When your cat fans out its whiskers, it is absorbing a great deal of information, through all twenty four of them via a whole slew of nerves.

The most important function of your cat’s whiskers is, they scan the immediate area for depth, space and distance, creating the visual third dimension that your cat cannot see with its eyes.

Everything in your cats field of vision is all in two dimension or flat-looking, so in order for your cat to be able to process the three dimensional world that it knows exists all around it, it relies on the properly functioning whiskers that lay on its face.

When they are fluffed out, your cat is scanning the area and drawing a mental image of what its eyes are not seeing and that is how your cat is able to get around nicely in a three dimensional world. Please follow this link, if you will, to this website for the veterinary clinic Oceanway. You can learn more there.