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Soft Things

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Can Dogs Be Softer Than Dogs?

Dogs and cats both have two types of fur. Primary hairs are bigger and thicker and provide more protection for their top coat. Cat grooming is also, besides being very thorough, like cats just spend a lot of time grooming themselves to netangle, take out dirt, spread oils or spread saliva on their hairs. Their tongues are uniquely adapted to brush their hair super well. And in a 20 18 paper, th used a c t scan, like computed tomography scan, tozoom into and threedy print the tongue things. It's weird, cause they, to me, look like little claws. They look like a little claw with a hollowing oo ear inside, ye

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