Like - Cats Cleaning Themselves

One of the first questions I had about cats when my girlfriend got one was, “When do you want to take him for a cleaning and a haircut?” She looked at me like some kind of ignoramus because in that moment I was one. As I quickly learned, cats don’t get haircuts and they don’t get bathed because they bathe themselves. Watching a cat bathe itself is quite a treat because they use their tongues on every inch of their body. This results in some truly gymnastic feats. The classic move is where they stick a back leg up directly in the air like a flag on a mailbox with outgoing mail. The other amusing thing they do is get in between their toes. They’ll hunch over and lick their digits like a hungry person eating ribs clean to the bone. It’s certainly something to watch but what else is a cat going to do?