A twitch at the tip of the tail indicates a new situation or excitement; Whipping the whole tail violently often means anger, and whipping the tail gently is often a symbol of happiness; The tail suddenly shows spasmodic activity, which mostly indicates anger or shock.
Cats' tentacles (commonly known as cat whiskers) are full of sensory attributes, which can make up for cats' lack of vision in the dark and almost replace their eyes. At night, when an object keeps a certain distance from the cat, it can sense the existence of the object. Many people think that cats must recognize or perceive objects through slight pressure changes in the air. Cats' eyebrows have a similar effect. There is a bundle of tactile hairs on the back of the wrist joint of the cat's forelimb. In fact, cats are very sensitive to the touch of the whole body, especially the fur behind the ears and on both sides of the back.
Cat's back hair changes with the seasons, and it is thick and shiny in winter, which is related to cat's subcutaneous gland secretion. The subcutaneous glands of cats are not sweat glands, and the only sweat glands of cats are between toe pads.
A healthy cat loves to be clean, so there is no smell in all parts of its body, especially after castration. Cats often lick their coat with rough tongue to make it shiny and attractive. The mastoid process on the tongue surface is very powerful, quite like a file tooth, which can file the bone surface flat. However, these backward-inclined mastoids also have some disadvantages for cats, that is, everything that enters the mouth (including food) can only be swallowed and cannot be reversed, which often leads to some sharp objects being swallowed by mistake, resulting in gastrointestinal trauma.
Behavioral characteristics of cats: As the two most loved companion animals in the world, cats and dogs have become members of human families. Cats are very popular with human beings because of their beautiful figure, beautiful eyes and quick movements. Speaking of cats, it is generally believed that catching mice is a cat's bounden duty. In addition, other characteristics of cats are generally called "gluttonous" cats. In fact, domestic cats have formed a series of physical characteristics and behavior laws in the evolution process of thousands of years, and some characteristics are very similar to those of wild cats.
Although different breeds and individuals have their own characteristics, cats, as an animal, have typical behavioral characteristics: intelligence, loneliness, selfishness and jealousy.
Cats are smart and have high IQ. Cats can quickly adapt to the living environment, make use of living equipment, such as correctly using the bedpan and turning on and off the water dispenser, distinguish human likes and dislikes, and even foresee some things, such as the owner going out. These characteristics of cats are due to the developed cerebral hemisphere and cerebral cortex. Kittens rely on the help of their mother cats and owners before they are 5 months old, because their brains are not fully developed. On the other hand, adult cats have a strong memory. After going to the hospital for an injection, I was nervous when I went back. It is common to go home at a distance of tens of kilometers, and cats can also foresee some natural phenomena, such as earthquakes. Strong independence and natural solitude are the characteristics of cats formed in the long-term evolution process. Wild cats are mainly individual activities in nature, and only during the breeding period will male cats and female cats get together. Therefore, domestic cats maintain this naturalness, show paranoia and loneliness, like to establish their own activity territory in the living environment area, and do not welcome other cats to break in. After a mother cat gives birth to a kitten, she can feed the kitten independently, without much dependence on her owner. Cats' habits determine that cats like to go out and do things they don't like and resist compulsion.
This suggests that cat owners must first establish trust with cats, be kind to cats and live in peace with cats in order to gain recognition and "friendship" from cats. It is unrealistic for a cat to blindly obey its master.
When it comes to cats' selfishness, we should consider that this is the need and result of cats' natural survival. Long-term survival in the wild and harsh natural conditions make cats develop into a self-centered code of conduct. Otherwise it will be eliminated by the laws of nature. It's none of your business. Hang high. Once the prey (such as mice) appears, quickly attack and catch the prey.
Jealousy is a common feature of cats. If there are multiple cats at home at the same time, the owner likes or picks up one cat, and other cats often make dissatisfied sounds or sabotage actions. This is a manifestation that cats attach importance to their owners' feelings and attitudes towards them, and making full use of this feature is a means to cultivate the feelings between people and cats.
Cats who live at home for a long time will also show jealousy about the appearance of their children at home and their owners' caress for their newborns, and vent this emotion.