How Do Cats Groom Themselves?

Grooming is one of the prime activities of a living being and cats are no exception; they spend almost ten per cent of their waking hours in grooming themselves. The process of grooming happens usually by licking their skin to make it clean and certainly cleaning is one of the most important parts of the process of grooming. To make the process of cleaning happen the cats are not required to take any kind of training and it is intrinsic to them. They use the process of licking not just to clean the dirt but also to remove the parasites that sometimes stick to their skin.

The phenomenon of grooming themselves is so much intrinsic to them that if they stop doing the process you must consult the vet as it is considered something unusual

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A cat's tongue is a marvelous invention. Rough like sandpaper, it cleans their fur of dirt, parasites,loose hair and dander. Cat's will use the tongue on every part of the body they can reach; contorting themselves into every silly position imaginable. They use their paws to scrub their faces and ears and will even trim their toenails by biting them off. The act of grooming also relieves stress in cats. Sometimes if under stress a cat will groom to the point that it becomes compulsive and the hair will actually fall out. Cats will also groom one another. Even my tom will groom his kittens, the kittens groom him and my nutered males groom each other.

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