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01-24-2013, 06:50 PM #16
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Thanked: 3164The nerve endings are in the follicle, not the whisker, which is dead keratin like hair. Not only is the whisker thicker than normal at the base, but the follicle it sits in is more richly supplied with nerve endings than usual and more deep-seated, so anything touching the whisker - even a puff of air - is communicated to the nerve endings by the whisker moving in the follicle. Cats whiskers fall out naturally on occasion. If the nerve was in the whisker, that would fall out too.
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Neil