Have you ever noticed that your cat has a pretty rough or coarse tongue? If your cat has licked you then you’ve probably felt the sandpaper type feeling from the tongue. A cat’s lick of the tongue is nothing like the wet slobbery lick from a dog. Why? A cat’s tongue actually has tiny backward-facing barbs called filiform papillae on it. These enable a cat to have a better grip when holding on to its prey. These also help a cat with cleaning the prey before eating it. The roughness of the tongue is also necessary for grooming and cats do a lot of grooming. The tongue acts like a brush and is able to remove dirt and loose hair from the cat’s coat. In addition to this, there are also barbs on the side of the tongue as well as the back of the tongue. Want to learn more? Read more here or call your vets Lakewood Ranch, FL.
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