SHE LICKS HERSELF. - Reading Agency Kitty Gets A Bath_Extract... · barbs help her to comb her fur...
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Transcript of SHE LICKS HERSELF. - Reading Agency Kitty Gets A Bath_Extract... · barbs help her to comb her fur...
• INTRODUCTION •
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This is how Kitty likes to clean herself.
SHE LICKS HERSELF.
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She licks her leg.
She licks her tail.
She licks her back.
And to clean herface, she licks herfront paw and rubsit all over where hertongue can’t reach.
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Sometimes, Kitty will do this for hours.
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WHY DO CATS LICK THEMSELVES?
WHO,ME?
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This is a close-up of Kitty’s tongue. It iscovered with hundreds of tiny fish-hook-shaped barbs called “papillae”.* Thesebarbs help her to comb her fur as she licks
herself. Her tonguealso collects any
loose fur thatshe could
swallow.
Papillaeare partly
made offibrous protein
called keratin. Doyou know what else is made of keratin?Your fingernails!
HOLY SALAMI! THAT GOOFY CAT ’S GOT HUNDREDS OF TINY FINGERNAILS ON HER TONGUE!
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Kitty has to be careful.Sometimes, if she licks her fur too much,she can develop aHAIR BALL.
Hair balls form in Kitty’sstomach whenshe swallows too much fur.
Sometimes, theonly way to getrid of a hair ballis to cough it up.
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Coughing up a hair ball isn’talways easy.
They can bestubborn.
And sometimesthose hair ballscan be prettydarn big.
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WARNING!You should NEVER clean yourself
the same way as Kitty!
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“I forgot that I ate agarlic and egg pizzafor lunch,” said theboy, seen here inthis picture walkinghome and wishingto remain anony-mous.
“Well, I saw mycat cleaningherself with hertongue,” saidthe child. “So Ithought to my-self, ‘Gee, thatlooks like itcould work onme, too!’”
Officials predictthat the schoolwill be re-opened in abouta week, oncehealth officialshave dealt with
“We tried soak-ing the child in asolution made oftoothpaste andm o u t h w a s h , ”said PrincipalSarah Bellum.“But it justhelped a little.We can onlyhope that this in-cident serves asa warning to
DAILY NOOZ
BREATH—ALL OVER BODY
KID SENT HOME FOR BAD
SCHOOL EVACUATED
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So, this is how Kitty USUALLY cleans herself.
BUT . . .
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every now and then . . .
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Kitty needs . . . Kitty needs . . .
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a real . . .
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