How do animals with white fur manage to keep it clean all the time, even after killing a animal and getting covered with its blood. Usually white is the hardest coulor to keep clean as it stains easily.

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How do animals with white fur manage to keep it clean all the time, even after killing a animal and getting covered with its blood. Usually white is the hardest coulor to keep clean as it stains easily.

In: Biology

Answer 1

They don’t. We have a white outside cat that often comes in with a mustache or other sorts of dirt on her. It eventually comes off, usually in a few days.

In the wild, I imagine that being in water or the weather helps get rid of it fairly quickly.