Carol Kohn. age 10 of Columbia. SC. :

What are cat’s claws made of'?

Your nails and cat is claws are made of the same stuff. Your finger ends have special sells for growing hard nail material. Miss Puss has the same kind of cells apt the ends of her furry padded paws. Nails and claws are forever growing in from the bottom. You have to clip or :rile down the ends of your nails as they grow. Miss Puss must also trim down her nails. Keep a hard log handy for her to do this manicure job. Otherwise she will file down her nails on the good furniture.

Nails and claws acre made of hard. dead cells. They have no blood vessels and no nerves. It does not hurt to cut or file them. They can feel no pain. You feel uncomfortable when your nails grow to long. And ma does Miss Puss.

Take a careful look at your cat's claws. They are the most wonderful animal claws in the/kingdom. She can push them out or draw: them back into velvet sheathes as she chooses. When she walks they are sheathed and she steps; along on silent. padded paws„ Only members of the cat family can sheathe and unsheathe their claws. Bears and other clawed animals must walk with their claws out.