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For cats, is it the eating plants and inducing vomiting to remove hairballs thing?
by monkeybutton 5y ago
For cats, is it the eating plants and inducing vomiting to remove hairballs thing?
- teknopaul 5y agoYep and using saliva to heal wounds, and eating properly. That from the top of my head. I would not be surprised if there are other known behaviours. Most humans have forgotten about licking wounds, it works for humans too, even if mum slaps your wrist for doing it and applies big pharma products ;)
- monkeybutton 5y agoApparently saliva contains natural painkillers which is interesting to think about as an incentive for animals to lick their wounds that evolved: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10514-natural-born-painkiller-found-in-human-saliva/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10514-natural-born-pa...