My cat was trying to sharpen his "claws" on the door frame last night. He does this regularly, even though he has no claws. This baffled f3lix. I explained that, just because he doesn't have claws, it doesn't take away his evolutionary instinct to try to sharpen his claws. The cat isn't smart enough to put together that it's doing nothing, he just knows that he should be doing that action.
This led to f3lix claiming that cats shouldn't even have claws anymore because they don't need them. I told him that's not how evolution worked and that cats would only not have claws if having claws hindered their ability to live and reproduce. He argued very strongly against that.
I sort of assumed that I wasn't understanding him correctly until I came up with the above scenario and posed that question to him. Unfortunately, he insisted that litter A would have longer claws.
Thank you all for clearing up this matter for us.
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