I. What exactly is the purpose of a dog's whiskers?

Many times we only hear about the role of a cat's beard, but few people understand the significance of the existence of a dog's beard. What is the use of a dog's whiskers? Let's take a look below.

The role of the dog's beard?
The dog's beard is a unique sensory organ, also called whiskers, these tentacles can help dogs sense the surrounding objects, the environment.

The whiskers will grow near the dog's eyes and chin, most notably, the two handfuls near the mouth.

The hair follicles in the dog's whiskers are different from those of other hairs, and the whiskers have many sensory cells that help the dog receive tactile information. In addition to collecting information, it also serves to maintain balance.

Can I trim my dog's whiskers?
Dogs' whiskers are sensitive and perceptive, but they can be trimmed. Cutting it short is more for aesthetic and hygienic reasons, but of course, it is okay to leave it uncut.

Does it hurt to pull on my dog's whiskers?
In fact, the dog's whiskers are now more of a decorative feature, but they still remain sensitive and can be painful if they are forcibly pulled.

Can dog whiskers change color?
In general, the dog's whiskers come in three colors, black, white and brown, which are consistent with the color of the coat. There is another possibility that dogs with black or brown beards may gradually turn white as they age.

Can a dog's whiskers fall out?
Dogs' whiskers can feel items, all because of the hair follicles within the whiskers, and they too, like hair, will naturally shed and then grow back.

II. The amazing effects of dog whiskers

The cat's beard, as we all should know, is an extremely important body organ for cats, and each cat is able to rely on its beard to accomplish many things, even those things that are difficult to achieve.

Let's say that cats at night in addition to rely on their eyes that can see at night, the beard can also be keenly perceived vibration and get the effect of the arrival of prey.

More than that, it can play a magical role in maintaining balance and measuring the mouse hole, which is why we have not been recommended to trim the beard for cats.

But cats have beards, people also have beards, and dogs also have beards, cats' beards can not be trimmed, human beards to be trimmed often, so what role can the dog's beard play in the end?

We can not go to trim the dog's beard?

And today we come to explore, is the role of the dog beard!

Speaking of beards, in fact, more accurate should be called tentacles, because this is actually an organ of the animal to assist in perception, and humans can only be used as a decorative beard is not the same, the role of tentacles is very large, like the dog's beard, it can play these three roles!

1. The main function of the dog's tentacles is to assist the dog's eyesight.
The dog's tentacles are twice as thick and thicker than normal hair, breathing roots than ordinary hair roots to rise three times, covered with nerves and blood vessels, which makes each whiskers in the process of movement can become super sensitive receptors, air flow or object touch will cause the whiskers vibration, thereby stimulating the nerves, the dog's whiskers are as sensitive as our fingertips, to help the dog understand the environment and the next The dog's whiskers are as sensitive as our fingertips, and are very important in helping the dog understand its environment and take the next step.

Three amazing things about a dog's whiskers are that they not only aid in detection but also protect the face
The whiskers can sense the slightest movement of air and recognize subtle changes in wind direction and speed, which can make the dog aware of the presence of prey or other predators nearby, and complement the dog's eyes and sense of smell to identify the size, shape and movement of other objects, which can help the dog hunt better, avoid bumping into furniture, falling or hitting other objects while walking. The flow of air will cause the whiskers to vibrate, alerting the dog to the presence of obstacles.

2. The dog's whiskers can help the dog to more easily find subtle objects.
For the dog's eyesight, want to see some of the subtle objects on the ground is very difficult, on the one hand, the dog's perspective is relatively narrow, can only see their eyes about 120 degrees of the object, and for close targets can not be accurately focused, and on the other hand, the dog's optic nerve can distinguish the color is extremely limited, similar to the black and white picture, so the dog food tray in the dog food or on the ground The presence of toys in the dog's food dish or on the ground is easy to be ignored by the dog, and the tentacles can play a role in helping the dog to find these subtle objects, we will see the dog constantly with the nose on the ground in a circle, which is actually through the tentacles back to the feeling to find small objects.
In addition, for those trained to specialize in circles or often to enter and exit the home of small dogs, tentacles can help dogs determine whether they can pass through narrow caves, like a receptor to measure the size of the cave, the dog will be able to understand whether their size can cross it.
And as a hunting dog, the dog will be able to reach his tentacles into the burrow, to sense the information and vibration of the surrounding obstacles, to measure the size of the creature hiding inside the burrow!

3. the dog's tentacles can play a role in protecting the dog's face!
Like dogs in contact with many things, are subconsciously touched first with the nose, this is because dogs do not have flexible arms, when the whiskers touch the dirt, tall grass or other objects, the dog will blink to avoid these things hurt their perspective membrane, in addition to the eyes on the whiskers can allow the dog to identify whether too close to the object, so as to avoid injury to their eyes or face.

And sometimes, the shoveler will suddenly find that the dog will have some whiskers fall down, but for this point and do not worry, because the whiskers will continue to grow, but the shoveler should not take the initiative to pull down the whiskers, there are two reasons.

On the one hand, the dog's whiskers are very sensitive, pulling hard will make the dog feel uncomfortable, resulting in too much pressure, because the dog's brain area perceives external information perception area, of which 40% is located in the part of the whiskers, you can imagine how sensitive that will be!

On the other hand, when the dog's whiskers suffer a lot of damage, it is difficult for the dog to perceive the surrounding situation through the face, its movement will also become slow and hindered, and may even run and run into an object and cause injury!

So in addition to the cat's whiskers, in fact, the role of the dog's whiskers is also very big, before there are also seen some claptrap pooper scooper pulling the dog or cat's beard to play, such as pulling the beard to imitate playing the piano, pulling down the cat's beard and inserted back, and even the cat dog's beard to cut down into toys, for such behavior, in fact, we need to actively resist and reject. This is because this behavior on the one hand is particularly irresponsible, the harm caused to the pet is also particularly far-reaching, in addition to this behavior itself is the pooper scooper bored under the action, is not meaningful things.

I just hope that other pooper scoopers can correctly look at the dog's beard, do not take the dog's beard as a meaningless organ to trim at will!