Contrary to the belief that smell importance to the dog is more than cat is very misleading. Firstly we have to understand the different nature in circumstances surrounding both animals.

Animals make strong use of their senses to get around things, in the dog world it is consider the so –call macrosmate;living primarily in the world of smells. If we consider the examination of dog structure can shed some light with the evidence in the following. If we take an example of a olfactory mucosa for german shepherd is approximate 30 in.² (200 cm²) in size, and comparing to that of dachshund is 11 in.² (75 cm²). The cells comprises between to 120 million and 200 million respectively. Meanwhile, for a cat olfactory mucosa total 3 in.² (20 cm²) of about 60 million olfactory cells, while the humans have only approximate 0.7 in.² (5 cm²) and 20 million olfactory cells.

Cats oriented themselves primarily through optically, but the smell senses also play an important role for them too. For a sensing organ, it can be highly developed already for new born kitten even when the sight and hearing senses are still shut. With the scent helps them drawn to the milk in the teat. After several weeks, by then the developing sight sense starts to play the important role for the kitten.

Nevertheless, the scent of smell continues to play an equal important role for the growing kitten in the stages of its life to a full grown cat. This continues to play a role in the behavior for the cat: example in the food consumption pattern. The food is also subjected to a smell check prior to consumption, it had a sensory communication to determine whether resulting can stand each other. The feline nose does more than sniffing out food in the house, it also used the highly sensitive nose to communicate with other cats.

Cat will get familiarity with humans through scents by contact of rubbing their head and flanks against them. Each time a cat starts to run his scent gland from his head or paws on an object, it is leaving a personalized communication for other cats to sniff and interpret. You can start to notice a cat behavior by the way it act relatively to the environment it is in. New cat or kitten will start to leave scent message when they go about marking areas with scratches or even feces. Sometimes this scent of marking is used for sexual behavior to simulated attraction.

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