Why Do Cats Purr?

Morning Felines!

You know when you’re sitting on the couch and your cat hops up onto your lap and starts rolling around on there and purring?

And you’re like:

But don’t be fooled!

Cats don’t just purr because they love you.

They also do it when they’re in brutal pain, about to give birth or even when they're dying…

But this raises the question…

Why do cats purr in the first place?

First, real quick, cats purr by pulsing muscles right here:

In the larynx and diaphragm.

Causing a rhythmic vibration effect when the cat breathes in and out at a frequency between 25 and 150 hertz.

(this is important for later)

Now, the thing with purring is that it's a little different than all other cat sounds like hisses, growls and meows.

They all have some meaning, and cats use them frequently to communicate.

But purring isn't like that.

Purring is more like a cat's self medication, it helps calm them down and actually helps heal them!

What do I mean by “heal them”?

Well, cats have this thing where they like accidentally falling out of windows and breaking loads of their bones.

But what's crazy is that these cats have a 90% chance of survival.

Cats for some reason are much quicker to heal than dogs for example, especially from bone breakages.

See, in the 1990s some smart doctors at the State University of New York discovered something interesting…

They found that low-level frequencies actually help build bone density.

And coincidently a cat’s purr falls exactly within that sweet spot.

So they think that maybe cats purring actually helps them heal faster!

Other animals may have to sit for weeks and weeks doing nothing and hope their bodies fix themselves… but cats just need to sit back, relax and purr!

Stay Cute,
Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

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