If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed.
Winifred Carriere
Cats are known for their acute sense of smell. Note the many ridges on your cat's nose pad. They form a pattern as unique to an individual cat as a finger print is to a human. This area, called the mucosa, is nearly twice the size of the olfactory mucosa in humans and indicates the importance of the sense of smell to cats.