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From Quick Guide: All About Cat Grooming
Summary: Cats lick their paws and use them to groom around the face. Learn how cats groom themselves from a veterinarian in this free pet care video.
Tracy Carreiro is a graduate of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. She has been a practicing veterinarian for nearly 20 years. Growing up on a dairy farm, she grew to...read more
"Hi, this is T.J. and I'm going to use T.J. as a demonstration for a very nicely well self groomed cat. As you can see T.J. has a nice clear face. T.J. show your face please and his ears are nice and clean on the surface. He grooms, he keeps his nice front leg fur beautifully white by grooming so what cats do when they groom their front end is they use their feet to groom, he is interested in eating right now, but they lick their paw and then use it to groom around the face and the head. And on the back end as you can see he is nice and sleek back here. He will use his tongue and teeth to groom and clean, get off any excessive hair or mats that might be there and keep this nice white fur that he has on his back end and they also will sit down in a little hunched up position and groom the belly area. Let's see if T.J. will show us his belly so you can see how nice and white and clean he keeps his belly and they also do that by licking and using their teeth to bite to get off any parasites or any mats or any dirt that they might have encountered during the course of their day."
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