A Healthy Cat's Nose

A healthy cat's sense of smell is fourteen times stronger than a human's, which is not surprising, since the cat's nose may be one of his most valuable assets and organs of it’s body. In fact, news stories occasionally surface when cats' save their families' lives by waking them after smelling smoke or gas leaks.

Healthy Cats

She depends heavily on his sense of smell to locate food in the form of prey, scent out his enemies (predators, dogs, other cats or human), or scout for a mate. Cats use their own scent glands to mark their territory at home or nature, which may range for several miles in the wild. They then use their nose with its magnificent organ, the vomeronasal organ, most often known as the Jacobson's Organ, to check their own scent markings, and to ensure that no other predator or rival cat has passed that way.In order to make sure of her or his territory.

A cat's nose leather may be of any color, including black and pink, or even a combination of  other colors. The nostrils should be free of mucous, and not "runny." Although a  healthy cat may sometimes sneeze because of allergies or dust, continuous, severe sneezing, sometimes accompanied by gagging, is an indication he may have some foreign body embedded in his nasal passage. So is a cat pawing at its nose. This is more common with cats allowed outdoors, who may have swallowed or inhaled a  sharp blade of grass, and it is considered a veterinary emergency.