My daughter cut my kittens whiskers off

Thank you so much for your quick response . You don't know how much this eases my mind and with you being an emergency and primary care vet tech means you would know what you were talking about for sure . Thank you , Thank you , Thank you . We will definitley keep a close watch on her . How long approximately will it take for her whiskers to grow back ?

Thank you again now I can rest much easier and two to three weeks is not that bad :)

They are just like us. Whiskers and hair grow back at various rates. Your kitty should be back to normal in two to three weeks.

Oh thank you , you don't know how much I have been stressing out over this since my husband told me . I am not concerned with her getting around as she hasn't been bumping into anything that we noticed . I would be heartbroken if anything happened to her and I know the children would as well and my little one that did this is too young to realize what she has done . Needless to say plastic scissors or not , they hit the garbage !! Thank you so much for your response .

If there is a plus side to this incident it is that the little one cut them off rather than pulling them out as little ones often have a tendency to pull things. One of my nephews once decided (when he was about three or four) to see if my mustache was real by reaching onto my face, grabbing as much as his little hand could hold and pulling as hard as he could! Damn, that hurt! I thought the little guy was going to rip my face off with that grip

OMG that is cute but i'll bet it hurt :)

Howard, your white kitty certainly is pretty.

I am so relived as well , I was so stressed out about this and was actually scared my topic would be overlooked with so many on here and really wanted an answer quickly and thank goodness I got many responses right away and now can breath a little easier knowing my kitten will be fine although we will be sure to watch our little one around her more closely from now on and the kitten will be sticking close to us for the next little while :) Thank you for your response .

We will be keeping a close eye on her and now that I know she is not going to die on me I can breath a little easier and the fact that she will not always look so alien with no whiskers as she really does look funny with no whiskers . I never realized how much a cats whiskers add to their face :) There will be no worries about her going outside because all my cats are indoor cats . I have lost too many cats outside over the years that now I keep them all indoors where I know they will be safe , or they will be as long as I can teach my daughter not to cut their whiskers off :) Thank you for your response .

She does seem fine and doesn't seem to be hitting into anything but she does look weird . I never would have thought platic scissors would be strong enough to cut whiskers and never really thought she would do this either . I have five children and she is my baby and none of my other children did this . Needless to say there are no scissors left for her as they went to the garbage . I was saying that to a friend tonight that I am lucky she didn't cut all her sisters hair off because she got a hold of a marker one night and colored her sister while she was sleeping . Thank you for your response .

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Oh I never realized this either , I just assumed they were always there . Thank you for your response .

I had to go take a picture of my whisker "collection" so you could see that its normal. I NEVER thought my silly collection would be helpful!

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That makes sence and I am glad she didn't get the adult cat or the other kitten :) Thank you for your response .

maggiepie your dad is a life saver, literally for the animals most people that I know call themselves religious do not do this since they believe animals are for sacrificial purposes like stated in the bible they don't generally abuse animals but they also do not necessarily do what your father did your father is overall a wonderful human being I wish there are more people like him

You just reminded me of something. Long ago, when my Dad was alive, he lived near the shipyards in Houston, & rescued animals, & gave them a home, or sometimes, if they were wild, he'd nurse them back to health & release them into the wild again. He even kept an injured deer for a while. But the one that stands out in my memory was a very young, solid black kitten that he KEPT. It was born with NO EYES, & had fur all across its face. But Dad just laid down boards all through the yard so as to avoid obstacles, & that little fur person knew how to RUN around using the boards as guides. It was TOTALLY confident & I just KNOW it used its whiskers to suss out its environment, probably even more than a normal cat! God bless my Dad. A former Baptist preacher, it was he who taught me how to really respect nature. When I was about 2 years old, he once refused to kill a spider crawling across his pants when I squealed for him to "Kill it Daddy!" (All other members of my family had arachnophobia, & had infected ME with it...) He said, "Naw, it's not hurting anything, & it has a God-given right to live, too." HE gently brushed it off, & then off the porch where we were sitting. It was a lesson I never forgot. Maggiepie

After all that I have been told on here I feel reassured that they will grow back thankfully . And finally someone who heard the same thing as myself :) Thank you for your response .

Apparently I am the only one who has ever heard that a cat will die without the whiskers , wish I knew where I had heard that . Yes many others have said it is for their balance and should take two to three weeks to grow back so I am very much relived over this :) Thank you for your response .

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I am glad to hear I am not the only parent who had their child do something like this as I felt horrible . Thank you for your response .

My daughter is a cutie but she sure can get into thing lol . Thank you for your response .

You sound like my best friend !! She could not stop laughing when I told her what had happened and said it sounded just like something my daughter would do and said it was the funniest thing she had heard in awhile :) Have no worries the scissors are long gone as she is not going to get a chance to do this to the other kitten or the adult cat we have in the house lol . Thank you for your response .