![]() In addition to helping a cat spot prey, their whiskers will also help them to move around safely in the dark. These whiskers, which are not only located on a cat’s face, but their legs as well, are also used to create a sort of three dimensional map around their bodies so that they can become better aware of their surroundings. Cats will also use their twenty-four vibrissae, or whiskers, to sense slight motions and vibrations around them, such as a mouse or rat scurrying past them. ![]() However, their keen sense of smell is not the only way that cats can detect whether you are facing a pest infestation in your home. This organ benefits a cat by allowing it to more acutely smell potential prey, including rats or mice inside of your home. During the flehmen response, your cat is grabbing onto air molecules with the receptors on its tongue and pushing the molecules through the Jacobson’s Organ opening. The flehman response is the reaction that a cat has when it begins to use its Jacobson’s Organ instead of its nose to smell a particular scent. If you have ever noticed your cat opening its mouth, scrunching its nose and raising its head after smelling a particularly strong scent that might include some type of pheromone, such as a dirty sock or smelly shoe, you have witnessed the flehmen response. With the presence of a sensory organ in the back of their mouths called the Jacobson’s Organ, or the Vomeronasal Organ, cats will often use their mouths to pick up on a particular scent. To add to their incredible ability to smell even the most faintest of scents with their noses, cats can also taste smells using their mouths. This astonishing sense of smell allows these beloved pets to sniff out any fuzzy invaders that might be making themselves comfortable in your home. ![]() ![]() A cat’s sense of smell is fourteen times stronger than a human’s sense of smell with 70,000 smell receptors compared to a human’s 20,000. How Your Cat Will Know If You Have A Pest ProblemĬats possess superior senses, namely smell, that help them to detect rats, mice and other rodents in your home. But did you know that your cat or dog can also detect pests in your home before you do? Read below to learn how your pet is able to alert you of any budding or current pest infestations in your home. Your pet provides your family with unending entertainment, love and companionship. ![]()
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