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A cat with vibrissae A chinchilla with large macrovibrissae. Whiskers or vibrissae (/ v ə ˈ b r ɪ s i /; sg.: vibrissa; / v ə ˈ b r ɪ s ə /) are a type of stiff, functional hair used by most therian mammals to sense their environment. [1] These hairs are finely specialised for this purpose, whereas other types of hair are coarser as ...
A 10 cm (3.9 in) cat hairball. A hairball is a small collection of hair or fur formed in the stomach of animals, and uncommonly in humans, that is occasionally vomited up when it becomes too big. Hairballs are primarily a tight elongated cylinder of packed fur, but may include bits of other elements such as swallowed food.
Some cats have more down hair than other kinds, and so feel softer to the touch. Other cats have different ratios or guard and awn hair. And some cats, like so-called hairless breeds, have an ...
A 19th-century drawing of a tabby cat. The English term tabby originally referred to "striped silk taffeta", from the French word tabis, meaning "a rich watered silk".This can be further traced to the Middle French atabis (14th century), which stemmed from the Arabic term عتابية / ʿattābiyya. [4]
After all, most cats come with hair (and the ones who don’t, like Sphynx breeds, have their own cleanliness complexities). But we haven’t dealt with a cat like Atchoum, a beautiful Persian cat ...
Other cats just enjoy the texture and feel of hair, particularly if it’s long. Batting your hair around and chewing on it is a good game, especially for kittens."
Guard hairs are long and coarse and protect the rest of the pelage (fur) from abrasion and frequently from moisture. They are visible on the surface of the fur and usually lend a characteristic contour and colour pattern. Underneath the contour hair is the short, dense, fine down. There are three types of guard hair: awns, bristles, and spines.
The word pussy refers to cats as well as other animals, including rabbits and hares. Male catkins from a pussy willow. Both in English and in German puss was used as a "call-name" for cats, but in English pussy was used as a synonym for the word cat in other uses as well. In addition to cats, the word was also used for rabbits and hares. In the ...