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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n
Zorro here. Daddy has whiskers but Ziggy and I have him beat! Check out mine:<\/p>\n
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Ziggy has pretty good whiskers, too.<\/p>\n
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Mommy had a hard time getting pictures of our whiskers, though, because black whiskers on black cats don\u2019t show up as much. A lot of cats have white whiskers. Like this one:<\/p>\n Our whiskers can pick up subtle changes in air currents and tell us the shape and speed of nearby objects. They also send messages to our brains about the position of our legs and body so we always know what every part is doing. Did you ever hear that cats always land on their feet? That\u2019s why.<\/p>\n Another thing our whiskers do is help is \u201csee\u201d things that are close. We see better at a distance, but it\u2019s hard to focus on objects up close. When we approach something in our path, our whiskers act like radar detectors, picking up the air currents that bounce back. That way, we can go around it. Unless it\u2019s our food bowl.<\/p>\n Whiskers protect us, too. If a tiny speck of dust falls on a whisker above my eye, I blink or shake it off. Whiskers also keep us from getting into jams. The ones on the sides of our nose are the same width as our bodies. If we come up on a narrow spot, they let us know if we can fit through it without getting stuck.<\/p>\n People should never cut cats\u2019 whiskers. It doesn\u2019t hurt us, but it can make us feel disoriented and scared. Cutting our whiskers is like blindfolding someone, because you\u2019re taking away one of our ways of telling what\u2019s around us.<\/p>\n A while back, Mommy said that someone thought they were the cat\u2019s whiskers. Ziggy and I didn\u2019t think that made any sense at all. But she said it\u2019s an expression that means someone or something is very appealing, even considers himself to be the center of the universe.<\/p>\n Hmmm, Ziggy and I are really cute. When we meow, Mommy and Daddy always listen and try to give us what we want. I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re the center of their universe, but we\u2019re a really important part of their lives. Does that mean we\u2019re the cat\u2019s whiskers?<\/p>\n It\u2019s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy\u2019s blog. Zorro here. Daddy has whiskers but Ziggy and I have him beat! Check out mine: Ziggy has pretty good whiskers, too. Mommy had a hard time getting pictures of our whiskers, though, because black whiskers on black cats don\u2019t show up as much. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[42,29,116,117],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-zaturday-when-ziggy-and-zorro-take-over","tag-black-cats","tag-cats","tag-cats-whiskers-2","tag-purpose-of-whiskers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-15-Cat-whiskers-300x199.jpg\")
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Kitty whiskers make us look cute, but that\u2019s not all they\u2019re for. Our whiskers help us navigate the world. They\u2019re as sensitive as a human\u2019s fingertips. Each whisker is filled with little, supersensitive nerves that help us judge distance and space. Humans touch the world with their fingers, but we use our faces!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-15-Ziggy-eating.png\")
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