Daily Cat Lesson: Your Cat Smells a World You Cant

🐾 Daily Cat Lesson: Your Cat Smells a World You Can't

Your cat doesn't just smell better than you do. Smell is one of the main ways cats understand their world.
That nose is powerful.
Cats have tens of millions of odor receptors, far more than humans. They use scent to identify food, territory, other animals and familiar individuals.

🐾 Cats have a second scent system.

Cats also have a vomeronasal (Jacobson's) organ in the roof of the mouth. It helps analyze chemical signals, especially those left by other cats.
💡 Ever seen your cat sniff something, then freeze with his mouth slightly open?
That's the flehmen response. He's drawing scent molecules toward that special organ.
It may look like:
"WHAT is that horrible smell?!"
But he's actually conducting a very sophisticated chemical analysis.

🐾 Cats recognize you by smell, too.

Your scent is part of how your cat identifies you and decides that you belong in his familiar, safe world. That's also why cats rub their cheeks and bodies against people and objects: they're depositing their own scent.
So when your cat spends five minutes intensely sniffing one tiny spot on the floor - don't interrupt.
There's apparently a whole story there, and your primitive human nose missed all of it!

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