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Cat Forum / General Topics / October 2003how come cats never smell like dogs do?
My dogs will start to smell after a week but the kittens smell clean and the coat smooth all of the time. how do they do this? a human or dog could not lick themselves clean? so do cats have some kind of special chemical? and how do they keep every region clean? its because cats spend most of their day grooming themselves.. dogs do not > My dogs will start to smell after a week but the kittens smell clean and the > coat smooth all of the time. how do they do this? a human or dog could not > lick themselves clean? so do cats have some kind of special chemical? and > how do they keep every region clean? "Hugo Drax" wrote in message ... > My dogs will start to smell after a week but the kittens smell clean and the > coat smooth all of the time. how do they do this? a human or dog could not > lick themselves clean? so do cats have some kind of special chemical? and > how do they keep every region clean? I read somewhere that cat's saliva contains a substance that washes the grime and dirt out of fur. Isn't it a matter of survival that members of the cat family reduce their odour, whereas it doesn't matter to a wild dog how smelly it becomes? -- Becks http://www.toontalents.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Montgomery Burns -- "Oh, meltdown. It's one of those annoying 'buzzwords.' We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus." ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~: What I'd like to know is what happens to the germs that enter the cats body after it's licked itself. Does the cat's stomach have some chemical that can deal with germs? Regards Brian >"Hugo Drax" wrote in message ... >> My dogs will start to smell after a week but the kittens smell clean and [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Isn't it a matter of survival that members of the cat family reduce their >odour, whereas it doesn't matter to a wild dog how smelly it becomes? >What I'd like to know is what happens to the germs that enter the cats >body after it's licked itself. Does the cat's stomach have some >chemical that can deal with germs? Stomach acid? :-) JM "Hugo Drax" wrote in message ... > My dogs will start to smell after a week but the kittens smell clean and the > coat smooth all of the time. how do they do this? a human or dog could not > lick themselves clean? so do cats have some kind of special chemical? and > how do they keep every region clean? I read somewhere that cat's saliva contains a substance that washes the grime and dirt out of fur. Isn't it a matter of survival that members of the cat family reduce their odour, whereas it doesn't matter to a wild dog how smelly it becomes? -- Becks http://www.toontalents.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Montgomery Burns -- "Oh, meltdown. It's one of those annoying 'buzzwords.' We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus." ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~:
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