for cats, scratching is not a luxury (or a pathology). Repeat after me: scratching is not a luxury for cats. It’s how they stretch their back and chest muscles, how they exercise and de-stress, and how they shed loose nail sheaths. But scratching serves two even more important and Mojo-rific functions for your cat: Scratch marks are proof of ownership. Scratching allows cats to mingle their scent with ours (and one another’s). To truly understand a cat’s territorial impulse to scratch, consider this: we humans tend to decorate our living environment with stuff—material possessions, such as
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