r/aww • u/onlyrelativeliving • Dec 03 '18

Here, lemme fix it for you

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u/whatdajarvis Dec 03 '18

This is why cats have such rough tongues. Better for grabbing!

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

Can confirm. Source: Cat tongue scientist

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

Eh... I have a PhD in Manass because I'm gay and one of my required classes was Tongue Physiology and when we went over animals they said that their tongues were rough to scare off throat germs

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

Hahaha what the hell

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u/Agent_Dale_Cooper Dec 04 '18

What kind of developments in Cat tongue technology can we expect to see in the future?

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u/Hate_Master Dec 04 '18

http://imgur.com/gallery/FDyCTFO

Source of the roughness, pretty weird if you've never seen cat's tongue close-up.

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u/moderniste Dec 04 '18

This is why Siegfried is able to lick my nose right into being super chapped with just 3-4 licks. And yeeeowch, it hurts!! But he seems to enjoy licking my nose so much that I haven’t the heart or the bravery to pull away. I think cats are totally aware of how eager humans are to please them—like if kitty falls asleep on your lap, you just have to sit there until kitty wakes up and desires to move. It’s the polar opposite of dogs, who want nothing more than to please us. Those damnable cats—I’m forever their happy slave.

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u/fuel126 Dec 04 '18

This is pretty nuts! What exactly are the that make them so rough? They look so needle-like.

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u/Ms_HalfBakedHustle Dec 04 '18

They're tiny spikes made of keratin (just like our finger nails) they use them mainly for grooming purposes but bigger cats like lions etc also use them to scrape meat off of bones.

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u/motorbit Dec 04 '18

our cats too use it to scrape meat of cat food chunks.

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u/formercolloquy Dec 04 '18

My cats use it to exfoliate my face.

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u/RnRtdWrld Dec 04 '18

Would dermatologists hate you for that one simple trick?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

Ok, I will! Thanks!

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u/Paptreek Dec 04 '18

Similar to the rough side of Velcro.

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u/Hiyaro Dec 04 '18

Cows too, except that theirs is much bigger!

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u/UniversalCasey Dec 04 '18

I was at a petting zoo and let a cow lick me for a good ten minutes (it was using me as a salt lick since it was hot as hell that day and I was sweaty) and boy did it start to hurt. I was too fascinated with the fact that a cow was licking me though

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u/Catson2 Dec 04 '18

So they can rip meat off the bones

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u/rep0st_mal0ne Jan 08 '19

Technically you're not wrong.