Cat senses roof of their mouths called the vomeronasal (or Jacobson's) organ. When a cat wrinkles its muzzle, lowers its chin, and lets its tongue hang a bit, it is opening the passage to the vomeronasal. This is called "gaping", "sneering", "snake mouth", or "flehming". Gaping is the equivalent of the Flehmen response in other animals, such as dogs, horses and big cats. A cat has about twenty-four movable vibrissae ("whiskers"), in four sets on each upper lip on either side of its nose (some cats may have more). There are also a few on each cheek, tufts over the eyes, bristles
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding pudding. Potter had considerable experience drawing rats, mice, and cats before approaching "Samuel Whiskers" but the book is exceptional in her "oeuvre" for the many interior scenes at Hill Top and the character and personality of the domineering Samuel Whiskers. In 1933, Theron K. Butterworth published a dramatic adaptation of the tale as "Mr. Samuel Whiskers". In 1993, an animated film adaptation was telecast on the BBC anthology series, "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" with the voices of Rosemary Leach as Tabitha Twitchet, John Gordon Sinclair as John Joiner, Patricia Routledge as Ribby, Struan Rodger as Samuel Whiskers,