(1) makes claws sharper.

Grinding claws is to make them sharper. This is a misunderstanding of many shovel officials. They think that the cat thinks its claws are too long and grinds them by itself. Then you really think too much. In nature, sharp claws are very important for cats to hunt, climb trees and avoid danger, so cats often polish their claws to prevent them from becoming dull;

(2) Leave a smell

There are sweat glands on the cat's meat pad, which can be used to mark the territory when the cat grinds its claws.

3 stretch the body.

When a cat is grinding its claws, its body is in a very stretched state, which may be similar to pulling a horizontal bar or something to stretch its bones and muscles. Cats that have just woken up, or cats that have just come out of cages, like to sharpen their claws first.

How to set a reasonable claw grinding space for cats

I believe you stepped on a lot of pits on the way to buy a cat scratch board. I hope it won't happen after today. ...

① the direction of the cat scratching the board

There should be at least one horizontal and one vertical cat scratch board at home, and the height of the vertical cat scratch board and the length of the horizontal cat scratch board should be at least 1.5 times of the cat's body length to meet the daily needs of cat claw grinding;

② Self-made cat scratch board

Hemp rope is a very good self-made tool for cat scratching board. You can wrap hemp rope around table legs, chair legs and anywhere you think you can. Cats will love it. Hemp rope is the kind of rope wound on the cat climbing frame you bought.

Carton is also a good tool, but it is more troublesome to make hemp rope. There are many tutorials on the Internet.

It is natural for cats to grind their teeth. What the shovel officer should do is not to avoid, but to guide and release reasonably. For example, the plastic finger covers that were popular on the Internet before were very anti-cat; This is the price of getting along with cats, which brings happiness and some troubles.