Why do cats groom each other?

People have dogs and cats and a lot more other variants of pets in their houses and when you own a cat as a pet, one question is bound to arise in your mind and that is why cats groom each other! To understand these immensely common phenomena, you must be accustomed to the fact that cats are possibly, the cleanest animals possible (cleaner than humans for that instance).  There are numerous questions as in why they do it or how they do it or when they do it. The answer is very simple, cats are obsessed with cleanliness and hence they tend to keep themselves very clean and well groomed.

You can never come across a cat, which is wet, and dirty as because cats run miles away from water not because they are hydrophobic but because they don’t like to get wet. For them, keeping their fur dry and clean is the purpose of their lives other than cuddling and having fishes. The cats can go up to any extent so as to keep him or her clean and well groomed. Now the question stays, why do cats groom each other? Is it anything sexual or something?

Oh, never! Cats belong to the family of tigers, which are known for fighting. Like tigers, cats are bound to fight and if they are grooming each other, then that is shear affection and nothing else. In cases when there are one male and a female cat, it is more likely that the female cat is the mother and that is pure affection and love in between those two and nothing sexual. Cats have keratin in their tongues, which is the same thing, which makes our hair, and nails grow and if observed carefully, cats sometimes, keep on scratching and biting softly a single part of their body. This is done by them because of the fact that there might be a parasite or something which has got into the fur and so as to clean her up is doing that.

Some important questions and their answers-

• How does a cat groom itself? A cat normally grooms itself by meticulously looking after her fur and other body parts and most importantly, without getting wet.
  
• Is it normal if a cat grooms another? Definitely not as because if you have a cat at your place you would observe that cats generally form very small groups of two or three and that is because they are not at all social. Grooming each other means they are attracted towards each other and out of affection, they are doing that which is not healthy for their record.
  
• Why do cats groom each other? As because it is relaxing and some parts like the forehead can’t be reached by them on their own and hence the grooming is done by some other cat.