What will happen if a cats whiskers are cut off?

Answer 1

A cat uses his whiskers to determine whether an entrance is wide enough for him to pass. With no whiskers, he will not have that warning and is much more likely to get into places he cannot get out of. Whiskers grow back very slowly, so one could expect a long series of extrications from small and inaccessible places like the insides of walls and furniture while they are growing back.

Answer 2

A cat's whiskers let him know if the space he's trying to squeeze himself through is too tight for him. A cat's whiskers are approximately the same width as his body, so if he tries to squeeze in behind the radiator, for example, and the space isn't wide enough for his whiskers, he knows it's also not wide enough for his body.

Yet somehow, they still get stuck sometimes.

If you cut off your cat's whiskers, he would get stuck behind things a lot more often. But eventually they would grow back. However, it would still be a cruel, sick thing to do, so please don't.

Answer 3

Nothing Its whiskers helps the cat say somehting it is too small to fit in.

Added: It would probably not bother domestic housecats THAT much, but they are allegedly useful by felines in determining if they can enter small narrow spaces or not.

Answer 4

Not directly, no; there is nothing life-threatening at the base of its whiskers that you could damage by cutting them. However, a cat uses his whiskers to determine the size of openings he is trying to get through; without whiskers, he is very likely to misjudge how much space he has, and will end up crawling into spaces too small for him to get out of. Trapped in such a space, he could easily die before he is found.

Answer 5

Well the cat would be uneven and lopsided.