Smart cat's mustache often serve as objects of children's hairdresser's experiments. Adults do not pay special attention to such acts, the animal is not wounded. However mustache, or vibrissa, are very necessary to a cat!
Why to a cat mustache
Under assumptions of researchers, three tasks are assigned to mustache of cat's: twilight sight, function of a danger warning and touch. Tips of mustache very sensitive and instantly transfer information to an animal if concern something. These organs of touch catch even the slightest movement of air which accompanies appearance of other animal.
If the cat needs to hide urgently, from a dog for example, and she looks for where to get, vibrissam it estimate the sizes of an opening and understands whether it will be possible to creep there. However, the domestic fattened cats cannot use fully this function as even the smartest and their sprawling mustache are not capable to grow to volumes of a tum of an animal! Therefore often it is necessary to get the grown fat cats from there where they tried to get through, but got stuck.
The cat perfectly is guided in the dark. But it is a merit not only only an eye, to a large extent vibrissa help here. Small rodents - traditional production of cats - leave behind livelihood most often at night. In the afternoon the cat will perfectly cope with capture of a mouse and without mustache, but in night-time of a vibrissa are irreplaceable. With their help the cats not only will see a rodent, but also will feel the slightest movement of the pretended to be dead rat.
What is vibrissa and that will be if them to cut
Vibrissa, or mustache, an animal are long sensitive tactile hair which are more rigid than the main woolen cover. A cat's set of vibriss consists of 24 mobile hairs (on average), on 12 pieces from each party. Roots of mustache are deeply and are connected with nervous system much more densely than usual hair bags. If to cut whiskers of a cat, he will lose a part of the ideal navigation system. At night the cat will not be able to be guided so well in space that it is not good for its safety at all. The night sight of a cat is not so perfect as it is considered to be, she perceives sharp prickles of plants! Without vibriss your fluffy favourite can injure eyes, a nose, ears. Veterinarians advise to hold cats of the house until mustache grow. It is not recommended to do even shift in the room as the cat without vibriss will not be able freely and without risk to hit to go on the house. Of course, nothing especially terrible from the fact that you will cut mustache to a cat can not happen. But why to risk health of an animal? Try to convey this information and to children that they did not play about with scissors, playing in hairdressing salon with pets.