My daughter cut my cats whiskers. Two are really short and they have fallen out. Is this normal?
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Cat's whiskers should never be cut. Without their tactile hairs, cats become very disoriented and frightened. In short, whiskers enable cats to gauge and make sense of their environment. Whiskers do grow back, but cats need their whiskers to remain intact in the same way you and I need our touch senses to get around. That being said, their whiskers do shed on their own, and the ones that have fallen out will grow back. It can take up to 3 months for them to fully grow back.
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A cat needs its whiskers for orientation and measuring spaces (e.g. to determine whether she fits through a narrow space). They should grow again according to the length the cat needs. This will take time. If those whiskers were some of those your daughter cut, then they would have been too short and useless for the cat and therefore the cat would have shed them to make room for new whiskers.
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