Most cats naturally groom themselves frequently — you’ve probably watched as your pet gave themselves one of their daily baths. However, as tidy as cats normally are, sometimes they’ll need ...

If you’ve been around cats, you have probably noticed that they spend time licking their fur. A lot of time. The main reason — as you probably guessed — is to clean themselves. But there’s ...

The drive to groom themselves is so strong that, in a 2000 study, if a cat was prohibited from grooming for 72 hours, a 67% increase in oral grooming would take place in the following 12 hours ...

Grooming is a trademark characteristic of most cats that begins right after birth. Mother cats groom their kittens, and, at four weeks of age, kittens begin grooming themselves.

This is called nervous grooming. Cats can give themselves sores and bald spots through nervous grooming. It can be a sign of an allergy, stress, or parasites that are making your cat uncomfortable.

Cats groom themselves a lot - and sometimes it can become excessive - why ? It has been estimated that cats spend up to 50% of the time that they are awake grooming themselves. So grooming a lot may ...