@article{Mei_Wang_Zhou_Liu_2021, title={Investigation of the mechanical and grounding characteristics of the domestic cat’s paw pads based on gait analysis}, volume={51}, url={https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tjvm/article/view/247175}, abstractNote={<p><span class="fontstyle0">The paw pads, which can produce moderate changes that are reflected in mechanical and grounding characteristics,<br>play an important role for domestic cats in realizing their biological characteristics. The purpose of this study was to<br>investigate these moderate changes of paw pads in various gaits i.e. walking, trotting and emergency stop gaits based<br>on the ground reaction forces and contact strain experiments to obtain the mechanical and grounding shape<br>representations. The results proved that with the change of gait, the representations changed obviously. For the ground<br>reaction forces, the response of the fore paw pads was more sensitive than that of hind and the point of force also<br>changed from the outside to the middle of the pads with the gait from walking to trotting. In addition, in the walking<br>gait, the contact shape was in the natural state but the contact shape pointed to the inside deflection and appeared<br>discrete in the trotting and emergency stop gait respectively. The peak value of contact principal strain was little<br>different between the three gaits but there were obvious differences in distribution characteristics and strain direction.<br>These findings could help to understand the relationship between paw pads and cat biological characteristics.</span> </p>}, number={1}, journal={The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine}, author={Mei, Ye and Wang, Guolin and Zhou, Haichao and Liu, Congzhen}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={43–50} }