Comments on: Friday Cat Blogging

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:05:11 +0000

The peds are about the only thing not covered in fur, so a good place to dump the heat.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:47:14 +0000

Good gracious, but she’s a limber kitty….and so darned cute!! Her coloring is beautiful.

If I tried to sleep like that, I wouldn’t be able to get up from my nap. I noticed the comment by Badtux, about cats having sweat glands in their feet. Interesting. I didn’t know that, but I did notice my cats have hot feet, sometimes.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:33:21 +0000

I suspected that from your description of the first group and the prevalence of black among Manx cats.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:17:21 +0000

i’m just over-run with adorable here.

i can’t wait to see what they look like in real life. so far i’ve only seen them by flashlight and camera flash [except for the one wanderer]. there’s at least one tailless one in this group too [dad cat = black manx].

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:49:23 +0000

A cute little sable cuddle you have there, Hipparchia.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:11:48 +0000

kittehs can has pillz

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:02:12 +0000

Are you indicating you can fit in a faux milk crate, Ellroon?

By: ellroon

ellroon — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:51:12 +0000

How strange… I get into that postion all the time when it’s hot….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:31:22 +0000

Now that you mention the desert ancestry the sweat glands paucity makes sense.

Nice Fang/Cotton contrast at your place, ‘Tux.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:56:01 +0000

Cats actually do have sweat glands – on the pads of their feet. When my kitties get hot, the bottoms of their feets get damp and they flop over and wave their feet in the air to cool off a little. One thing that helps is that our domestic house cat is virtually identical, genetically, to the North African wild cat, which is a desert cat, and thus runs at a higher temperature than most critters so doesn’t need to cool down as much. They still overheat if engaged in any kind of strenuous activity though, thus the limpness.