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Unlike most mammals who walk on the soles of the paws or feet, cats are digitgrade, which
means they walk on their toes. Their back, shoulder, paw and leg joints, mucscles, paw and leg
joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves are naturally designed to support and distribute
the cat's weight across its toes as it walks, runs and climbs. A cat's claws are used for balance,
for exercising, and for stretching the muscles in their legs, back, shoulders and paws.
They stretch these muscles by digging their claws into a surface and pulling back against their own clawhold - similar to isometric exercising for humans. This is the only way a cat can exercise, stretch and tone
