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So that they can get water in their mouth and lick hair and flesh off animals. The hard part is made up of the molecules in your fingernails. That is what makes their tongue hard, also as hard as your fingernails!

Cats use their tongues as natural combsCats use their tongues as a comb to maintain their fur. On the rough and humid surface the hair sticks well and is combed out with ease. On the other hand allows the rough surface then to release the hair easier in order to swallow it.

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Cats have rough tongues for two reasons. Firstly, they act as grooming tools, separating fur much like a brush and keeping their coats nice and sleek. Secondly, their rough tongues enable them to lap up liquids such as water or milk (and cats shouldn't really be given milk; many cats are lactose intolerant and therefore cannot handle ingesting milk).
Cats have rough tongues for two reasons. Firstly, they act as grooming tools, separating fur much like a brush and keeping their coats nice and sleek. Secondly, their rough tongues enable them to lap up liquids such as water or milk (and cats shouldn't really be given milk; many cats are lactose intolerant and therefore cannot handle ingesting milk).

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The bumps are actually tiny little hooks called papillae. These are what give a cat's tongue its rough texture, and is so that they dislodge any dead or lose skin and fur when grooming themselves.

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1. Cats use their tongues' abrasiveness to scrape meat off the bones of their prey. In the wild, that may be the most vital role played by cats' rough tongues. But it is far from their only function.

2. Cats' barbed tongues are also essential grooming tools. When grooming, cats use their tongues to moisten the fur with saliva which keeps the fur clean and smelling fresh and helps to regulate body temperature. The barbs on their tongues grab and remove lose fur and debris and aid in detangling mats.

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because its tongue has hairs on it the hairs on the cats tongue is there to help the cat to clean its self

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to help clean themself it is the main reason.

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Those are not "bumps", they are bristles. You know how cats clean their fur with their tounge? The bristles act just like the bristles of a hair comb.

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For cats, they use their tongues to bathe themselves so it's rough so they can clean themselves better.

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For the same reason an adult's tongue is rough: it helps the cat groom itself.

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Why are cats tongues just like sandpaper?

Cats' tongues are bristly and sandpapery because they use their tongues to clean and groom their fur. The rough surface brushes the fur, sort of like a hairbrush, and helps remove the loose, dead hairs.


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