Many citizens hold houses of cats, about rural houses and it is not necessary to say: tender and silent animals not just give pleasure to owners, but also perfectly hunt small rodents. A secret of success of hunters – in the special structure of pads.
Pads of cats are considered as the softest among extremities of animals, they help cats to run, jump, be played quickly, but exactly until from small pillows does not appear cat's claws.
Secretion of jointsFour extremities serve as cat's not only for walking and run. Their unique building allows an animal to overcome surprisingly easily the cross-country terrain, to climb up an inclined plane and to jump perfectly, at the same time almost silently. Joints of cat's paws have unique feature: when walking they absolutely freely rotate and turn in different directions that allows an animal to move so easily on different surfaces, whether it be a tree or an equal floor. Front pads when walking move inside, forming a straight line from traces from lobbies to back pads.
It is all about small pillows and fingers
Up to five fingers it is located on each front to pad cats, but one of fingers is shorter, than another, and does not get the earth. And here on back pads only four fingers - are absent a thumb. The thick sole of paws allows the weight of a cat to be distributed evenly on all foot. At the same time cats go on fingers, because of such way of movement the noise is absent. On small pillows of paws sweat glands are located for this reason cats practically do not sweat and do not excrete a smell. Small pillows have a huge number of the nervous terminations, forepaws help a cat to be guided and find necessary information. Thus, forepaws, as well as whiskers of a cat, serve as the conductor, and cats very carefully watch them. Notice that they so carefully lick forepaws and are afraid to damage them. Small pillows carefully protect also animal claws: at a tension of veins or their relaxation the cat can quickly both release, and to remove claws in the located leather sacks. At the majority of cat's breeds the claws have the crescent form and only at some, for example, at the Persian cats the claws remind hooks. Many owners of domestic cats delete claws of pets. It is cruel operation which is performed under anesthetic and attracts excision not only a claw, but also a phalanx of a cat's finger. The onikhektomiya is forbidden by the convention on protection of animals, however veterinarians, though express disagreement with the made decision of owners, nevertheless will amputate claws.