Cat Licking

This is a great action shot of a cat licking itself - they do this to stay clean. As our first cat vet tech said, "Cats are fastidious when it comes to grooming." Do you know what that means?

Fastidious: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.

I don't think she was referring to the hard to please, although that also describes Felix here, but cats are very very clean animals.

From cat.lifetips.com - "A healthy cat will groom as frequently as possible during the day no matter how clean its living area is. The reason for this is part of their predatory nature, cats clean themselves to remove any scent on themselves so that no prey can smell them as they approach. This is vital for hunting and the cleanest cats make the best hunters (assuming they actually know how to hunt too). So, your cat is probably just trying to stay clean on the off chance some prey wanders around and she decides to stalk it (or more likely out of instinct)."