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Article: Diabetic neuropathy: does your cat seem to be dragging her heels? If so, this disabling consequence of feline diabetes could be the cause.(Disease)
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- Cat Watch
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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If you often try to move around your home very, very quietly--to avoid waking a slumbering child, for example--you may be in the habit of walking on your tiptoes. Normally, however, you will employ what's termed a "plantigrade" stance. That is to say, you'll stand and walk with the entire sole of your foot touching the floor.
Cats are different from you and your fellow humans in this respect. Unless they've suffered an injury or are afflicted with a physical condition that makes it painful or physically impossible for them to do otherwise, they will, by nature, walk on the front part of their feet.
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