They release heat however they want and whenever they bloody-well feel like it.
Basically, they breathe with their mouths open, which becomes panting when necessary…
A common cooling mechanism, cats will breathe with their mouth open and tongue out, accompanied by heavy breathing noises, when they’re too hot. As the heatstroke worsens, the panting will increase. Panting is a perfectly normal response to overheating and should begin to subside as your cat cools down.
I didn’t mean specifically when they are in a crisis state of overheating. Dogs have their tongue out whenever they’re doing anything, which I assume keeps them from overheating in th efirst place. Cat’s don’t.
They release heat however they want and whenever they bloody-well feel like it.
Basically, they breathe with their mouths open, which becomes panting when necessary…
do cats pant?
I didn’t mean specifically when they are in a crisis state of overheating. Dogs have their tongue out whenever they’re doing anything, which I assume keeps them from overheating in th efirst place. Cat’s don’t.
You just see more dogs running around excited than you do cats…
A cat is a solitary predator that uses stealth than pounces.
Dogs are pack predators, they get food by running around making a shit ton of noise and hoping something runs so the pack can chase it down.
That translates to modern pets day to day activity.
If you ever saw a cat run around like a dog, it would pant. If you saw a dog that acts like a cat. You’d never see it pant.
I see dogs just laying in their dog bed in the shade panting. I see cats playing in the sun on a hot day not panting.
Cats play by ambushing something over and over and rolling around with it…
Dogs play by running sprints as long as someone keep throwing a ball…
I’m not sure what your confusion still is
Actually not all dogs just have their tongue out all the time. Mostly they pant when they get hot.