How cats keep clean.

Cats will spend hours licking their coats to keep clean. They have tongues that are like thier own personal hairbrushes, their tongues have backward facing spines called papillae that are about 500 micrometres long. To our skin they feel very ruff almost like sand paper. But to cats they act as the haibrush to clean and collect loose or dead hair and even out their coats. Cats will swallow their hair and once it collects in their stomach they will then regurgitate it up and you will have what is known as the hairball. So the more you brush your cat, and the less hair they have, the less you will have to clean up hairballs.