A cat's nose print is as unique as a human fingerprint.
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| A cat's nose print is like a fingerprint |
If you look at your cat's nose, you will notice little bumps and ridges. Dogs have this same unique trait and since a dog's nose is bigger than a cat's nose, it is easier to see on a dog. The prints are different on each animal and can be used for identification, just like your own fingerprints can.
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| Nose prints are different on each animal |
Presently, the method used for identifying our pets is a microchip implant which can dislodge or malfunction, thus becoming useless.
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| Pet ID tracker |
But nose prints, like our fingerprints, will always be there. Someday microchips will be replaced with nose scanners. Noses of cats and dogs could be scanned when they are adopted and kept on file for comparison if the pet should ever become lost or stolen. This would be less costly than the microchip, and less painful as well. It is as easy as getting fingerprints taken.
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Scanning noseprints would have quite an impact on the numbers of animals who could be returned to their proper owners, particularly after hurricanes and other cataclysmic disasters.
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| Every cat has a different nose print |
A cat’s sense of smell is more than 14 times as sensitive as a human's sense of smell. Can you imagine walking around all day smelling 14 times better than you can now?
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| Cat's sense of smell is very sensitive |
Cats also have a unique scent mechanism on the roof of their mouth, just behind their incisors, called a vomeronasal organ (VMO) or Jacobson’s organ. Scientists believe the VMO is used primarily for detecting pheromones.
A cat parts her mouth slightly to open the ducts leading to the VMO, then gently inhales which passes air and scent molecules over the VMO.
This act is often accompanied by nose lifting, eye squinting and sometimes a flattening of the ears that make the cat look as if she is grimacing. This posture is called the “Flehmen response”, from the German flehmen, which means ‘to curl the upper lip.’
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